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The Ultimate Pulp Fiction Filming Location Map of Los Angeles

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If you weren't culturally conscious 20 years ago, you might not realize there were a few brief glorious years when John Travolta was not at all important in any way. Then, In fall of 1994, a young filmmaker named Quentin Tarantino unleashed Pulp Fiction on a nation still reeling from the death of Kurt Cobain, and now we live in a world where Travolta owns his own airport and was allowed to make that awful Scientology movie. That and two decades of "Royale with cheese" quotings aside, Pulp Fiction is a pretty virtuosic piece of filmmaking that also happens to put some mystery back in Los Angeles; it's set in a real version of the city that doesn't include Beverly Hills or backlots, just anonymous apartment blocks in North Hollywood, anonymous suburban bungalows deep in the Valley, and anonymous diners in the South Bay, all packed with evil motherfuckers doing some really evil shit. Right under our noses. So for its twentieth anniversary, here they are, the real spots of Pulp Fiction's real seedy LA.

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Hawthorne Grill

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Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer are in love and weird and they're robbing this diner.

Brett's apartment

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Brett never gets to eat his Big Kahuna burger.

The Wallace's house

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Uma Thurman dances to Urge Overkill and decides she'll snort the white powder she finds in Vincent's jacket. A bad choice.

Jack Rabbit Slim's

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Like a wax museum with a pulse.

Lance and Jody's house

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The place to go if you need an adrenaline shot to the heart.

Battle of the Titans

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Butch does not throw this fight. He actually kills the other guy.

River Glen Motel

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Mostly just Fabienne brushing her teeth and wishing she had a pot belly.

Butch parks his car

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The men in Butch's family go through a lot to hold onto that watch.

Butch's apartment

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A Pop Tart sets off the fire alarm.

Foster's Freeze

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Butch had to crash that Honda.

Pawn shop

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This place is pretty fuckin' far from ok.

Jimmie's house

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Oh God, it's Quentin Tarantino's big excuse to say the n-word a bunch of times.

Monster Joe's

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One day this will all be Raquel's.

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Hawthorne Grill

Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer are in love and weird and they're robbing this diner.

Brett's apartment

Brett never gets to eat his Big Kahuna burger.

The Wallace's house

Uma Thurman dances to Urge Overkill and decides she'll snort the white powder she finds in Vincent's jacket. A bad choice.

Jack Rabbit Slim's

Like a wax museum with a pulse.

Lance and Jody's house

The place to go if you need an adrenaline shot to the heart.

Battle of the Titans

Butch does not throw this fight. He actually kills the other guy.

River Glen Motel

Mostly just Fabienne brushing her teeth and wishing she had a pot belly.

Butch parks his car

The men in Butch's family go through a lot to hold onto that watch.

Butch's apartment

A Pop Tart sets off the fire alarm.

Foster's Freeze

Butch had to crash that Honda.

Pawn shop

This place is pretty fuckin' far from ok.

Jimmie's house

Oh God, it's Quentin Tarantino's big excuse to say the n-word a bunch of times.

Monster Joe's

One day this will all be Raquel's.