Sadly, most of the locations have now gone, including the King of Clubs, the pool bar where financially desperate car salesman Jerry Lundegaard William H Macy meets with the two shady characters Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare to arrange the kidnapping of his wife, which stood at Central Avenue NE at 3rd Avenue NE, northeast Minneapolis.
For mystified non-US readers, Paul Bunyan is a legendary giant lumberjack, usually accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, credited with superhuman exploits.
Hmmm β wonder what the Statue of Liberty would say about that claim? This is where Jerry sits down with the controlling Wade to discuss how the ransom for his wife, Jean, should be paid. The cabin where Jean was held captive, and where the woodchipper is put to inventive use, stood on Square Lake in May , Minnesota. The Vegas-style dinner-theatre venue closed in , and the scene was staged in the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre , West 78th Street, Chanhassen. The city of Chanhassen is approximately 25 minutes southwest of downtown Minneapolis , and the theatre located two blocks north of Minnesota State Highway 5 on Great Plains Boulevard.
In fact, the rooftop where Wade unexpectedly turns up demanding the return of his daughter is atop the parking structure on 3rd Avenue South at South 8th Street , downtown Minneapolis. The house of Mr Mohra, who gives the police information about the funny looking little guy while clearing away snow, is on 3rd Street South at the corner of Bryan Avenue in the shadow of the giant grain elevator in Hallock , on Hwy 75 , in the far northwest corner of Minnesota.
Enough of the negativity. There is finally something to see in Fargo itself, even if there was no filming there. Visit: Minnesota. Visit: Minneapolis-St Paul. Visit: North Dakota. Please send any corrections or additions to info movie-locations. Fargo Locations Minnesota ; North Dakota.
