Single storey stucco bungalows and courtyard apartments sit on a flat grid behind the storefronts of Glendale Boulevard, backing onto a soft bottomed stretch of the Los Angeles River.
What Atwater Village looks like
is the commercial spine, a two-way street of small independent storefronts under one and two storey buildings. A dark storefront lettered in gold sits across from a plain brick building at a marked crosswalk on the corner, cars parked along both curbs.
The streets behind the boulevard are flat and quiet, palms and street trees along the curbs. Single storey stucco bungalows with arched doorways and wood windows line blocks like , and on a run of one storey houses is topped with castle like towers and ramparts over stucco walls.
The stands in the same stucco as the houses around it, a square bell tower beside a round stained glass window over its arched entry porch. A branch of the sits a few blocks away on Glendale Boulevard, its name cut into a plain concrete wall beside the entrance.
The neighborhood backs onto the Los Angeles River, a soft bottomed stretch where willows and reeds grow across the channel instead of bare concrete. crosses the river on concrete piers built in 1927, its original cast lampposts still standing along the rail. A steel truss footbridge farther upstream crosses to Griffith Park.
Shot in Atwater Village
Pulp Fiction used Atwater Village twice, an apartment on La Clede Avenue for the scene where Vince revives Mia and the corner of Fletcher Drive and Atwater Avenue for the moment Butch first sees Marsellus. The Netflix series Hollywood turned a working auto shop farther up Fletcher Drive into a 1940s gas station.
Pulp Fiction, 1994
Vince gives Mia the adrenaline shot on the floor of an apartment here, a block south of Glendale Boulevard. The block sits among the quiet residential streets the boulevard runs behind, palms and low stucco buildings on both sides.
What Atwater Village can double for
F.Q. Story in Phoenix, Arizona
F.Q. Story's palm lined grid of Spanish Colonial Revival and Craftsman bungalows was built out in the same years and at the same one and two storey scale, with only a few commercial buildings at its edges the way Atwater Village's own residential blocks sit behind Glendale Boulevard. Both were laid out as streetcar suburbs rather than dense city blocks. Phoenix's mountain backdrop and dry desert plantings show in any wide shot, so tighter frames on the bungalows themselves hold the match best. Try searching Spanish Colonial bungalow grid now.
Sam Hughes in Tucson, Arizona
Sam Hughes has the same mix of Spanish Revival and Craftsman bungalows from the 1920s on a quiet residential grid rather than downtown blocks. Many of its houses share Atwater Village's stucco walls and arched doorways. Adobe colored walls and desert plantings are more common here than in Los Angeles, so a frame that avoids the front garden reads more evenly. Try searching Spanish Revival bungalow grid now.
Wood Streets in Riverside, California
The Wood Streets is a similar run of California bungalows and Spanish Revival houses at one and two storeys, on flat streets close to downtown rather than a subdivision at the edge of the city. Its Craftsman cottages are an easy match for Atwater Village's own one storey stock. Riverside's orange trees and a San Bernardino Mountains skyline stand out in wider shots, so a street level frame on the houses alone holds the match. Try searching California bungalow Craftsman cottages now.
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