Epsiode 31 - Bought And Paid For

The awesome chase scene between the Daytona and the white Lamborghini:

This chase is surprisingly accurate. The locations are almost flawless with respect to the timeline of the chase.

They start at the Twins Apartments. I can't find anything with Google. Any of you Miami residents can cruise the area to see if you can find them and take a picture. Shortly after the start of the chase, we see the Lambo going around a corner with a sign saying "Collins Park Hotel". This is at 2000 Park Ave. Miami Beach, on the NW corner of the intersection with 20th St. In this satellite pic, you can see the hotel has a walkway cutting diagonally across a green lawn, going from the streetcorner to the entrance. (Building entrance facing a streetcorner instead of a street is a standard Art Deco feature).

    

Next they go north up Washington Ave, though we don't see this. We see them turning left from Washington onto Dade Blvd. When they cross Alton Road, you can see the Alton Rd. sign if you freeze your DVD. Shortly after Alton, you can see the barrier in the middle of the road.



Then, Dade Blvd. becomes the Venetian Causeway. When it splits into two separate roads for east- and westbound traffic, the Lambo goes on the southern road and the Daytona goes on the northern road.

    
The Arroyo mansion

This one really has me stumped. It is stated numerous times in the episode that the mansion is on Key Biscayne. Looking at the surroundings, there are trees everywhere. That is very unusual. Looking out on the water, to the right of the mansion in the far distance is a tree-lined coast. The house looks like it is in a large cove. To the left, there is a tree-lined peninsula jutting out directly in front of the house, very close by. This seems very distinctive. Yet, I can find no area like it on Key Biscayne. The only possibility would be at the southern tip of Mashta Dr. Actually, the best candidate is the treed area north of the Harbor Dr./Crandon Blvd. intersection, but I don't see any houses there. I'm thinking this house is actually on mainland Miami, somewhere south of the city.

I have quite a few google earth locations "snaged" but am out of free web space.  The good news is I just bought a web space with plenty of room that should be up soon so I can post more pictures here soon In the interim here is a location for yall  the teaser from bought and paid for the wharehouse where the sweet deal went down and the bug van gets stolen has a sign on the building that reads national nutritional coop.  The address on the building is 820 nw 21 ter which is just west of nw 8th ave.  Happy googling

Any idea where rosette's cottage is.  I see the address by the front door is 3516.  I think the arroyo mansion is on a key because  of the shape of the land  the sea wall to the left and it looks like not a peninsula jetting out but an island on the left and another larger island to the right

opps was i callling odette  rosette

    
Odette's place seems like a dangerous place to scout, and it wouldn't be very rewarding anyway since it isn't very pretty and was not prominently displayed.

Sharp eyes regarding those locks!


    

The chase seems like it ends on the Venetian. If you freeze the DVD as the chase ends, you can see the Miami Herald building at the end of the causeway.

There is no way the night club scene was in Palm Beach. First, there is a difference between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. I will assume Palm Beach was intended.

Second, there are really no night clubs on Palm Beach, nor have there ever been. Third, why would the producers travel over an hour down 95 to film when they have so many night clubs in Miami.

Lastly, Palm Beach doen not want any filming done there, and they make it almost impossible to get permission. They are worried about damage to buildings, so you have to pay a huge deposit and are severly limited in where you can shoot.

And the celebrity and wealthy residents want their privacy.

You don't see any filming there, which is how the residents want it.

Yes, "The Twins" a.k.a. Gina's place is at 1215 Meridian Ave in Miami Beach.

It was posted here.

You can buy a piece of MV history for $300K!

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Actually, there are and were many films shot in Palm Beach. I found 121 (mostly series). Some you may know of were: Palm Beach (1979), Body Heat (1981), Disorderlies (1987),"America's Most Wanted" (1988), COPS and some recent shooting at the Kennedy mansion to name a few. But yes, Palm Beach is the land of complainers. I hear that the airport in West Palm had to be redesigned to prevent planes from flying off to the eastern side. I have no idea how the re-routing system worked out.