Where is gangster squad shooting

Temple, the courthouse which housed the O. Simpson trial in No doubt, you know already know that the red car trolley was added, along with the vintage automobiles. Here is a Google StreetView of the area. And of the City Hall steps. John O'Mara's house , where he lives with his wife:.

The house is shot up, later in the film, by Mickey Cohen's gunmen. This is an actual residential house, located at N. Gramercy Place , in Los Angeles. Built in , the house is just south of Beverly Blvd, west of Western Ave. Here is a Google StreetView of the house. Slapsy Maxie's wa s a real plac e, named after boxe r ' Slapsy Maxie' Rosenbloom.

But it no longer exists , so the producers had to create it from scratch - w ell, almost. The colorful skyline you see a bove is fake - a CGI composite of different L. The building on the far right side, for instance with the "Irene's Restaurant" sign , is actually the Tower Theatre, at S. B roadway, in downtown Los Angeles. But the left side is about 20 miles southeast of downtown, in the city of Bellflower, CA. Be llflower is just north of Lakewood, and south of Downey.

They found a row of buildings circa that still had that old-fashioned look, and then went to work. The store is on the east side of the street, just south of Artesia Blvd. The cafe has stood here since the s and, despite its modest appearance, has been something of a celeb hangout due to its position directly opposite the entrance to Paramount Studios. Closed for many years, Apple has announced plans to convert the old cinema into a retail outlet.

Let's hope its architecture is preserved. The bridge, featured in countless films, began to suffer from structural problems and was demolished in to make way for a new structure. The scene was filmed in Thousand Oaks , way to the west on Hwy Outside on Cherokee , the accidental killing of shoeshine boy Pete in the hail of bullets finally motivates Jerry to join the Squad to help take down Cohen once and for all.

Cohen is not one to give up and a successful hit on Dragna — along with his wife and maid — is carried out in his luxurious mansion. It's a private estate and not open to the public. Alerted to a heroin shipment due to be collected from Burbank Airport, a subsequent truck chase and shootout — with hand grenades too — was filmed in Griffith Park , with views over Los Angeles added digitally to establish the scene as taking place up in the Hollywood Hills.

Realising also that his house is bugged, Cohen sends the Squad off on a false lead to Chinatown , where a bloody ambush awaits them. Both the interior and exterior of the building were used extensively in this shootout scene. In the photo above , we're looking at the hotel's main entrance on Park View Street. In the photo below , the scene is inside, shot in the hotel's lobby. A mano-a-mano fist fight then breaks out between O'Hara and Cohen.

Don't be fooled by the big fountain. It's a fake, a prop brought in by the producers. In real life, you'll have to settle for the towering fountain in the middle of the park's big lake. Here is a Google StreetView panorama of the park.

Like most beach scenes in Hollywood films, it was shot in Malibu. The photos on this page are stills from "Gangster Squad" which you can buy by clicking here and are copyright Warner Bros. See the map links below for a more specific location: The scene where the Squad rousts one of Cohen's men from a car, beats him up, and sets fire to his car, was shot in downtown Los Angeles, on the block of S.

Santa Fe Avenue , with the camera looking north at the 4th Place bridge a small offshoot of the large 4th Street Bridge as it arches over Santa Fe Ave, and then over the railroad tracks and the Los Angeles River, to the east. This scene was shot inside another L. Broadway , in downtown.

And yes, that elaborate redwood forest ambiance is real - Clifton's was and is something special. Built long before Disneyland, it's said that Walt Disney got a few of his ideas from Clifton's. Clifton's opened at the height of the Great Depression, in Since then, it has served million guests.

The founder, Clifford Clinton, had a "Golden Rule" policy of letting people pay what they could afford. Its once-popular Broadway neighborhood fell into disrepair in recent decades, but like the rest of downtown L.