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Image Credit: Lindsay Blake Today, the three-story, 27,702-square-foot building is comprised of five loft spaces, each ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 square feet and boasting exposed ceiling joists, slat wood floors and arched windows. There is also a one-story warehouse attached to the site’s eastern side.
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Image Credit: Lindsay Blake The Starkman Building is easily one of Los Angeles’ most photogenic structures.
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Image Credit: Lindsay Blake The rusty brick façade, fading ghost signs and green arched doors translate beautifully to screens both big and small (not to mention camera lenses), especially when offset by the city’s brilliant blue skies.
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Image Credit: Lindsay Blake The site is also insanely versatile, able to represent different cities, time periods and functionalities. Indeed, the Starkman Building has portrayed everything from a New York sweatshop to a Washington, D.C. apartment to a Manhattan gentlemen’s club onscreen. And, of course, a South Philly watering hole.
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Image Credit: FXX Network The structure pops up regularly as Paddy’s Bar on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
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Image Credit: Lindsay Blake It is the southern side of the building, which fronts Palmetto Street, that is utilized as the exterior of Paddy’s on the series. Not only is the property featured in establishing shots, but it is also used for on-location filming, as well. Don’t go looking for the interior of Patty’s Pub on the premises, though. The inside of the bar is nothing more than a studio-built set.
The Starkman & Son Building’s extensive filming history far predates “It’s Always Sunny,” and each production shot there seems to be more famous than the last!
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Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Back in 1993, it was featured as the building where both John Connor (Sean Connery) and (spoiler!) Jingo Asakuma (Tia Carrere) live, said to be at 428 Rose Street, in the crime drama “Rising Sun.”
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Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures The Starkman Building serves as the Washington, D.C.-area apartment of Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), which gets swarmed by FBI agents after he steals the Declaration of Independence in the 2004 adventure film “National Treasure.”
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) attend a party at the locale in 2009’s “Fast & Furious.”
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Image Credit: Lionsgate Television The Starkman Building portrays the New York sweatshop where Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) attends a photography event/party with Joyce Ramsay (Zosia Mamet) in the season four episode of “Mad Men” titled “The Rejected,” which aired in 2010.
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Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox That same year, the site masked as the Peppermint Hippo gentleman’s club, which Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire Foster (Tina Fey) infiltrate to get close to district attorney Frank Crenshaw (William Fichtner) in the comedy “Date Night.”
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Image Credit: NBCUniversal Television The Starkman Building pops up as the burning drug den where Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is trapped in the series finale of “House, M.D.” titled “Everybody Dies,” which aired in 2012. Some heavy special effects were employed to make the structure appear charred for the shoot.
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Image Credit: NBCUniversal Television And Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) gets pulled over there in the season four episode of “Parks and Recreation” titled “The Comeback Kid,” which also aired in 2012. Though Officer Len Hugeff (Boo Arnold) lists Ron’s offenses as follows, “You got four people in the front seat, nobody’s wearing a seat belt, you were speeding and blasting your horn through the hospital zone, the rear of the vehicle is open, debris’s been falling out, and you don’t have a commercial license to drive a truck,” Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), of course, swoops in to save him from getting a ticket.
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Image Credit: Lindsay Blake Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂
Stalk It: The Starkman Building, aka Paddy’s Pub from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” is located at 544 Mateo St. in downtown L.A. A block away at 1380 E. 6th St. is Southwestern Bag Company, another popular filming spot most famous for portraying the police station in the 1986 classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
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