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Eazy e skateboard3/16/2024 ![]() ![]() Its final appearance was in the 1988 movie Miracle Mile. The dilapidated façade was used in the video for "Dancing in the Sheets" by Shalamar. Black-and-white film footage of a man with a jet pack flying from left to right in front of the facade was used in the video for the 1981 Devo single, "Beautiful World". It also appears at the beginning of the 1980 music video for the Barnes & Barnes song "Fish Heads". The 1980 release of the movie musical Xanadu brought renewed hopes the building might be saved when the auditorium's facade was used to portray a dilapidated building which became a sparkling, brightly lit roller disco nightclub, but the movie was critically panned and not an economic success. Interest in the building was rekindled somewhat with its 1978 inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1975, the Pan-Pacific made a brief appearance as the entrance to the NBC Studios in Hollywood for the movie Funny Lady. However, the building was neglected for many years and damaged by small fires started by transients. There were hopes throughout the surrounding Fairfax District towards refurbishing the Pan-Pacific, possibly as an ice rink or cultural center and the parking lot soon became a park.
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