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The San Francisco
skyline is (dis)graced by two impossibly mammoth towers in The Towering
Inferno. The taller one goes up in flames on its opening day. The pre-digital
1974 disaster movie is directed by Irwin Allen and John Guillerman. Steve
McQueen, Paul Newman, and William Holden lead one of those all star casts
required for a big 1970s disaster flick. This one includes Faye Dunaway,
Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, O.J. Simpson, Robert
Vaughn, and Robert Wagner. The Bank of
America Building stood in for the doomed tower in ground level shots.
Lobby shots are the Hyatt Regency. Watch
as Fred Astaire enters the BofA building then ascends the Hyatt's escalator
in the same scene. The Blakely character's Pacific Heights mansion is 2898
Vallejo Street.
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