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At 00:07:42, Frank says goodbye to his wife, Jordan, at a train station. ![]() She's refuses to leave without him, but he eventually manages to convince her to go, promising to meet her later in Venezuela, and telling her to wear a white dress, so he can spot her in the crowd.
This is the Santa Ana train station, Santa Ana is in Orange County, about five miles southwest of Disneyland. Don't be fooled by its Old California look. Although the architects clearly (It's officially called the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center). The station was featured in another Hollywood production: the last scene Here is a matching Google StreetView of the station.
without knocking, through a back door. Inside, they find the bird mask worn by whoever accosted Ray at Caspere's bungalow, and they also find camera & darkroom equipment, and the shotgun used to shoot Ray.
It turns out the be the home of Laura & Leonard Osterman, the brother & sister
E. Oleta Street & El Mirador Ave, in Long Beach, CA. The address is 1000 El Mirador Ave, but Ray & Ani enter the home through its Oleta Street side. That's just a few blocks southwest of Cal-State Long Beach. (The house seen behind them, in the screenshot above, is 5840 Oleta Street.) Why they went all the way to Long Beach to shoot a fairly standard house remains a mystery, since (as far as I know) they filmed nothing else in Long Beach. Since there were no visible street numbers, I assumed this was probably in Torrance, near Chad's school, and I wasted a lot of time searching that area, without success. Finally, I discovered that Geoff, a fellow locations enthusiast (of 90210locations.info) had learned its whereabouts, and was cool with my using the info here. (Thanks, Geoff!) [ Warning: This is a private home. Do not trespass on their property, knock on their door, or do anything that might disturb the residents. ] And here's a Google StreetView of the house. ![]() ![]()
00:27:32: We see a Greyhound station, where Ani is putting Laura on a bus to Seattle.
Laura (AKA Erica) is one of the two children (now adults)
you would think that the producers would have just used it for this scene. But no, instead, they trekked all the way down to the L.A. Harbor to use a building that I first photographed back during my "Dexter" days, when that show passed it off as a Miami airport. And it's not even a bus station, it's actually a cruise boat terminal. This is the Los Angeles World Cruise Center, at 600 N. Harbor Blvd, in San Pedro, CA. Or to be more precise, this scene was shot on the northeast (narrow) side of the cruise terminal, made up to look like a bus station by the addition of a few signs and a few carefully-parked Greyhound buses. You'll find the Cruise Terminal at the L.A. Harbor, next to the Main Channel, as soon as you get off the Harbor (110) Freeway at the Harbor Blvd exit, next to the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Here is a Google StreetView of the spot. ![]() ![]()
00:30: 28: We see Ray walk towards a large, futuristic building.
Inside, Ray meets with the Leonard (Laura's brother), the angry orphan plotting revenge He's there to kill Chief Holloway (one of the corrupt Vinci cops), but Ray convinces
Holloway shows up, and more or less admits to everything - as Ray records him. But it turns out that Holloway's partner in crime, Burris (another Vinci cop) is also there. All hell breaks loose when Holloway says that Ben Caspere was the father Leonard attacks Holloway with a knife. Burris tries to shoot Ray, but Ani appears
located just two miles east of Disneyland (on the same street). at 2626 E Katella Ave, in Anaheim, CA. ARTIC stands for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodel Center, and you'll find it across the street from (north of) Angel Stadium, and also across the street (south of) the Honda Center. If you've ever sat up in the cheap seats of Angel Stadium, you know that its great view included the sight of trains coming and going from the small AMTRACK station nearby. This huge ARTIC center replaced that small train station in 2014, and the new center now includes a major bus station as well. Here is a Google StreetView of ARCTIC . ![]() ![]()
Tossing in tear gas first, Frank & Ray wait outside the front door and mow They get away with $12 million in cash.
good guys' hideout-motel and the other earlier lodge. But when I couldn't find it there, I figured it was probably just a ranch set. One thing that years of location-hunting has taught me is that there aren't many actual rural areas near Hollywood. So, when producers need a log cabin or a barn, they usually just go to one of the many movie ranches that dot the hills surrounding Los Angeles. My first guess was Disney Ranch, which I know has several different cabins. But none of them matched. Fortunately, I have a collected long list of movie ranches, and after working my way through them, I finally found the right cabin at a spot called Canyon Ranch. Located up in the hills above Thousand Oaks, they actually have three different cabins. Fortunately, their website identifies each of them, with photos, and this one is clearly their "Rustic Cabin" (as opposed to their "Huck Finn" cabin or their "Main Log Cabin"). The address of Canyon Ranch is 368 E. Carlisle Road, in Thousand Oaks, CA. The cabin itself is located at these GPS coordinates: 34.125244, -118.874150
Here is a Google Earth view of the cabin. And here is a Google StreetView of the ranch's gate. ![]() ![]() ![]()
He parks his car nearby and walks to the school,
But when Ray returns to his car, he finds a tracker affixed to his car's undercarriage, I wasn't able to find this school back when it first appeared in an early episode. But this time, they let their guard down. A street sign is clearly visible Mapping that, it was easy to spot the pale blue house on the corner, That pale blue house we see is at the northwest corner of The camera is looking west/northwest in that shot.
Here is a matching Google StreetView. The school turns out to be Torrance Elementary School, Here's a Google StreetView of the school & the yellow sign.
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