Low stucco shopfronts in Mediterranean Revival style, with clay tile roofs and arcades along a shopping street.
What Worth Avenue looks like
Worth Avenue is a shopping street about four blocks long, lined on both sides by low stucco shopfronts in Mediterranean Revival style. Some roofs are clay tile, and coconut palms stand at intervals along the curbs.
Some shopfronts sit under arcades of white columns, with dark and teal awnings. Some upper floors have balconies with white turned balusters, and planters stand outside the doors.
Pedestrian vias lead off the avenue. opens through an arch into a paved courtyard, and is a narrow paved lane with a stone fountain in its inner court. Mizner's five-story tower stands at 1 Via Mizner.
The sidewalks and piazzas are paved in crushed shell and tabby concrete. The roadway itself is asphalt.
At the east end, a pair of stone pillars marks the junction with Ocean Boulevard. A marble clock tower and archway frame the view of the Atlantic beyond, and the tower is 25 feet tall.
The at 356 Worth Avenue sits at the west end, across the avenue from Via Mizner. The club is private.
On the Hibiscus Avenue corner, occupies a stone building with a clock over its entrance and teal awnings. A fountain stands on the apron in front, and the building faces the intersection.
Filming permits in Palm Beach are famously hard to get, particularly in season. Recent Town Council approvals for filming on or near the avenue limited work to early mornings or hours outside peak traffic.
Shot in Worth Avenue
Traces of Red and Heartbreakers also filmed on the avenue. The director's DVD commentary for Heartbreakers says only a few exterior shots were made in Palm Beach, and Los Angeles locations stood in for the rest.
Happy New Year, 1987
Columbia Pictures shot a handful of early-morning scenes on the avenue in 1985, one of them from a helicopter overhead. The production does not name a block. Street View
Parker, 2013
Parker's street scenes on the avenue were filmed in 2011, and the Palm Beach County film office lists Worth Avenue among its filming locations. The production does not name a block. Street View
What Worth Avenue can double for
Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, Florida
Coral Gables was planned around Mediterranean Revival architecture, and Miracle Mile is the main street through its downtown commercial district. The city is a planned community of the 1920s, the same decade as the avenue's stucco and tile fabric. The planned district runs more than two miles, while the avenue is about four blocks, so frame a single block to hold the scale. Try searching Mediterranean Revival commercial street now.
Santa Barbara's dominant architectural themes are Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival. Spanish Colonial Revival work built after 1925 is common across the city. The Santa Ynez Mountains rise behind the city, which Palm Beach does not have, so a wide shot up a cross street shows them. Try searching Spanish Colonial Revival street now.
