At the end of the second episode, “Guts”, we see Rick and Glenn come to the rescue of the survivors as Glenn leads the zombies away with the Challenger and Rick pulls the box truck up to the loading dock.
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The building where this scene was filmed is at the intersection of Mitchell St SW and Forsyth St SW in downtown Atlanta. This intersection is about a block from the Norfolk Southern building featured in an earlier post as well as behind Glenn’s Challenger here.
In the skyline of these location shots, as well as the screen captures above if you look closely, you can see a gold-domed building. This building is the Georgia State Capitol building. The gold color you see isn’t the sun, the dome is actually plated in gold leaf mined from Dahlonega, GA, the site of the original United States gold rush. (Thanks jamiept for that trivia fact!)
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Interesting fact: the 80s horror movie Sleepaway Camp 3, which was mainly shot in Waco Ga, filmed the opening scene in this same location. It was supposed to be New York City.
The scariest part is that these scenes are filmed in the scummiest parts of downtown Atlanta. You wouldn’t want to go walking thru there alone.
Unfortunately you have a good point. I wouldn’t feel all that comfortable in some of those parts of town alone, at least at night.
I’m thinking all they had to do was blow in some loose paper, and that area was ready to shoot. It already looks post-apocalyptic.