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When it isn't floating, the "Sky
High" school is really Oviatt
Library at Cal-State University Northridge
(CSUN),
which is located at 18111 Nordhoff Street,
in Northridge, CA (in the San Fernando
Valley.).
The library is located near the center of the CSUN campus.
(The banners hung on the front of the building aren't normally there, of
course.)



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When the school
bus to Sky High comes to the end of this bridge,
it crashes through the barricades,
plummets, then soars up into the sky. This location is real, but it's not
a bridge. It's the top of the
old Devil's Gate Dam, which can be
found west of the west (dead) end of La Canada
Verdugo Road,
in Pasadena, CA. (The dam runs parallel
to (and just north of) Oak Grove Drive (and the 210 freeway).
The road is no longer
open to traffic, but there is no perilous drop-off at the east end (that
much was f/x).

In the photo above,
the camera is looking northeast. In the photo below, it's
looking northwest.
The trees you see in the background are part of Oak
Grove Park (now called "the Hahamongna Watershed".)


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The residential
neighborhood scenes of "Sky High" were shot in South
Pasadena. The scene above was
shot on Meridian Avenue, just south
of corner of Prospect Circle at Meridian Ave
(looking northwest).
Gwen's house (seen below ),
where 'Will' drops her off after her date, then swings on the street lamp
after she kisses him) is just around the corner, at 410
Prospect Circle (in South Pasadena).
[Remember:
this is a private home. Do not trespass on their property,
knock on their door, or do anything else do disturb the resident's privacy.]
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On the other hand, I haven't
yet located the main Stronghold house
(seen above).
I assume it's in the same South Pasadena
neighborhood as the other residential
scenes mentioned above, but I haven't been able to pinpoint it.

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