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The Terminator location: The
Terminator materialises: Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park
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THE
TERMINATOR filming locations
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CREDITS
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“You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her. That's what he does. That's all he does! You can't stop him. He'll wade through you, reach down her throat, and pull her fucking heart out!”
Arnold
Schwarzenegger, the cyborg sent back from 2029AD
to terminate future heroine Sarah Connor (Linda
Hamilton), first materialises in a flurry of animated
lightning at the Griffith
Observatory, 2800 East Observatory Road, in
Griffith Park, where
he rips the hearts out of a couple of punks and takes
their clothes (while thanking God he didn’t land in
a convent). The scene features some stunning nighttime
views over the great flat expanse of LA.
The human resistance is not far behind, in the form
of Kyle Reese (Michael
Biehn), travelling economy class and landing in
a backalley of LA’s
grubby downtown area, near Seventh
and Broadway.
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The Terminator location: 'Big
Buns': Carrows Restaurant, Pasadena |
Connor is working as a waitress in ‘Big Buns’ cafe,
which is actually Carrows Restaurant,
815 South Fremont Avenue at Mission Street,
South Pasadena.
You can still get a great burger here.
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The Terminator location: The
'Alamo Gunshop': Victory Boulevard, Van Nuys |
Newly kitted out, the Terminator gets tooled up at the
‘Alamo Gun Shop’, which is now, and has been for the
last ten years, Mexico Auto
Sales, 14329 Victory Boulevard at Tyrone
Avenue, Van Nuys
in the San Fernando Valley.
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The Terminator location: Sarah
Connor learns survival skills: Tiki Motel, Santa Fe Avenue,
Huntington Park |
The motel, where Reese teaches Connor survival skills
and where, presumably, John Connor is conceived, is
the Tiki Motel, 7301 Santa
Fe Avenue, Huntington
Park. Be aware that this is not five-star
accommodation.
The car chase is around downtown LA,
on Sixth and Seventh Streets
and Broadway, leading to a shootout in the
huge indoor parking lot of the Department
of Power and Water, 111 North Hope Street.
The tunnel chase, with the Terminator’s bike dodging
home-made bombs, was filmed in the Second
Street Tunnel, which dives underground between
Hill Street and Figueroa Street,
also downtown.
The final confrontation, with the Terminator reduced
to a metal skeleton before being crushed in the jaws
of a metal press, was filmed at Kern’s
of California, 13010 East Temple Avenue,
down in City of Industry,
southeast LA.
Before disappearing into the ‘Mexican’ desert, Connor
gets her picture taken at the remote gas station in Sun Valley in the
Mojave (Joshua Trees are a dead giveaway), outskirts
of Palmdale, north
of LA.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE TERMINATOR
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TRAVEL
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Los Angeles:
Flights: Los
Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Griffith
Observatory, 2800 East Observatory Road, in
Griffith Park
Enjoy a burger and fries at Carrows Restaurant,
815 South Fremont Avenue at Mission Street,
South Pasadena
Tiki Motel, 7301 Santa
Fe Avenue, Huntington
Park (tel: 323.582.5261)
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ASSOCIATED
FILMS |
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Griffith
Observatory is a movie star in its
own right. It is famously featured in Rebel
Without a Cause, and there's a bust
of star James
Dean in the Observatory's grounds. Its sleek
deco lines can also be seen in the spoofy 80s
film of Dragnet
(with Tom
Hanks), cultish musical Earth
Girls are Easy, Charlie's
Angels: Full Throttle, the remake
of The House on Haunted
Hill, and even sneaks its way into
LA Confidential,
perched on the hillside above Pierce Patchett's
luxurious home
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