Also seen in the liner notes of the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill (1986).

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From 1991 to 1992, the Beastie Boys recorded Check Your Head at G-Son Studios in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. With Mario Caldato, Jr. as co-producer, the album marked the Beasties return to instrumentation. This progression is illustrated with the cover shot of the album (by Glen E. Friedman) that shows the Beastie Boys sitting on the curb with their instrument cases.

The location became the Los Angeles headquarters for Grand Royal Records, the Beastie Boys' subsidiary of Capitol records.

In 2006, the location was put up for sale on craigslist.

Glendale Boulevard Boulevard
Glendale Boulevard Is Where I'm At-
"Do It", Ill Communication, Beastie Boys

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Berlin's Großer Windkanal (or large wind tunnel) was built in the early 1930s as an aerodynamic testing facility for German aircraft. It's located on Humboldt University's campus at Adlershof along with four other buildings that were used to test aircraft in an area they now call Aerodynamischer Park.

The Windkanal was used as a backdrop in both Aeon Flux from 2005 and Hanna from 2011. In Hanna, this is the building she escapes from when she is first captured. I have no idea what it was used for in Aeon Flux (never saw it), but it's featured prominently on one version of the movie poster.

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The exterior of the Midtown West talian-Argentinean cafe, Sosa Borella, is used in the Beastie Boys video "Ch-Check It Out" off their 2004 release To The 5 Boroughs.

In this portion of the video, some snooty cafe-goers attack the Beastie Boys with a baguette and a fight ensues.

Also in the video, a fight occurs at the doctor's office, on the street between the Beastie Boys dressed as Star Trek ensigns, and on an airboat as the crew is dressed in 70's era Wild Kingdom outfits with a swamp blue-screen background. I didn't say it makes sense...

Cafe Sosa Borello currently has a 96% approval rating on UrbanSpoon.

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The music venue/bar known as A7 Annex was located at the corner of 2nd Ave and 1st St (near Houston) in the Lower East Side. It was another fixture of the NY hardcore scene in the early 80's, when several hardcore bands played at this location- the Beastie Boys, Reagan Youth, The Mob, Kraut, Meatmen, and more. The building no longer exists.

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