Both the Roosevelt Hotel and Grauman's are the real thing. They shut down Hollywood Boulevard for days while shooting these chase scenes.

This crash scene was staged at the corner of Hollywood Blvd. &  Orange Drive, in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (the building with the red double-decker bus parked in front of it in the movie) and a few steps away from Grauman's.

In this crash scene, Harrison & Josh are driving north on Orange Drive, and the bad guys heading east on Hollywood Blvd.)

In the top-right photo above, you are looking southwest, towards the Roosevelt Hotel.

In the photo to the left, you are looking northwest. (Note the red bus, still parked on Hollywood Blvd in front of the hotel.)

The man next to him is Johnny Grant, the honorary Mayor of Hollywood, who presides over most Hollywood award ceremonies. (And no, RJ doesn't really have his prints in cement at Grauman's.)

At this point, the helicopter reporter makes a mistake, saying "...at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, where apparently someone was getting their star..." People don't receive stars at Grauman's. (That's the nearby Hollywood Walk of Fame.) At Grauman's they get footprints & handprints...

A foot chase begins, as Harrison chases the bad guys east down Hollywood Boulevard, right through the famous courtyard at Grauman's Chinese (ruining RJ's wet footprints in cement along the way).

They then turn north and run up the long steps leading up to the main Babylon Court of the new Hollywood & Highland center, located at the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd & Highland Ave.

(The Hollywood & Highland center is the location of the Kodak Theatre, the new permanent home of the annual Academy Awards show. You'll see the stars walk the red carpet here each year to pick up their Oscars.)

The foot chase continues through the center's Babylon Court (which was built to resemble the major set from the classic D.W. Griffith 1916 film, "Intolerance".). Josh chases the crook out the center's west entrance, back on Orange Drive, where the crook hijacks a car and takes off.

(The next two actual stops for this train are Vine Street, if the train is heading east, or Universal Studios, if the train is heading north. In this case, Sartain is escaping to the east...)

(This same subway station is also featured in the 2003 caper film "The Italian Job", where the thieves drive their mini-cars right down the steps into the subway.)

After failing to commandeer a car, he gets so desperate that he steals a bicycle from a small girl (flowered basket and all), and goes speeding down the south side of Hollywood Boulevard, heading east, towards Vine Street (the next subway stop).

During this scene, you can see the Hollywood Walk of Fame stars on the sidewalk where he's riding, and he rolls right past the Guinness World of Records Museum , located at 6764 Hollywood Blvd. (The same museum is also featured in the 2003 movie, "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle").

(This station has a whimsical looking parking lot above it, complete with a small model of the old hat-shaped Brown Derby restaurant. Down below in the station, you'll see faux palm trees, actual movie projectors (donated by Paramount Studios) and a wall covered with projector reels.)

Harrison runs down the escalator into the underground station, where he confronts Sartain on board a subway train. A shoot-out erupts and the foot chase takes them back up onto Hollywood Blvd.

Ages ago, the Pantages used to host the Academy Awards show from time to time. Now it is a legitimate Broadway-style (live) theatre. At the time this movie was shot, the theatre was playing host to either Disney's "The Lion King" or Mel Brooks' "The Producers". But the theatre's real marquee was covered up with a red banner advertising the Moscow Philharmonic.

Built in 1927, it was the first major department store in Hollywood, located at 1645 North Vine Street, at the southwest corner of Hollywood & Vine.