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Vanishing Point Filming Locations: The Nameless Service Station, Denver
There’s this beautiful photograph of Kowalski pulling his white Challenger into a service station.
Must be somewhere in Denver, must be rainy Friday night. Did he run a red light or did the
motorcycle cop just wanted to have a closer look at K and his car?
(Kodak Ektachrome Slide)
Is this from another lost scene that didn’t make it into the final cut; did the crew just shoot some still images here for promotional purposes?
Now I don’t have an answer to any of these questions, and we will probably never know. But at least I wanted to know where this picture has been taken; means finding the name of the service station and its exact location. So after some serious ‘data mining’ here it is,
Vanishing Point’s ‘Nameless Service Station’:
(Vintage Postcard)
Downtown Denver TEXACO Service Station | 1802 Glenarm Place, Denver
The facts:
The white triangular shaped – Art Deco style – Texaco Service Station occupied the space between Broadway, 18th Street and Glenarm Place. Its official address was 1802 Glenarm Place (now the site of a high rise building).
The 24 Hour Coffee Shop was located at 420 18th Street.
The billboard was on top of 1805 Broadway.
The Matador Bar / Cosmopolitan Hotel was at Broadway and E 18th Ave.
All these buildings have been demolished since.
In the film Kowalski passes the bar and the hotel on his way through the city.
And how does this place look like today? As with Argo’s, only the basic street pattern is still the same:
(Google Streetview)
It was completely another place and another time back then...
The Denver Public Library has a great collection of historic photographs. In this one from 1960, everything is there (lower left quarter). If you enlarge it to maximum size, even the 24 Hour Coffee sign is recognizable:
Aerial view of Denver :: Western History
There’s this beautiful photograph of Kowalski pulling his white Challenger into a service station.
Must be somewhere in Denver, must be rainy Friday night. Did he run a red light or did the
motorcycle cop just wanted to have a closer look at K and his car?
(Kodak Ektachrome Slide)
Is this from another lost scene that didn’t make it into the final cut; did the crew just shoot some still images here for promotional purposes?
Now I don’t have an answer to any of these questions, and we will probably never know. But at least I wanted to know where this picture has been taken; means finding the name of the service station and its exact location. So after some serious ‘data mining’ here it is,
Vanishing Point’s ‘Nameless Service Station’:
(Vintage Postcard)
Downtown Denver TEXACO Service Station | 1802 Glenarm Place, Denver
The facts:
The white triangular shaped – Art Deco style – Texaco Service Station occupied the space between Broadway, 18th Street and Glenarm Place. Its official address was 1802 Glenarm Place (now the site of a high rise building).
The 24 Hour Coffee Shop was located at 420 18th Street.
The billboard was on top of 1805 Broadway.
The Matador Bar / Cosmopolitan Hotel was at Broadway and E 18th Ave.
All these buildings have been demolished since.
In the film Kowalski passes the bar and the hotel on his way through the city.
And how does this place look like today? As with Argo’s, only the basic street pattern is still the same:
(Google Streetview)
It was completely another place and another time back then...
The Denver Public Library has a great collection of historic photographs. In this one from 1960, everything is there (lower left quarter). If you enlarge it to maximum size, even the 24 Hour Coffee sign is recognizable:
Aerial view of Denver :: Western History
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