Santa Monica is a seaside town just south of Malibu and Brentwood, so as you might expect, it gets its fair share of Hollywood types.
Jane Fonda was once married to the city's mayor, Tom Hayden; they lived at 316 Alta Avenue.	Jeff Bridges lives on Santa Monica's Adelaide Drive, and Ted Danson makes his home on Kingman Avenue. Arnold Schwarzenegger lived on 21st Street before he married Maria (they now live in nearby Pacific Palisades).

There are many popular places to shop in the Santa Monica. Main Street and the Third Street Promenade get the most attention. But another notable spot is the Santa Monica Place mall.

Santa Monica Place is a large, three-level shopping mall right next door to the popular Third Street Promenade, and just a short walk away from the well-known Santa Monica Pier (where Paul Newman and Robert Redford shot part of "The Sting").

The mall was designed by by renowned architect, Frank Gehry, who is currently doing the new Disney Hall at the Los Angeles Music Center.

The Santa Monica Place mall is itself a movie star of sorts, featured in 1992's "Terminator II: Judgment Day" (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger). The movie's early fight scenes in a mall were shot here (the first encounter between the two terminators), as were the scenes set in the mall's video arcade. (The Terminator's exterior mall shots, however, were filmed at the Northridge Fashion Center in the Valley.)

Conversely, in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," the mall's exterior was used, while that film's interior shots were filmed inside the Sherman Oaks Galleria. The mall has also appeared in the TV series "Beverly Hills 90210."

 Getting there: The Santa Monica Place mall is located near the shore, between Broadway Street (on the northwest), Colorado Boulevard (on the southeast), 4th Street (on the northeast), and 2nd Street (on the southwest). It's just west of Lincoln Boulevard, within walking distance of the Santa Monica Pier, at the south end of the Third Street Promenade. / From the Santa Monica (10) Freeway west, take the 4th Street exit. Go north on 4th Street one block to Broadway. The mall will be on your left (west) side.

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