The interiors of the bar where the Reapers meet in "Mannheim, Germany" were actually shot in the historic Lotus Cardroom & Cafe in Portland, at the corner of SW 3rd and Salmon. Opened in 1924, the Lotus had a long history that included its owners getting busted for violating the Volstead Act in 1927, and for illegal gambling in the 1970s before it became the first legally licensed gambling site in Oregon a little later. Madonna, Hall & Oates, and George Clinton were said to have stopped by at one time or other. The Lotus also boasted a 30-foot cherry-wood bar built by the Brunswick Co. in Chicago in the 1880s, shipped around Cape Horn, and displayed in an establishment in Yakima, Washington before being purchased for the Lotus in the 1960s. (It is partly visible, glowing in reflected light at the center of frame as the second Reaper being sent to Portland by Yannick
David Loftus ambles toward the camera in silhouette.) Also used for interior shots in
Nameless (2013), The Lotus was closed Aug. 20, 2016 because the building it was in was scheduled for demolition to make way for a proposed 20-story boutique hotel. By 2020, when the clashes between U.S. federal BORTAC officials and George Floyd BLM demonstrators took place at the same intersection and in front of the federal courthouse just across Salmon to the south, the Lotus was nothing more than a hole in the ground, which it remains as of this writing [January 2025]. The cherry-wood bar was purchased by local beer chain McMenamins and moved to the Back Stage Bar, adjacent to the historic Bagdad Theater in Southeast Portland.
