Island in “Death Race 2000″?
August 27th, 2006Where is this reservoir island, which appeared near the end of the strange 1970s movie?
The reservoir is in hilly country, with a large, almost pyramidal building near it, probably just above the dam. A cast member said, probably referring to this spot, that it was “down in Orange County,” in Southern California.
[movie locations, filming locations]
November 7th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
I note that there is a Pyramid Lake near Los Angeles. I’d start by looking there, assuming Roger Corman (he made the Orange County comment) doesn’t have a perfect memory of things that happened 30 years ago. I note that they also thank the Bureau of Land Management in Bakersfield in the credits, which is right around that area too.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Thanks, Scott at Stomp Tokyo.
Pyramid Lake sounds promising, and has an island, but it isn’t the right lake:
http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&z=14&ll=34.652627,-118.769331&spn=0.033538,0.05785&t=k&om=1
July 7th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
That’s the Federal Building at 24000 Avila Road in Laguna Niguel, California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Holifield_Federal_Building
The Sulphur Creek Reservoir is the body of water close to the building.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur_Creek_Reservoir