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He fled Los Angeles, driving through multiple states and participating in several street races for money. His road trip eventually took him to Miami, Florida, where he settled down for a while. Shaw traveled to Tokyo where he tracked down Han, and at the same time sent Dom a bomb disguised as a package from Han. The leader of the Asian gang, Rick Yune, is shot from his bike and killed by Paul Walker in a scene shot on Glendale Blvd., right between Alvarado Street (on the north) & Park Ave (on the south), and just north the heart of Echo Park. After the Asian gang members attack Vin Diesel’s house with machine guns (almost killing Jesse) and speed off on motorcycles, Paul Walker chases them in his car, up and down the hilly streets, exchanging gunfire. The very steep hill they come racing down is Micheltorena Street, between Sunset Blvd and Lucille Ave., in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area.
The Inside Story of the Real 'Fast & Furious' House
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Today, a 49,300-square-foot home (currently, the second largest residence in L.A.) stands on the site. The street runs north to south, right at the western edge of the Hawthorne Airport. They were racing north on Prairie, starting at Prairie and 120th Street, and finishing at Prairie and 118th Street (just south of the 105 Freeway). In any case, if you want to see the building, it’s located in Hollywood on Orange Drive, at the southeast corner of of Santa Monica Blvd and Orange Drive, north of Melrose Ave.
The Nissan Skyline from Fast and Furious
He had the façade repainted in white with the agreement of the owners at the time in order to highlight the cars. Rob Cohen also commissioned the fabrication of a garage since the house lacks one. For the driveway, on the other hand, the production uses a little trick and exploits the one of the neighboring house. The motorbike gang scenes were shot in the Little Saigon district of Orange County, way to the southeast of Los Angeles.
Noted Locations
Dominic watches Letty’s funeral from a distance, near one of those oil derricks. With its unique aesthetic and picturesque greenery, Sunnyside has long been popular with filmmakers. Other productions shot there include 8MM, Click, Phantasm II, Joan of Arcadia and The Bridge. If the exterior is largely used, in the first film but also in the following ones, Rob Cohen also films some indoor scenes. O'Conner is arrested at Seventh Street and Valencia Street, downtown Los Angeles. There is no ‘El Gato Negro’, this was nothing more than a set built on a vacant lot in El Segundo.
Fast & Furious
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Scene It Before: Toretto's House from Furious 7.
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In 2023 the Fast and the Furious house was empty, and on the rental market; whether or not it’s still owned by Marianne, we are just not sure. However, a number of fans did gather outside her home and did build a shrine outside the front of her house, much like when Robin Williams died, and fans flocked to the Mrs Doubtfire House, building a shine on the sidewalk. When The Fast and Furious star Paul Walker died in a car crash at the age of 40, the LAPD had to warn her that they were expecting gatherings of up to 10,000 people at her house. In the end, the gatherings at her home didn’t reach those numbers, with most people choosing to gather at the crash site rather than at her house. Located in L.A.’s ethnically diverse Echo Park neighborhood, the area is also a fitting reflection of the Fast movie characters and its fan base, with large populations of Latinos, Asians, and African Americans, and a smaller relative percentage of whites.
One morning, whilst getting ready to take their son, Jack, to school, Mia Toretto finds a package at the front door from Tokyo, to which Dom believes it's Han sending him a turbo charger for his car. You can also catch a glimpse of the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the background during the race. This towering green bridge links mainland San Pedro with Terminal Island; it has been seen in other movies, including “Charlie’s Angels” and “To Live & Die in L.A. The race itself (where Paul loses to Dom) was run on Prairie Avenue in the city of Hawthorne, a good 15 miles southwest of the Produce Market. After the successful mission with Project Aries, Dom and his crew returned to the house for a barbecue. However, before they said grace, Brian arrived in his blue Nissan Skyline to join his former crew mates.
Street Rally - Starkman Building
In Furious 7, the property was blown up (on-screen); however, it was never damaged in real life and remains standing today. In fact, in later movies, they actually rebuild the house using CGI over the real location. The house at the time of filming the first Fast and the Furious movie was owned by three people, Marianne, her husband, and her friend who used the home as a multi-family dwelling. In Fast & Furious, Dom and Brian have a terse meet-up at a street rally held at one of L.A.’s most-filmed locales, the Starkman Building. Located in the Arts District of Downtown L.A., the picturesque brick structure (aka the Pan Pacific Warehouse) was built in 1908 as a factory for the Nate Starkman & Son company. The building’s other onscreen stints include masking as Paddy’s Pub on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Nicholas Cage’s apartment in National Treasure.
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Hollywood is great at tricking the brain into believing what the eyes are seeing.Through careful camera angles, set decoration or lighting, they can make any location look like it’s another part of the world. SO here, without further adieu, are some of the film locations used in the movies. I will add more information about the other movies in the series as time goes on. The other addition to the intersection is a new group of 15-minute parking spots set on a diagonal right in front of Bob’s Market. Unlike most of the store’s residential neighbors, Bob’s Market doesn’t seem to suffer from the publicity.
Mia, however, remained in Los Angeles by herself for many years, living at the Toretto family home. After calling Dom to tell him Letty was seemingly murdered, Dominic returned to Los Angeles through the U.S-Mexico border. Shaw tracked Han during an illegal street race in Tokyo, unaware that this was all a ruse by Mr. Nobody, and attempted an assasination on his life, which failed. The Asian motorcycle gang scenes were shot in an area of Orange County known as “Little Saigon” (because of the many Vietnamese immigrants there), in the city of Westminster, CA.
Toretto's House,the Echo Park home of Dominic and his sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster) appears in several of the Fast and Furious movies. Both the interior and the exterior of the two-story structure were utilized in the films, most notably in the first installment. For the shoot, director Rob Cohen had the owner paint the 1906 dwelling white so that the gang’s bright cars would stand out against it. The residence’s detached garage, where Dom keeps his 1970 Dodge Charger R/T, was demolished at some point after the filming of The Fast and the Furious and had to be rebuilt for Fast & Furious (2009). Though the Toretto's house meets its untimely demise in Furious 7 when it’s blown up by Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), in real life it is still standing and looks much the same as it did onscreen. At the beginning of The Fast and the Furious, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) tests out his racing skills while driving his iconic neon green Mitsubishi Eclipse in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium during the first Fast and Furious race.
Toretto’s market & diner isn’t far from the Toretto house – it’s located just a few hundred yards south in Echo Park. “We never thought this would be a series of films,” says Marianne, a painter and art teacher originally from Mexico, who asked only to be identified by her first name, because privacy is already a struggle. Marianne and her husband, Damian, bought the four-bedroom, 100-year-old house about 16 years ago with a friend. The house doesn’t appear in all the “Fast and Furious” movies, yet it gets dozens of visits from fans every week. They’re mostly young, teenagers or 20-somethings, and they come from all over the world.
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