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March 20, 2020March 28, 2020

The Buhrman House from “Truth Be Told”

I am a firm believer in love at first sight. I definitely had hearts in my eyes upon catching a glimpse of the stunning Victorian where the Buhrman family lived on Truth Be Told. The towering Queen Anne, pitched atop a leafy hill, was striking, to say the least, and I promptly set out to find it. Though set in San Francisco and its environs, little of the new Apple TV+ series was actually lensed there – most filming took place in L.A. But I figured the Buhrman pad had to be one of the show’s few NorCal locales. I couldn’t imagine such a unique property being in Los Angeles and not coming across it in all my years of stalking. So I began my hunt in the Bay Area, but after countless fruitless hours decided to switch to L.A. on the off chance it might be there. Lo and behold, I discovered the place listed on several online location databases, including Malibu Locations which showed it as having an address number of “2150” and being in Altadena, shockingly enough! How I had never seen it during my almost two decades of living in nearby Pasadena was beyond me! I headed right over to Google, searched for “2150,” “Victorian,” and “Altadena,” was led to 2150 Mendocino Lane and all became clear. As you can see above, no part of the Buhrman’s fabulous Victorian can actually be seen from the street, though it is apparent in aerials. Making the pad even more elusive, the view shown on Truth Be Told was actually of its rear entrance, situated off a small private road named Kengary Lane.

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The massive abode is Truth Be Told’s central location. It is at the supposed Menlo Park pad that author/professor Chuck Buhrman (Nic Bishop) is murdered on Halloween night 1999, thereby setting off the main storyline. Though featured throughout the series’ eight-episode run, we oddly don’t catch many full views of the place, the best being in episode 7, titled “Live Thru This,” as seen below. The shot appears to have been digitally altered because the house is not actually visible at all from Kengary Lane due to a plethora of foliage surrounding it, as I sadly discovered upon arriving to stalk it. I figured the property was still blogworthy, nonetheless. (I did not trespass to take the photo below, by the way. I stayed on Altadena Drive, which is public, and zoomed in on my camera for the shot.)

Per Zillow, the sprawling 3-story Victorian boasts 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 3,162 square feet, a rock fireplace, a 2.7-acre lot, a detached garage, and a wraparound porch. But neither the fencing out front . . .

. . . nor at the rear provide any sort of clue as to the beauty that lies just beyond them up the driveway.

What I wouldn’t give to see the home up close!

As you can see in this photo, a sign by the property’s front door reads “Circa 1886, Estab. here Sept. 1, 1984,” so I’m wondering if it was initially located elsewhere and then moved to its current location, which sounds crazy but isn’t all that out of the ordinary in Los Angeles.

Interior scenes taking place at the Buhrman house were shot elsewhere. As you can see in these images as compared to the screen captures below, what was shown onscreen bears little resemblance to the actual inside of 2150 Mendocino Lane.

A reader named Mimi wrote in to let me know that the Buhrman house also portrayed the Minnesota residence of Chrissa Maxwell (Sammi Hanratty) in the 2009 straight-to-video movie An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong.

The property popped up as the home of a serial child abductor in the Season 5 episode of Criminal Minds titled “Mosley Lane,” which aired in 2010.

And fellow stalker Richard (you may remember him from this post and this post) let me know that the Victorian appeared in the recently-aired Season 1 episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star titled “Monster Inside” as the residence of a man who refuses to believe his mother has passed away.

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Stalk It: The Buhrman house from Truth Be Told is located at 2150 Mendocino Lane in Altadena.

March 18, 2020March 17, 2020

Pete’s House from “Bridesmaids”

Speaking of Cameron Woods (in case you missed Monday’s post, you can read it here) . . . while wandering around the neighborhood recently I was reminded of a spot that I stalked long ago but had yet to blog about – the house belonging to Pete (Brian Petsos) in the 2011 comedy Bridesmaids. As mentioned Monday, the quarter-mile stretch of Orion Avenue in Van Nuys that makes up Cameron Woods is easily one of the most charming and oft-filmed spots in L.A. Per a 2012 Los Angeles Times article, the two-block idyll was the brainchild of William Buchner. Between 1946 and 1952, the developer built a stretch of large picturesque New England and Cape Cod-style homes on the street’s 6200 and 6300 blocks. Inspired by a road in Connecticut, he constructed the residences on oversized 100-by-300-foot lots, allowing for expansive front and back yards dotted with native walnut trees. His vision was unfortunately cut short due to a disagreement with his partners and a change in zoning laws, so only a handful of properties wound up being built with the remaining lots sold off and subdivided. The small idyll that Buchner did create, though, is a charming oasis seemingly far removed from modern life – so much so that it is commonly referred to as the “Leave it to Beaver block.” And it is at a home smack dab in the middle of it that Annie (Kristen Wiig) shows up for a doomed blind date with Pete in Bridesmaids.

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In real life, Pete’s house, a charming 1950 residence, is much larger than it appears to be from the street, boasting 4,227 square feet, a whopping 7 bedrooms and 4.5 baths, a 0.60-acre lot, a sprawling backyard with a pool, a spa, a rock waterfall, an arbor, multiple patios, and parking for 12 cars!

I was a little late to the Bridesmaids game, seeing it for the first time almost a year after it debuted via a SAG screener I received in early 2012. The DVD featured the director’s cut of the movie, which included the blind date scene with Pete. I had no idea until sitting down to write this post that the segment was initially left on the cutting room floor and was not part of the original film! So if you saw Bridesmaids in the theatre or only have the original version on DVD, you’re likely reading this thinking “What blind date scene?” In the bit, Annie arrives at the home of Pete, whom Becca (Ellie Kemper) has set her up with. Instead of immediately heading out, Pete slips upstairs to make a call to his ex-wife and asks Annie to entertain his young son, Tyler (Blake Garrett), who quickly informs Annie that his mother is going to kill her. Things only get worse from there. Needless to say, Pete and Annie fail to make a love connection.

It is obvious from the way the scene was shot that the actual interior of the house was utilized, though it has since been remodeled. You can check out current photos of the inside here.

The pad has a few other credits to its name, as well.

I learned from a commenter named Andrew on the Streamline blog that the place portrayed the residence of Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly) and his family in the 1968 film Targets, though it looked considerably different at the time.

It also served as the home of a zealous Christmas decorator in the Season 2 episode of 9-1-1 titled “Merry Ex-Mas,” which aired in 2018.

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Stalk It: Pete’s house from Bridesmaids is located at 6309 Orion Avenue in Van Nuys’ Cameron Woods neighborhood. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Love Quinn’s (Victoria Pedretti) new house from the Season 2 finale of You is right next door at 6301 Orion.

March 16, 2020March 14, 2020

Joe and Love’s New House from “You”

I apologize to those who don’t follow me on Instagram or Facebook for not posting updates about my dad here. He was finally moved out of the ICU a couple of days ago, thank God, and is currently progressing in the right direction. Unfortunately, the Wi-Fi and cell signal in the ICU were nil, to the point that I could not even use my cell phone as a hotspot, which explains my lack of new posts. Now that I can get online again, my blogging schedule should return to normal. And I figured what better spot to kick things off with than the house Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) moved into in the final episode of You’s second season, titled “Love, Actually.”

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One look at the place, with its traditional architecture, large set-back from the street and insane curb appeal, and I knew it was likely located in Cameron Woods, a highly photogenic neighborhood in Van Nuys that is used for filming all.the.time. Situated at the southern end of Orion Avenue, the charming two-block enclave is a latticework of picket-fenced suburban homes, each one seemingly prettier than the last. It’s like a studio backlot come to life! An address number of 6301 was visible on the curb in the episode, so I promptly headed over to 6301 Orion on Google Street View and, sure enough, there was Joe and Love’s new pad looking back at me!

In real life, the idyllic property, built in 1951 but recently remodeled, boasts 2,969 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, a kitchen with Caesarstone counters, a butler’s pantry, countless built-ins, a laundry room, multiple fireplaces, hardwood flooring and wainscoting throughout, a pool, a pond, a motor court, a cabana, gorgeous landscaping, and a 0.58-acre plot of land.

The stunning pad (you can check out interior photos of it here) last sold for $1,885,000 in January 2018.

It is not hard to see how the place came to be used on You. A quintessential slice of Americana, the home perfectly encapsulates the normalcy and traditionalism that Joe will never be able to subscribe to. No amount of white picket fencing or manicured shrubberies can tame his obsessive and murderous ways. Instead, the pad serves as a prison of his own making. As he says upon moving in, “Not every Siberia is cold. Some are 73 and sunny with eco-conscious landscaping.”

Though one of the series’ most notable locales, the residence only appears in a single segment – “Love, Actually’s” closing scene.

Along with the front exterior, the property’s backyard is also featured in the episode, as you can see in the screen capture as compared to the MLS image below.

Considering Cameron Woods’ prolific filming history, it should come as no surprise that Joe and Love’s house has popped up in other productions.

In 1984, it portrayed the home of Mother Blaisdel (Diana Douglas) in the Season 4 episodes of Dynasty titled “The Vigil” . . .

. . . and “The Voice Part 3.”

The pad’s interior also appeared in the episodes, but it looked very different at the time.

The Dixie Chicks race through the house Ferris-Bueller-style in their 1999 “Ready to Run” music video, which you can watch here.

More recently, the property was featured as the home of a man who falls off his roof while installing Christmas decorations in the Season 2 episode of 9-1-1 titled “Merry Ex-Mas,” which aired in 2018.

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Stalk It: Joe and Love’s new house from the final episode of the second season of You is located at 6301 Orion Avenue in Van Nuys’ Cameron Woods neighborhood.

March 4, 2020March 3, 2020

The “You” Party House

The second season of You certainly did a stunning job of showcasing Los Angeles. From the fabulously chic Anavrin grocery store to the striking Victorian rented by Candace Stone (Ambyr Childers), the city has never looked better onscreen! One spot that majorly intrigued me was the pad where Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) attempted to acquire $50,000 from a stranger named Rufus (Jeremy Kent Jackson), but instead found himself at “a party . . . at noon . . . on a Tuesday” in the episode titled “Just the Tip.” The ranch-style property boasted several unique design elements – namely a tree growing through its living room and a window looking into the backyard pool – that had me drooling. So I promptly set out to find it.

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A tree growing through the middle of a living room is certainly a rarity and I figured would likely be the key in helping me to pinpoint the locale. So I did a Google search for “house with tree growing through it” and “Los Angeles” and the first result kicked back was this CurbedLA feature titled “Burbank A-Frame With a Big Tree Growing Through It.” One look at the images linked told me it was the spot where Joe partied with Henderson (Chris D’Elia) and Delilah Alves (Carmela Zumbado) – and got mistaken for John Mayer. Said to be at 311 Heartwood in Van Nuys in the episode, the home can actually be found at 630 South Parish Place in Burbank’s Rancho Equestrian neighborhood.

Upon first approaching the pad, Joe says, “Hell – I’ve arrived. It’s called the San Fernando Valley, at the borders of which anyone with an architect’s degree is denied entry.” While most of Joe’s musings about Los Angeles rather comically ring true, I’ve gotta disagree with him on this one. The party house might indeed be in the San Fernando Valley, but it is quite extraordinary, architecturally speaking – though I will admit some aspects of its interior are a bit skeezy. (That orange shag carpeting and tiled bathtub?!? Shudder!)

But the rest of the place is pretty darn exceptional!

And it looks much the same in real life as it did on You, as evidenced by the screen captures and MLS images pictured above and below.

I was thrilled to see that the peek-a-boo window looking into the pool was a real element of the house!

Along with that pool window and the living room tree, the 1940 post-and-beam structure boasts 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3,420 square feet, floor-to-ceiling windows, a sunken den, countless mid-century details, a whopping 5 fireplaces (the one in the kitchen even has a BBQ!), cathedral ceilings, a master bedroom with a private patio, a pool with a waterfall, a hot tub, a garden, a 2-story guest house, a 0.31-acre lot, and a 2-stall horse barn with a tack room and office space.

Though it was on the market when I popped by (as indicated by the “For Sale” sign in the front yard), some lucky buyer has since snatched the place up. Per Redfin, it sold just last week for $2 million.

Considering its many architectural anomalies, I’d assume the house would be a location manager favorite, but I was unable to unearth any additional big or small screen cameos.

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Stalk It: The party house from the “Just the Tip” episode of You is located at 630 South Parish Place in Burbank.

February 5, 2020February 3, 2020

Lanie’s House(s) from “Truth Be Told”

I am pretty darn good at recognizing actors in the various roles they play (I am a stalker, after all!), but I watched the new Apple TV+ series Truth Be Told almost the entire way through before realizing that Lanie Buhrman and her estranged twin, Josie, were both portrayed by Lizzy Caplan, aka Mean Girls’ Janis Ian herself! In my defense, the star is virtually unrecognizable today from her snarky 2004 high school character, as you can see above. It didn’t help that she played a set of twins with very differing appearances on Truth Be Told, either – Lanie sports a short brown bob, while Josie’s hair is long and blonde. Lanie’s house on the series is also somewhat of an enigma being that two different dwellings were used to depict it – a tidbit I didn’t realize until I actually sat down to write this post, which meant I had to run out to do some last-minute stalking before hitting publish.

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In Truth Be Told’s premiere episode, “Monster,” Lanie, the daughter of a famous author who was murdered twenty years prior, is shown to be living in a dark peaked-roof Craftsman.

An address number of “229” was visible next to the front door in the episode, which, along with the home’s style, central walkway, and stairs leading down to the sidewalk, led me to believe it was likely in the Windsor Square area. So I began my search there, working my way outward until I found it at 229 South Gramercy Place in Koreatown. I ran out to see the place shortly thereafter.

The charming 1911 pad, which looks much as it did onscreen, boasts 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,060 square feet, and a 0.18-acre lot. Though the interior was not utilized in the episode, you can check out some photos of it here.

In a bizarre twist, the next time the home appeared, in episode 4 “No Cross, No Crown,” it was a different property entirely – one that did not resemble the original in the slightest. Somehow (and I am going to blame the seven days in between the episodes airing), I did not realize the change – even though I had already tracked down the initial house by that point! It was not until I started making screen captures for this post that I noticed the swap and was flabbergasted, to say the least! While location change-ups are fairly common after a pilot is picked up due to the purchasing networks wanting to make certain adjustments, Truth Be Told was developed straight-to-series, meaning Apple TV+ optioned an entire season before the pilot was even lensed. A location alteration made in that scenario is odd. And while I have seen productions switch locales from season to season (I’m looking at you Wilson house from 90210!), it’s a pretty rare circumstance and I can’t ever recall it occurring on a series with a scant eight-episode run like Truth Be Told.

Fortunately, an address number was also visible on Lanie’s second house – “5131” above the front porch. Thanks to that four-digit address and the home’s Anywhere, U.S.A.-style, I figured it was likely in Eagle Rock. Sure enough, I IDed it fairly quickly as 5131 North Maywood Avenue.

Google Street View imagery of the pad shows it in a rather beaten-down state – a far cry from how it looks today. Per Zillow, the abode was completely restored in 2012 – and it is now nothing short of adorable!

The charming property boasts 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2,612 square feet, a formal dining room with coffered ceilings, original oak wood flooring throughout, a parlor, wood-beamed ceilings, a modern kitchen, and a large 0.28-acre plot of land.

The gorgeous restored interior, which you can see photos of here, also appeared on Truth Be Told.

The home is no stranger to the screen – it is also where Brett (Mark Duplass) and Michelle Pierson (Melanie Lynskey) lived on the HBO series Togetherness.

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Stalk It: Lanie’s house from the first episode of Truth Be Told is located at 229 South Gramercy Place in Koreatown. The pad used as Lanie’s in subsequent episodes can be found at 5131 North Maywood Avenue in Eagle Rock.

February 3, 2020January 31, 2020

Melanie’s House from “Truth Be Told”

Apple TV+ sure has hit the ground running! Everything released on the new platform thus far seems to be television gold! I’ve made no secret of the fact that I consider The Morning Show one of the best series to ever grace the small screen and was thrilled to find For All Mankind and Truth Be Told just as gripping. The latter, based on Kathleen Barber’s 2017 novel Are You Sleeping, centers around a journalist-turned-podcaster named Poppy Scoville-Parnell (Octavia Spencer) who begins re-investigating a decades-old murder to make sure the right man is behind bars, à la Serial. Obviously, as soon as I read the synopsis, I had to tune in! And my crime-loving heart wasn’t disappointed. Minutes after the end credits for episode one started rolling, I, of course, began hunting for locales and was ecstatic to learn that, while set in Northern California, filming largely took place in L.A. During my perusing, I came across a 2018 Backstage article which noted that some footage was shot at a house at 509 North June Street in Hancock Park. From there it wasn’t hard to piece together that the site portrayed the supposed Menlo Park abode belonging to Melanie Cave (Elizabeth Perkins), mother of convicted killer Warren Cave (Aaron Paul), on the series. So I ran right out to stalk it shortly thereafter.

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Melanie’s house is featured throughout Truth Be Told’s eight-episode run. Though we only get a limited view of it, the place first shows up in the pilot, titled “Monster,” in the scene in which Poppy bombards Melanie in her driveway in the hopes of securing an interview with Warren.

I obviously couldn’t get images matching what was shown in the scene, but the driveway is pictured below.

We don’t actually see the full exterior of the pad until episode 3, “Even Salt Looks Like Sugar.”

I have to say that producers did a great job in choosing the residence because while watching the scene below from episode 2, “Black People in the Neighborhood,” the Grim Cheaper, a native San Franciscan, turned to me and said, “I can pretty much guarantee that home actually is in the Bay Area.” I had already read the Backstage article by that time and when I informed him that it was actually in Hancock Park, he refused to believe me. Ah, the magic of Hollywood!

The adorable little property is just as charming in person as it appeared on the series. With its peaked roof and rounded front door overhang, it reminds me quite a bit of Denise’s house from I Love You, Man as well as the Lawrence residence from the 1976 series Family, so it is not at all hard to see how it made its way to the screen.

I believe that the inside of the dwelling was also utilized on the series, but could not find any interior images with which to verify that.

It appears that the actual backyard was used briefly, as well.

In real life, the 1925 pad boasts 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3,236 square feet, 2 stories, and a 0.18-acre lot.

With it’s charmingly idyllic Anywhere, U.S.A. appeal, I am shocked it hasn’t appeared in more productions, but I was unable to dig any up.

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Stalk It: Melanie’s house from Truth Be Told is located at 509 North June Street in Hancock Park.

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020

Joe’s Apartment from the Second Season of “You”

The second season of You couldn’t have been more quintessentially L.A.! Nowhere is that more evident than in the apartment building that served as Joe Goldberg’s (Penn Badgley) new West Coast home. As a reader commented about the place to me last week on Facebook, “It seems like I’ve passed it 284739484 times in my travels.” I’m guessing that was by design. Producers likely picked the building based on its universal Los Angeles appeal. It literally looks like almost every other apartment complex in the city – and is exactly the sort of spot Joe would have selected in his attempt to blend in while hiding out in La La Land. Despite its ubiquitousness, though, thankfully the place was a cinch to track down!

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In the first episode of the season, titled “A Fresh Start,” an address number of “1830” was visible above the stairwell leading up to Joe’s apartment in several scenes. Being that much of the episode was shot in Los Feliz, I decided to start my search there and, voila, it wasn’t long before I found Joe’s new building at 1830 Winona Boulevard. I ran out to stalk it shortly thereafter.

Along with Anavrin, the Streamline Moderne complex was Season 2’s most prominent locale.

In real life, the 1953 building looks much the same as it did onscreen.

A few minor changes were made for the production, though, including the addition of a courtyard fountain . . .

. . . which, as you can see, is not a real element of the building.

Some fake drought-resistant foliage was also draped over the second-floor railings for the shoot.

Though my photos don’t show it well, nothing adorns the railings in actuality.

Addressed 1824 to 1834 Winona Boulevard, the complex is also quite a bit larger than it appeared on You, which only showcased its central courtyard area.

In real life, the property features covered parking, an onsite manager, and 25 units with hardwood flooring and crown moldings throughout.

The building also boasts some fabulous mid-century flourishes.

On You, Joe lived in the rear northernmost second-floor unit overlooking the courtyard.

That apartment is numbered 3 in real life.

I am fairly certain that only the exterior of Unit 3 was used in the filming and that the inside of Joe’s apartment was a set, though it does bear a resemblance to the interior of other units in the building, one of which you can see here. While Joe calls the place “Home, sweet prison,” it’s actually pretty darn nice – and so very L.A.! In fact, it is pretty much a carbon copy of the apartment the Grim Cheaper called home when we first met.

I believe the laundry room shown on the series also may have been a set, though, per this rental listing, the building does boast laundry facilities in real life.

The only substantial discrepancy between the real building and its onscreen counterpart is the fact that the house belonging to Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) isn’t situated directly behind it as is purported on the series. Love’s residence can instead be found a good three miles away at 3022 Windsor Avenue in Silver Lake. You can check out some photos of it here.

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Stalk It: Joe’s apartment from Season 2 of You is located at 1830 Winona Boulevard in Los Feliz.

January 29, 2020January 27, 2020

The Adamson House from “You”

The second season of You had me feeling like an inadequate Angelino! (Yes, even though I now live in Palm Springs, I still consider myself an L.A. denizen.) In episode 6, “Farewell, My Bunny,” Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and her friends teach Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) about Los Angeles’ “seven totems,” which, once seen, render a person an official Angelino. Those totems are as follows – 1. A rollerblader in booty shorts, 2. A “ghetto bird”, aka police helicopter, 3. Two starlets wearing the same dress, 4. A pack of coyotes, 5. A dog in a stroller, 6. An off-brand superhero, “but out of context, not in front of Grauman’s, because that’s too easy,” and 7. A palm tree on fire. In my almost fifteen years of living in the City of Angels, I only encountered three of the seven (#1, 2, and 5, for those wondering). But I did immediately recognize the spot where the wedding of Lucy (Marielle Scott) and Sunrise (Melanie Field) took place in the series’ Season 2 finale, so I’m thinking that restores at least a bit of my L.A. cred! The Adamson House in Malibu is a site I am very familiar with and even blogged about back in 2009. Since my post on the place was written so long ago, though, I figured it was high time for a redo.

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Though I covered the history of the Adamson House in my original post, I’ll provide a brief recap here. The estate was built by Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson and her husband, Merritt Adamson, in 1929 on a 13-acre parcel of land given to them by Rindge’s mother, Rhoda May Knight Rindge. At the time, Rhoda May owned 17,000 acres of bucolic coastal land that today is known as Malibu. She and her late husband, Frederick Hastings Rindge, had purchased the seaside enclave in 1892 and their family remained its only occupants for the following forty years.

To build their new home, Rhoda Agatha and Merritt commissioned architect Stiles O. Clement, who also designed the Pasadena residence where some of Twilight’s prom scenes were filmed and the El Capitan Theatre.

The Mediterranean-style estate took a year and a half to complete.

Rhoda and Merritt spared no expense on construction of the home which boasted 5,000 square feet of living space, 5 bedrooms (all en suite), 2 servants’ quarters, a 5-car garage, hand-carved doors, a myriad of fireplaces, plaster-molded ceilings, elaborate friezes, arched windows, frescoes, a swimming pool complete with a pool house, a patio with a sprawling lawn and fountain, and furnishings custom-made by interior decorator John Holtzclaw. Oh, and views for days!

Clement even included a luxurious outdoor tub for the bathing of the Adamsons’ many pets.

By now, you’ve likely noticed the property’s elaborate tile work. It was commissioned by Rhoda May, who owned her own tile company, Malibu Potteries, which sourced clay directly from the Rindges’ land.

The colorful hand-painted pieces are a sight to behold and are, in fact, the reason the Adamson House stands to this day. In 1966, the State of California declared eminent domain on the property with the plan to raze it to make way for a – wait for it! – parking lot! Thankfully, the Malibu Historical Society and Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation stepped in, waging a ten-year battle to save the historic home. They were ultimately victorious and in 1983, after a lengthy restoration, the site was opened as a museum. It also became available for weddings and special events and, of course, filming.

It is at the Adamson House that Sunrise and Lucy tie the knot in the Season 2 finale of You, titled “Love, Actually.”

The episode made use of the property’s expansive lawn and rear patio, both of which you can see via a docent-led tour.

The Adamson House has long been a favorite of location managers.

Way back in 1976, the pad portrayed the estate of Frank Bartone (Cesare Danova) in the Season 1 episode of Charlie’s Angels titled “The Mexican Connection.”

The Adamson House served as the home of Wally Windham (John Larch) in the Season 8 episode of Dallas titled “Deeds and Misdeeds,” which aired in 1985.

Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and Marilyn Kelsy (Wendy Schaal) hid out from assassins at a party taking place at the house in the Season 3 episode of Airwolf titled “Hawke’s Run,” which aired in 1986.

That same year, the property played the home of actress Gigi Dolores (Deborah Walley) in the Season 6 episode of Simon & Simon titled “The Last Big Break.”

As I detailed in my 2009 post, the Adamson House masqueraded as the Baja cantina where Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) took Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty) during their secret weekend getaway to Mexico in the Season 2 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 titled “Mexican Standoff,” which aired in 1992.

After getting into an epic fight and then making up over a mariachi band’s rendition of “Feelings,” Dylan and Brenda dance the night away on the patio where the outdoor bathtub is located, which can be found on the Adamson House’s north side.

That area, pictured below, is not part of the official Adamson House tour, but can easily be viewed while venturing around the property beforehand or afterward.

The house pops up as a Mexican restaurant on Beverly Hills, 90210 once again in the Season 9 episode titled “Marathon Man,” which aired in 1998. On that occasion, it portrayed Mariscos San Lucas, the Cabo San Lucas eatery where Dylan took Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) after flying her to Mexico on a private jet as a surprise.

The Adamson House was also utilized as the town square where the two later shopped in the episode and where Dylan, unbeknownst to Kelly, scored some drugs.

And in 2018, the Adamson House masked as a beachside restaurant in the Season 3 episode of Lucifer titled “City of Angels?”

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Stalk It: The Adamson House, where Lucy and Sunrise got married in the Season 2 finale of You, is located at 23200 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. You can visit the home’s official website here. Tours of the property are given Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020

The Next Few Weeks . . .

I have to apologize for being a bit MIA recently. My dad is having a pretty major surgery in Los Angeles next week and we have been traveling back and forth to consult with his doctors. I will be spending the coming weeks in L.A., as well, for his surgery and recovery and while I will be blogging, I expect it to be sporadically, so please bear with me. I do have quite a few You locations to post, so hopefully I will get to them in the near future. And hopefully I will be back to regularly scheduled blogging soon! In the meantime, I’d appreciate all the good thoughts and prayers you can send my dad’s way.

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January 22, 2020April 27, 2020

Mitch’s New York Condo from “The Morning Show”

It’s been a minute (literally) since I’ve blogged about a location from The Morning Show, but, don’t worry, I’ve still got a few more up my sleeve – namely the modern building that served as beleaguered television host Mitch Kessler’s (Steve Carell) New York pied-à-terre. I had a hunch that the property was most likely in the downtown L.A. area (though set in NYC, the vast majority of the new Apple TV+ series was lensed in Los Angeles) and that hunch turned out to be correct. And I have my beloved Starbucks to thank for leading me to it!

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While scrutinizing one of the scenes featuring Mitch’s building, I noticed a Starbucks situated diagonally across from it (it’s denoted with a yellow arrow below, though the signage is a bit tough to make out due to some rather frenetic camera movement in the segment). The Starbucks is actually one I know well as it is a frequent stop whenever the Grim Cheaper and I are in the area. In fact, we even once randomly ran into Chas, of the Its Filmed There website, at the café, so it seems to be a popular sojourn spot for many stalkers! Once I recognized the place, I simply used Google Street View to head over to its location at the corner of 11th Street and South Grand Avenue and then rotated the screen around until I landed on the building kitty-corner from it. As it turns out, Mitch’s New York home can be found at 1050 South Grand.

Known as Ten50 in real life, the 25-story property, developed by Trumark Urban and designed by HansonLA, was completed in 2016.

The contemporary building is made up of 151 one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and penthouse condos.

Just about as upscale as it gets, Ten50’s amenities include concierge service, a fitness studio with an outdoor yoga deck, meeting space, gated parking with over thirty spots for electric vehicles, a screening room, a business center, a club lounge, and a fifth-floor sun deck with a pool, spa, cabanas, BBQs, indoor/outdoor kitchens, and a fireplace.

The building also boasts the city’s first landing pad made especially for drone deliveries. (I’m guessing that feature doesn’t get utilized much.)

Mitch’s building does not show up until the ninth episode of The Morning Show, titled “Play the Queen,” in which the fallen anchor returns to New York to try to orchestrate an interview with Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon). The lobby of Ten50, which you can see photos of here and here, is featured early in the episode.

Hannah Schoenfeld (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) also later confronts Mitch about her assault outside of the building.

And I was thrilled to discover while poking around images of various Ten50 units I found online that the actual interior of Penthouse 2 was used as Mitch’s condo! Per a recent real estate listing, in which the unit was offered for a whopping $5,699,000, the 2-level space was custom–built by the Brown Design Group and boasts 2 bedrooms, 4 baths, 30-foot ceilings, 3,930 square feet, a whiskey den, floor-to-ceiling windows, a galley kitchen with Wolf and Sub Zero appliances, a large wrap-around balcony, a bonus balcony off the master bedroom, and an upper-level terrace. Worth every penny, I say! The place is pretty much my ideal living space. You can check out a video of the absolutely exquisite interior here.

As you can see in the screen captures as compared to the MLS photos above and below, it appears that The Morning Show made use of some of the condo’s actual furnishings including the kitchen island bar stools and the dining table.

The unit also appeared in the Season 1 finale of The Morning Show, titled “The Interview.” Not only do Mitch, Bradley, Chip Black (Mark Duplass), and Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) powwow about Mitch’s upcoming secret interview in Penthouse 2’s living room . . .

. . . but Cory also later has a come-to-Jesus meeting with Mitch in the same spot and, in one of my favorite monologues from the series, very profoundly advises Mitch to confess to his assaults.

And it is in Ten50’s lobby that Mitch and Chip get into a fistfight at the end of the episode.

Thanks to fellow stalker Brett, I learned that Mitch’s penthouse is also where Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) lived in the recently-aired Season 3 episode of Westworld titled “The Absence of Field.”

And thanks to fellow stalker Tyler, I learned that the penthouse played the Moscow condo where Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and Yevgeny Gromov (Costa Ronin) resided in the series finale of Homeland, titled “Prisoners of War.”

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Stalk It: Ten50, aka Mitch’s “New York” building from The Morning Show, is located at 1050 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. You can visit the property’s official website here.