Tag: Monrovia

  • Jill’s Doctor’s Office from “Picket Fences”

    Hindsight being 20/20, I really should have studied architecture in college.  Expertise in that area would have served me well, not only in my hunts for various locations, but in writing about them, as well.  I can’t tell you how many times a day I scour the internet and/or pester my friend/guest poster extraordinaire Michael,…

  • The Brock House from “Picket Fences”

    I was recently asked how I come up with new material to write about.  My answer?  I am a huge consumer of content!  All content – movies, television shows, magazines, books, blogs, websites, podcasts, documentaries, etc. etc. etc.  I eat them all up!  (In fact, I was tipped off to two Haunted Hollywood locations via…

  • Monrovia High School from “A Cinderella Story”

    My taste in movies is about as mature and refined as my palate, which favors chicken strips and ranch dressing above all else.  Case in point – I am obsessed with the 2004 tween romance A Cinderella Story.  Chad Michael Murray?  Hilary Duff on roller skates?  A high school love story?  A pink ‘50s diner? …

  • The Burr House from “The Twilight Zone”

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    After what amounted to a nearly two-year stalking hiatus, Mike, from MovieShotsLA, is finally back!  Let me reverse a bit and explain.  Over the past couple of years, Mike has been busy working in production (yep, he actually toils away on movie sets now!), which hasn’t left much time for tracking down locations.  I was…

  • Santa Fe Depot from “The Trouble with Angels”

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    It is no secret that I love abandoned places, especially during this time of year.  (What I wouldn’t give to be able to see this in person!)  Recently I stalked Monrovia’s former Santa Fe Railroad Depot and it had my heart going pitter-patter.  The now defunct train station is also a filming location and, while…

  • The Brass Monkey Bar from “Bad Santa”

    Another Christmas-themed location that I stalked recently was the Brass Elephant bar – the Monrovia-area watering hole that stood in for the similarly-named “Brass Monkey” bar where Sue (aka Lauren Graham) worked in my least-favorite holiday movie of all time, 2003’s Bad Santa.  Fellow stalker Chas, from the It’sFilmedThere website, had tracked down the establishment…

  • The Mills View House from “Picket Fences”

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    Well, my fellow stalkers, it is finally that time of year again, the month I look forward to all year long – October!  With it comes fall leaves, cooler temperatures, and my favorite holiday of them all, Halloween.  And you know what that means – I will once again be devoting the entire month of…

  • Grandma Bunny’s House from “You Again”

    As I mentioned in last Friday’s post, the hunt for Aunt Mitsy’s (aka Kathy Bates’) house from Rumor Has It actually began when fellow stalker Geoff, from the 90210Locations website, asked for some help in tracking down the abode where Grandma Bunny (aka Betty White) lived in the 2010 flick You Again.  I immediately got…

  • The Upton Sinclair House

    Last weekend while doing some research on the net, the Grim Cheaper discovered that a home in Monrovia where legendary author/screenwriter/movie producer/politician Upton Sinclair had once lived was currently for sale.  So, while I was in the area visiting my parents this past Friday afternoon, I just had to go stalk it.  For those who…

  • Watching “The Mentalist” Being Filmed – A Second Time!

    This past Tuesday morning I was interviewed about my website for an article on filming locations that will be published sometime in early April in a few local, San Gabriel Valley-area newspapers.  While we were talking, the reporter happened to mention that she had just spoken with the City of Monrovia’s Film Liaison who had…