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 Located
1 1/2 hour drive outside of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara comes off as a very
Spanish inspirited little town, full of small cafes, restaurants, shops
and beautiful architecture. The city comes off as calm, harmonic and the
people are friendly.
- Tom Erik
It
is known as
the American Riviera. There is something about it that is magical. Santa Barbara is
beautiful with good weather year round. If I had the money, I would choose to
live there. It holds a special place in my heart, as it does for all fans. I
love the area, the atmosphere, and the beach. It is an amazing place to visit.
For a fan of the show, it is a great experience. I grew up visiting my
grandparents there, and then during vacations with my family, and finally as an
adult when I could finally appreciate the connection to my beloved characters
and friends I've made through the show. I have gone several times now with
fellow fans, and the experience is heightened with others. Nothing will top the
experience I had in September of 2006 when four of us girls toured the coast,
retracing the steps our characters took to Kelly and Jeffrey's wedding, Eden and
Cruz's wedding, Pebble Creek, and of course, the real city of Santa Barbara and
the places mentioned on the show. It was an amazing experience and most of the
pictures from both Lisa & me on this page are from that epic adventure.
- Kimmah |
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1.
Park
lane
2. State
street
3.
The
Santa Barbara police department 4.
The
Santa Barbara Mission 5.
The
Santa Barbara courthouse 6.
The
Santa Barbara waterfront 7.
The
Santa Barbara beach 8.
Franklin
Canyon Park 9.
Greystone 10.
Big
Sur 11.
Stonepine 12.
Pebble
Beach 13.
Burbank
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| This is the
beach, which
is called the American Riviera. Imagine Cruz riding his horse to pick
up Eden before Harbor Cove. I don't know if they filmed the beach stuff
here. However, for our purposes, this is the beach of our imagination.
Also, one
of those houses on the cliff could belong to our Eden and Cruz.
- Kimmah |
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Martinez's exclusive memories |
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 "I
wish I could say for sure, but I can only guess that the Harbor Cove stuff
was shot somewhere slightly north of Santa Barbara itself (I want to say
San Luis Obispo, but perhaps Lompoc would be more likely.). I don't think
it was an overnight location, so it couldn't have been too much farther
from Los Angeles than that.
The
problem with actually shooting in Santa Barbara itself would be that the
beaches and harbor areas there are so much more crowded than the beaches
elsewhere." |
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also : Santa
Barbara's Cruz and Eden are reunited ! Will it last ? |
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This is
Greystone,
where Kelly and Jeffrey's wedding was filmed. Greystone
looks just like it did on screen. It has amazing gardens and
it is a public park.
Can't you just see
Cruz running on this ?
- Kimmah
Located
in Beverly Hills,
the whole property totals 46,000 square feet. Designed by
architect Gordon Kaufmann for the Doheny family, it was completed in 1928.
The three-leveled gardens were designed by architect Paul Thiene, with
nearly 100 different species of plants and flowers on the property,
representing every continent. Greystone became a city park in 1971. |
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big lawn is where the wedding party was seated and the fountain in the
back is the main large fountain. If you see the picture with the stairs in
front (and the big fountain all the way at the back) that should be where
Kelly and Jeffrey said their vows, at the head of the stairs, with the
party behind them and the fountain way in the back.
- Lisa |
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main big fountain - the one that I took about 15 pictures of !
- Kimmah |
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unless for special events, but it has been used in many movies and TV
shows. - Kimmah |
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Martinez's exclusive memories |
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 "I
remember Greystone for many reasons. First, that it was a fittingly
dramatic setting to honor a peak in the lovely work of Robin and Ross.
Second, it let me do a bit of action work, under the direction of the late
great Rick Bennewitz, which was always enjoyable. I had done a lot of work
(sixteen years worth) in film and TV before I got to do Santa
Barbara, so I had learned a lot about shooting sequences like the
one we did at the wedding. Bennewitz was an immensely talented and
insightful director - the show always went to him when we ventured beyond
the comforts of the studio. He was a teacher as well as friend to me - a
man's man, and I always took a little extra pride in being able to handle
myself in the scenarios he would create for us on location. And of course,
I was in love with Justin Deas (it will always be so) as I thought he
brought secrets from magical places in his work and that his unique energy
was the single most indispensable element to the greatest years of the
show (And Cruz got to kick Keith's ass a bit in that sequence - which I
also loved !)." |
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also : The
gardens of the Capwell mansion |
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Stonepine is the
location of Eden and Cruz's wedding.
Located in Carmel Valley, the 330-acre property took its name after the
80-foot Italian stone pines planted on the property more than 80 years ago.
The house was designed in 1929 by architect F. Burrall Hoffman, while
designer Bruce Porter took care of the gardens.
In the show, it looks like Stonepine is on the water, but in fact it is in
the forest, far from the ocean. You
can rent a room at this place but there weren't any available. There
is a long, long driveway. We were very nervous driving in, since we were
pretending to be there so we could scout for a wedding location
in order to gain access to
all of the places and things that Eden and Cruz's wedding showed.
You can't see the hotel from the main road so you have to drive the long
driveway. We finally came around the corner on the driveway to get our
first view of the hotel and we all screamed.
- Kimmah & Lisa |
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Stonepine
is different than on
screen because
of where they shot the scenes facing the wedding guests. The vows were
actually filmed in two places, which we didn't realize until after we'd
left and watched the wedding. They
shot these in a little grassy area up a small rock staircase (when you're
looking at the back of the building with the arches, this area is on the
front left of the building). The staircase Eden walks down is actually -
from the back of the building - to the right of the building. So the
wedding scenes facing Eden and Cruz are taken below the staircase, below
the building. The scenes facing the guests were done up on that little
grassy area to the left of the building.
As you
can see, there was some fancy editing, as this does not have grass below,
as it appears in the show.
- Kimmah & Lisa
When I was at
Stonepine and stood at the top of that staircase where Eden stood before
coming down for her marriage to Cruz, I did get emotional. It's the only
place I know I've been that they have definitely been. I know Marcy stood
on that exact spot. It's strange. Of course there are the other locations,
but this spot was featured as she stopped to look over the guests. It's
powerful. Plus, to my knowledge, we are the only four to have done this. - Kimmah
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Martinez's exclusive memories |
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 "Stonepine,
of course, was fraught with a real depth of emotion for all of us, as
letting Cruz and Eden finally marry signaled both a maturity to the
relationship (and the show) and also the inevitable beginning of a journey
to closure. It was an unforgettable location. I completely understand
Kimmah's excitement at standing where Marcy stood in the moment she
finally revealed herself to the community as Cruz's bride. The image of
her in that place - beyond exquisite - is burned into so many memories,
and certainly into mine. Getting to say the words I said to her, and hear
he words she said to me, felt sanctified - a singular opportunity to make
a statement about what the relationship represented - in the show, in our
careers, and by extension, our lives. As I've said before, the fact that
the sun on her veil obscured her eyes from me during our vows was
profoundly frustrating, as access to Marcy's eyes was always the best
anchor for me in my efforts to inhabit Cruz. But I was old enough by then
to understand that in the long-term scheme of things, such frustration was
of very little importance. Almost selfish, really. We did our best. And
like everyone else in the community who stepped up that day, we did pretty
well."
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| We decided that they
must not have filmed anything actually inside Stonepine. The actual
interior is much too small and different than the interior used on the
show. Here is the actual interior staircase, which is close to, but not
the same as the near-replica they built.
- Lisa |
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Martinez's exclusive memories |
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| "I
do remember spending a night at Stonepine. Normally when I'm in Carmel, I
stay with people I know. I believe the night at the hotel was dictated by
convenience, even though it is indeed a lovely place." |
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| The stables, like in
the show. -
Kimmah |
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Martinez's exclusive memories |
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 "A side note : I
remember that at one point I was suddenly out near the stables shooting a
scene where Cruz is exercising a jumping horse. Rick Bennewitz was mindful
of the possibility of something going wrong, as I had never ridden in that
style, had never led a horse through a circuit of barriers, had never
ridden that particular horse, and had never even gotten near that
particular horse until moments before we began. Bennewitz was saying,
"Don't go too high, and don't go too fast." And I'm thinking,
"The only way this going to work is if I let the horse do exactly
what he wants to do - whatever that is." So I'm nodding my head as if
to say, "Got it, Rick," but in my mind I'm thinking, "This
is why actors can't get disability insurance : They do stupid things like
this, over which they have no control." The horse, of course, took
care of everything, no doubt relieved over my utter neutrality in the
saddle. He cantered gracefully, found his own way around the course and
jumped with very little drama. It felt amazing to share the power of his
exertions without getting in his way." |
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also : Pebble
Creek |
"Interesting
that Kimmah referenced Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, as Devon and I
stopped there on our way home and got to look again at the exquisite cove
and waterfall that grace that particular spot.
