Top Gun ‘Sleazy Bar’ in San Diego, California

Atlas Obscura reports that Kansas City Barbeque in San Diego's Marina District houses an unexpected piece of film history: the original piano from the nineteen eighty-six film Top Gun. The instrument is best known for one iconic scene—Goose and Maverick, played by Anthony Edwards and Tom Cruise, belting out 'Great Balls of Fire' to a packed bar. The battered upright has survived decades of wear and a devastating twenty oh-eight fire that ravaged much of the restaurant, yet remained remarkably intact. Today it remains playable and on display, still a magnet for fans eager to recreate the scene, as the bar operates as both a functioning restaurant and a shrine to the film.

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