At first glance, knowing we're supposed to be in Beverly Hills, and having just come from Rodeo Drive, you might mistake this for the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (where "Pretty Woman" was filmed) at the north end of Rodeo Drive. It does look a bit like it. But you'd be wrong.

This is actually the Biltmore Hotel, located 11 miles to the east, at 506 South Grand Ave, in downtown Los Angeles.

At the Biltmore, Eddie's car pulls up to the southeast side of the hotel (heading southwest on Olive Street), where the bellhop takes his bag. (Eddie couldn't do that today - Olive Street is now a one-way street, heading the opposite direction - northeast). In the photo above, the camera is looking north/northwest.

The hotel interiors were shot inside the same hotel, the Biltmore. Even Eddie's room interior was actually shot in a room upstairs at the hotel (although the producers redecorated it for the scene).

Later, when the cops (Judge Reinhold & John Ashton) have staked out his hotel, Eddie has a meal delivered to their car, and while they're busy eating it, he sneaks up and stuffs bananas up their car's tailpipe. In this scene, the unmarked police car is parked on the southeast side of Olive Street (across from the southeast side of the hotel, next to Pershing Square park). The car is facing northeast.

Eddie also meets 'Serge' (played by Bronson Pinchot), the gallery's unique receptionist.

I'm still not sure of the exact address of this "art gallery". The area has just changed too much in 20+ years.

First, it wasn't really an art gallery. It was actually a shoe store.

According to the commentary on the DVD, the store was located on Wilshire Blvd, an eighth of a mile east of Rodeo Drive. Now that should have made it easy, right? Wrong.

Although that description would seem to put the "gallery" in the vicinity of the corner of Wilshire Blvd & Canon Drive, in Beverly Hills - decades later, there is no sign of a shoe store in that area.

So I studied the background of those gallery scenes to see what was across the street (for instance, there was a Jaeger store, a Thai restaurant, and a City National Bank). But when I tried to match what I saw in the film to what is now on that stretch of Wilshire, there was nothing that even came close. Alas, there have been several new developments in the area, and there are a couple of vacant lots where things might have been torn down - so I suspect that the area has simply changed too much to ever match up exactly to what is seen in the film.

So, the best I can do is to tell you that the gallery was on Wilshire Blvd, apparently somewhere around Canon Drive.

If I had to guess, based on sightline and roofs, I'd say that it was probably on the south side of Wilshire, near where the empty lot that is now on the southeast corner of Wilshire & Canon and near the current Ferrari of Beverly Hills dealership (at 9372 Wilshire Blvd). But that's just an educated guess.