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Toretto’s house is 722 East Kensington Road, and ‘Toretto’s market and diner’, where O'Conner insinuates himself into the community, is the nearby friendly local grocery store Bob’s Market, 1234 Bellevue Avenue at Kensington Road. Echo Park is also the neighbourhood of Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, and you might have spotted Bob’s Market alongside the Dodge Challenger as he waits for police messages.
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According to the Estately website, in real life, the home, which was designed by architect David Fowler for his mother, was built in 1963 and boasted 4 bedrooms, 6 baths, 5,444 square feet, and over six acres of land with unparalleled 180-degree views of the city. After the residence was sold in 2000 for $2.8 million, the entire thing was bulldozed to the ground in order to make room for a new – and absolutely gargantuan – mansion (which you can see below in an aerial view that I got from a 2012 Wall Street Journal video). Furious 7 filmmakers employed some major CGI to create the road split where Brian parts ways with Dom for the last time. Instead, Brian’s car (Paul Walker’s personal Toyota Supra was used in the scene) pulled off onto a roadside turnout on the eastern side of Templin Highway, approximately 2,000 feet south of the intersection with Ridge Route Road.
"One Last Ride" Road Split - Templin Highway
In 2010, the remaining sections of the campus were bought by an Orange County developer who has converted the site into a large mixed-use complex, the Ambassador Mansion & Gardens. Several buildings have been torn down during the transformation and many more are set for demolition in the near future, including the Hall of Administration, which was designed by Peter J. Holdstock in 1967. The Ambassador College site has been used regularly for filming over the years, in movies like A Single Man, Inherent Vice, Glory Daze and That Thing You Do!
Life
Marianne and her husband, Damian, bought the four-bedroom, 100-year-old house about 16 years ago with a friend. Dominic Toretto is the leader of a rough riding, illegal street racing gang played by Vin Diesel in “The Fast and the Furious.” The movie came out in 2001 and spawned one of the most successful film franchises ever. It made big action stars out of Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and the late Paul Walker. Kensington is an otherwise quiet Echo Park street, a long uphill block above the chaos of Sunset and far away from the busy section of the 101 on the other side. The immediate area is perhaps best known for the gorgeous Victorian-era homes that line several of its shady, winding blocks, as well as its proximity to the lake and all of the gentrified action in Echo Park. However, at the turn of the millennium when The Fast and the Furious came out, it was still a working-class neighborhood with some rough edges, a plausible place for a street racing mechanic and his cafe-running sister to live in a family home.
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Cohen had the owners paint it white for the original movie, to show of the color of the cars. When it’s not doubling as the Fast house, the home is sectioned off into four units for multiple renters who live there. According to Echo Park Realty broker Steve Stokes, it was built in 1906 and last sold in April 1999 for $223,000. With the gentrification of the neighborhood over the past two decades, the home is now worth more than $1 million. The Fast and Furious saga is emblematic and which car to choose among all those that heroes buy, sell, destroy, steal… The Nissan Skyline is one of the most obvious choices. Present from the short film The turbo-charged prelude linking the first and second parts, the Nissan Skyline is a legend in street racing, and probably one of the most beautiful cars driven by the late Paul Walker.
The House In The Movies
After Dominic and his crew were found guilty for their truck hijackings, Dom, Leon and Vince fled Los Angeles, with Vince heading to South America and Dom fleeing to Mexico, with Letty going after him. Mia, however, remained in Los Angeles by herself for many years, living at the Toretto family home. After calling Dom to tell him Letty was seemingly murdered, Dominic returned to Los Angeles through the U.S-Mexico border. The residence is, according to Property Shark, the second-largest house in all of Los Angeles. Shaw tracked Han during an illegal street race in Tokyo, unaware that this was all a ruse by Mr. Nobody, and attempted an assasination on his life, which failed. Dom's auto repair, the auto shop where Brian and the gang repair Dom’s ten-second car in The Fast and the Furious, is a former 1906 substation that once provided electricity to the Yellow Car transit line.
In Furious 7, the property was blown up (on-screen); however, it was never damaged in real life and remains standing today. In fact, in later movies, they actually rebuild the house using CGI over the real location. The house at the time of filming the first Fast and the Furious movie was owned by three people, Marianne, her husband, and her friend who used the home as a multi-family dwelling.
Location
His road trip eventually took him to Miami, Florida, where he settled down for a while. In Fast & Furious, Dom and Brian have a terse meet-up at a street rally held at one of L.A.’s most-filmed locales, the Starkman Building. Located in the Arts District of Downtown L.A., the picturesque brick structure (aka the Pan Pacific Warehouse) was built in 1908 as a factory for the Nate Starkman & Son company. The building’s other onscreen stints include masking as Paddy’s Pub on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Nicholas Cage’s apartment in National Treasure.
Before their final confrontation, Dominic went to the garage and prepared his Charger and other weapons for his battle with Deckard. Coincidentally, the illegal activity cited near the house in the past six months consists mostly of car crimes — grand-theft auto and theft from a vehicle. Located in L.A.’s ethnically diverse Echo Park neighborhood, the area is also a fitting reflection of the Fast movie characters and its fan base, with large populations of Latinos, Asians, and African Americans, and a smaller relative percentage of whites. The ‘Race Wars’ rally was filmed at San Bernardino International Airport, East Third Street at Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino.
“I’d charge them a lot more money.” Marianne hasn’t even seen “The Fast and the Furious.” She prefers classic, artsy foreign films by directors like Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Yet, she can’t help but feel a connection to “Fast and Furious,” one that surprises her at times. Built in 1906 in the Echo Park neighborhood, this house became one of the most famous in the city following the release of the first Fast and Furious movie.
With their records being cleaned/erased, the crew make their way to Los Angeles once more, with Dominic reacquiring their old house. The Torettos continued to run Toretto's Market & Cafe, which serviced their neighborhood. Other than Dom's crew, Brian O'Conner was also a regular customer at the cafe.
“So much of our careers started in this house.” Adds Jordana Brewster, “Every corner you turn in this house you remember another scene,” recalling a specific interaction she filmed with the late Paul Walker. Seeking revenge for Letty’s death in Fast & Furious, Dom heads to the apartment of David Park (Ron Yuan) to gather some intel. When David proves tight-lipped, Dom hangs him by his feet out of a fourth floor window. In real life, David’s building is known as the Stratford Hotel and houses 93 apartment units. The rear side of the four-story structure was also featured in one of the opening scenes of Fast & Furious as the spot where Brian captures a suspect after a long foot chase through Downtown L.A.
Other than Shaw and Jakande, Kiet also attacked but Brian gets his revenge and defeats him. In the aftermath, parts of the city were damaged by the drone and missile attacks before Jakande was killed and Shaw was arrested. Although Brian and Dominic were later smuggled with their cars to Mexico, they used a tunnel to get back to the U.S to Los Angeles, and then again to return back to the U.S. when they go to Mexico again. After Arturo Braga was arrested, Dominic was sentenced 25 years-to-life for his past crimes at Lompoc Maximum Security Prison, at which point Brian and Mia broke Dom out of this prison bus and fled Los Angeles, becoming fugitives themselves. One location that I am asked about constantly is the mid-century modern-style, circular-shaped home that served as the LAPD/FBI undercover headquarters in the 2001 flick The Fast and the Furious. In 2023 the Fast and the Furious house was empty, and on the rental market; whether or not it’s still owned by Marianne, we are just not sure.
Several oil derricks now surround the property and make for an arresting site. Dominic watches Letty’s funeral from a distance, near one of those oil derricks. With its unique aesthetic and picturesque greenery, Sunnyside has long been popular with filmmakers. Other productions shot there include 8MM, Click, Phantasm II, Joan of Arcadia and The Bridge.
The ‘Racer’s Edge’, the garage at which O'Conner works, is an anonymous building at 1046 North Orange Drive, just south of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood and, no, disappointingly there’s no car on the roof. Climbing up on a causeway, Knox carjacks a pickup truck and crashes into the Road House, leading to a brutal fistfight with Dalton. He prepares to finish off Dalton with a shard of wood, but Dalton gains the upper hand and repeatedly stabs Knox into submission, leaving him for dead. At the Road House, Dalton fends off a motorcycle gang working for local crime boss Ben Brandt and personally drives the injured thugs to the hospital, where he meets Ellie, a doctor who tends to his injuries.
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