A brick plaza opens onto the harbor between a red brick Custom House and a working cruise ship dock.
What Mallory Square looks like
A wide brick paved plaza opens directly onto the Gulf of Mexico at the north end of Duval Street, lined with black iron lampposts and royal palms. The stands at one edge in red brick with stone trim and arched windows, its steep gabled roofline rising four storeys over the square.
Around the plaza the buildings drop to one and two storeys. Wood frame storefronts with porches and twin cupolas stand near a red brick former wrecking warehouse, its gable end hung with flags over an arched doorway and now fitted out with shops and outdoor tables. The occupies another of the old Tift and Company warehouses on the square.
Cruise ships dock on piers at the plaza's western side, close enough to fill the frame behind the open brick. A city ordinance requires the ships to leave two hours before sunset, so the dock empties out most evenings while the water and the outer islands stay in view.
Street performers and food carts set up on the brick each evening for the sunset gathering, with arts and crafts stalls along the plaza's edges. The 's bronze wrecking crew and ships' busts stand under the palms nearby.
Shot in Mallory Square
For Licence to Kill, the production shot a scene directly on Mallory Square's open brick plaza. Bond meets DEA operative Hawkins here, with the harbor and the dock behind them.
Licence to Kill, 1989
Mallory Square
James Bond meets DEA operative Hawkins on the square itself, not a double for anywhere else. The scene plays out on the open brick with the harbor in view behind them. Street View
Galveston's Strand Historic District lines a Gulf port with Victorian brick warehouse storefronts and cast iron columns from the same wrecking and shipping era as Mallory Square's own warehouses. The Strand runs between taller multi storey blocks on a straight grid, so a wide shot gives away a bigger street than Mallory Square's open plaza. Try searching Victorian brick warehouse storefronts now.
River Street in Savannah, Georgia
Savannah's River Street lines a working waterfront with the same red brick wrecking and cotton era warehouses, now fitted out with shops and restaurants the way Mallory Square's warehouses are. Savannah's buildings rise several storeys off a stone bluff with iron walkways, taller and steeper than Mallory Square's low plaza edge. Try searching red brick waterfront warehouses now.
Prince George Wharf in Nassau, The Bahamas
Prince George Wharf in Nassau is a working cruise ship dock beside a palm lined colonial waterfront, the closest functional match for Mallory Square's own cruise pier choreography. Nassau's government buildings are pastel colonial rather than red brick, and British road markings and signage would need dressing out. Try searching cruise ship dock now.
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