Vol. 1 · Los Angeles · 1994Complete in this issue
Uma Thurman · 1994
John Travolta · 1997
Contents · one day in Los Angeles
Everything happens within 24 hours, but the stories are shuffled, so a man shot dead on a toilet is back, unaware, in a later scene. Read the issue as the film prints it, then as the day happened.
As printed: Vincent dies at story 7, and is back, alive, for stories 10, 11 and 12. Between the places you can stand at, that order covers 145 km; the other covers 127 km.
The order of the day is our reading of the film. Distances are straight lines between the places on our map; private homes are left out.
Story 1 · Hawthorne Boulevard
The coffee shop where Pumpkin and Honey Bunny talk themselves into robbing the place was the Hawthorne Grill, 13763 Hawthorne Boulevard.
1994: The Hawthorne Grill, where the film’s robbery is planned.
It opened in 1956 as Holly’s, a Googie diner with an angled, overhanging front built to catch drivers’ eyes. The diner was demolished to make way for an AutoZone car-parts store.
The diner is gone. A car-parts store stands on the corner of Hawthorne Boulevard and 137th Street: look from the pavement.
Stories 2 to 4 · Beverly Hills, Glendale, Atwater Village
The ledger
$0 of $8,000,000
The most expensive line in the budget is one restaurant that never existed.
The restaurant itself was a set built in a Culver City warehouse. At $150,000 it was the largest line item in the budget. In the end the whole film cost $8 million: the budget was $8.5 million with contingency, and $500,000 went back.
Jack Rabbit Slim’s (the old Grand Central Bowl) · 1435 Flower Street, Glendale
The outside of Jack Rabbit Slim’s was a recently closed bowling alley, the Grand Central Bowl, at 1435 Flower Street in Glendale. Disney owns the building, now part of the Walt Disney Imagineering campus; it keeps some original features but sits behind a wall.
The dance is a nod to Godard’s Bande à part, which also gave Tarantino’s company, A Band Apart, its name.
Part of a private Disney campus behind a wall. There is nothing to visit, and little to see from Flower Street.
Summitridge Drive, in the hills above Beverly Hills
Vincent collects Mia from Marsellus Wallace’s house on Summitridge Drive, on the slopes above Beverly Hills. The house was built in the 1960s and looks out to the ocean.
A private home in the hills. It is not on our map.
La Clede Avenue, Atwater Village
Lance, Vincent’s dealer, lives on La Clede Avenue in Atwater Village; Vincent brings Mia here after her overdose. It is a Craftsman bungalow from 1912; Vincent crashes his car into the front of it.
A private home. It is not on our map.
Stories 5 to 9 · the gold watch
5 · 129 North Raymond Avenue, Old Pasadena
Butch’s fight, the one he was meant to lose, was filmed at the Raymond Theatre, 129 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena. After the fight Butch runs from the building down an alley off North Raymond Avenue.
The theatre opened on 5 April 1921, and later had a second life as the Perkins Palace music venue. It was gutted in 2009 and has been converted into apartments and shops.
Now apartments and shops on North Raymond Avenue. See the front from the street.
6 · 2934 Riverside Drive, by the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge
Butch and Fabienne spend the night after the fight at the River Glen Motel, 2934 Riverside Drive. The Glendale-Hyperion Bridge, opened in 1929 as the Victory Memorial Bridge, is in the background. The motel was demolished, and businesses have since been built on the spot.
The motel is gone and new businesses stand on the lot. The bridge is still there: see it from Riverside Drive.
7 · Runnymede Street, North Hollywood
Butch’s apartment, where Vincent is waiting when Butch comes back for the watch, is on Runnymede Street in North Hollywood; Butch parks round the corner on Valerio Street. Its bathroom sits straight across from the kitchen, which the scene needed.
Private apartments. Not on our map.
The dead man comes back.
Vincent is shot dead in Butch’s apartment at story 7, and three stories later he is back at work in Studio City. Everything happens within 24 hours, but the stories are shuffled, so a man shot dead on a toilet is back, unaware, in a later scene.
Red at Fletcher Drive and Atwater Avenue. Butch is on his way home.
8 · 2760 Fletcher Drive, Atwater Village
Driving home for his father’s watch, Butch sees Marsellus cross the street in front of him here, at Fletcher Drive and Atwater Avenue. The corner is still standing much as it was.
An ordinary junction on a public road. Stand on the corner and mind the traffic.
9 · 20933 Roscoe Boulevard, Canoga Park
The pawnshop where Butch and Marsellus end up in the basement was the Crown Pawn Shop, 20933 Roscoe Boulevard, Canoga Park. The building still stands.
A shopfront on Roscoe Boulevard. Look from the pavement; the shop inside is not the film’s.
Stories 10 and 11 · back to the morning
Case file · Studio City
Kraft Avenue, Studio City
Jimmie’s house, where the Wolf arrives to clean up “the Bonnie situation”, is on Kraft Avenue in Studio City. Marsellus would rather send his best fixer, played by Harvey Keitel, than upset Bonnie, a night nurse.
A private home. Not on our map.
Case file · Sun Valley
12143 Branford Street, Sun Valley
The bloody car ends its day at Monster Joe’s, a scrapyard at 12143 Branford Street, Sun Valley. The street is one of the San Fernando Valley’s rows of auto dismantlers.
A street of working auto dismantlers. There is nothing to visit; look from the road.
After the film · Beverly Boulevard and Los Feliz
Set the marquee for a night this week. Times are pm; 11.59 is the midnight show.
The building dates from the 1920s; Sherman Torgan made it a repertory cinema in 1978 and ran it until his death in 2007. After ten years as its benefactor, Tarantino became owner and head programmer, starting in October 2014. It shows 35mm prints (and some 16mm), many from Tarantino’s own collection.
Screenings most nights, on film. Midnight shows are $12; Kiddee Matinees $10, with free popcorn for under-13s.
The Vista opened in 1923 for vaudeville and film: one screen, 400 seats. Tarantino bought it in 2021 to show films on 35mm, as at the New Beverly; it is in True Romance, which he wrote. In October 2026 it is showing The Birds from 10 to 22 October.
A working cinema on Sunset Drive, Los Feliz. Book on the Vista’s own site.
7165 Beverly Boulevard · Midnight shows $12 · Kiddee Matinees $10
Double bills most nights, Friday and Saturday midnight shows and weekend Kiddee Matinees, all on 35mm or 16mm.
A new calendar every month
See the calendarCredits
Quentin TarantinoWriter and director · photo 2015
John TravoltaVincent Vega · photo 1997
Uma ThurmanMia Wallace · photo 1994
Samuel L. JacksonJules Winnfield · photo 2019
The Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1994. Seven Academy Award nominations, among them Travolta, Jackson and Thurman, and one win: the original screenplay, by Tarantino from stories by Tarantino and Roger Avary.
Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Festival de Cannes.
Seven nominations at the 67th Academy Awards, including John Travolta (lead actor), Samuel L. Jackson (supporting actor) and Uma Thurman (supporting actress); it won for the original screenplay, by Quentin Tarantino from stories by Tarantino and Roger Avary.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: The 67th Academy Awards (1995)
9 places you can visit. Lance’s house, the Wallaces’ house, Butch’s apartment and Jimmie’s house are private homes: they are named here, never mapped. Their cards show the neighbourhood, not the house.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The diner is gone. A car-parts store stands on the corner of Hawthorne Boulevard and 137th Street: look from the pavement.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Screenings most nights, on film. Midnight shows are $12; Kiddee Matinees $10, with free popcorn for under-13s.
13763 Hawthorne Boulevard at 137th Street, Hawthorne
The coffee shop where Pumpkin and Honey Bunny talk themselves into robbing the place was the Hawthorne Grill, 13763 Hawthorne Boulevard.
The diner is gone. A car-parts store stands on the corner of Hawthorne Boulevard and 137th Street: look from the pavement.
7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
The building dates from the 1920s; Sherman Torgan made it a repertory cinema in 1978 and ran it until his death in 2007.
Screenings most nights, on film. Midnight shows are $12; Kiddee Matinees $10, with free popcorn for under-13s.
Stay
Not a filming location: a small hotel in Los Feliz whose rooms are numbered as chapters.
4626 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Feliz
Not a filming location: a small Los Feliz hotel, like the Vista, whose suites are numbered as chapters, Chapter 0 to Chapter 9, each with its own story. Fitting for a film told in chapters.
Check roomsGo there
Few tours cover these places; most are on public streets you can reach yourself.
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The New Beverly and the Vista, both owned by Tarantino, show films on 35mm.
7165 Beverly Boulevard · Midnight shows $12 · Kiddee Matinees $10
Double bills most nights, Friday and Saturday midnight shows and weekend Kiddee Matinees, all on 35mm or 16mm.
A new calendar every month
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Original 1994 posters from our store, the published screenplay and the soundtrack album.
The advance one-sheet, art by James Verdesoto. 27 × 40 inches, rolled, near mint.
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View posterThe US one-sheet, art by James Verdesoto. 27 × 40 inches, rolled, mint.
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View posterThe big French poster, 47 × 63 inches, now rolled after being folded. Near mint.
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View posterQuentin Tarantino · Miramax Books/Hyperion
The Oscar-winning screenplay, published in 1994, 161 pages.
Find the bookVarious artists · CD, MCA, 1994
The soundtrack album on MCA, released in the US on 27 September 1994.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
13 of 13 places · 13 of 13 Moments
13763 Hawthorne Boulevard at 137th Street, Hawthorne
Pumpkin and Honey Bunny decide to rob the coffee shop they are sitting in.
1435 Flower Street, Glendale
Vincent and Mia eat, and dance, at Jack Rabbit Slim’s.
La Clede Avenue, Atwater Village
Vincent drives Mia to Lance’s house after she overdoses.
Summitridge Drive, in the hills above Beverly Hills
Vincent calls at the Wallaces’ house to take Mia out.
129 North Raymond Avenue, Old Pasadena
Butch wins the fight he was paid to lose, and runs.
2760 Fletcher Drive, Atwater Village
Butch sees Marsellus cross in front of his car.
2934 Riverside Drive, by the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge
Butch and Fabienne hide out at the River Glen Motel.
Runnymede Street, North Hollywood
Butch goes home for his father’s watch and finds Vincent waiting.
20933 Roscoe Boulevard, Canoga Park
Butch and Marsellus end up in the pawnshop basement.
Kraft Avenue, Studio City
The Wolf arrives at Jimmie’s house to clean up.
12143 Branford Street, Sun Valley
The car is taken to Monster Joe’s.
7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
Tarantino owns and programmes the New Beverly.
4473 Sunset Drive, Los Feliz
Tarantino bought the Vista in 2021.
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