Jesse and Becky’s Honeymoon Send-Off Location from “Full House”

I have grown used to productions playing fast and loose with location continuity, but was still flummoxed when I came across a thread back in January 2016 on a now defunct website in which a commenter asked if anyone knew which residence was used as the Tanner family home in the Season 4 episode of Full House titled “The Wedding: Part 2.”  At the time, I was completely unaware that a pad other than the one at 1709 Broderick Street in San Francisco (which I blogged about here and here) had ever been utilized as the Tanners’ on the series.  I immediately emailed my friend/guest poster extraordinaire/resident Full House expert Michael (you can read his many IAMNOTSTALKER articles here) to see if he had any intel on the locale and was not at all surprised when he wrote back telling me that he did.  As he informed me, in “The Wedding: Part 2,” Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and his new wife, Becky (Lori Loughlin), are sent off on their honeymoon from outside of 1320 Carroll Avenue in Echo Park.

For those who don’t remember the circumstances of “The Wedding: Part 2,” all 8 seasons of Full House are currently available for streaming on Hulu.  I’ll also provide a little refresher here, though.  Thanks to a series of hapless events, Jesse winds up arrested and jailed in “Tomato Country” on his wedding day and has to be bailed out by his bride-to-be moments before the ceremony.  The nuptials finally go off without any additional hitches and by the end of the episode, the couple are sharing their first dance (to “Jailhouse Rock,” no less) in the Tanner family living room.  (And wow, can I just say that is quite the headdress on Becky!)

Not that D.J.’s (Candace Cameron Bure) is much better.  But I digress.

After Becky and Jesse cut the cake and toss the requisite bouquet and garter, the scene cuts to a night shot on what is supposedly the Tanners’ San Francisco street, where Danny (Bob Saget), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin), D.J., and the rest of the clan wave good-bye to the departing newlyweds as they venture off via motorcycle on their honeymoon.  The residence barely visible in the background of the scene is known as the Heim House in real life.  Other than a similar style of architecture, it does not bear much resemblance to 1709 Broderick – though, truth be told, it is never really specified that the pad is supposed to be the Tanners’ in the episode.  In all fairness, maybe producers intended it to be a neighboring property or perhaps one across the street.  Regardless, being that Full House was lensed in Los Angeles, it makes sense that cast and crew did not travel all the way to San Francisco to shoot the brief honeymoon send-off segment and instead found a suitable replacement location closer to home.

What perplexed both Michael and me is why the production did not make use of the Midwest Residential Street homes on the Warner Bros. Studio backlot where we both thought the show had been lensed.  As Michael emailed me, “The scene is so quick and dark that the WB houses could have been used to similar effect.”  As he came to find out, though, Full House was not shot at Warner Bros. during its entire eight-year run.  Stage 28 at Sony Pictures Studio in Culver City was actually home to the series for its first 6 seasons.  (To confuse matters further, Sony was known as Lorimar-Telepictures when Full House initially began shooting in 1987.  The Sony changeover took place in 1989.)  It was not until the start of Season 7 in 1993 that the production was moved to the WB in Burbank.  Because Sony does not have a backlot to speak of, producers had to head to a real street to shoot “The Wedding: Part 2” in 1991 – and what better place to go to than the 1300 block of Carroll Avenue, which is comprised of the largest concentration of Victorian-style homes in Los Angeles.

The Heim House, originally built in 1887, boasts one of the block’s prettiest façades with a wraparound porch, carved wooden detailing, two towers, and zigzag trim.

The Queen Anne-style pad is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #77.

The picturesque property also briefly appeared in the Season 3 episode of Charmed titled “Primrose Empath” as one of the houses from which Prue (Shannen Doherty) could hear the voices and feel the pain of its inhabitants.

The two dwellings located east of the Heim House, 1300 Carroll Avenue, which is known as the Phillips House in real life, and 1316 Carroll Avenue, aka the Russell House, are also visible in “The Wedding: Part 2,” though as you can see below, the former is now obscured by foliage and can no longer be seen from the angle from which the episode was shot.

On a Tanner house side-note – when I went to input a map link for 1709 Broderick Street in the opening paragraph of this post, I noticed that a large group of fellow stalkers can be seen posing for photos in front of the Tanner home in the most recent Google Street View imagery of it from June 2017, which absolutely cracked me up.

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Big THANK YOU to my friend Michael for finding this location!    You can check out his many IAMNOTASTALKER guest posts here.

Until next time, Happy Stalking!

Stalk It: In “The Wedding: Part 2” episode of Full House, Jesse and Becky are sent off on their honeymoon from outside of 1320 Carroll Avenue in Echo Park.

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