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T-Rex
on the loose in 'San Diego': Golden Mall, Burbank
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THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK
filming locations
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CREDITS
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Ooh,
aah thats how it always starts. Then later
theres running and screaming.
Funny, nobody mentioned Isla Sorna
Site B in Jurassic Park.
And, if the T-Rex was held below deck, what ran rampage
on the ship and shredded the crew? Plot holes apart,
the sequel to Steven
Spielberg's summer blockbuster is a hugely enjoyable
ride.
The mansion of John Hammond (Richard
Attenborough) house, where Dr Ian Malcolm (Jeff
Goldblum) has his arm twisted to travel out to the
previously unmentioned Isla Sorna, is actually a Catholic
girlsschool in Pasadena, Mayfield
Senior School, 500 Bellefontaine Street (seen
also in Devil in a Blue Dress,
with Denzel
Washington, the Steve
Martin noir-pastiche Dead
Men Don't Wear Plaid
and the Eddie
Murphy remake of The
Nutty Professor).
Site B again used Jurassic
Parks main location on the island of
Kauai,
Hawaii, for scene setting. The beach, where
the unfortunate xxx family, decide to hold a picnic,
is Kipu Kai Beach,
on Kauai's south
shore (accessible only by boat). , much of the action
was filmed on mainland USA, in northern California
north of Eureka,
in Patrick's
Point State Park and Prairie
Creek Redwoods State Park.
The T-Rex wreaks havoc on landing at San Diego,
supposedly in the citys Gaslamp district. But
once again, thereís a bit of sleight of hand. San
Diego only features in a bit of Second Unit
aerial footage to establish the locale.
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John
Hammond's house: Mayfield Senior School, Pasadena
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Most of the filming was much closer to the studio in
Burbank, at Golden
Mall on San Fernando
Boulevard between Palm
Grove and Orange
Grove, which were renamed with San
Diego street signs.
The Starbucks coffee shop is at 300
San Fernando Boulevard. The bookshop where
the screenwriter David Koepp, in a cameo as Unlucky
Bastard gets chomped by the T-Rex, is Crown
Books, 301 San Fernando Boulevard.
The InGen dock where the T-Rex boat crashes
ashore is San Pedro Harbor,
to the south of LA.
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T-Rex
trashes the gas station: Balboa Boulevard, Granada
Hills
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The house where T-Rex takes a drink from the swimming
pool and snacks on a dog is in Granada
Hills, a Valley suburb of LA,
and here too is the gas station, where the trademark
76 ball rolls down the street. Its
the Chevron Filling Station,
Balboa Boulevard at the corner of Rinaldi.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK
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TRAVEL
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Humboldt
County Tourism: Humboldt County is
located on northern coast of California,
with the city of Eureka situated about 300
miles north of San Francisco and 100 miles south of
the Oregon border. Driving time from the San Francisco
Bay Area is five or six hours, through Sonoma, Mendocino
and Humboldt Counties. The main route to and from
the Redwood Coast is U.S. Highway 101 which parallelsóand
in Humboldt County, touchesóthe Pacific Ocean. Further
inland, Interstate 5 takes you up California's central
valley, and provides access to the coast via Highway
299 at Redding and Highway 199 at Grants Pass, Oregon.
Eureka/Arcata
Airport, with daily flights from San Francisco,
Sacramento, Los Angeles and Portland, is located in
the town of McKinleyville, 12 miles north of Eureka.
Patrick's
Point State Park, 4150 Patrick's Point Drive,
Trinidad: 25 miles north of Eureka
Prairie
Creek Redwoods State Park
Los Angeles:
Flights: Los
Angeles International Airport (LAX)
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The
Endor scenes for Return
of the Jedi were filmed in in Tall
Trees Redwood Grove in the northern
part of Humboldt County. Frank Darabont's The
Majestic, with
Jim Carrey as a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter,
was filmed in the Victorian Village of Ferndale.
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