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Filming location · A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Lincoln Heights Jail Boiler Room

Freddy's steam-hissing boiler room lair was built in the basement of this shuttered 1931 city jail, where Tina flees down the corridors in the opening nightmare. Fenced off but visible from Avenue 19.

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