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Sure is!!! I remember this morning looking there. On google maps, it just 9 houses or so outside of the map's pseudo-3D imaging. And the back yard has changed. But I should've picked it up. Thanks for posting this!
(due to today's hosting issue, gonna keep this backed up more than I have)
Next up on my interest list. Mark's house s09e27t3023 where Pam intends to marry Mark. Gonna do some searching...no clues yet.
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It's 365 S Hudson Ave, Los Angeles
source : https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=365 S Hudson Ave, Los Angeles, California, USA&ref_=ttloc_loc_2
IMDB does provide a lot of informations for location shootings.
source : https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=365 S Hudson Ave, Los Angeles, California, USA&ref_=ttloc_loc_2
IMDB does provide a lot of informations for location shootings.
Thanks GD. Another recent location post was found on IMDb. I remember a while back IMDb as being sketchy on locations. Guess I was missing it, or it's been substantially improved. I appreciate your post very much. Interesting that when I just saw the house in the s9 episode and wondered about location, I thought of the area below Hancock Park.
Google maps pic just pulled. Looks the same after what...35 years?
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Pam’s apartment from Digger’s Daughter has been my latest mission. It probably ridiculous the amount of time I have spent on this. Here are some pictures of the former Willow Creek apartments at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway. The complex is famous for its bad wiring, wooden shingles, and multiple fires. Pictures are scarce, but that explains why the pictures I am sharing are of it burning!
It was a massive complex. I found this layout in a report about the cause of the fires and the issues with the shingles.
The complex was demolished in 2007.
Let's go back to Pam's apartment. It is really the third one above that caught my interest.
There are strong similarities between the building shown behind Pam and the one shown behind the firetruck: the windows with six panes seem to hang out further than the ground level, the slimmer windows with two panes to the left side of the chimney, the combination of shingles, stucco and brick. I wish we could see the planters that the trees are planted in better, but the firetruck and smoke seem to clock the views.
It even looks like the curbs in the parking lot are laid out similarly in the picture above and in the picture with the firetruck.
What do you think? Do you think this could be Willow Creek could have been where they filmed Pam's apartment?
It was a massive complex. I found this layout in a report about the cause of the fires and the issues with the shingles.
The complex was demolished in 2007.
Let's go back to Pam's apartment. It is really the third one above that caught my interest.
There are strong similarities between the building shown behind Pam and the one shown behind the firetruck: the windows with six panes seem to hang out further than the ground level, the slimmer windows with two panes to the left side of the chimney, the combination of shingles, stucco and brick. I wish we could see the planters that the trees are planted in better, but the firetruck and smoke seem to clock the views.
It even looks like the curbs in the parking lot are laid out similarly in the picture above and in the picture with the firetruck.
What do you think? Do you think this could be Willow Creek could have been where they filmed Pam's apartment?
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Mark's house changed so often!
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Thank you for finding Mark's house. I'm throwing in my own bias here, but look at the two houses.
Very nice house! And I'm sure the person who owns it drives a nicemanhood extension exotic car.
But the house doesn't invite you in. There is a sense of being closed off. You can almost imagine a servant's entrance around back.
Now look at Southfork
Look at the open balcony off the master bedroom. The dormer windows, and the copula over the garage.
You can more easily imagine visiting friends or relatives at this house.
Southfork is just more inviting.
Very nice house! And I'm sure the person who owns it drives a nice
But the house doesn't invite you in. There is a sense of being closed off. You can almost imagine a servant's entrance around back.
Now look at Southfork
Look at the open balcony off the master bedroom. The dormer windows, and the copula over the garage.
You can more easily imagine visiting friends or relatives at this house.
Southfork is just more inviting.
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if this is indeed the complex, you may have just made the winner of all winner posts!
As @Lastkidpicked to be Santa's Helper can tell you, it’s never a good idea to use shingles like that. Not only does it cheapen the house or building, it’s a fire hazard!
You're a winner, jm10! Studying details, # stories, windows, raised first floor, balconies, cement...outcroppings for lack of a better word, of course the drive and parking island etc, looks like it! And closer study substantiates it...two windows to the right to the building inset...all in relation to the parking lot island, and the balcony under the the left first floor window. You are too much, my friend! Congrats!
So now I'm trying to picture Pam's drive up, that stone wall & trees, into the complex, in relation to roads and parking. Looks like an island to her left. Also, wondering if the coloring of the curb by the stone wall makes that stone wall part of the complex.
(pic courtesy of Bill B pg 27)
OK...so how much time do you figure you spent on this?
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HA! I'm just waiting for one of you to locate and post the high rises down in Venezuela.
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You're a winner, jm10! Studying details, # stories, windows, raised first floor, balconies, cement...outcroppings for lack of a better word, of course the drive and parking island etc, looks like it! And closer study substantiates it...two windows to the right to the building inset...all in relation to the parking lot island, and the balcony under the the left first floor window. You are too much, my friend! Congrats!
So now I'm trying to picture Pam's drive up, that stone wall & trees, into the complex, in relation to roads and parking. Looks like an island to her left. Also, wondering if the coloring of the curb by the stone wall makes that stone wall part of the complex.
(pic courtesy of Bill B pg 27)
OK...so how much time do you figure you spent on this?
yep, when I was looking at this scene before I noticed that what looked like a road just morphed into the parking lot when Pam got near the building without any demarcation, which would indicate she was already in the complex at the beginning of the scene. Looking on Google maps, the area in the plan @johnmmil10 posted above is quite large. With the main complex razed and more development having taken place there over the years it doesn't look much like what we see above, but there are trees on the perimeter of the area now and the wet wintery conditions of the pilot give things a different look and feel. Everything else matches up quite well, even the texture on the outside of the building (would you call that 'shingle-like'? we see a sliver with the same pattern in the smoky pics above with the building on fire) as we see Pam walk up to as Cliff sits outside her door. An amazing find!
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*EDIT: oops, just posted a pic that @johnmmil10 already posted!
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OK...in my humble opinion, taking into consideration where the all and trees likely are and the road and approach to the apt.
1 - slightly curved road with wall and trees.
2 - as she rounds the curve, you can see on film the trees & wall behind, and what looks to be an island to Pam's left as Pam is entering, but that part of the road goes up to the side of the building to her left.
3 - she passes one entrance to another parking area on her right.
4 - about where she pulls into her parking spot
5 - apt
1 - slightly curved road with wall and trees.
2 - as she rounds the curve, you can see on film the trees & wall behind, and what looks to be an island to Pam's left as Pam is entering, but that part of the road goes up to the side of the building to her left.
3 - she passes one entrance to another parking area on her right.
4 - about where she pulls into her parking spot
5 - apt
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Clayton's hotel in season 6.
2160 Century Park E
Los Angeles, CA 90067
2160 Century Park E
Los Angeles, CA 90067
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WOW!!!!....Yes,this is the location!....John is the man!...I have been searching in vain for this for months!...Now I see why I could not find it,it's been demolished!...Hats off to John,THANKS!
You're a winner, jm10! Studying details, # stories, windows, raised first floor, balconies, cement...outcroppings for lack of a better word, of course the drive and parking island etc, looks like it! And closer study substantiates it...two windows to the right to the building inset...all in relation to the parking lot island, and the balcony under the the left first floor window. You are too much, my friend! Congrats!
So now I'm trying to picture Pam's drive up, that stone wall & trees, into the complex, in relation to roads and parking. Looks like an island to her left. Also, wondering if the coloring of the curb by the stone wall makes that stone wall part of the complex.....I see now that the stone wall off in the background was actually a bridge as there was once a small man made lake on this property.Looks like that lake has since been filled in!
(pic courtesy of Bill B pg 27)
OK...so how much time do you figure you spent on this?
Anyone recognize the wooden sign in the picture here with the Fire dept. vehicle? [it's on the left in front of the vehicle] It's seen [or one just like it!] in the "Diggers Daughter" episode scenes at the Willow Creek apartments.This photo was snapped on March 21 ,1983 at the apartments as they were on fire! Positive proof that John has found the right location!....View attachment 19163
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