Beverly Hills · 90210
West Beverly High
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Fox · 4 October 1990 to 2000 · ten seasons
Beverly Hills, 90210
Named for one zip code. Pull the tape out to see how far away it was made.
Fox asks Darren Star, 27, for a series about teenagers in Beverly Hills, with Aaron Spelling already signed on to produce. The show followed teenagers living in one zip code: 90210, Beverly Hills. Run the tapes below out from the Beverly Hills sign to see where its school, beach club, college and family home really were.
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Inside the warehouse
Shot in
Van Nuys.
Jason Priestley has said the show was shot in converted warehouses in Van Nuys, California.
9.5 million viewers
17.4 million by the end of season two
Season two, starting in the autumn. Now try the summer.
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If someone comes back from a break with a new haircut, Spelling’s publicist says, Aaron goes crazy.
Gabrielle Carteris, the oldest of the cast, is 29 when she is cast as 16-year-old Andrea Zuckerman; Ian Ziering is 28 playing 16.
He told the story in a Toronto Film School conversation in April 2020, and remembered his nerves at going in to meet Aaron Spelling.
The buildings are not identified here, and they were working production spaces, not places to visit. Nothing is pinned.
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Real zip codes
Measure out
from 90210.
Each label is a place the show called Beverly Hills. Every tape is hooked on the Beverly Hills sign in Beverly Gardens Park, the one place here inside 90210. Drag it out, use the arrow keys, or press Measure it.
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Beverly Hills · 90210
The Beach Club
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The mall
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California University
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The Walsh house
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A private house: only its street is named.
City of Santa Monica
Marion Davies Guest House tours
415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica · Friday–Monday, 12pm–2pm · paid parking on site
Tours of the Gold Coast-era guest house at the Annenberg Community Beach House, on the old Sand & Sea Club site that played the Beach Club.
Plan a visit
Santa Monica Place
Santa Monica Place
395 Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica · Mon–Sat 10am–8pm · Sun 11am–7pm
The mall from the show, open-air on three levels since 2010, near the Third Street Promenade and the ocean.
See the centreShore Hotel
Shore Hotel, Santa Monica
Santa Monica · Rates from the hotel
At 1515 Ocean Avenue, across from Palisades Park, on the same shore as the beach house and Santa Monica Place.
See the hotelCalifornia University, 1993–1997
The college
was in Eagle Rock.
From 1993 to 1997 the cast and crew were fixtures on the campus, which stood in for the fictional California University.
Associate producer and director David Semel, an Occidental graduate of 1985, suggested it; he says the series might never have filmed in the 90041 zip code without his Oxy connection. Semel sensed that executive producer Chuck Rosen wanted somewhere more unusual than UCLA and USC.
The filming brought the college much-needed revenue at the time.
Many students were critical of the show, and Ian Ziering spoke at a forum in Thorne Hall.
The producers took students’ concerns into the backgrounds, and copied hand-painted protest signs from the Quad.
A working college campus. Plan a visit through the college’s own Visit page, or call (323) 259-2500.
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As they were
Emmy night.
Luke Perry 1991
Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty 1991
Jason Priestley 1992
Jennie Garth 1992
The 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards were held here on 25 August 1991, broadcast on Fox.
Luke Perry, Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty are photographed at the Emmy Awards and the Governor’s Ball, the summer after the first season.
The Civic opened in 1932 and hosted the Primetime Emmys for more than twenty years. It has 2,997 seats and is part of a district on the National Register of Historic Places.
A working theatre: the doors open for ticketed shows, award nights and graduations.
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The Langham Huntington
The Langham Huntington, Pasadena
Pasadena · Rates on booking
A Pasadena hotel open since 1914, on 17 acres at 1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue. A base for the Civic, Occidental and Altadena.
See the hotel
Beverly Gardens Park
The real 90210.
One place on this page is inside the zip code in the title.
Beverly Gardens is a 1.9-mile linear park on Santa Monica Boulevard, from Wilshire Boulevard to North Doheny Drive; its address is Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
Its Beverly Hills sign is 40 feet long and illuminated, with a water feature, beside a lily pond.
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L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
9291 Burton Way, Beverly Hills · Rates from the hotel
An all-suite hotel of 116 suites on Burton Way, opened in 1975, with a heated rooftop pool. The nearest stay on this page to the one place in 90210.
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Beverly Hills tours
Beverly Hills
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6 places you can visit. Torrance High and Occidental are a working school and college: look from outside. The Walsh house is a private home, named only by its street, and the Van Nuys buildings are not identified, so neither is pinned.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working public high school. Look and take photographs from the pavement on West Carson Street, and come outside school hours.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public beach house run by the City of Santa Monica, with paid parking on site. Tours of the Marion Davies guest house run Friday to Monday, 12pm to 2pm; the pool opens for Memorial Day weekend, then daily through the summer and on September weekends.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 8pm, and Sunday, 11am to 7pm, near the Third Street Promenade and the ocean.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park running along Santa Monica Boulevard from Wilshire Boulevard to North Doheny Drive. The sign and its lily pond are a photo stop.
The entrance of the 1917 Main Building at Torrance High School, September 2008. Los Angeles · CC BY-SA 3.0 Westside & South Bay · 2200 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90501
Torrance High School
Torrance High School plays West Beverly High School in Beverly Hills, 90210.
A working public high school. Look and take photographs from the pavement on West Carson Street, and come outside school hours.
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The Annenberg Community Beach House at 415 Pacific Coast Highway, October 2016: the Sand & Sea Club site. Bahooka · CC BY-SA 4.0 Westside & South Bay · 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Annenberg Community Beach House (the Sand & Sea Club)
In its Sand & Sea Club days, the site played the Beverly Hills Beach Club on Beverly Hills, 90210.
A public beach house run by the City of Santa Monica, with paid parking on site. Tours of the Marion Davies guest house run Friday to Monday, 12pm to 2pm; the pool opens for Memorial Day weekend, then daily through the summer and on September weekends.
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Santa Monica Place in July 2023: open-air on three levels since 2010. Benoît Prieur · CC0 Westside & South Bay · 395 Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Santa Monica Place
Visit California lists Santa Monica Place among the places seen in Beverly Hills, 90210, alongside Terminator 2 and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 8pm, and Sunday, 11am to 7pm, near the Third Street Promenade and the ocean.
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The Beverly Hills sign in Beverly Gardens Park, April 2018. The park’s address is Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Alexander Migl · CC BY-SA 4.0 Westside & South Bay · Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Beverly Gardens Park and the Beverly Hills sign
The show followed teenagers living in one zip code: 90210, Beverly Hills.
A public park running along Santa Monica Boulevard from Wilshire Boulevard to North Doheny Drive. The sign and its lily pond are a photo stop.
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Stay
Sleep near the places.
One hotel in Beverly Hills, one on the Santa Monica shore and one in Pasadena.
L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
9291 Burton Way, Beverly Hills · Rates from the hotel
An all-suite hotel of 116 suites on Burton Way, opened in 1975, with a heated rooftop pool. The nearest stay on this page to the one place in 90210.
See the hotelShore Hotel
Shore Hotel, Santa Monica
Santa Monica · Rates from the hotel
At 1515 Ocean Avenue, across from Palisades Park, on the same shore as the beach house and Santa Monica Place.
See the hotelThe Langham Huntington
The Langham Huntington, Pasadena
Pasadena · Rates on booking
A Pasadena hotel open since 1914, on 17 acres at 1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue. A base for the Civic, Occidental and Altadena.
See the hotelGo there
Go and see.
The beach house tour, the mall, and marketplace tours of Beverly Hills and of film and TV locations.
City of Santa Monica
Marion Davies Guest House tours
415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica · Friday–Monday, 12pm–2pm · paid parking on site
Tours of the Gold Coast-era guest house at the Annenberg Community Beach House, on the old Sand & Sea Club site that played the Beach Club.
Plan a visitSanta Monica Place
Santa Monica Place
395 Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica · Mon–Sat 10am–8pm · Sun 11am–7pm
The mall from the show, open-air on three levels since 2010, near the Third Street Promenade and the ocean.
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Beverly Hills tours
Beverly Hills
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Take it home
Two memoirs.
Books by two of the cast.
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Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde
Jennie Garth
Jennie Garth’s memoir.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
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Torrance High School
2200 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90501
West Beverly High
Torrance High School plays West Beverly High, and the school-set scenes are filmed here.
Sixteen, on paper
Gabrielle Carteris, the oldest of the cast, is 29 when she is cast as 16-year-old Andrea Zuckerman; Ian Ziering is 28 playing 16.
Annenberg Community Beach House (the Sand & Sea Club)
415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402
The Beach Club
The Sand & Sea Club plays the Beverly Hills Beach Club.
Santa Monica Place
395 Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, CA 90401
At the mall
Santa Monica Place is one of the show’s locations.
Beverly Gardens Park and the Beverly Hills sign
Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
4 October 1990
Beverly Hills, 90210 debuts on Fox, far from an overnight success.
A show about one zip code
Fox asks Darren Star, 27, for a series about teenagers in Beverly Hills, with Aaron Spelling already signed on to produce.
The Van Nuys warehouses
Van Nuys, Los Angeles
Converted warehouses
The show is shot in converted warehouses in Van Nuys.
Season two, in summer
The second season begins airing in the summer, a key move in the show’s success.
9.5 to 17.4 million
By the end of season two the audience nearly doubles, from 9.5 to 17.4 million viewers, with a 52 share of teenage viewers.
The hiatus haircut
If someone comes back from a break with a new haircut, Spelling’s publicist says, Aaron goes crazy.
The Walsh house
East Altadena Drive, Altadena
The Walsh house
A private house on East Altadena Drive plays the Walsh family home.
Occidental College (California University)
1600 Campus Road, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA 90041
California University
Occidental College stands in for California University as the characters go to college.
The Thorne Hall forum
Ian Ziering answers students’ criticism of the show at a forum in Thorne Hall.
Signs from the Quad
The show copies hand-painted student protest signs from the Quad into its backgrounds.
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
300 E Green St, Pasadena, CA 91101
Emmy night, 1991
Luke Perry, Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty are photographed at the Emmy Awards and the Governor’s Ball, the summer after the first season.