- June 1st, 2020, 1:34 pm#4935365
Picture the scene.
It's the 3rd of December, 1983. You've decided to take a trip into Los Angeles to check out some of the sights while you still get the chance. You pick a spot to park on East 5th street, what has been steadily growing into the city's skid row for years.
One of the nearest landmarks to where you've parked? A disused Fire Station...
A pretty grand-looking place once... But now definitely on hard times. All that graffiti covering the ground floor really makes it look like a demilitarised zone...
A rare bit of insight into the filming of Ghostbusters, provided by Shelton A. Gunaratne on his blog, The Travels of a Journalist.
Although the sequence was ultimately not used in the film, the production dressed the lower half of Fire Station №23's 20+ foot tall ground floor (and looks like about 6-7 eighths of the 26-foot-width) to match the design of Hook & Ladder №8 in New York (replicating the faux grafittin must've been fun). The suggestion from this elaborate effort is that they planned to film a scene of Bill, Dan, Harold and Rhoda Gemignani (the real estate lady) standing in the archway, before stepping through the doors into the dirtied up apparatus bay.
Shelton makes no mention of Ghostbusters in this particular listing, which makes this little insight even more special for the fact that in the spur of the moment. Were it not for him, we might never have gotten to see this effort.
It's the 3rd of December, 1983. You've decided to take a trip into Los Angeles to check out some of the sights while you still get the chance. You pick a spot to park on East 5th street, what has been steadily growing into the city's skid row for years.
One of the nearest landmarks to where you've parked? A disused Fire Station...
A pretty grand-looking place once... But now definitely on hard times. All that graffiti covering the ground floor really makes it look like a demilitarised zone...
A rare bit of insight into the filming of Ghostbusters, provided by Shelton A. Gunaratne on his blog, The Travels of a Journalist.
Although the sequence was ultimately not used in the film, the production dressed the lower half of Fire Station №23's 20+ foot tall ground floor (and looks like about 6-7 eighths of the 26-foot-width) to match the design of Hook & Ladder №8 in New York (replicating the faux grafittin must've been fun). The suggestion from this elaborate effort is that they planned to film a scene of Bill, Dan, Harold and Rhoda Gemignani (the real estate lady) standing in the archway, before stepping through the doors into the dirtied up apparatus bay.
Shelton makes no mention of Ghostbusters in this particular listing, which makes this little insight even more special for the fact that in the spur of the moment. Were it not for him, we might never have gotten to see this effort.