This was a fully functional firehouse (hook & ladder 8) but there was talk earlier in the year that it was going to be shut down. The interior of Ghostbusters headquarters was shot in a firehouse in L.A.

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This firehouse in Los Angeles was closed in 1960 but became a popular filming location after it was used for the interior of the Ghostbusters Headquarters in 1984. A short list of things filmed there since includes Big Trouble in Little China, The Mask, Flatliners, the adult film Flashpoint and tv shows the A-team and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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The first ghost Venkman, Ray and Egon see at the beginning of Ghostbusters is an evil old woman who rearranges the books and slimes the card catalog at the New York Public Library.

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New York's Sedgewick Hotel where the Ghostbusters bust their first ghost is actually the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

You can also see the Biltmore in Fight Club when Tyler Durden and what's-his-name go after the police commissioner.

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The exterior of Ferris Bueller's house in the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's located in Long Beach, California not Chicago where the movie takes place.

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