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One of the best films portraying Robert Redford's work. Crazy how all the scenes they were filmed in were easily recognizable as SF Bay area locations, such as their office above the current FOX theater in Oakland, the San Mateo Bridge, and the Embarcadero building that is now one of Google's San Francisco locations. I couldn't place the main villain's headquarter location but I imagined it to be somewhere in Hayward's industrial park areas.

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I worked in downtown Oakland office building during the time of this filming and walked by one filming location, and remember how they faux prettied up the outside of the Fox Theatre adjacent to the office you refer to. This was pre-renovation Fox, it was more or less boarded up at the time.

They Playtronics HQ is actually in SoCal: 2900 North Madera Road in Simi Valley, California.

Which today is an Amazon distribution center…

It's actually the building next door at 400 National Way. The building was remodeled and expanded around the end of 2019. The side of the building shown in the long shots was extended and no longer resembles how it looks in the movie.

Look up the address in Google Earth Pro (not the web version, the downloadable native version) and click the 1985 icon at the bottom of the window. This opens the historical imagery. Drag the slider to 8/2019 to see a view of the building before the changes.

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