Forty’s House from “You”

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Season 2 of You was pretty much a steady stream of stunning location after stunning location.  Anavrin grocery store . . . the party house . . . Candace Stone’s (Ambyr Childers) Victorian rental – talk about real estate envy!  One spot that eluded me for a while was the mid-century pad where Forty Quinn (James Scully) lived.  The stunning residence only showed up in one episode, “P.I. Joe,” and the view of the exterior was brief at best.  But one look at its sleek lines, wood façade, and decorative concrete screening, and I was completely taken!  I knew at first glance the residence had to be located somewhere in the Hollywood Hills.  Recalling that the Nichols Canyon neighborhood, specifically Nichols Canyon Road, boasts a plethora of handsome mid-century pads, I headed over there on Google Street View, plonked the little yellow man down at the top of the road, walked him south, and almost immediately found the right place at 3122 Nichols Canyon!  I ran out to stalk it just a few days later.

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The spectacular dwelling was designed by Edward H. Fickett, F.A.I.A. for building contractor Jack M. Weisskopf in 1959.  The architect constructed several homes for Weisskopf in the Hollywood Hills area.

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The sleek property boasts 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,510 square feet, a central atrium with cement pavers dotting a pond, floor-to-ceiling sliding glass walls, a master bath with a standalone tub (my dream amenity!), a double-sided rock fireplace, a 0.19-acre lot with a large deck, a pool, a spa, a fire pit, a bonus side yard, and a carport.

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The residence has been remodeled a couple of times over the years, including in 1966 by architect Val Powelson.  The result is a mid-century home that retains a slew of original detailing, but with a thoroughly updated kitchen and baths.  You can check out some interior photos here.  The place is an architectural masterpiece  – a perfectly preserved 1950s time capsule.  I half expected to see Frank Sinatra sipping a martini by the pool in the images!

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The pad last sold in November 2018 for a whopping $3,180,000.  Per Dwell, the seller was none other than Jamie Dornan, of 50 Shades fame!  The real estate listing asserts, “Four bedrooms will accommodate all your envious friends who arrive but refuse to take the hint when it’s time for them to hit the road and leave you in peace in your amazing oasis,” which I think sums up the property perfectly!

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In “P.I. Joe,” Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) heads to the house in order to ask Forty to help him piece together what happened during their drug-infused evening the night before.

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The property’s actual interior also appeared in the scene . . .

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. . . as did the backyard, as you can see in the screen captures as compared to the MLS images above and below.

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Candance shows up at the house later in the episode to praise Forty on his recently-penned script.  It is at this time that she opens his eyes to the possibility that Joe is a killer.

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I would be surprised to learn that You is the only time the impressive home has appeared on the screen, but I was unable to dig up any other appearances.

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Stalk It: Forty’s house from You is located at 3122 Nichols Canyon Road in Hollywood Hills West.

The “You” Party House

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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.

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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!)

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But the rest of the place is pretty darn exceptional!

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

The Adamson House from “You”

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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.

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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.

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

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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!

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.”

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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.

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  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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Candace’s Rental from “You”

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Though Anavrin was by far my favorite locale from the second season of the Netflix series You, I was also pretty darn smitten with the charming Victorian that Candace Stone (Ambyr Childers) rented during her stay in Los Angeles while posing as Amy Adam.  I was struck by the picturesque property as soon as it came onscreen in episode 6, “Farewell, My Bunny,” and though its appearance was all-too-brief, it stuck with me.  I set out to find it just as soon as the closing credits began to roll and, thankfully, it was not a long hunt.  Global Film Locations pinpointed the home right where I thought it would be – in the heart of Angelino Heights, the Echo Park neighborhood that boasts the largest concentration of Victorian homes in Los Angeles.  So I ran right out there while in the area a few weeks back.  (I would be completely remiss if I did not note here that Ambyr Childers is the first wife of Randall Emmett, Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent’s fiancé.  Let that sink in for a minute!)

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Known as the Collins Residence in real life, the stunning Eastlake-style property was originally built in 1888 for Santa Fe Railroad agent Michael T. Collins.

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Per Flickr member Michael Locke, the pad was initially located on Whittier Boulevard, but was moved to its current home at 890-892 West Kensington Road in 1987.

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Despite that unique provenance and the fact that the place is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 266, I could find virtually no additional information about it online.

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According to Redfin, the three-story residence boasts 1 bedroom (though I believe that to be incorrect), 2 baths, 2,272 square feet, and a 0.21-acre plot of land.

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It is quite the quintessential historic Los Angeles home, so it is no surprise that it wound up as Candace’s rental on You.

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In “Farewell, My Bunny,” Forty Quinn (James Scully) informs Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) that his ex, Candace, aka “Amy,” is leasing a home somewhere on Loma Vista Lane in Echo Park.  Joe then searches the fictional “BnB” website for rentals on Loma Vista and comes across a listing for a “fully-furnished” “historic Victorian in Angelino Heights” with a private bathroom, balcony and “tee-pee access” (whatever that means).

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Describing the pad as a “Gothic Barbie dreamhouse,” Joe surmises it must be the spot Candace leased.

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He promptly breaks into the home later that night, toting a backpack filled with duct tape and rope, to presumably kill Candace.  But the property’s owner, the Krav Maga-trained Superhost Rachel (Madeline Zima), thwarts his devious plan, knocking him out with a quick fist to the face and then hog-tieing him in her living room.  In a thoroughly head-scratching move, though, she ultimately lets Joe go, believing his claim that Candace hired him to enact a “rape fantasy.”

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I am fairly certain that the actual inside of the home was also utilized in the episode, though I could find no interior photographs with which to verify that.

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Stalk It: The Collins Residence, aka Candace’s rental from You, is located at 890-892 West Kensington Road in Echo Park.  Several other homes in the neighborhood have also appeared onscreen – Jesse (John Stamos) and Becky’s (Lori Loughlin) honeymoon send-off from Full House can be found at 1320 Carroll Avenue, Oliver’s “San Francisco” house from A Lot Like Love is located at 1321 Carroll, the Sanders House at 1145 Carroll is where Ola Ray hid from zombies in Michael Jackson’s Thriller, 1329 Carroll portrayed the Halliwell sisters’ residence on Charmed, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) grew up at 1355 Carroll on Mad Men, and Holly’s (Amy Ryan) Nashua house from the “Employee Transfer” episode of The Office is at 1347 Kellam Avenue.

Anavrin from “You”

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I loved Season 1 of You, but Season 2 was even more gripping, engrossing and enjoyable!  I think a large part of that had to do with Anavrin (pronounced “uh-nah-vrin”), the impossibly idyllic grocery store where Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) landed a job in episode 1, “A Fresh Start,” and worked throughout.  The charming market is Season 2’s central locale, one that I wanted to fully immerse myself in.  The place is so inviting, in fact, that I was convinced it was purely the stuff of a production designer’s imagination, a picturesque set created inside of a vacant warehouse solely for the show.  So I was shocked to learn via a Backstage article that filming had actually taken place at a real downtown L.A. grocery store named Urban Radish!  To the top of my To-Stalk List the market went and I headed right on over there while in the area the first week of January.

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Opened in summer 2013, Urban Radish is the brainchild of business partners Carol Paxton and Keri Aivazis.  Housed in a former glass factory in downtown’s Arts District, the whimsical 8,200-square-foot market was designed by Creative Space and Linear City Development.  The transformation from former warehouse to upscale grocery store took nine months and $1.7 million to complete.

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And it was worth every penny!

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Along with the typical grocery store trappings, the specialty market boasts a gourmet deli, onsite butcher (who makes all sausage offerings in-house!), outdoor grill and patio, wine alcove, and espresso bar.

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I can’t think of a prettier place to shop!

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That produce section, amirite?

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It isn’t very hard to see how the place came to be chosen for You.

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Of the market, Joe, dripping with sarcasm, says, “In Los Angeles, grocery stores aren’t just the place you buy carrots.  They’re a pristine, non-GMO Disneyland.  And king among these is Anavrin.  Come for the spring lettuce mix, stay for the perfect life that could be yours if you just spend enough and quit gluten, you f*cking *sshole!  And yeah, obviously Anavrin is – wait for it – Nirvana spelled backwards.”

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Joe might not have been able to hide his disdain for the shop, but I, understandably, fell in love with it upon sight.

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Urban Radish was dressed pretty significantly for the You shoot.  Per Google Street View imagery, the outside of the market was light gray up until March 2019, smack dab in the middle of the filming of the show’s second season.  So it appears that the royal blue paint that now graces the exterior was a production decision that the owners chose to leave intact after the shoot wrapped.  A pergola-shaded patio draped with flowers was also added to the premises . . .

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. . . as was a florist stand.  Sadly, both of those elements were dismantled when filming concluded.

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Even without all the bells and whistles, though, Urban Radish is pretty darn special and entirely recognizable.

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Though I would have loved to see it in its dressed state.

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While Urban Radish’s exterior was used extensively throughout Season 2, the interior only appeared in “A Fresh Start.”  It is in the market’s actual produce section that Joe orchestrates a meet-cute with Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti).  Love also shops there prior to making a meal for Joe later in the episode.  As you can see in Yelp photos taken pre-2019, the shop’s signage was formerly very different, so it appears the chic reclaimed wood display boards that now adorn the walls were another production decision the owners chose to leave intact post-filming.

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Urban Radish’s deli area also appeared in “A Fresh Start,” though it was modified a bit with the rear exit door and metal wall paneling covered over.

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The bulk of the Anavrin scenes, though, were shot on a studio-built set.  Yes, sadly, the magical light-filled new-age café, book alcove and kitchen, where most of the action took place, are not actual elements of Urban Radish.

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While the market does have an open kitchen in real life, it is less central, situated off the wine aisle, and much smaller than its onscreen counterpart.

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Considering its fabulously unique aesthetic, I am surprised that Urban Radish has not been featured in countless other productions, but I could find no record of any additional cinematic appearances.

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Stalk It: Urban Radish, aka Anavrin from You, is located at 661 Imperial Street in downtown Los Angeles.  You can visit the market’s official website here.

Alex Theatre from “You”

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The Grim Cheaper and I spent the days after Christmas in full vacation mode – sleeping in late, staying in our pajamas until all hours, and binging countless movies and TV shows, including the second season of Netflix’s You, which, I have to say, I enjoyed even more than the first.  Well, up until the abysmal finale that is.  The episode seemed to drag on forever and WTH was that ending, amirite?  The rest of the episodes, though, were nothing if not engrossing!  I especially loved that the production was relocated from New York to L.A. for Season 2.  I was thrilled to recognize several spots that I’ve already blogged about including Home restaurant, where Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) spied on Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) lunching with her friends in “Just the Tip,” and the now-defunct Daily Dose Café, where Joe escaped from Candace Stone (Ambyr Childers) in “A Fresh Start.”  Another familiar spot featured was Alex Theatre, a historic Glendale venue that I stalked back in 2010 after it made an appearance on Glee, but somehow never blogged about.  So here goes!

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Originally known as “Alexander Theatre,” the imposing arena was commissioned by West Coast Theatres chain owner C. L. Langley and named in honor of his son.

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The Classic Revival-style property, which boasts Greek and Egyptian influences (and, in fact, with its large forecourt and columns reminds me quite a bit of Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre), was designed by Arthur G. Lindley and Charles R. Selkirk.  Opened in 1925, the site initially served as a vaudeville venue and movie house, but it wasn’t long before the nearby studios took notice and began utilizing the space for premieres and screenings.

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The Alexander underwent an interesting facelift of sorts in 1940 thanks to architect S. Charles Lee, who was also responsible for the Los Angeles Theatre, Temple Israel of Hollywood, and the Max Factor Building.  Though the structure’s original façade and forecourt were left intact during the reno . . .

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. . . a 100-foot tower, large marquee and ticket booth, all Moderne in style, were installed in front of them, essentially blocking the initial architecture from view.  The space was also redubbed the “Alex Theatre” at that time.   Thankfully, the venue’s grand interior was largely untouched and looks just as beautiful today as it did when the site originally opened.  Of its unique aesthetic, the Alex’s website states, “The auditorium was designed as an ‘atmospherium’ with an open-air illusion enhanced by the stage-set wall encircling the room, creating the feeling of being enclosed in an ancient garden.  The Alex is one of the few atmospheric theatres constructed in Southern California and one of only a handful that still remain.”  You can check out some photos of the interior here.

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Unfortunately, the Alex suffered from a lack of patronage in the ‘80s and shut its doors.  It was finally rescued in 1992 by the Glendale Redevelopment Agency, who poured $6.2 million into a massive revitalization project.  It then re-opened to much fanfare on December 31st, 1993.  Today, the 1,413-seat venue serves as a live performance space and is one of the area’s most popular spots for comedy shows, theatre events, and, of course, filming.

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In the Season 2 episode of You titled “Have a Good Wellkend, Joe!”, Delilah Alves (Carmela Zumbado) confronts her younger sister, Ellie (Jenna Ortega), over some stolen photographs outside of the Alex.

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You is hardly the only production to make use of the venue.  Back in 1999, Mandy Moore shot her “Walk Me Home” music video at the site.

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The pop star even sang a few vocals propped atop the Alex’s marquee, though I think those segments may have been lensed on a studio-built set replica.

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Aaron Carter’s 2002 “Do You Remember” music video also took place at the venue.

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In the Season 3 episode of Criminal Minds titled “3rd Life,” which aired in 2008, the Behavioral Analysis Unit investigated the case of two teens who went missing from the Alex.

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The theatre popped up as the Buckeye Civic Auditorium, where the McKinley High glee club competed in the Western Ohio High School’s Show Choir Sectionals, in the Season 1 episode of Glee titled “Sectionals,” which aired in 2009.

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Hugh Hefner (James Franco) hosted a screening of Deep Throat at the Alex in the 2013 biopic Lovelace.

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Larry David (Larry David) and Jeff Greene’s (Jeff Garlin) Fatwa! musical is performed at the venue in the Season 9 finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm titled “Fatwa!”, which aired in 2017.

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And Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) attended Dick Casablancas’ (Ryan Hansen) movie premiere at the Alex in the Season 4 episode of Veronica Mars titled “Chino and the Man,” which aired in 2019.

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Stalk It: Alex Theatre, from the “Have a Good Wellkend, Joe!” episode of You, is located at 216 North Brand Boulevard in Glendale.  You can visit the venue’s official website here.

Owen Wilson’s Former House

 

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In honor of Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson’s rekindled romance (pictures of the two frolicking in Miami surfaced on the pages of US Magazine this week), I decided to stalk Owen’s Santa Monica abode. Several months back, I had read an article on TMZ which chronicled Owen’s suicide attempt and listed his home’s general location as the 900 block of 23rd Street. A different article published at the same time described his home as “gated”. So, this past Saturday, armed with those two clues, I set out to find his house.

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 Success came rather easily, being that there is only one gated home located on the entire 900 block of 23rd Street. 🙂 I am continually shocked by the normalcy of so many celebrity homes, and Owen’s was no different. While large and beautiful, his home was in a very normal Santa Monica neighborhood and I would never guess a movie star lived behind the tall hedges.

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 Owen lives in an adorable white clapboard residence and, although much of the house is blocked by tall palm trees and other foliage, you can catch a good view of the side of it by walking along 23rd Street. You can see the back of the house by driving down the alleyway in between 23rd and 24th Streets.

Update: Just got a comment from JJ saying that Owen moved out of this house and into a new Malibu house. Did a little research and apparently JJ is correct. Looks like I have a new location to stalk!! 🙂 From what I can find online it seems Owen still owns this Santa Monica house.

Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂

Stalk It: Owen Wilson lives at 947 23rd Street in Santa Monica, in between Idaho Avenue and Washington Avenue. After stalking Owen, you can visit Courteney Cox’s former home, which is located in the same neighborhood at 606 Alta Drive.