I knew approximately where the apartment ought to be, based on which side of the City Hall dome we could see and what buildings are around it, but couldn’t pin it down exactly without help from Google. You can see the dome of Pasadena’s city hall outside the window, which is the main clue as to the building’s location. Incidentally, Pasadena’s City Hall building is better known for its role as the Pawnee City Hall on Parks & Recreation, though it has also appeared in several other TV shows and movies, often appearing as the capitol building of various foreign countries (on Mission: Impossible and Dynasty, among others) going all the way back to Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. ![]() Los Robles Avenue, doesn’t exist (Los Robles ends at Woodbury Road, in the 2000s), and if it did, it would be about three miles north of the City Hall building visible outside their window. This is a little tricky because the producers have deliberately fudged the geography the address given in the series, 2311 N. We’ll start with Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment. I’ve created a Google Map showing the relative locations of these places. The proclamation reads in part “Whereas the talented cast, producers and crew of The Big Bang Theory … have portrayed the City of Pasadena as not only a city of advanced education and pop culture sophistication but also home to the occasional unexpected ‘Bazinga!’ to countless viewers worldwide Now, Therefore I, Terry Tornek, Mayor of Pasadena, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby congratulate and commend the cast, producers and crew of The Big Bang Theory, and proclaim February 25, 2016, in the City of Pasadena as The Big Bang Theory Day.”Īs it happens, I’ve lived in Pasadena for most of the past 30 years, so I thought I’d provide a little guide to some of the landmarks of the Big Bang Theory’s hometown. ![]() ![]() Earlier this week, Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek declared Thursday, February 25 to be “ Big Bang Theory Day” to commemorate the 200th episode of the long-running series, which is set in the city and references many local landmarks.
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