Sorry for the crappy screen grabs, which are really just me taking a picture of my monitor with a camera. I have an iMac, on which of course you can just hit command + shift + 3 and it'll do a screen grab, but it doesn't work if you have the DVD player running, those Mac bastards. But anyway, I went to Glendale today to the "Mildred Pierce" neighborhood and took pictures. I hope what's said in this paragraph takes care of the photo credits.
"We lived on Corvallis Street where all the houses looked alike. Ours was number 1143."
The tree has really grown tall, hasn't it.
"...I never knew any other kind of life; just cooking and washing and having children--two girls, Veda and Consuelo." Just kidding. "Two girls, Veda and Kay."
Here's Kay, acting like a peasant, per Veda. I love Ann Blyth, by the way.
Today, the kids would be playing over a speed hump.
I couldn't get the same perspective as the above shot, I would have to stand on private property to do so. But behind the trees, you can see the same house across the street from the film.
It's actually quite a charming neighborhood, all nestled in the foothills, and downtown Glendale isn't far at all-- location, location, location. I don't think Veda should've been ashamed of living in Glendale; I looked it up on zillow.com, her shack is worth over half a million dollars right now.
And of course the real address of the house is 1143 N. Jackson Street.
A few streets away, I passed by this really cool-looking apartment building. I thought it was very film-noirish.
Wouldn't it be great to say that you live at the Louise Dryden Apartments? At first I wondered about the name, until I realized that this is at the corner of Louise and Dryden Streets.
Mildred's fictional diner was located on Glenoaks Boulevard; even that street isn't far away from this area at all. I took this picture through my dirty windshield.
I'll end this post with a picture of a PE car in Glendale in the early 1950s, making a right from Glenoaks onto Brand Blvd. to head south.
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