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The
Actual Southern California Locations where the
2007 movie, "Nancy Drew",
was filmed.
Part Two


[0:37:19] - After a brief
driving shot (through the Lancaster desert), they go to the “Twin
Palms Spa & Bungalows” (which Nancy found out about via the spa's palm tree logo).
But the manager there tells Nancy that the records she wants to see were lost in a fire.
This is supposed to be way out in the Mojave Desert, near Morongo Valley, but in reality, this "spa" is right in the heart of Hollywood.
This is actually the pool/patio at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, at 7000 Hollywood Blvd., where you'll find the poolside Tropicana Bar.
That's right across from Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The hotel is where the very first Academy Awards night was held.
(You can read more about the historic hotel here.)
The pool is located behind (southwest of) the hotel.
Here is a Google StreetView of the hotel.
And here is a Google Photosphere of the pool at night.
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[0:41:08]
- going door-to-door, looking for the adopted daughter of
the mysterious actress (Dehlia Draycott), Nancy knocks at
one residential home where the woman turns out to be African-American, making it
rather obvious that she isn't the woman Nancy's looking for. )
(The same house is used for the very last door-slam in that sequence.)
This house is located in Pasadena at 1102 Del Rey Ave. (The house across the street
has changed quite a lot over the years.)
[Warning: Remember that this is a private home. Do not trespass on their property,
knock on their door, or do anything else that might disturb the residents.]
Here is a Google StreetView of the house.
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[0:42:58] - Nancy and Corky are walking through a tunnel when
a car suddenly appears and attempts to run them over.
They manage
to make it out of the tunnel just in time to leap into the bushes and
escape the oncoming car.
This scene was shot in the Griffith Park tunnel, on Vermont
Avenue / Mount Hollywood Drive, just north of the Observatory. (Click on the map link for its exact location.)
Here is a Google StreetView of the tunnel.
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This is the same tunnel used in "The
O.C."
(in the episode where Marissa was killed), and it was also
seen as the entrance to Toontown in Disney's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", as well
as for a classic skateboarding scene in "Back to the Future".
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They escape from the east end of the tunnel.
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[0:43:50]
- After escaping the car, Nancy & Corky emerge on a hilltop,
overlooking the city below, with an observatory on the next hill over.
That observatory (the domed building seen in the background) is The Griffith
Park Observatory, located (as its name suggests), in L.A.'s Griffith Park, at 2800 E. Observatory Road.
The Griffith
Observatory has been seen in many Hollywood movies, including "The Terminator",
"The Rocketeer" and "Rebel Without a Cause."
Here is a Google Streetview of the Observatory.
And here is a PhotoSphere showing that hilltop view.
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[0:44:53]
- In the city, Nancy surprises Dehlia Draycot's former agent, a powerful and obviously busy businessman named Mr. Biedermeyer.
This scene was shot at the
Citigroup Center, at 444 South Flower Street, in downtown L.A.
The camera
is looking south/southwest, towards the Central Library.
Here is a Google Streetview of the center.

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[0:49:25]
- Nancy goes to Chinatown,
where she has lunch at a patio restaurant with Corky, Ned, and where she is joined by the two
catty girls from her school. Then she goes into a nearby store, where
she tries to find Dehlia Draycot's will, which she believes may be hidden in a Chinese box.
This was shot in L.A.'s Chinatown Central Plaza.
You'll find this complex of ethnic shops and restaurants just north of
downtown. It lies between N. Broadway (on the east) and N. Hill
Street (on the west), just north of W. College Street.
In the photo above,
the camera is looking north up Sun Mung
Way, towards Gin Ling Way.
Although there are many genuine Chineserestaurants here, I'm pretty sure that they built this particular sidewalk cafe
from scratch, as a movie set, on the open street/plaza across from (northeast of) K.G. Louie, just inside (west of)
the east gate on Gin Ling Way.
The streets around Chinatown,
such as Alpine & Spring, are also seen, when Nancy and her friends are involved
in a car chase (while keeping below the speed limit).
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[0:50:48]
- She enters a shop in Chinatown (the sign says "K.G. Louie"), where she
and her friends look through a zillion Chinese boxes, trying to find Dehlia Draycot's hidden will.
The
K.G. Louie box store we see her enter
is located at 432 Gin Ling Way,
in Chinatown's Central Plaza. That's it's real name. In reality, the store
sells imported giftware, artists supplies and Zodiac-related souvenirs.
But that official address on Gin Ling Way is for the store's north entrance. The entrance that we see in the photo above is on the east side of the store, on Sun Mung
Way.
Here is a Google StreetView of the store.
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[0:53:00] - Nancy discovers a bomb, and tosses it into a sewer drain before it explodes.
This was also shot on Sun Mung
Way, just south of K.G. Louie. The camera is looking north.
Here is a StreetView
of that spot, but looking from the opposite direction (the bomb was
approximately where the small sign is sitting in the StreetView.)
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[1:11:27] - We see Nancy and her
dad, with Jane (Dehlia Draycot's illegitimate daughter), walking through the halls of City Hall,
then down its steps, and out past an area with arches, where they meet
Mr. Biedermeyer again.
This was shot in Los Angeles City Hall, at 200 N. Spring Street, in downtown L.A. The camera is looking east from Spring Street.
( City Hall shows up
again near the end of the movie, at [1:30:32], when Jane
gets back her baby daughter, who runs down the City Hall steps.)
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Nancy is walking later in
Chinatown, talking to her dad on the cell phone, when she is grabbed by the bad guys under a
Chinatown gate.
In this scene, she is walking west on Gin Ling Way, and the gate where
she's abducted [1:15: 28] is the west gate, at N. Hill Street (which
is where the SUV is driving that stops and grabs her.)
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[1:16:06] - After being kidnapped, Nancy wakes up inside an old movie theatre, lying in one of its back rooms, on a pile of red plastic marquee letters.
The bad guys who kidnapped her are sitting in the theatre's main
auditorium. Nancy sneaks past them by walking along scaffollding
above their heads.
This was shot inside The
Los Angeles Theatre, at 615
S. Broadway, in downtown Los Angeles.
Built in 1931, the now-closed movie palace is one of the grandest, most
ornate movie theatres you could imagine, with a lobby that looks like a
palace.
The theatre itself is no longer open to the
public (it's mainly used for filming now), except once a year, during the
"Last
Remaining Seats" program.
[1:20:11] - To make her escape from the goons who kidnapped her, Nancy jumps (from a theatre alley) on top of a passing trash truck. In real life, that alley is right around the corner, on the 6th Street side of the theatre.
(That is same alley that was used two years earlier,
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After her escape, later at [1:20:28], she returns to that same Chinatown gate (where they grabbed her) and jumps back into her roadster.
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[1:20:30] - During her escape
attempt, she is first seen driving in her roadster south on Main
Street, past 7th Street, in downtown L.A. (a spot which is about two blocks east of the theatre).
She makes a U-turn, and is then [1:20:56] seen heading north up Main Street at 8th Street.
Five seconds later, her car spins out at Main Street &
8th, and smacks into a parked car.
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She lands up,
unhurt, with the police in a hospital, at [1:21:12], where her father shows up to
scold her. Later, Mr. Biedermeyer, the agent, also shows up there, and winds up kidnapping them both.
These hospital scenes were
shot in St. Luke's Medical Center, at 2632 E. Washington Blvd, in Pasadena.
St. Luke's is an abandoned hospital that is now used almost
exclusively for filming
– and it is used a lot.
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[1:32: 30]
- The movie ends with Nancy and her father back in their hometown of River Heights,
which is, of course, South Pasadena in real-life, and we see them in
front of that Drew home again, with her boyfriend, Ned.
[Warning: Remember that this is a private home. Do not trespass on their property,
knock on their door, or do anything else that might disturb the residents.]
Here is a Google StreetView of the house.
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More Nancy Drew locations back on the first page!

The photos on this page are
stills from the DVD of "Nancy Drew"
and are copyright Warnerr Bros.
The rest of the page is Copyright © 1999-2024-Gary Wayne / Seeing-Stars.com
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