East Miami Police Department from “Rosewood”

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I was saddened to learn of the cancellation of Rosewood last week.  Yes, I said in recent posts (here and here) that the show had jumped the shark, but I was holding out hope that it would return strong for a third season.  Unfortunately, as Fox announced last Tuesday, that is not to be.  Even worse, because the series was given the ax after the Season 2 finale had already aired, there will not be closure to any of the main storylines, namely the will-they-or-won’t-they relationship of the two leads, Dr. Beaumont “Rosie” Rosewood, Jr. (Morris Chestnut) and Detective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz).  My fingers are crossed that the procedural will be rescued à la Timeless (which I am SO thrilled about it), but I’m not holding my breath.  In the meantime, I thought I’d blog about one of the main locations used on the now defunct series – the Huntington Beach Civic Center, which stands, ahem, stood in for the East Miami Police Department where Rosie and Villa work, ahem, worked.

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The Huntington Beach Civic Center was constructed between 1972 and 1974 to replace the city’s former civic center, which was built in the early 1920s.

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The 187,000-square-foot modernist complex, which sits on a 14.28-acre plot of land, was designed by both Meyer & Allen Associates and the Honnold, Reibsamen & Rex architecture firm.

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 The Meyer & Allen website states that the site was “designed for service to citizens, rather than a monument to government” with “a flexible, open-end plan that can adjust to and grow with the requirements of an expanding local government.”

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The center, constructed mainly out of concrete, is comprised of 5 main areas – a 5-story Administration Building, which houses City Hall, a 1-story Development Building, a 1,000-seat amphitheatre, a Police/Public Safety Building, and Council Chambers.

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It is the Administration Building that is used on Rosewood.

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For those who are not familiar with the series, Rosewood is set in Miami, Florida.  While almost all filming took place in Los Angeles, the pilot was actually shot on location in The Magic City.  In the episode, Miami City Hall, located at 3500 Pan American Drive, masked as East Miami PD.

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Beginning with episode 2, titled “Fireflies and Fidelity,” filming moved to the L.A. area (namely Orange County) and the Huntington Beach Civic Center made its first appearance as East Miami PD.

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Both the west side of the Administration Building (pictured above) and the east side (below) are utilized on the series.

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I was most excited to see the east side, which is where Rosie got his car back in Season 2’s “Mummies & Meltdowns.”

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The spot where the gang waited for him, posed in front of his beloved canary yellow 1968 Pontiac GTO convertible, can be found at the bottom of the steps leading to the Civic Center’s east parking lot.

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In person, the center looks much the same as it does onscreen, minus a few East Miami Police signs.

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While I was posing for my obligatory photo in front of the location, a couple walked by and said, “Yep, you’ve found it!  East Miami PD!”  The friendly duo then told us that Rosewood had also done some filming at the Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center just up the street, so the Grim Cheaper and I headed right on over there.  I so love receiving unexpected filming tips from locals!  (If you missed my post on the library, you can read it here.)

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: The Huntington Beach Civic Center, aka East Miami Police Department from Rosewood, is located at 2000 Main Street in Huntington Beach.

Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center from “Rosewood”

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – stalking begets stalking.  While out and about sightseeing filming locales in Orange County last month, the Grim Cheaper and I struck up a conversation with a friendly local couple who informed us that fave show Rosewood (well, it was a fave show until it jumped the shark recently) had just done some shooting at the Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center.  So we headed right on over there and were both shocked at what awaited us!  The library is one of the most architecturally unique, beautiful, and interesting spots I have ever had the pleasure of visiting!

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The Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center, which took 3 years to construct at a cost of $5 million, was opened to the public on April 2nd, 1975.

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The property’s striking design came courtesy of Dion Neutra, son of Richard Neutra, the world-renowned modernist architect who gave us the Los Angeles County Hall of Records, the Ohara House from The Holiday, the Kauffman House in Palm Springs, and the Lovell Health House from L.A. Confidential.

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The post-modern structure, which originally measured 74,000 square feet, was constructed out of volcanic rock, stone, wood, glass, and concrete .

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Of the airy, light-filled space, which can hold 250,000 tomes, Dion said, “The idea was to place all readers in the outer portion of the floor area and concentrate the bulk of the book collection in a multi-tiered central core, brilliantly illuminated.”

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I’d say he succeeded brilliantly with his plan.  Dion’s creation is a bright, peaceful, and bucolic respite.  I can’t imagine a more beautiful place to read, study or quietly contemplate.

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The design could not be more unique – or open.  As a 1975 Daily Pilot article stated, “The book stacks are centralized with all activity rooms located on the perimeter of the stacks, removing the cluttered look of most libraries.”

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The building also boasts floor-to-ceiling windows on its rear side, which only adds to the site’s overall open aesthetic and affords visitors incredible views of Central Park, which is situated just outside of the library’s doors.

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Though with all of its lush foliage, the interior itself almost feels park-like.

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The Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center also features skylights, terraced reading decks, and seven interior fountains that Italian magazine Architecttura states “mask normal library sounds and permit conventional levels of conversation.”

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The focal point of Neutra’s original design was a massive exterior spiral entrance ramp.

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The concrete ramp, situated amidst a fountain, features seating areas, planters, and water displays.

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In 1994, the library was expanded to 120,000 square feet, thanks to the addition of a large children’s wing, a 320-seat theatre, and 5 meeting rooms.  Sadly, the project resulted in the enclosure of the front ramp and a massive overall of the site’s façade, which greatly altered Neutra’s design.  You can see what the exterior of the building originally looked like here, as compared to its revamped state, which is pictured below.

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Also altering the appearance of the library’s exterior is the fact that the huge moat-like fountain that surrounds it (which is very reminiscent of that of the John Ferraro Building in downtown L.A.) has been drained, for reasons I am sure have to do with California’s drought.

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I can only imagine how stunning the views must be when the fountain is full.

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In 2007, the library underwent another renovation, this time to restore Neutra’s original earth-toned color schematic to the interior.

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Though the Huntington Beach Civic Center typically stands in for the East Miami Police Department on Rosewood, in Season 2’s “Half-Life & Havana Nights,” the Central Library was used instead.  The scene in which Michelle Kelly (Joy Brunson) was brought in for questioning was shot just outside of the library on the pathway adjacent to the property’s large tiered fountain.

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Later in the episode, the library’s east side (which I, unfortunately, did not get a photo of) masqueraded as the entrance to EMPD, where Harley (James Harvey Ward) was killed.

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Central Park, which, as I mentioned earlier, is situated just outside of the library, was also featured in Rosewood, albeit briefly, in the Season 2 episode titled “Prosopagnosia and Parrot Fish,” in which it masked as a Miami cemetery.

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center, from the “Half-Life & Havana Nights” episode of Rosewood, is located at 7111 Talbert Avenue in Huntington Beach.

The Waterfront Beach Resort from “Rosewood”

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It is such a shame when a favorite show jumps the shark.  If its latest episode, titled “Amparo & the American Dream,” is any indication, that fate seems to have befallen Rosewood, the FOX procedural currently in its second season.  While I was all in with the recent storyline centering around Captain Ryan Slade (Eddie Cibrian) donating his kidney to Dr. Beaumont “Rosie” Rosewood, Jr. (Morris Chestnut) and the complications that arose from that, as soon as the focus shifted to Slade possibly being a dirty cop, I completely lost interest.  The sudden addition of Detective Annalise Villa’s (Jaina Lee Ortiz) brother, Marcos (Manny Montana), has been another low spot.  He needs to go away, and fast!  While this week’s show might be a turnaround, considering how catastrophically bad “Amparo & the American Dream” was, I’m not holding out hope.  One bright spot in the episode was that I recognized a location – one that has appeared on Rosewood before (in my favorite episode of the series) and that I had stalked, but not yet blogged about – Huntington Beach’s The Waterfront Beach Resort.

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The 12-story Waterfront Beach Resort opened its doors in 1990.  At the time, it was known as “The Waterfront Hilton.”  It is still a Hilton property today.

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The 285-room, Four-Diamond resort sits a short hop from the sand and boasts 21,000 square feet of meeting and event space, a heated pool and whirlpool overlooking the Pacific, a fitness center, a market/espresso bar, and an eatery named Shades Restaurant & Bar.

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Stepping into The Waterfront feels like stepping onto a tropical island.  The Grim Cheaper and I popped by for a quick visit while in Orange County last month and I found myself seriously considering rearranging our schedule so that we could book a room for an immediate spontaneous stay.  Sadly, we couldn’t.

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The hotel started undergoing an extensive $140-million, 18-month renovation and expansion in early 2016.

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During the project, a 9-story suites-only tower with a restaurant, a lounge, a pool deck, and an events lawn will be added to the property.  Many areas of the existing hotel are also being altered, including the lobby and pool.

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In the Season 1 episode of Rosewood titled “Atherosclerosis and the Alabama Flim-Flam,” which is hands-down my favorite of the entire series, The Waterfront portrays the Coconut Beach Crown Plaza Hotel in Coconut Beach, Florida, where Rosie serves as a keynote speaker for the Forensic Pathology Organization of America’s Annual Convention.  During the conference, someone murders one of Rosie’s fellow pathologists, utilizing methods detailed in his speech.  So he calls on his East Miami PD colleagues, including Villa, to help solve the case and track down the killer.

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The episode was shot pretty much in its entirety on location at the hotel.  Areas used include the Grand Ballroom;

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several hallways;

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the pool;

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the Tides Ballroom,which masked as Surf and Turf restaurant, where Rosie and Villa carried out the “Wilma Illinois Screamer” scam on two suspects (and where Rosie professed his love for Villa, only to have her deny him moments later);

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Shades Restaurant & Bar;

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and the lobby, where Villa made a grand entrance wearing a “gift shop” dress.

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Sadly, the lobby has already undergone the majority of its renovation, so, while the basic set-up remains the same, it looks quite a bit different today than it did onscreen in Rosewood.

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I believe that several of the hotel’s actual rooms were also used in the shoot – either that or production utilized sets very closely modeled after The Waterfront’s accommodations.  You can check out what some of The Waterfront’s rooms look like here and here.

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In Rosewood’s “Amparo & the American Dream” episode, which is hands-down my least favorite of the entire series, The Waterfront masks as Miami Beach’s The De Leon Hotel, where Rosie and Villa track down a prostitution ring.  The resort was only featured briefly in the episode.  Areas used include the exterior;

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the pool;

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a room;

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and several hallways.

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A couple of other productions have also been shot at The Waterfront.  Amanda Woodward (Heather Locklear) and boyfriend Bobby Parezi (John Enos III) stayed there in the Season 4 episode of Melrose Place titled “The Bobby Trap.”  In the episode, not only was an establishing shot of the exterior of the hotel shown . . .

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. . . but Bobby and Amanda dined by the resort’s pool.

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One of the hotel’s hallways was also utilized . . .

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. . . as was one of the rooms.

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It is also at The Waterfront that Jackie Dorsey (Christy Carlson Romano) takes a California vacation with some friends in the 2006 ABC Family movie The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold.

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: The Waterfront Beach Resort, aka the Coconut Beach Crown Plaza Hotel from the “Atherosclerosis and the Alabama Flim-Flam” episode of Rosewood, is located at 21100 Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach.  You can visit the hotel’s official website here.  The Hyatt Huntington Beach, which stood in for the Beverly Hills Beach Club on 90210, is located just down the street at 21500 Pacific Coast Highway.  You can visit the website for that hotel here.

Jesse James and Sandra Bullock’s Former House

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Another Orange County location that the Grim Cheaper and I stalked this past weekend while spending time in Huntington Beach was the former home of actress Sandra Bullock and her ex-husband, West Coast Choppers CEO and reality television star Jesse James.  As it was the GC’s birthday weekend, I was not actually planning on doing any stalking – outside of the 90210 Beach Club, of course, which I blogged about yesterday – during our time in the South Bay, but while we were checking out, the super nice concierge we spoke with informed us that Sandra and Jesse’s former home was located just a few miles north of the hotel in the beachfront community of Sunset Beach.  And even though I am not a particularly huge fan of either one of the stars, because we were in the area I immediately got to cyberstalking the residence on fave website Virtual Globetrotting and dragged the GC right on over to stalk the place on our way out of town.

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And I am so glad that I did!  Despite the numerous nasty commenters on more than a few celebrity real estate websites who state how ugly the house is, I actually think it is pretty darn beautiful.  Sure, it is a bit boxy-looking, but heck I’d live in an octagon if it meant being right on the ocean.  Winking smile    Jesse James purchased the 4 bedroom, 5 bathroom Mediterranean-style home, which boasts a whopping 3,626 square feet of beachfront living space, for $3.5 million in 2003, when he was still married to adult film star Janine Lindemulder.  The residence was originally built in 1976, but was completely remodeled in 2002 shortly before Jesse purchased it.  He put the house up for sale for a cool $6.75 million in May of 2010, shortly after the news of his infidelity hit the blogosphere, and eventually sold it in mid-December of last year, after a pretty major reduction in price, for $4.5 million.

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The home is situated on a fairly-large corner lot located directly on the beach . . .

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. . . and boasts pretty incredible ocean views, although, as you can see in the above photograph, the weather was fairly dreary while we were there.

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Jesse and Sandra’s former residence also features a glass-enclosed lanai which sports an outdoor pool with a waterfall and a waterslide and automated tiki torches, which you can sort of see in the above photographs.  According to the property’s real estate website, on which you can see some great interior pictures of the house, the place also boasts a media room, a wet bar, stone floors, coved ceilings, an en-suite guest room, a master suite with a fireplace, and a three car garage with a custom tool crib.  Now I am not quite sure what a “custom tool crib” is, but I’d be willing to be that, whatever it is, the GC – and most other men on the planet – would absolutely love it.  Winking smile  In a very random turn of events, I happened to spot Jesse James and his pit bull Cinnabun on Tuesday afternoon while on my early afternoon coffee run.  Jesse did not seem to be in any way open or friendly – in fact he shot me a VERY dirty look as I walked by for some odd reason – so I did not attempt to go up to him or engage him in any way.  I was still pretty excited to see him in person, though, nonetheless.  Smile 

Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Jesse James and Sandra Bullock’s former house is located at 16905 South Pacific Avenue in Sunset Beach.

The Hyatt Huntington Beach from “90210”

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One location that I have been absolutely DYING to stalk for over a year and a half now is the Hyatt Huntington Beach Hotel, the spot which stands in for the Beverly Hills Beach Club, the regular hangout of Liam Court (aka cutie Matt Lanter – sigh!), Annie Wilson (aka Shenae Grimes), Naomi Clark (aka AnnaLynne McCord) and the rest of the West Bev gang, each week on fave show 90210.  So when the Grim Cheaper and I were discussing where to spend his upcoming birthday weekend a couple of weeks back, I casually mentioned the Hyatt as a possible destination and, amazingly enough, despite the hotel’s hefty nightly room cost, he readily agreed!  Yay!  So the two of us, along with my parents, headed down there bright and early this past Saturday morning.  And, let me tell you, I could NOT have been more excited!  I was literally bouncing out of my seat the entire drive from Pasadena down to the South Bay.

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Thankfully the hotel did not disappoint!  The Hyatt Huntington Beach is absolutely HUGE – I honestly don’t think I have ever in my life seen a hotel even remotely that big! – and features a retail plaza complete with a grocery store and coffee bar, spa grottos with 3 tucked away spa pools, 6 different on-site restaurants, a water playground for kids, over 100,000 square feet of meeting and event space;

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517 guest rooms (ours is pictured above);

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a large lagoon-style swimming pool;

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lush grounds with meandering koi ponds;

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several sparkling fountains;

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and a 20,000 square foot spa.

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For all of its grandiosity, though, there were a lot of small touches, as well, that gave the hotel an intimate feel; my personal favorite being the mini-outdoor living room that was tucked away in an alcove near our room.

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And on Sunday morning when it rained, the hotel put out umbrellas for guests to use.  Love it!

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The area of the hotel that I was most excited about seeing was the front entrance, which is used in establishing shots of the Beach Club each week.

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Pictured above is what the entry-way columns look like when not sporting the “Beverly Hills Beach Club” signs that are shown on the series. 

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Besides appearing weekly in establishing shots, filming has also taken place on location at the hotel on two different occasions.  The Hyatt was first used in the Season 2 episode of 90210  titled “New Beginnings”.  In that episode, filming took place at the front entrance of the hotel;

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in the main fountain area;

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and by the pool.

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And in the Season 3 episode titled ”Mother Dearest” filming took place once again at the hotel’s front entrance; 

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by the pool;

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outside of the spa;

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in one of the exterior courtyards;

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on the bridge that connects the hotel to the beach;

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and in the beach parking lot located directly across the street from the hotel.

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None of the interior filming of the Beverly Hills Beach Club takes place at the hotel, though.  Sadly, the interior of the Club is just a set that exists only on a soundstage at Manhattan Beach Studios where the series is lensed.

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But I was very excited to see some similarities between the interior of the Hyatt hotel and the Beach Club set.  As you can see in the above screen captures and photographs, the Hyatt has a set of three surfboards hanging on the wall behind the concierge desk, much like is the case with the check-in desk at the Beach Club!  I cannot tell you how excited I was to spot those surfboards!

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There is also an outdoor fire pit located in the patio area of Mankota’s Grill, the hotel’s poolside restaurant, that looks very similar to the Beach Club’s outdoor fire pit.

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A SUPER nice concierge that we spoke with while checking out also let us know that in the Season 3 episode of Chuck titled “Chuck Versus the Beard” the Hyatt stood in for the Malibu Vista Hotel where Devon Woodcomb (aka Ryan McPartlin) and Ellie Bartowski (aka Sarah Lancaster) vacationed . . .

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. . . and where Sarah Walker (aka Yvonne Strahovski) and Daniel Shaw (aka Brandon Roth) were sent to track down a spy.

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The Hyatt Huntington Beach also stood in for the Turks & Caicos hotel where married CIA agents Steven and Samantha Bloom (aka Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw respectively) conducted a sting operation in the Season 1 episode of Undercovers titled “Instructions”. 

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According to a column on the Surf City News website, a large green screen was set up at the north end of the pool during the filming of Undercovers so that it could be made to look as if the hotel was located on the beach.  In reality, the Hyatt is located across the street from the beach.

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The hotel’s Red Chair Lounge also stood in for a Caracas bar in the “Instructions” episode.

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And one of its exterior hallways and courtyards were also used.

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The Hyatt was also featured in an Orbitz commercial in which the Orbitz hovercraft is shown landing in a hotel pool.

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You can watch that commercial by clicking above.

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The concierge also told us that the Hyatt was featured in the Season 3 episode of My Fair Wedding titled “Monopoly Bride” in which wedding planner David Tutera coordinates a Monopoly-themed wedding for a board-game obsessed bride and groom.  And she informed us that a production with Hills star Audrina Patridge was filmed by the hotel’s pool, but she was not sure exactly what production it was.  And finally she told us that the hotel will be featured as a venue in an upcoming episode of Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings, which is set to premiere on the Oxygen Channel on April 6th.

Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: The Hyatt Huntington Beach, aka the Beverly Hills Beach Club from 90210, is located at 21500 Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach.  You can visit the hotel’s official website here.