As a native Saint Louisan who was a MAJOR Carpenter fan from my first viewing of "Halloween" at the age of 12 at the ORIGINAL Crestwood Cinema I was floored when I read in Starlog magazine that they'd filmed in Saint Louis. They started when I was 13 and finished a couple of months after my 14th birthday during my freshman year. I mentioned it to my mother and she knew and had never told me. I loved the movie and have several editions on DVD and BLU-RAY. I even have Carpenter's autograph on the deluxe edition Soundtrack that I bought and had him sign at the San Diego Comic-con when he was promoting "Ghosts of Mars". Being a courier I kept my eyes open for filming locations as I drove over the years. Little did I know that the location of the Air Force One crash site given in Starlog was wrong. They called it University City. Nope, not even close. I never saw anything that looked familiar. Then in 2014 or '15 a friend linked an article on Facebook about the fire in '76 and how Carpenters people thought the area would be a good stand-in for New York, and it even gave some locations. I think what I did at that point was to get my best copy of the movie and plop it in my DVD drive. I was unable to confirm most of the locations given by comparing my DVD to GOOGLEMAPS due to construction (ALL of the locations given had had major facelifts). I was however able to confirm the Tap Room building where we first see Snake on the ground in the prison, and the location of Air Force One. In fact I'd been parking about where they'd put the camera for that shot to make deliveries to the building to the right (off-camera, never on screen) for a year or two IN THE DAYTIME as well as parking on the other side of the tap room building to make deliveries there. I was unable to confirm any more using given information. But as I was sitting there, one building in the movie began to bother the hell out of me. When Hauck finds the presidential escape pod the building in the background where Romero is hiding seemed hauntingly familiar. I kept looking at it. It had a corner cut off of at street level with a ramp down to a garage door, and a brick column coming up at the very corner supporting the stories above. I kept staring at the damned thing saying, "I know that building. I've been there multiple times...". And then it hit me. It was the Mulligan Printing Building at 1800 Washington. I'd been delivering there for as long as I'd been delivering to the prior location AGAIN in the DAYTIME and never realized where I was. Then I backed the DVD up to the choppers coming down and although it was not one continuous shot as I'd thought, it was a single location. From the choppers coming down, to the troopers moving down St. Charles Street, all the way to the Mulligan building, it was a single location. After that, it started falling into place. I got multiple locations on my own after that. One that I wanted that was elusive until BLUE UNDERGROUND put out a spec ed of EFNY on BLU-RAY was the location of Brain's Lair. Carpenter or someone on one of my old DVD's identified it as "the civil courts building downtown". Well our civil courts building downtown is brand new so I could not confirm that. But the Blue Underground Blu-Ray had Adrienne Barbeau sitting with I think the cinematographer and one of them said that they thought it was the Masonic Lodge in Saint Louis. BAM!!!! I knew they were right. I brought up the clip of Snake and Cabbie walking to it from the cab and brought up Googlemaps. And there it was. I'd been going to these locations since I'd gone to day-shift in early 2013 and had just not recognized them. Their are a couple of locations I haven't identified, but I'm pretty much done with it. The major locations are known to me now. I carried a camera with me and photographed them while working right after I identified them. MIKE!!!! Good job.
My dad back in the 80’s was traveling home from Third Baptist church which is right by the fox theater and saw the plane wreck on locust. He said he was so distraught, he quickly turned on the news to see if there was anything about a plane crash. Later on he read in the Post Dispatch that they were filming a movie there. Life was so different back when you didn’t have instant news coverage.
I was an assistant manager at the Stadium Cinema Theaters when Escape From New York premiered there. Isaac Hayes drove up in a replica of the Duke's car and signed autographs in the lobby. Shout out to John Continue and Joe Rodriguez, two of many Saint Louisans in this film.
I was on Laclede’s Landing when I came across a scene being shot. A Cadillac with Chandeliers driving slowly down 2nd st. I never hear of this location being mentioned. I’ve looked at the scene with the Cadillac in the movie but I can’t be sure if it’s the shot I saw.
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As a native Saint Louisan who was a MAJOR Carpenter fan from my first viewing of "Halloween" at the age of 12 at the ORIGINAL Crestwood Cinema I was floored when I read in Starlog magazine that they'd filmed in Saint Louis. They started when I was 13 and finished a couple of months after my 14th birthday during my freshman year. I mentioned it to my mother and she knew and had never told me. I loved the movie and have several editions on DVD and BLU-RAY. I even have Carpenter's autograph on the deluxe edition Soundtrack that I bought and had him sign at the San Diego Comic-con when he was promoting "Ghosts of Mars". Being a courier I kept my eyes open for filming locations as I drove over the years. Little did I know that the location of the Air Force One crash site given in Starlog was wrong. They called it University City. Nope, not even close. I never saw anything that looked familiar. Then in 2014 or '15 a friend linked an article on Facebook about the fire in '76 and how Carpenters people thought the area would be a good stand-in for New York, and it even gave some locations. I think what I did at that point was to get my best copy of the movie and plop it in my DVD drive. I was unable to confirm most of the locations given by comparing my DVD to GOOGLEMAPS due to construction (ALL of the locations given had had major facelifts). I was however able to confirm the Tap Room building where we first see Snake on the ground in the prison, and the location of Air Force One. In fact I'd been parking about where they'd put the camera for that shot to make deliveries to the building to the right (off-camera, never on screen) for a year or two IN THE DAYTIME as well as parking on the other side of the tap room building to make deliveries there. I was unable to confirm any more using given information. But as I was sitting there, one building in the movie began to bother the hell out of me. When Hauck finds the presidential escape pod the building in the background where Romero is hiding seemed hauntingly familiar. I kept looking at it. It had a corner cut off of at street level with a ramp down to a garage door, and a brick column coming up at the very corner supporting the stories above. I kept staring at the damned thing saying, "I know that building. I've been there multiple times...". And then it hit me. It was the Mulligan Printing Building at 1800 Washington. I'd been delivering there for as long as I'd been delivering to the prior location AGAIN in the DAYTIME and never realized where I was. Then I backed the DVD up to the choppers coming down and although it was not one continuous shot as I'd thought, it was a single location. From the choppers coming down, to the troopers moving down St. Charles Street, all the way to the Mulligan building, it was a single location. After that, it started falling into place. I got multiple locations on my own after that. One that I wanted that was elusive until BLUE UNDERGROUND put out a spec ed of EFNY on BLU-RAY was the location of Brain's Lair. Carpenter or someone on one of my old DVD's identified it as "the civil courts building downtown". Well our civil courts building downtown is brand new so I could not confirm that. But the Blue Underground Blu-Ray had Adrienne Barbeau sitting with I think the cinematographer and one of them said that they thought it was the Masonic Lodge in Saint Louis. BAM!!!! I knew they were right. I brought up the clip of Snake and Cabbie walking to it from the cab and brought up Googlemaps. And there it was. I'd been going to these locations since I'd gone to day-shift in early 2013 and had just not recognized them. Their are a couple of locations I haven't identified, but I'm pretty much done with it. The major locations are known to me now. I carried a camera with me and photographed them while working right after I identified them. MIKE!!!! Good job.
What a story!!
My dad back in the 80’s was traveling home from Third Baptist church which is right by the fox theater and saw the plane wreck on locust. He said he was so distraught, he quickly turned on the news to see if there was anything about a plane crash. Later on he read in the Post Dispatch that they were filming a movie there. Life was so different back when you didn’t have instant news coverage.
Total awesome. Backwards hats 4 life bro
I was an assistant manager at the Stadium Cinema Theaters when Escape From New York premiered there. Isaac Hayes drove up in a replica of the Duke's car and signed autographs in the lobby. Shout out to John Continue and Joe Rodriguez, two of many Saint Louisans in this film.
Now that is cool. Didn't expect these anecdotes from the film! Thanks for sharing.
Groovy! My work garage is right by the Schlafly tap room and the old shoe building! So I am around that area all the time! Cool info!
I was on Laclede’s Landing when I came across a scene being shot. A Cadillac with Chandeliers driving slowly down 2nd st. I never hear of this location being mentioned. I’ve looked at the scene with the Cadillac in the movie but I can’t be sure if it’s the shot I saw.
Terrific short! Thanks!
I Just read this replacement locationg shooting in magazine