9601 Foothill Boulevard, Sylmar, CA 91342, 807 West Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90731, 700 West Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90731, 1310 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017, 1414 Havenhurst Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90046, 1315 South El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106, 13931 Mulholland Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, 3198 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90005, 40 Narcissa Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275, 3240 Sunset Valley Road, Moorpark, CA 93021, 11725 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049, 846 1/2 West Kensington Road, Los Angeles, CA 90026, 5030 Lemon Grove Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90029, North Spring Street & Ord Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012, The ultimate ‘Chinatown’ filming location map of Los Angeles, Filming Locations of Chicago and Los Angeles, A post shared by Pat James (@__patjames__), Los Angeles picnic spots: 20 of the best places to lay out a blanket, designed by husband-and-wife team Arthur and Nina Zwebell, A post shared by The Archer School for Girls (@archerschoolforgirls). Jake climbs up on the tile roof at this courtyard complex to photograph Hollis and Katherine embracing. Sunset Valley Road/Read Road on Google Map--You'll see the orchard and swimming pool near Brennan's house. I, Chas Demster, own the copyright to all original photographs shown on Itsfilmedthere.com unless otherwise credited and noted in which those contributors own the rights to their photographs. This orchard in Moorpark is the setting for a truly excellent car/horse chase. From Catalina Island to Sylmar, all the places seen in the classic LA caper It looks very much like the place where Tea Leoni gets Flor's daughter a scholarship and takes her on a tour with the school's actual principal. When I worked downtown I just to cut through the block here all the time. It’s only bad news at the Oak Pass reservoir, played by the Stone Canyon Reservoir: Hollis is found dead in the water here and later a heavy (played by Polanski) catches Jake snooping and slices his nose. Roman Polanski’s Chinatown is the essential Los Angeles film for just about anybody who isn’t a science fiction obsessive (Blade Runner), a thirtysomething woman (Clueless), or a jerk (Swingers). Jake boats it over to Catalina to visit Noah Cross; here he arrives in front of the Catalina Casino and Catalina Island Yacht Club. Grand is Grand Avenue though but corrected the other street name to make that one correct.Thanks. The story of seedy PI Jake Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, and his discovery of a plot to parch, then purchase, then annex, then irrigate the San Fernando Valley, is such a good myth that by now it’s just about replaced the real story of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the birth of modern LA. Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
