Title: Where in Texas is that Love Shop?
nems12 - August 26, 2005 10:42 PM (GMT)
Where in Texas is that Love Shop?
Filming took place at:
5429 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway
Dallas, TX 75240
Unfortunately the building MGM filmed within is no longer there. Here is the full story-
1969: General Mills constructs a new building at 5429 LBJ Freeway, for its pioneer venture into the restaurant business. General Mills opens the restaurant as The Betty Crocker Tree House Restaurant and Bake Shop.
1974: General Mills decides to get out of the restaurant business, and so the building is closed and sold to developer Ronald J. Monesson. He remodels the interior with plenty of mirrors, glass, neon, chrome and suede (in blue, red and beige). With this new décor the building reopens in the fall of 1974, as a restaurant and 11-level discotheque, simply named Oz. It doesn't take long for Oz to gain a reputation as one of the most popular (and expensive) night spots in Dallas.
1975: MGM come scouting for a location to double as the Love Shop interior in Logan’s Run, and find the bizarre interior of Oz to be a perfect fit. In fact the décor is so futuristic that the MGM set designers change very little in preparation for filming. That summer from July 12th through the 14th, MGM take over Oz and cameras roll inside as 50 scantily clad men and women act out a stylized orgy.
1976: The Logan’s Run director prepares an edit of the film which includes the Oz/Love Shop scene lasting slightly over four minutes. Unfortunately before the film’s June 23rd premiere, MGM executives worry that the scene is too risqué and so further cuts are performed to reduce the scene in the released film to less than two minutes.
More bad news for Oz comes on June 1st when the restaurant continues to operate despite owner Monesson filing chapter XI bankruptcy. No one could have guessed that despite the popularity of Oz, it had only ever seen two months of profitability. On August 3rd Merchantile National Bank is granted ownership of Oz from Monesson.
1977: Oz is finally forced to close its doors on March 9th due to non-payment of state taxes. Later in the year Alierza Ekhtair buys the building, remodels and reopens on October 1st as Baron de Rothschild’s restaurant.
1987: The original building is torn down and a new ten-story office building is constructed in its place.
Today the ten story building operates under the name Galleria Crossing I and offers 232,541 square feet of office space for lease. Here is how the location where the Oz restaurant once stood looks today:
It should be noted that a few blocks down the street (on the opposite side) is a location often mistakenly identified as where Oz once operated. This building at 5818 LBJ Freeway was constructed in 1974 and despite being host to a number of dance clubs and cocktail lounges over the years, is not the location for Oz. A picture of 5818 is below and you can tell that an multi-level discotheque never could have fit inside.
Filming took place at:
5429 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway
Dallas, TX 75240
Unfortunately the building MGM filmed within is no longer there. Here is the full story-
1969: General Mills constructs a new building at 5429 LBJ Freeway, for its pioneer venture into the restaurant business. General Mills opens the restaurant as The Betty Crocker Tree House Restaurant and Bake Shop.
1974: General Mills decides to get out of the restaurant business, and so the building is closed and sold to developer Ronald J. Monesson. He remodels the interior with plenty of mirrors, glass, neon, chrome and suede (in blue, red and beige). With this new décor the building reopens in the fall of 1974, as a restaurant and 11-level discotheque, simply named Oz. It doesn't take long for Oz to gain a reputation as one of the most popular (and expensive) night spots in Dallas.
1975: MGM come scouting for a location to double as the Love Shop interior in Logan’s Run, and find the bizarre interior of Oz to be a perfect fit. In fact the décor is so futuristic that the MGM set designers change very little in preparation for filming. That summer from July 12th through the 14th, MGM take over Oz and cameras roll inside as 50 scantily clad men and women act out a stylized orgy.
1976: The Logan’s Run director prepares an edit of the film which includes the Oz/Love Shop scene lasting slightly over four minutes. Unfortunately before the film’s June 23rd premiere, MGM executives worry that the scene is too risqué and so further cuts are performed to reduce the scene in the released film to less than two minutes.
More bad news for Oz comes on June 1st when the restaurant continues to operate despite owner Monesson filing chapter XI bankruptcy. No one could have guessed that despite the popularity of Oz, it had only ever seen two months of profitability. On August 3rd Merchantile National Bank is granted ownership of Oz from Monesson.
1977: Oz is finally forced to close its doors on March 9th due to non-payment of state taxes. Later in the year Alierza Ekhtair buys the building, remodels and reopens on October 1st as Baron de Rothschild’s restaurant.
1987: The original building is torn down and a new ten-story office building is constructed in its place.
Today the ten story building operates under the name Galleria Crossing I and offers 232,541 square feet of office space for lease. Here is how the location where the Oz restaurant once stood looks today:
It should be noted that a few blocks down the street (on the opposite side) is a location often mistakenly identified as where Oz once operated. This building at 5818 LBJ Freeway was constructed in 1974 and despite being host to a number of dance clubs and cocktail lounges over the years, is not the location for Oz. A picture of 5818 is below and you can tell that an multi-level discotheque never could have fit inside.
Francis 8 - September 10, 2005 05:41 AM (GMT)
Too bad that Oz is no longer in existence. I would have liked to have visited that place, just because the film was partially shot there.