Loma Vista Drive

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Loma Vista Drive
Street in Beverly Hills
Basic data
place Beverly Hills
Connecting roads Mountain Drive (south start), Bowmont Drive and Cherokee Lane (north end)
Cross streets Doheny Road, Robert Lane, Drury Lane, Wallace Ridge, Dabney Lane, Chris Place, Usher Place, Leslie Lane, Trousdale Place, Arkell Drive, Chalette Drive, Martin Lane, Carla Ridge , Castle Place, Alto Cedro Drive, Evelyn Place
Buildings Greystone Mansion

The Loma Vista Drive is a street in Beverly Hills . It starts in the south on Mountain Drive and ends in the north on Cherokee Lane (left) and Bowmont Drive (right). The street runs almost exclusively within the villa district Trousdale Estates , which was laid out in the 1950s and begins north of Doheny Road (the first cross street of Loma Vista Drive).

Famous residents

In the first section of the street - the only one outside Trousdale Estates - between Mountain Drive and Doheny Road - the tennis player Pete Sampras (* 1971) lived or lived with his wife, the actress Bridgette Wilson (* 1973), from 2001 to 2008 under number 825, the director John Landis (* 1950) under number 835, the film producer Irwin Winkler (* 1931) under number 840 and the screenwriter and director Paul Mazursky (* 1930) under number 880, a corner house on Doheny Road .

Northwest of Doheny Road is Greystone Mansion at number 905 , the oldest house in Trousdale Estates and the largest residential building in Beverly Hills.

In the section between Wallace Ridge and Dabney Lane live or lived the Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio (* 1981) under number 1030, the singer Bing Crosby (1913-1993) under number 1073, the actor Tony Curtis (1925-2010) under number 1178 and the actor Billy Dee Williams (* 1937) under number 1240. In addition, the actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) lived and died under number 1055 and the film producer Sheldon Leonard (1907-1997) under number 1141.

The Canadian director and screenwriter Jason Reitman (* 1977) resided near Chris Place under number 1405, the jazz saxophonist and comedian Sid Caesar (1922-2014) in the immediate vicinity of Carla Ridge under number 1910 and directly opposite the junction to Alto Cedro Drive under number 1975 the former NFL player Ben Scotti (* 1937), who founded Scotty Brothers Records in 1974 together with his brother Tony Scotty .

The property with the number 2002 was inhabited in the 1950s by the actor and singer Dean Martin (1917-1995) and then by the actor David Janssen (1931-1980). Janssen lived at this address between 1961 and 1967 while he was on the television series Auf der Flucht .

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Coordinates: 34 ° 5 '59.9 "  N , 118 ° 23' 54.5"  W.