Easyfind flat5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() I am also fairly certain that Sara’s balcony was a real Hollywood Riviera balcony. You can check out a real estate listing for an actual unit here to see how it compares. I am fairly certain that the real life interior of one of the units was utilized in the shoot as well, although Sara’s homestead was two stories, while all of the Hollywood Riviera condos that I have found real estate listings for online consist of only one story, so who knows. The front door of one of the units (I am guessing that the unit’s real life apartment number was used in the filming) The areas of the Riviera that appeared in the flick include the front exterior ![]() The building shows up numerous times throughout the movie. Telemacher (Steve Martin), stays at the Hollywood Riviera while in town to write an article about Los Angeles for The London Times. Story, Sara, the love interest of Harris K. Due to this sad fact and the building’s unique architecture, the West Hollywood Historic Preservation Commission designated the Hollywood Riviera a Historic Cultural Resource in 2010. Most were demolished to make way for larger, more modern structures. Incredibly, of the 37 West Hollywood apartment buildings that Fickett designed during his lifetime, only five are known to remain standing to this day. It also has a pretty cool retro-style sign. The extremely unique, 38-unit, post-war-modern-style building features a sloped butterfly roofline, louvered windows, floating exterior staircases, canted (yeah, I had to look that one up, too) balconies, and a central courtyard with a swimming pool. The Hollywood Riviera was designed by prolific Los Angeles-based architect Edward H. (Although it actually houses condominiums, not apartments.) Woot woot! So I did a Google search for “West Hollywood apartment building” and “butterfly roof” and, sure enough, one of the results was a page that included a write-up about the historic Hollywood Riviera building located at 1400 North Hayworth Avenue, which turned out to be the right spot. I had an inkling that Sara’s building was located in the West Hollywood area, where a considerable amount of L.A. Thankfully, this one was quite the easy find. So I ran right out to stalk it while in SoCal this past weekend. ![]() And with a lot of help from the usual suspects – fellow stalkers Mike, from MovieShotsLA, Owen, from the When Write Is Wrong blog, and Geoff, from the 90210Locations website – I managed to do just that! One location that I actually found all on my own, though, was the unique sloped-roof building where Londoner Sara McDowel (Victoria Tennant) stayed while visiting Los Angeles in the movie. Story (which I blogged about here and here, respectively) a couple of weeks ago, I embarked upon a mission to uncover all of the unknown locales from the 1991 flick. After tracking down the location of the “talking” freeway sign and Now! clothing store from fave movie L.A. ![]()
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