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The "Tower" was a fictinal building?

posted 8 years ago by mrbernstein
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My research has found tha the building depicted n the beginning where the helicoptor lands carrying the Paul Newman character was fictional. The movie was about a 120 story building, however, in San Francisco no building existed being 120 story building in 1974. The Bank Of America building was 48 story's. The shots of the building were a compilation of shots from the Bank of America Building, The Embarcadero, and the Hyatt in San Fran.

If someone knows differnt plese comment.

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[–] Corky666 8 years ago

OMG, you're a real genius

[–] mrbernstein 8 years ago

Thanks for the confirmation

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[–] sage2112 8 years ago

lol - was gonna say that another clue is that the building never existed.

[–] clacton0 8 years ago

OK so its only just the last few years we have had a building over with 130 floors being Burj Khalifa which has 163 surprised it took so long.

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[–] Fiery_Boycs 8 years ago

In any event, it was hideously ugly.

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[–] chicago103 8 years ago

In the future The Glass Tower becomes home to Admiral James T. Kirk!
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