Forever Young – IAMNOTASTALKER

Today’s locale is a bit of a long time coming. In my early March post about the bungalow where Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) lived in Forever Young, I mentioned that I had stalked a different house from the 1992 movie – the one where Claire Cooper (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her son, Nat (Elijah Wood), lived – in my early stalking days. I found the location thanks to Scott’s L.A. Audio Tour of Pasadena CD, but because this was long before I had a blog, had failed to write down the address. Thankfully, the pad was rather easy to re-track down, though. In fact, the address was mentioned explicitly in a scene.

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When Nat and his friend Felix (Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’s Robery Hy Gorman) are playing around at a military facility, they discover Daniel’s cryogenically-frozen body inside of a suspended animation chamber. Daniel immediately starts to thaw and grabs Nat’s jacket, freaking the boys out, who run away. Daniel later looks inside the jacket and discovers Nat’s address written on the tag. Though the city is listed as San Marcos, the rest of the address shown is the home’s real life address. Claire and Nat’s house is located at 1724 Oxley Street in South Pasadena. How cool is that?

The residence was used extensively in Forever Young.

It is where Daniel lives after waking up from being frozen for 53 years.

In one of the movie’s more memorable scenes, Daniel fixes Claire’s roof and gives Nat some tips on women.

Amazingly, aside from the paint color, virtually no part of the property has been changed since filming took place in 1992.

In real life, the house, which was built in 1910, boasts 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,115 square feet of living space and a 0.17-acre plot of land.

The home’s real life backyard was used in the movie. Sadly, though, Nat’s awesome tree house hangout was just a prop and is not there in real life.

I could not find any photographs of the real life interior of the home, but am fairly certain it was also used in the filming.

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Stalk It: The Cooper House from Forever Young is located at 1724 Oxley Street in South Pasadena.

Back in my early stalking days, I purchased a Scott’s L.A. Audio Tour of Pasadena CD. I loved every minute of it and learned about quite a few new locations while listening, one of which was the home where Claire Cooper (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her son, Nat (Elijah Wood), lived in the 1992 movie Forever Young. This was long before I had a blog, though, so I never wrote down the address and actually completely forgot about it until last week while stalking in South Pasadena. I did not have my Scott’s L.A. CD with me at the time, so used my trusty iPhone to do some Googling to see if I could find the place. I wound up coming across this Facebook post which gave the location of a different residence used in the movie – the bungalow where Capt. Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) lived. So I ran right on over to snap some pics. (I ended up tracking down the Cooper house, too, but not until after I had already returned home to Palm Springs, so that will be a different post for a different day.)

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For those who have yet to see Forever Young (and if you haven’t, you really should, it’s a fabulous movie!), the story (which was written by none other than Lost creator J.J. Abrams) centers on Daniel, a test pilot living in 1939, whose girlfriend gets into a terrible accident that lands her in a coma. Not bearing to see the love of his life dying, Daniel volunteers for the latest experiment that his best friend, scientist Harry Finley (George Wendt), is conducting – cryogenic freezing. Harry agrees to freeze Daniel for one full year, but things go terribly wrong and Daniel does not end up being removed from the suspended animation chamber until 1992 – 53 years after initially stepping inside.

Daniel’s small Craftsman-style bungalow is only shown once in Forever Young, in the very beginning of the movie, prior to Daniel being frozen.

Despite a change in paint color, the residence still looks much the same today as it did onscreen in 1992.

According to Zillow, the tiny dwelling, which was built in 1915, boasts two bedrooms, one bath and 864 square feet of space.

I was actually quite shocked to see that the home boasts such a scant square footage as it appears to be much larger from the street.

I am fairly certain that the real life interior of the property was also used in the filming, but I could not find any photographs of the interior online with which to verify that hunch.

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Until next time, Happy Stalking! Smile

Stalk It: Daniel McCormick’s house from Forever Young is located at 612 Meridian Avenue in South Pasadena.

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The Cooper House from “Forever Young”

Daniel McCormick’s House from “Forever Young”