The Los Angeles Dodgers has their World Series victory parade yesterday and that, of course, set me to wondering. This is downtown downtown L.A. What filming locations are nearby?

City Hall:

Top Row: An LAPD shield with the Hall; the not-very-good Gangster Squard; the only L.A. scene in Hollywoodland. The rest of the film was shot in Montreal. Second Row: The ending to L.A. Confidential; the same arches in Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling; L.A. Confidential’s detective bullpen was also shot inside City Hall. Bottom: A bored JJ Gittes at the City Council meeting, shot inside City Hall, as well.

Grand Avenue: In Chinatown, a valet brings up Mrs. Mulwray’s car outside the Millenium Biltmore. It’s a dreamy 1936 Packard.

Second Street Tunnel: Featured in Blade Runner (1982).

Fourth Street Bridge: In Devil in the Blue Dress, Denzel Washington is about to be picked up by that approaching car; Washington as Easy, Don Cheadle as his sidekick, Mouse. The Bridge and the “river” below were also featured in the 1954 Giant Ant Thriller, Them! Them! is no match for James Arness’s snub-nosed .38.

Los Angeles Central Library, Fifth and Grand. In Collateral, accrosss the street, hapless cabbie Max (Jamie Foxx) picks up a fare named Vincent, who turns out to be a hit man.

The Abercombie Building, W. Fifth. The interior was featured in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1983).

Nearby:

Spring Street: An unlikely long-distance revolver shot kills Evelyn Mulwray in the tragic finale of Chinatown.

W. 6th Street. The Bliss Cafe stands in for an Asian-American nightclub in Collateral. In it, hit man Vincent seeks his victim, kind of messily.

E. 6th Street: In L.A. Confidential, what seems to be a gangland hit at The Nite Owl turns out to be an LAPD job.

Flower Street: Uma Thurman and John Travolta enter the twist contest at Jack Rabbit Slim’s in the noir-ish Pulp Fiction.

West 7th Street: The Prince stands in for the 1926 Brown Derby in Chinatown.