Landmarks & buildings

Formosa Cafe

famous restaurant in Hollywood, California

United States · 34.0906, -118.3460

Official site

Formosa Cafe is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia article of 1 production, in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on. Published sources name it for more, each listed below with its publisher.

“Several Hollywood landmarks appropriate to the 1950s were used, including the Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood, the Frolic Room on Hollywood Boulevard, and the Crossroads of the World, an outdoor shopping mall dressed as a movie theatre where the premiere of When Worlds Collide takes place at the beginning of the film.”

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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Formosa Cafe as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Named here by Formosa Cafe’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Formosa Cafe, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

• L.A. Confidential 1997

  “The interior and exterior of the Formosa Cafe can be seen in two key sequences in the 1997 movie L.A. Confidential, set in early 1950s Los Angeles.” Wikipedia

From published sources

Productions a newspaper, a film office, a broadcaster, a national film archive, a city filming permit or the production itself says were filmed at Formosa Cafe, where no wiki records it. Each one below says where it comes from, with its source linked beside it.

Filming locations nearby

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  Studios & sets

  The Lot at Formosa

  United States·under 1 km

  Hollywood backlot

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  Studios & sets

  Charlie Chaplin Studios

  United States·under 1 km

  American filming studios

• Landmarks & buildings

  Hatfield's

  United States·under 1 km

  defunct restaurant in California, U.S

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  Landmarks & buildings

  Sunset Las Palmas Studios

  United States·1 km east

  located in 1040 N. Las Palmas Avenue in Hollywood, California

• Towns & cities

  Spaulding Square

  United States·1 km north-west

  human settlement in Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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  Streets & squares

  Hollywood Walk of Fame

  United States·1 km north

  more than 2,700 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California

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