Ape City (East Coast)

From The Sacred Scrolls

[edit] Trivia

• The huge 'Ape City' set, with it's many buildings, public squares, streets, shoreline, huge outdoor amphitheater and stockade, was built in April/May 1967 on the Fox studio's ranch near Malibu, California. It was refurbished for use again two years later, for Beneath the Planet of the Apes in 1969. Despite the intense rains and mud slides suffered by Southern California the preceding winter, resulting in extensive damage to the exterior set, its foundation and basic structural engineering were sound enough to withstand the elements. As can be seen in Beneath, however, a little of the 'Ape City' set was gone by then. In the TV show episode The Gladiators, shot in June 1974, only the amphitheater section was left. Even this was finally demolished in the late 1970s.