Post by Freddy Peterson on Mar 30, 2015 14:29:41 GMT
I stumbled upon a Twitter post from @mandy Segers this week, showing her in front of the GG house. Past experience told me that the house was based on a model, but the model/facade was destroyed in a fire on a Disney set years ago.
LA Magazine profiled the house in 2014, celebrating 29 years of The Golden Girls. There is a lot of great information in this article...
The house has hardly changed at all!
Google Maps allows for a street view as well.
Has anyone ever visited the house?
LA Magazine profiled the house in 2014, celebrating 29 years of The Golden Girls. There is a lot of great information in this article...
The ranch-style home where Dorothy (Bea Arthur), Rose (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan) and Sophia (Estelle Getty) lived on the show is one of my favorite filming locations due to the fact that it is practically frozen in time from its Golden Girls days. My friend Owen tracked down the property, which was said to be at 6151 Richmond Street in Miami, Florida on the series, years ago after coming across countless musings about its location online. Some websites claimed that the home was located in West L.A., others said it was in Florida, and a few alleged that it was not a real house at all, but a façade located on a studio backlot. As it turned out, all three assertions were correct.
During the sitcom’s early seasons, a house at 245 N. Saltair Ave. in Brentwood was used for establishing shots of the Girls’ dwelling. An exact replica of that home’s façade was later built on Residential Street at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios) in Orlando, Florida. That façade was used for exterior images of the ladies’ pad during the series’ later years and could be viewed (along with homes from other popular shows including the Weston family residence from The Golden Girls’ spinoff Empty Nest) during the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot Tour. Unfortunately, Residential Street and all of its sets were torn down in 2003 to make room for a new stunt show.
Thankfully though, the Brentwood residence is still standing and remains virtually unchanged from the day that The Golden Girls originally premiered 29 years ago. To the owners of the home, I have only one thing to say – thank you for being a friend . . . to filming locations.
During the sitcom’s early seasons, a house at 245 N. Saltair Ave. in Brentwood was used for establishing shots of the Girls’ dwelling. An exact replica of that home’s façade was later built on Residential Street at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios) in Orlando, Florida. That façade was used for exterior images of the ladies’ pad during the series’ later years and could be viewed (along with homes from other popular shows including the Weston family residence from The Golden Girls’ spinoff Empty Nest) during the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot Tour. Unfortunately, Residential Street and all of its sets were torn down in 2003 to make room for a new stunt show.
Thankfully though, the Brentwood residence is still standing and remains virtually unchanged from the day that The Golden Girls originally premiered 29 years ago. To the owners of the home, I have only one thing to say – thank you for being a friend . . . to filming locations.
The house has hardly changed at all!
Google Maps allows for a street view as well.
Has anyone ever visited the house?
