The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations: Travel Guide to Film Locations

REGION 1
REGION 2

AMAZON.CO.UK

AMAZON.COM

(Memento location, Discount Inn, Tujunga)  

Memento location: Leonard's ‘Discount Inn’ motel: Travel Inn, Foothill Boulevard, Tujunga

MEMENTO filming locations


CREDITS
MEMENTO, 2000
dir: Christopher Nolan

Guy Pearce
Carrie-Anne Moss
Joe Pantoliano
So where are you? You’re in some motel room. You just wake up and you’re in a motel room. There’s the key. It feels like maybe it's just the first time you've been there, but perhaps you've been there for a week, three months. It's kind of hard to say.

Like Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects, Christopher Nolan’s ingeniously-plotted, reverse-timescale mystery, requires multiple viewings.

The film was shot almost entirely in LA's San Fernando Valley, where most of the major film studios can be found – and hence a popular area for location filming.

There's no ‘Discount Inn’. The motel in which amnesiac Leonard Shelby Guy Pearce) holes up, is the Travel Inn, 7254 Foothill Boulevard, Tujunga (tel: 818..352.5951) at Hillhaven Avenue. The motel is not far from the animal sanctuary location for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Tujunga, incidentally, is where you'll find Elliot's house from E.T.

As Leonard drives to meet Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss) he passes 510 North Victory Boulevard, directly opposite the Burger King behind which Doc Emmett lived in Back to the Future).

OK. So what am I doing? Iím chasing this guy. No. Heís chasing me...”: Leonard plays cat-and-mouse, or mouse-and-cat, with Dodd around the motor homes of Monte Vista Mobile Estates, 8100 Foothill Boulevard, Sunland. Directly across the boulevard, Hatti-Kay Coiffures, in the Edward I Zwern Building, 8119 Foothill Boulevard at Mather, became ‘Emma’s Tattoo’, where “Fact No. 6: car license SG13 7IU” is inked onto Leonard’s body.

(Memento location, The Blue Room, Burbank)  

Memento location: 'Ferdy's Bar': The Blue Room, Burbank


Natalie puts Leonard’s short-term memory loss to the test by serving up disgustingly contaminated beer. ‘Ferdy’s Bar’ is the Blue Room, 916 South San Fernando Road at Alameda Avenue, Burbank (tel: 323.849.2779), which can also be seen in Touch and Change of Heart. Behind the corrugated front is a stylish neighbourhood bar, good for after-work drinks and with a rep for attracting studio execs. It's also the bar at which Nate (Jon Voight) is drinking when he gets a call from McCauley (Robert de Niro) to get Van Zant’s address in Michael Mann's Heat.




To report mistakes or to add further information: locator555@aol.com
 
FILMING LOCATIONS FOR MEMENTO
Los Angeles
 
TRAVEL


Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)

Burbank is in the San Fernando Valley, north of Hollywood, on I-5, the Golden State Freeway. Sunland and Tujunga are north of Burbank, off Highway 210, the Foothill Freeway.

Travel Inn, 7254 Foothill Boulevard, Tujunga (tel: 818..352.5951) at Hillhaven Avenue

The Blue Room, 916 South San Fernando Road at Alameda Avenue, Burbank (tel: 323.849.2779)
 
ASSOCIATED FILMS


The ‘Emery Animal Hospital’, and the adjoining branch of ‘United Rentals’, for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, were sets built on the 7500 block of Foothill Boulevard, Sunland, a few blocks from the Travel Inn
Steven Spielberg chose Tujunga for the location of Elliot's house in E.T., in order to use the dramatic backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains

 

All material Copyright ©2006
The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations
webmaster@movie-locations.com
Designed by Tony Reeves