Post by deannaB on Feb 14, 2007 1:52:33 GMT -5
Okay, last batch of photos, as far as I can tell.
This is the "Stewart St. Lot," the group of converted warehouses that were used as soundstages for all seven seasons of BtVS, and the backlot façades that were used as Downtown Sunnydale and the most-used parts of the graveyard. Unfortunately, other than the bare warehouse/stages, nothing of Sunnydale still exists, but this is what it looked like while it was still there.
It is, or rather, was in the eastern part of Santa Monica, at 1800 Stewart Street, with the backlot fronting Olympic Blvd.
Here's a long shot of the Stewart Street side, with the main entrance gate.
This is the same area during the filming of the end of Bargaining Pt. 2, with Buffy and Dawn on the collapsing tower.
Here's the entrance gate, with the guard shack made to look like a crypt, and the cemetary set behind it.
Those peaked buildings are the warehouse/soundstages, which is all that's left nowadays.
Peeking through an uncovered slit in the fence at the part of the cemetary that has Spike's crypt (in the background).
The top of Spike's Crypt peeking over the fence.
The soundstages with tarped sets stored outside.
The two sections (in the wrong order) of the Short's Drugs movable façade. This had just been used in "Hell's Bells" as the background behind Xander walking alone in the rain.
This was taken a couple years later, just before they tore down the backlot. The Short's Drugs is still there, in the correct order but rapidly falling apart.
This is the entrance to the main backlot. Sun Cinema is on the left just past the gate.
Downtown Sunnydale. This is "Garden Lane," with the bank building on the left.
The Sun Cinema. Proof that it's on a Hellmouth - it only showed "Dude, Where's My Car" for years.
On the right is the electronics store. Notice that here there's nothing next door to it. Yet.
And now Noahs' Arcade appears next door to the electronics store.
And now it even has an outside wall.
Sunnydale Press news rack.
The backs of the buildings along Main Street (actually peeking through the gate from the parking lot of the Yahoo offices next door, with Olympic Blvd right behind me). This is the back of the Espresso Pump with the Magic Box barely visible on the right.
By the time everything was about to be torn down, the Magic Box is already gone. Well, Dark Willow burnt it down, after all.
You can see the fronts of the buildings on the other side of the street,
Things are moved in and out on a regular basis, so it's never the same way twice.
Alleyways, tunnels, etc. - the seedy, vampire-infested side of town.
Same angle, more stuff. Hey, there's a tree trunk.
There's a big chest and a bier here.
In the background, I think that's a motion base, for earthquake effects. Possibly. Well, it's a guess. It's something special effectsy, at least.
Even the Mutant Enemy offices have set pieces attached to the building.
From Olympic Blvd, looking over the fence. By this time, the tarps on the fence are in bad condition. If only they had this many holes while they were still filming BtVS.
See? It used to be hell to try to take photos through.
Buffy parking, one block away.
The "V" is for vampires, and was used to mark filming locations as well.
And speaking of vampires...
This is the "Stewart St. Lot," the group of converted warehouses that were used as soundstages for all seven seasons of BtVS, and the backlot façades that were used as Downtown Sunnydale and the most-used parts of the graveyard. Unfortunately, other than the bare warehouse/stages, nothing of Sunnydale still exists, but this is what it looked like while it was still there.
It is, or rather, was in the eastern part of Santa Monica, at 1800 Stewart Street, with the backlot fronting Olympic Blvd.
Here's a long shot of the Stewart Street side, with the main entrance gate.
This is the same area during the filming of the end of Bargaining Pt. 2, with Buffy and Dawn on the collapsing tower.
Here's the entrance gate, with the guard shack made to look like a crypt, and the cemetary set behind it.
Those peaked buildings are the warehouse/soundstages, which is all that's left nowadays.
Peeking through an uncovered slit in the fence at the part of the cemetary that has Spike's crypt (in the background).
The top of Spike's Crypt peeking over the fence.
The soundstages with tarped sets stored outside.
The two sections (in the wrong order) of the Short's Drugs movable façade. This had just been used in "Hell's Bells" as the background behind Xander walking alone in the rain.
This was taken a couple years later, just before they tore down the backlot. The Short's Drugs is still there, in the correct order but rapidly falling apart.
This is the entrance to the main backlot. Sun Cinema is on the left just past the gate.
Downtown Sunnydale. This is "Garden Lane," with the bank building on the left.
The Sun Cinema. Proof that it's on a Hellmouth - it only showed "Dude, Where's My Car" for years.
On the right is the electronics store. Notice that here there's nothing next door to it. Yet.
And now Noahs' Arcade appears next door to the electronics store.
And now it even has an outside wall.
Sunnydale Press news rack.
The backs of the buildings along Main Street (actually peeking through the gate from the parking lot of the Yahoo offices next door, with Olympic Blvd right behind me). This is the back of the Espresso Pump with the Magic Box barely visible on the right.
By the time everything was about to be torn down, the Magic Box is already gone. Well, Dark Willow burnt it down, after all.
You can see the fronts of the buildings on the other side of the street,
Things are moved in and out on a regular basis, so it's never the same way twice.
Alleyways, tunnels, etc. - the seedy, vampire-infested side of town.
Same angle, more stuff. Hey, there's a tree trunk.
There's a big chest and a bier here.
In the background, I think that's a motion base, for earthquake effects. Possibly. Well, it's a guess. It's something special effectsy, at least.
Even the Mutant Enemy offices have set pieces attached to the building.
From Olympic Blvd, looking over the fence. By this time, the tarps on the fence are in bad condition. If only they had this many holes while they were still filming BtVS.
See? It used to be hell to try to take photos through.
Buffy parking, one block away.
The "V" is for vampires, and was used to mark filming locations as well.
And speaking of vampires...
Well, it took a hell of a lot of photos before it was retired, and it still works if I put batteries in it, even after I dropped it numerous times over the years. But sorry for the crappyness of some of the photos it took.
