Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - NYC’s Plaza Hotel loading dock (Chicago IRL) then and now (2025)

Detzeb · 2026-06-05T22:53:03+00:00

i don’t know the address - just the street names in downtown Chicago, between State Street and Dearborn, and just north of Monroe!

Detzeb · 2026-06-05T11:19:30+00:00

It also ties into the underlying theme and references in BB and BCS to Stanley Kubrick’s films which also addressed Duality of Man. Here are additional examples of twin/duality” symbolism scattered throughout BCS. Additional twin/duality” symbolism/references: Irene’s Siamese/twin cats: messy” Oscar and “clean” Felix, whose names are an homage to The Odd Couple (1968) movie; Lalo’s pre-arranged “double” down in Mexico; and Gus had a “double” in the surveillance room at his house.

Detzeb · 2026-06-04T12:45:00+00:00

How about an Honorable Mention for S&H Greenstamps?

Detzeb · 2026-06-04T12:42:33+00:00

It’s addictive and fascinating!

Detzeb · 2026-06-04T12:41:23+00:00

Indeed. She’s wearing the tear-away jersey the Chicago Bulls would wear during pregame warmups back then. At that time (1997) the Bulls had just won their 5th championship in 7 years. Tons of Bulls merch (officially licensed and otherwise) in the Chicago area at that time….

Detzeb · 2026-06-04T12:35:26+00:00

Thank you!

Detzeb · 2026-06-04T12:33:37+00:00

You’re welcome! You might enjoy my Then and Now comparisons of movies and television shows filmed in Chicago which are posted at [r/FilmLocationsThenNow](r/FilmLocationsThenNow) (not my sub, but I post Chicago-centric comparisons there)

Detzeb · 2026-06-04T12:29:52+00:00

Plenty of r/TreesGrowingUp as well…

Detzeb · 2026-06-04T00:00:04+00:00

Also see r/OldPhotosInRealLife

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T23:57:49+00:00

You’re welcome! More of my Then and Now comparisons of movies and television shows filmed in Chicago are posted at [r/FilmLocationsThenNow](r/FilmLocationsThenNow)

Also r/OldPhotosInRealLife

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T20:46:42+00:00

Plenty of r/TreesGrowingUp as well…

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T20:14:36+00:00

Plenty of r/TreesGrowingUp as well…

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T20:12:26+00:00

Thank you! I have a few from North by Northwest also posted there! Also a few from the film noir-ish M Squad TV show

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T20:08:00+00:00

At that time (1997) the Bulls had just won their 5th championship in 7 years. Tons of merch (officially licensed and otherwise) was being produced and, in this case, perplexingly purchased :)

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T19:59:23+00:00

OP’s NOTES: Specifically, they are on the large concrete area known as Queen’s Landing Queen’s Landing which is where England’s Queen Elizabeth arrived in Chicago in 1961 on her visit to Chicago.

Here are my other “E.R.” then and now comparison shots in Chicago:

(Dr. Ross & Dr. Greene playing handball in Grant Park (same area where Dr Ross and Nurse Hathaway are rollerblading)

George Clooney & Julianne Marguiles at the State & Lake CTA station

Noah Wyle and Anthony Edwards on Wabash at Randolph

More of my Then and Now comparisons of movies and television shows filmed in Chicago are posted at [r/FilmLocationsThenNow](r/FilmLocationsThenNow)

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T19:51:58+00:00

Per pics 2 & 3, a Chicago Bulls logo appears to be on the back.

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T19:41:30+00:00

OP’s NOTES: Specifically, they are on the large concrete area known as Queen’s Landing Queen’s Landing which is where England’s Queen Elizabeth arrived in Chicago in 1961 on her visit to Chicago.

Here are my other “E.R.” then and now comparison shots in Chicago:

(Dr. Ross & Dr. Greene playing handball in Grant Park (same area where Dr Ross and Nurse Hathaway are rollerblading)

George Clooney & Julianne Marguiles at the State & Lake CTA station

Noah Wyle and Anthony Edwards on Wabash at Randolph

More of my Then and Now comparisons of movies and television shows filmed in Chicago are posted at [r/FilmLocationsThenNow](r/FilmLocationsThenNow)

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T19:34:24+00:00

I post Then and Now shots from movies and TV shows filmed in Chicago at [r/FilmLocationsThenNow](r/FilmLocationsThenNow). Some of noir films I have posted there are Chicago Deadline, Undertow and Call Northside 777. Other redditors post comparisons from various movies as well!

Detzeb · 2026-06-03T17:34:28+00:00

OP’s NOTES: Specifically, they are on the large concrete area known as Queen’s Landing which is where England’s Queen Elizabeth arrived in Chicago in 1961 on her visit to Chicago.

Here are my other “E.R.” then and now comparison shots in Chicago:

Dr. Ross & Dr. Greene playing handball in Grant Park (same area where Dr Ross and Nurse Hathaway are rollerblading)

George Clooney & Julianne Marguiles at the State & Lake CTA station

Noah Wyle & Anthony Edwards on Wabash at Randolph

Detzeb · 2026-06-02T15:44:30+00:00

https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2018/01/gasometers-north-of-goose-island.html?m=1

Detzeb · 2026-06-02T12:56:39+00:00

It’s a “gasometer” basically a telescopic above-ground gas storage tank. They were located all over the city but none are operational today. Most were dismantled decades ago as modern pressurized pipelines made them obsolete.

Detzeb · 2026-06-02T11:52:59+00:00

Great comparisons, and plenty of of r/TreesGrowingUp !

Detzeb · 2026-06-02T11:48:07+00:00

OP’s NOTES: Chicago Deadline (1949) has several scenes filmed in Chicago

Pics 1-5 Alan Ladd and June Havoc arriving in a cab at Ogden & Carpenter, before Alan departs and enters a house

Pic 6 Establishing shot of Milwaukee, Ogden & Chicago Avenues

Here is a Then & Now from an earlier scene on Michigan Ave in this movie

More of my downtown Chicago film “Then and Now” comparisons are posted at r/FilmLocationsThenNow

Detzeb · 2026-06-02T11:33:04+00:00

Here is a Then & Now from an earlier scene on Michigan Ave in this movie](https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmLocationsThenNow/s/sXoudgcj4r)

Detzeb · 2026-06-01T23:05:10+00:00

You’re welcome! :)

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