Ghost, 1990
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visit the film locations
New York: Flights: JFK Airport
Dine at: Mezzogiorno, 195 Spring Street at Sullivan Street, SoHo (tel: 212.334.2112)
Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
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Ghost location: Molly and Sam’s apartment: Prince Street, Tribeca, New York
The unfeasibly spacious New York pad of Molly (Demi Moore) is one of Tribeca's impressive and trendy cast iron apartment buildings, at 104 Prince Street between Greene and Mercer Streets.
Ghost location: the mugging gone wrong: Crosby Street, SoHo, New York
Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) gets a bullet during the mugging-gone-wrong as he and Molly return from the theatre along Crosby Street between Prince and Spring Streets, only to return and follow his murderer onto the subway at Franklin Street Station, and on to Myrtle Avenue Station in Brooklyn.
Ghost location: Oda Mae has to convince Molly that Sam is here: Mezzogiorno, Spring Street, SoHo, New York
The cool Italian restaurant, where medium Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) has to convince Molly of Sam's presence ("Ditto") is Mezzogiorno, 195 Spring Street at Sullivan Street in SoHo. Pretty new when the film shot there (it opened in 1987), Mezzogiorno is still serving authentic Florentine fare to the artistic downtown crowd. The walls are now decorated with boxes containing paintings, objects and collages commissioned from a hundred different artists, on the theme of ‘summer days’.
Many of the other interiors, though, like '42nd Street station', where the Subway Ghost (Vincent Schiavelli) teaches Sam to interact with the material world, are sets built in the studio in LA.
Ghost location: Oda Mae becomes ‘Rita Miller’: Spring Street, downtown Los Angeles
Also in LA are both of the two ‘banks’, where Sam and Oda Mae conspire to scupper the financial scam.
The bank in which Oda Mae verifies the signature of the fictitious ‘Rita Miller’ was in fact the old Bank of America Building, 650 South Spring Street, downtown. The disused interior has been seen in countless films, including Se7en (as the library where Morgan Freeman conducts his research), Jim Carrey comedy The Mask, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man2 and John Schlesinger’s Marathon Man.
Ghost location: closing down Rita Miller’s account: the Ebell of Los Angeles, West Eighth Street, midtown Los Angeles
And the bank where they close the account with Lyle Ferguson is the Lounge of the Ebell of Los Angeles, 4400 West Eighth Street at Lucerne Boulevard, midtown. This complex, comprised of a women’s club and the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, can be seen in scads of films, including Forrest Gump, The Addams Family, Air Force One, Catch Me If You Can, Old School, Cruel Intentions, Darkman, Death Becomes Her, The General’s Daughter, Very Bad Things and The Wedding Planner.
Oda Mae finally – and unwillingly – donates the four million dollars to 'a bunch o'nun's at the base of the statue of George Washington in front of Federal Hall, 28 Wall Street.
