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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Visit you Favorite Movie landmark: OFFICE SPACE



INITECH

It would be natural to assume that this cult hit was filmed somewhere in California’s Silicon Valley, where it was inspired and seemingly set, but you’d be about 1,700 miles off. To see the still-standing home of Initech (that fire didn’t look real at all, did it?), I’m going to need you to go ahead and go to Austin, Texas, which is where writer/director Mike Judge was (and is) living. Today the building in this random business park is home to a child support enforcement company and some lawyers, among other things.

The setting of the fictional Chotchkie’s, where Judge himself played the manager who insisted upon ‘15 pieces of flair,’ was the Alligator Grill, which is a Cajun restaurant that opened in 1994 and still continues to feature “Austin’s best happy hour” from 3pm to 7pm every day of the week.

Location: Initech exteriors were filmed at 4120 Freidrich Lane, Austin, TX 78744 and the Alligator Grill is at 3003 South Lamar, Austin, TX 78704
Getting there: Austin itself is easy enough to find, and the Initech building is about 4 miles south of the clubs on Sixth Street downtown. The Alligator Grill is about 4 miles northwest of Initech, and about 3 miles south of Sixth Street.

Thanks to Bootsnall.com
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