Scouting "Almost Famous" locations

This weekend we'll be heading down San Diego way to visit Rebecca's sister. Suddenly we had it in mind that while there we should check out a particular filming location from one of our favorite movies, "Almost Famous". Most notably the San Diego Sports Arena where budding writer William Miller (Patrick Fugit) meets the band Stillwater for the first time (as seen in the photo) right before they open for Black Sabbath at the venue.

It's essentially the long driveway that leads to the loading dock on one side of the arena. I really want to go there at dusk to capture the moment as it happened in the movie. Rebecca also located William Miller's house which is located in Santa Monica. We'll probably be heading there next week. Continuing our love of scouting filming locations from some of our favorite movies, "Almost Famous" was actually shot quite extensively in LA and I'm hoping we'll cross paths with a few more scene specific spots in the near future.

BTW, there's another location that would be perfectly timed to visit, what with this month being the 25th Anniversary of "Ferris Bueller". One place we never got to after our world wind trip to all the John Hughes teen movie locations in the Chicago area was the house used as the Bueller residence which is located in the Long Beach area, just a short drive from Los Angeles. Hopefully we can make that happen this weekend as well.