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  • Griffith Park from the “Full House” Opening Credits

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    Growing up, I was obsessed with ABC’s TGIF series Full House.  Like obsessed!  Because my Uncle Tim lived with my family during my younger years, I related closely to the show – and thought it was insanely cool that I had my very own “Uncle Jesse.”  So I was thrilled when fellow stalker Michael contacted me recently to let me know that he was in the process of hunting down the park used in the opening credits of Full House’s first three seasons.  I had always been under the impression that the credits had been filmed in San Francisco, where the show was set.  As Michael informed me, though, it was not until Season 4 that the cast was flown out to the City by the Bay to shoot on location.  During Seasons 1 through 3, the opening segments featuring the series’ actors were lensed in a Los Angeles park and a B-roll team was sent to SF to film similarly-dressed doubles for all of the wide-angle shots.  As you can imagine, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by Michael’s quest.

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    I gave Michael a few of my best guesses as to where filming could have taken place.  Those guesses included Lacy Park in San Marino, Johnny Carson Park in Burbank and Griffith Park in Los Feliz.  Not able to pinpoint the location via Google aerial views, he ventured out to do some in-person recon and quickly discovered that Griffith Park was the right spot.  Now I should mention here that Griffith Park is one of the largest parks in America.  It measures 4,310 acres!  So the fact that Michael was able to track down this locale – on foot, no less! – is pretty darn amazing.  My hat is off to him.

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    As Michael discovered, all of the park scenes from Full House’s Season 1-3 opening credits (which you can watch below) were shot in Griffith Park’s Park Center area, just southwest of where Griffith Park Drive meets Crystal Springs Drive.

    Amazingly, despite the passage of almost thirty years, that area of the park looks pretty much exactly the same today as it did when Full House originally aired in 1987.

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    The opening credits park scenes included a shot of the Tanner family playing a friendly game soccer;

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    a shot of Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) ditching Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) to hit on some female fellow park-goers;

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    and a shot of the group running down a hill.  It was that hill that was most exciting for me to see.  The Full House opening was so ingrained in my memory that as soon as I stepped into that spot, my head filled with the words to the theme song, “Everywhere you look (everywhere), there’s a heart, (there’s a heart), a hand to hold onto.”

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    The structure seen in the background of the hill segment is the Park Services Building located at 4800 Griffith Park Drive.

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    Prior to this search, I had no idea that a different actor – John Posey – had played the Tanner family patriarch in Full House’s original pilot.  Once the series got picked up, Bob Saget was hired to replace Posey and the episode was reshot.  You can watch the original opening with Posey by clicking below and you can read an interview with him in which he talks about losing the Full House gig here.

    You can watch all of the Full House opening credits (Season 1-8) by clicking below.

    For more stalking fun, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Los Angeles magazine online.  And you can check out my other blog, The Well-Heeled Diabetic, here.

    Big THANK YOU to fellow stalker Michael for finding this location!  Smile

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    Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

    Stalk It: The opening credits of Full House’s first three seasons were filmed in Griffith Park’s Park Center, which is located at 4730 Griffith Park Drive in Los Feliz.  A detailed aerial view of the area denoting where each segment of the credits was filmed is pictured below.

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  • New “L.A.” Mag Post – About the Queen Mary

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    Don’t forget to check out my latest Los Angeles magazine blog post – about the 80th birthday of the Queen Maryon LAMag.com.  My columns typically get published in the late morning/early afternoon hours.

  • The “Yes, Dear” House

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    One show that I never really understood the appeal of is Yes, Dear.  My dad loved the sitcom, which ran from 2000 to 2006, and watched it regularly, but I always found the characters slightly unlikable and the storylines a bit ridiculous.  Nevertheless, when I received an email from a fellow stalker named Jeremy recently asking for some help in tracking down the main house featured on the series, my interest was immediately piqued.

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    Jeremy had sent some screen captures along with his query and, maddeningly, while a four-digit address number was visible on the front of the house in one of them, none of the digits were clear enough to read.

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    While looking at one of the images more closely, I spotted a trash can on the side of the Yes, Dear house with an address number painted on it, the last three numbers of which were somewhat legible.   My guess was that they read 326.  Due to its Spanish architecture, I figured the home was most likely located in Pasadena and started searching 4-digit address blocks in the 300 range in the area, but came up empty-handed.  At that point, I decided to get fellow stalkers Owen, from the When Write Is Wrong blog, and Geoff, from the 90210Locations website, involved.  Miraculously, Geoff emailed me with an address just a few hours after I initially contacted him.  As it turns out, the Yes, Dear house is not located in Pasadena at all, but at 2316 Greenfield Avenue in West L.A.’s Rancho Park neighborhood.

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    The charming dwelling looks exactly the same in person as it did onscreen.

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    In real life, the residence, which was built in 1925, measures five bedrooms, three baths, and 2,854 square feet.

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    On Yes, Dear, the pad belonged to movie executive Greg Warner (Anthony Clark) and his wife, Kim (Jean Louisa Kelly, who I can’t even believe is the same woman who played Tia in Uncle Buck).  Kim’s sister, Christine Hughes (Liza Snyder), her husband, Jimmy (Glee’s Mike O’Malley), and their two children also lived on the property, in the Warner’s guest house.

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    While writing this post, I got to thinking that the residence was an odd choice for use in the series as, while not small by any means, it in no way seems big enough to have on its premises a guest house large enough to accommodate a family of four.

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    Only the exterior of the Rancho Park property was used in the filming.  The interior of the Warner home was a set built on a soundstage at CBS Studio Center in Studio City, where the series was lensed.

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    While searching for the residence, I came across countless message boards on which commenters stated that the Yes, Dear house had been featured on several other television shows, namely Dave’s World, Happily Divorced, and – this one I don’t even understand – Beverly Hills, 90210.  I know my readers do not need any sort of explanation or photograph comparison to illustrate that the Yes, Dear house most definitely is NOT the same place as Casa Walsh, so I’ll move on from that one right now.  I did manage to track down an episode of Dave’s World, which ran from 1993 to 1997, on YouTube and the house where Dave Barry (Harry Anderson) lived in it is pictured below.  As you can see, it is also most definitely not the same place featured on Yes, Dear.

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    Several commenters also surmised that the Dave’s World interior sets had been reused for Yes, Dear.  But as you can see, while the two interiors are similarly laid out, they are not the same.

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    Both interiors did feature centrally located staircases, but the one on Dave’s World was curved, while the one on Yes, Dear was split-level.

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    The residence where Fran Lovett (Fran Drescher) and Peter Lovett (John Michael Higgins) lived in Happily Divorced, which ran from 2011 to 2013, does bear a resemblance to the Yes, Dear house, but again, they are definitely not one and the same.  (For those who are interested, Owen managed to track down the Happily Divorced house – it’s at 1242 South Masselin Avenue in the Mid-Wilshire area of L.A.)

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    The interior of the Lovett’s house (pictured below) looked nothing like the interior of the Warner home, though.

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    For more stalking fun, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Los Angeles magazine online.  And you can check out my other blog, The Well-Heeled Diabetic, here.

    Big THANK YOU to Geoff, from the 90210Locations website, for finding this location!  Smile

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    Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

    Stalk It: The Yes, Dear house is located at 2316 Greenfield Avenue in the Rancho Park area of West L.A.

  • The Culver City Hobbit Houses

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    I have a major affinity for unique architecture.  So when I came across this CurbedLA article about the Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, a grouping of Storybook-style structures in Culver City colloquially known as the “Hobbit houses,” I just about foamed at the mouth.  The complex looks like something straight out of a Disney cartoon and it was not long before I was rushing out to see it with my own two eyes.

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    The Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments compound consists of three buildings – a main house and two cottages that contain seven individual apartment units.  The dwellings were constructed between 1946 and 1970 by Lawrence Joseph, a former Walt Disney Co. artist and Lockheed aircraft designer.  Lawrence first designed the main residence (pictured below), which he lived in with his wife, Martha.

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    He then built the two additional apartment cottages.

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    Joseph incorporated two of his main hobbies, carpentry and sailing, into the design of the structures.  While the exterior boasts hand-carved wooden detailing, the interiors were made to look like that of a ship, with galley kitchens, built-in furniture, and latches and pulls used as doorknobs.  You can check out some photographs of the whimsical interior of one of the apartment units here.

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    The property’s detailing is downright incredible.  I fell in love with the lamp pictured below.

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    And check out the spider-web design of the main residence’s front door.

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    In 1996, the complex was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #624.

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    Though not a filming location (at least not that I am aware of), the Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments do boast a celebrity connection.  Tony Award-winning actress Gwen Verdon called one of the apartment units home for a time, as did Nick Nolte, Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin.  And in a more nefarious twist, Joseph Amsler, one of the kidnappers of Frank Sinatra Jr., lived on the premises during the time of the abduction.  It was inside of one of the apartments that the FBI wound up tracking down a majority of the $240,000 in ransom money that Ol’ Blue Eyes had paid for the return of his son.  You can read more about the kidnapping here.

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    For more stalking fun, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Los Angeles magazine online.  And you can check out my other blog, The Well-Heeled Diabetic, here.

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    Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

    Stalk It: The Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, aka the Hobbit Houses, are located at 3819 Dunn Drive in Culver City.

  • This Week’s “L.A.” Mag Post – About the “Golden Girls” House

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    Don’t forget to check out this week’s L.A. magazine blog post – about the Golden Girls house – here.

  • A Much-Needed Break

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    Our beloved cat passed away on Friday evening and I am beyond distraught.  I will be taking the week off from blogging, but hopefully will be feeling more like myself again next Monday.

  • The “Encino Man” House

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    Lately, I have been on a retro-movie watching kick.  I think it has something to do with ”The ‘80s” issue of Los Angeles magazine that hit newsstands this past July.  Reading through it got me in the mood to revisit decades past.  So I was thrilled when my buddy Mike, from MovieShotsLA, took me by the residence that served as the Morgan family home in Encino Man (spoiler alert – it’s not actually in Encino!).  I had not seen the 1992 comedy in ages and remembered very little about it.  To be honest, I could not even recall what the house looked like at the time that Mike took me to stalk it.  So I decided a re-watch was in order STAT and the Grim Cheaper and I sat down to view it earlier this week.  The flick brought back some great memories.  Man, I love me some Pauly Shore!  “Meat group!”

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    Mike found this location (sans help from a crew member, I might add) many years ago thanks to both this 1992 Los Angeles Daily News article, which stated that the Morgan home was located in West Hills, and an address number of 7511 that was visible on the curb of a neighboring residence in the scene in which newly-thawed caveman Link (Brendan Fraser) got into a fight with the mailman.  He began searching all of the 7500 blocks in the West Hills area and, while it took him quite a bit of elbow grease, he eventually spotted the place at 7532 Sedgewick Court.

    Amazingly, the Morgan house looks almost exactly the same today as it did onscreen 22 years ago when Encino Man first premiered!

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    The mailbox that appeared in the movie, which was modeled to look like the residence, is, sadly, not there in real life.  I am guessing that it was a prop brought in for the shoot and not the home’s actual mailbox.

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    I so love that the front walkway, where Dave Morgan (Sean Astin) waited for Stoney Brown (Pauly Shore) and Link to return from Mega Mountain, is still in its 1992 state.

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    As you can see below, the house located next door to the Morgan’s looks completely different today than it did during filming.  In 1992, the property was traditional in style and painted grey.  It has since been transformed into a Spanish-style home, with a white exterior and red tile roof.

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    In real life, the Morgan house boasts five bedrooms, five baths, 4,359 square feet and a 0.34-acre plot of land.  It last sold in May 2009 for $970,000.

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    The property’s backyard – where Stoney and Dave discovered Link while digging a pool – was used extensively in the filming.

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    An aerial view of the backyard in its current state is pictured below.  You can also check out a real estate photograph of the backyard here.

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    As you can see, while the home does have a pool, it does not match the layout of the one that Dave and Stoney were digging in the movie.  The real life pool sits horizontal to the home, while the pool in the movie was situated perpendicularly.  The Morgan dwelling was originally built in 1988, only a couple of years before Encino Man was shot, so I am guessing that at the time of the filming the backyard was largely undeveloped, which is probably one of the reasons it was chosen for the movie.  Once production wrapped, the hole was filled back in and then a pool with different positioning was later added.

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    The shed where Dave and Stoney left Link to thaw out after first discovering him was, I believe, not native to the residence, but a prop brought in for the shoot.

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    And while I would have guessed that the real life interior of the home was used in the filming, the Los Angeles Daily News article that Mike found states that Encino Man’s interior sets were built inside of a warehouse in Sylmar.

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    For more stalking fun, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Los Angeles magazine online.  And you can check out my other blog, The Well-Heeled Diabetic, here.

    Big THANK YOU to Mike, from MovieShotsLA, for finding this location!  Smile

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    Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

    Stalk It: The Encino Man house is located at 7532 Sedgewick Court in West Hills.

  • Latest “Los Angeles” Magazine Blog – About the Martin House from “Cellular”

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    Be sure to check out my latest CityThink blog post – about the house where Kim Basinger lived in Cellular – on LAMag.com.  My columns typically get published in the late morning/early afternoon hours.

  • The Victorian from “Mr. Mom”

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    Some movie scenes just seem to stay with you, seared into your memory for years, despite the fact that you can remember little else about the storyline.  That’s how it was for me and Mr. Mom.  I had not seen the comedy since 1983 when it first premiered in theatres and recalled few details from it, but the scene in which Jack (Michael Keaton) dried his baby’s bottom in a public restroom using a hand blower had stuck with me.  Recently, on a whim, the Grim Cheaper and I decided to re-watch the flick.  I was pleasantly surprised to discover how relevant Mr. Mom still is – and even more pleasantly surprised to recognize a location while watching!

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    In a brief scene towards the end of Mr. Mom, Jack goes out to dinner with some of the housewives from his neighborhood.

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    Despite some changes to the exterior, I immediately recognized the spot where the group dined as The Victorian (aka Basement Tavern) located at 2640 Main Street in Santa Monica.  It is a place that the Grim Cheaper and I frequent on a regular basis whenever staying on L.A.’s west side.  We discovered the eatery about a year ago during an evening stroll on Main Street and fell in love with its gorgeous patio – which I posted a picture of on Instagram – on sight.  We promptly decided to grab dinner there and were thrilled by the restaurant’s top-notch menu and fabulous happy hour.  It has been one of our dining staples ever since.

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    The two-story, Victorian-style property was originally constructed as a private residence for an optometrist named Dr. George Kyte in 1892.  At the time, it was located at 1003 Ocean Avenue.  In 1973, the 15,000-square-foot home was moved about a mile and a half south to its current location as part of Santa Monica’s California Heritage Museum project.  A neighboring residence, the First Roy Jones house, was moved to an adjacent lot at the same time.  The Jones House was slated to become a historical museum and the Kyte House an upscale restaurant.  There were some hold-ups in the planning and development process, though, and it was not until 1977 that The Chronicle was opened inside of the Kyte House.  It was founded by restaurateur Lud Renick as a sister eatery to his Pasadena outpost of the same name, which was located at 897 Granite Drive.  (The Pasadena Chronicle originally opened in 1971 and was shuttered in 1996.  In more recent years, the Granite Drive site housed Jennifer Lopez’s former Cuban bistro, Madres, which I blogged about here and here).

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    While doing research for this post, I was shocked to discover that The Chronicle was where John Thomas Sweeney worked after serving a scant three-year-eight-month jail sentence for the killing of his former girlfriend, 22-year-old Poltergeist actress Dominique Dunne.  I have long loved the writings of author Dominick Dunne and have read quite a bit about the 1982 murder of his daughter.  When Sweeney was released from prison in 1986 after serving what Dominick called “a tap on the wrist” of a prison sentence, he landed a job as head chef at The Chronicle.  The Dunne family was furious upon hearing the news and famously began standing outside the eatery each night, handing out flyers to patrons which read, “The food you will eat tonight was cooked by the hands that killed Dominique Dunne.”  Sweeney soon quit, changed his name and moved to the Pacific Northwest.  I had known about the flyers and the Dunne’s ongoing fight for justice for their daughter, but never knew the location of the restaurant where they staged their nightly protests.

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    The Chronicle, which you can see a photograph of here, shut its doors sometime around 1987.  After the closure, the Kyte House was acquired by the Gerson family, who also own fave restaurant Malibu Café at Calimigos Ranch (which I blogged about last month).  The Gersons operated the property solely as a special events and wedding venue for many years, but in 2010 they opened Basement Tavern, a 2,000-square-foot bar, in the basement of the home.  On evenings when weddings are not taking place in the actual house, the Basement Tavern also serves dinner and drinks on the residence’s patio and bottom floor.  The Victorian is a truly charming place with excellent food and I cannot more highly recommend dining there.

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    Fellow stalker Chris informed me that The Victorian also popped up as the supposed San Francisco-area Le Grill restaurant, where Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) took the Tanner family to dinner to celebrate his wife Becky’s (Lori Loughlin) promotion, in the Season 8 episode of Full House titled “The Producer.”

    For more stalking fun, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Los Angeles magazine online.  And you can check out my other blog, The Well-Heeled Diabetic, here.

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    Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

    Stalk It: The former The Chronicle restaurant from Mr. Mom, now The Victorian, is located at 2640 Main Street in Santa Monica.  You can visit the property’s official website here and Basement Tavern’s official website here.

  • The Daily Grill at LAX from “Red Eye”

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    I am officially back from vacation today (yesterday’s post was pre-written).  I could not have had a more fabulous time and was heartbroken when my best friend, Robin, and his family returned to their native Switzerland.  During moments like this, I am reminded of the quote, “Don’t be sorry it’s over.  Be glad it happened.”

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    Before I get to today’s locale, I thought I would share some photos of the amazing house our group rented for the week.  The pad was the perfect little oasis in the middle of Hollywood and we could not have enjoyed our time there more.  I only wish our stay had been longer.

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    It is a tradition during each of Robin’s visits to grab one final cocktail at the Daily Grill at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal before he and his family board their return flight home.  Knowing that the time to say good-bye is near, we are all typically in tears before our drinks have even arrived, so we have come to refer to the place as “the sad restaurant.”  I blogged about the eatery back in December 2011 to chronicle its appearance in Friends with Benefits, but, at the time, was unaware that it had also been featured in the 2005 thriller Red Eye.  So, prior to boarding our plane to Switzerland last summer, the GC and I headed over to the Daily Grill to both grab a drink and snap some more pictures.  Somehow I completely forgot to write a second post on the place, though.

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    Flash forward to Robin’s visit this past April.  When we arrived at LAX prior to his return flight, we were shocked to discover that the Daily Grill had been shuttered and completely gutted as part of the Tom Bradley Terminal’s current renovation, which is expected to be completed sometime next year.  I was hoping that a new eatery would have opened in the former Grill space by the time that Robin and his family departed this past Friday evening, but the area is still a construction zone and, from what the nice lady at Swiss International Air Lines told us, there are no plans for a restaurant to be put in that area.  So that only leaves one place in all of LAX located outside of the security checkpoints to grab a drink – Daniel’s Bistro + Bar, and let’s just say that it definitely does not have the same ambiance as the Daily Grill.

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    In Red Eye, Tom Bradley International Terminal stood in for Miami International Airport, where Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) landed after a rather scary flight from Dallas, Texas, during which she was kidnapped.  Upon escaping her attacker and departing the plane, Rachel walked towards the Daily Grill.

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    My photograph below was shot from the opposite angle from which the scene was filmed, but you can see that the floor pattern matches in both images.

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    To hide from her kidnapper and airport security, Rachel then sat down with two strangers at a Daily Grill table.  When the eatery was in existence, it took up the entire northeast portion of Tom Bradley’s mezzanine and was split in two by a concourse that ran through its middle.  In Red Eye, Rachel sat in the portion of the restaurant seen on the right side of my photograph below (again, my picture was taken from the opposite angle from which the scene was shot).

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    The escalators located adjacent to the Daily Grill also appeared in the scene.

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    Those escalators were also featured in the 2005 romcom Rumor Has It.

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    Manny Delgado (Rico Rodriguez) headed up the same escalators to catch his flight to Columbia in the Season 5 episode of Modern Family titled “Suddenly, Last Summer.”

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    And the area just below the escalators, which serves as Tom Bradley’s ticketing counters, is where the Backstreet Boys danced in their 1999 “I Want It That Way” music video.  You can watch it here.

    As I talked about in my December 2011 post, the Daily Grill was featured in Friends with Benefits. In the movie, it masqueraded as the Newark Liberty International Airport restaurant where Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Mr. Harper (Richard Jenkins) ate a meal in their underwear.

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    In the scene, the two ate in the Daily Grill’s northeast section, in the area overlooking the international check-in counters.

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    For more stalking fun, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Los Angeles magazine online.  And you can check out my other blog, The Well-Heeled Diabetic, here.

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    Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

    Stalk It: The Daily Grill, from Red Eye, was formerly located on the Mezzanine Level of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, inside of the Los Angeles International Airport at 380 World Way in Los Angeles.  The entire terminal is currently under construction and there is no longer a restaurant in that area.