![]() ![]() The exterior is nearby, the Northridge Fashion Center, 9301 Tampa Avenue, Northridge, which was seriously damaged in the 1994 'quake and has since been majorly renovated. The shopping mall chase and confrontation between the two Terminators wasn’t filmed in Reseda, though. but now sadly demolished), downtown Los Angeles, and has soon tracked young Connor down to Reseda. ![]() Meanwhile, the T-1000 upgrade liquid metal Terminator ( Robert Patrick) fetches up beneath the Sixth Street Bridge (featured in the climax of S.W.A.T. Arriving a few years later, the T-800 would have spent the entire movie dressed like a librarian. It's long gone, and a library now stands on the site. The new user-friendly T-800 Terminator, by another stroke of luck, finds himself naked in the San Fernando Valley at biker hangout, The Corral Bar, which stood at 12002 Osborne Street, Lakeview Terrace, where he gets himself not only a leather jacket, but a cool bike, shades, and a large gun as well. Built as a medical facility in the early Seventies, it was closed, either due to earthquake damage or lack of funding, according to which story you buy, and started a new career as a movie location (it was seen in the confusingly non-Michael Myers Halloween III: Season Of The Witch back in 1982), but was finally demolished in 2017. It was the Phoenix Academy, previously the Lake View Medical Center, which stood at 11600 Eldridge Avenue at Kagel Canyon, off Foothill Boulevard to the north of Hansen Dam Park in the San Fernando Valley. The institution of the movie is closer to Los Angeles. The ‘Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane’, where Sarah Connor is incarcerated, has nothing to do with Pescadero, which is a small California fishing town between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Terminator 2: Judgment Day film location: ‘Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane’: Phoenix Academy, San Fernando Valley With a sense of thrift that would gladden his old mentor ( Cameron is a graduate of the Roger Corman school of moviemaking – at age 23 he handled the special effects on the Corman-produced Battle Beyond The Stars), the twisted bikes, burned-out cars and blackened cinders used as dressing are charred debris from the Universal Studios Hollywood fire of 1989, when a disgruntled security guard torched the famous backlot.įontana also proved useful in providing a destroyed LA for Independence Day. The opening ‘future war’ is reprised, using the ruins of a demolished steel plant at Fontana, on the outskirts of San Bernardino, Route 10 east of Los Angeles. James Cameron took the opportunity to revisit ideas from the first Terminator movie on a grander scale. Some years on from The Terminator, and future resistance hero John Connor ( Edward Furlong) is an eleven-year-old, farmed out to foster parents in the northern Los Angeles suburb of Reseda (don’t go looking for ‘South Almond Avenue’ – it’s fictitious), while Mom Sarah ( Linda Hamilton) is banged up in a maximum security asylum.Īt $94 million, T2 was the most expensive movie ever (the original Terminator, came in at a neat $6 million).
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