For Pete's Sake filming locations Part 5

For Pete's Sake filming locations Part 4

For Pete's Sake filming locations Part 3

When I got to the aparment building, there was a couple with their child outside. (Not the guy to the right, that's Kevin- a fellow Barbra fan there with me). I was feverishly taking photos of the building. I explained to the couple that I was taking pictures because a movie was shot here years ago. The guy said, "Yeah, For Pete's Sake!". He was too young to remember the movie, so I was pleasantly surprised he knew about it. He said everybody in the building knew about it.

For Pete's Sake filming locations Part 2

Finding locations like Henrietta and Pete's apartment takes a little research. In this case, I was pretty sure they actually filmed in the Brooklyn borough. I could tell from watching the movie that they filmed on a street with brownstones on one side and a park on the other.

Living in South Florida, it's not difficult to find someone who grew up in New York. I took the photos of these scenes to work and asked around. Everyone agreed that it had to be Prospsect Park (the wall was a give-away). There's only one street where you have townhomes on one side with the park on the other- Prospect Park West (again, this is coming from the N.Y.'ers).

So it was only a matter of taking the subway to the Grand Army Plaza stop and start walking. I don't remember the exact cross street but it was near 4th or 5th street. And low and behold, there it was.

For Pete's Sake filming locations Part 1

In the director's commentary for the movie, Peter Yates mentions a few years after shooting For Pete's Sake he came back to the same area to film another movie. While there he claimed he couldn't find the apartment used in FPS. I got the impression from him that maybe the building had been torn down and the property redeveloped.

Well it only took me about 10 minutes of walking through Brooklyn to find it- still standing and in excellent shape.

Barbra's resume

It's not her real resume. As best I recall, this "resume" was included with a Barbra photo I ordered back in the '70s. I didn't belong to her fan club. By the time I became a fan I don't think it existed anymore. Regardless, even as a new fan I could see obvious omissions.

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