Jimmie’s House from “Pulp Fiction” – the Correct One!

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Last week, a location photographer named Cris emailed me to ask for some stalking help.  Turns out he had just scouted a house located at 4507 Kraft Avenue in Studio City and the owner (who bought the abode in 2009) had informed him that the residence had been used as Jimmie Dimmick’s (Quentin Tarantino’s) house in Pulp Fiction.  Cris was a bit confused, though, as the place looked nothing at all like what he remembered of Jimmie’s pad in the 1994 thriller.  So he did some online digging later that day and discovered that several websites confirmed what the homeowner had told him.  Still not convinced, though, Cris contacted me to see if I might be willing to either verify or discount the rumors.  And because I quite simply HATE, HATE, HATE erroneous location information being out there, I happily obliged!  Thankfully it did not take me long to find the answer to this conundrum.

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One look at the residence located at 4507 Kraft Avenue via Google Street View and I knew it was not the right place.  Jimmie’s house in the movie did not have a curved front door, nor did I remember it being L-shaped.   So I popped in my Pulp Fiction DVD, scanned ahead to to the portion of the movie that took place at Jimmy’s house and immediately noticed an address number of “4149” on the curb in the background of the scene.  Knowing that the simplest answer is most often the correct one, I decided to begin my hunt on Kraft Avenue, the street where most websites said the abode was located.  I did a quick Google search of “4149 Kraft Avenue” and, sure enough, the Street View of that address matched perfectly to what had appeared onscreen – which absolutely shocked me!  If the location was that easy to find, why on earth is there erroneous information about it out there??  The answer – shoddy research, which irks me to no end.  One person says that Jimmie’s house is located at 4507 Kraft Avenue and everyone else just takes it at face value.  There are so many blogs out there on which locations from other sites are merely copied in their entirety with no verification or new research done – which in this stalker’s never-to-be-humble opinion is both lazy and unoriginal.  As I stated recently in my post on the correct A Nightmare on Elm Street bridge, if one is going to take the time to write a blog or publish a book, then they should also take the time to make sure their information is valid.  I just finished reading O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It in which author William C. Dear repeatedly states the mantra, “Never assume, always verify.”  LOVE IT!  (The book is PHENOMENAL by the way!   I went in thinking Dear was a total fruitcake for believing O.J. is innocent, but am now completely convinced of that fact!  If you are interested, you can visit his website here.)

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As you can see below, the two sculpted hedges and streetlight in front of 4149 Kraft Avenue match up perfectly to what appeared onscreen in Pulp Fiction in the scene in which Winston “The Wolf” Wolfe (Harvey Keitel) arrived at Jimmie’s house.

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From there, finding Jimmie’s house via aerial views was a snap.  As it turns out, Jimmie’s pad is located at 4145 Kraft Avenue.

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Jimmie's House Pulp Fiction (7 of 20)

While the front exterior of the residence was never actually shown in Pulp Fiction, the backyard area was used extensively in the scene in which The Wolf hosed down Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson).  As you can see in the below screen capture as compared to the aerial view, the unique roofline (blue arrow), porch overhang (pink arrow), diagonally-angled chimney (red arrow), and placement of the garage (green arrow) are exact matches.

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As is the wooden fence that was visible behind Jules in the scene.

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You can see a partial view of that fence in real life in the photograph below.

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The only portion of the home’s exterior that appeared in Pulp Fiction was the front door.

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As you can see below, the placement of the front door (at the southern edge of the house, next to a room that pops out), is also a match, although the actual door, and house color, have since been changed.

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And thanks to Bing aerial views, you can also see that the house was, in fact, painted pink at one point in real life, just as it was in Pulp Fiction.

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Because I also come from the “never assume, always verify” school of thought, I did a bit more research and happened to find a July 2007 Los Angeles Times article about Michael Glenn Mullen which stated that the soon-to-be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff happened to grow up in the Kraft Avenue house that was used as Jimmie’s residence in Pulp Fiction.  The blurb also mentioned that Michael’s brother, Kevin, still owned the place.  So I did a quick search of property records and found that 4145 Kraft Avenue is, indeed, owned by a Kevin Mullen.  Voila!  During his lifetime, Michael and Kevin’s father, Jack Mullen, was a press agent for countless Hollywood stars including Dyan Cannon, Peter Graves, Ann-Margret, Anthony Quinn, Julie Andrews, Steve McQueen, and Jock Mahoney, some of whom would even stop by the residence from time to time.  So incredibly cool!

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And while I am fairly certain that the real life interior of the 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 1,702-square-foot house, which was originally built in 1936, was also used in the filming, I could not find any real life photographs of the interior with which to verify that hunch.

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March 29th, 2018 UPDATE – As I just learned via Curbed Los Angeles, Jimmie’s house is currently for sale! If you have an extra $1.4 million laying around, it can be yours!  For the rest of us, MLS photos of the property are aplenty, thankfully, and I can now say with certainty that the real life interior of the home was utilized in Pulp Fiction.  As you can see below, the kitchen still looks almost exactly the same today as it did when the movie was filmed 24 years ago.

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As does the living room;

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bedroom;

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and backyard.

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Sadly, the listing does not include any pictures of the infamous hand-washing bathroom.

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Sadder still, the residence is being marketed as a “development opportunity,” which means it will likely be gutted or torn down completely.  Not cool!  I do love the fact that the homeowners have a Pulp Fiction poster prominently on display, though!

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You can find me on Facebook here and on Twitter at @IAMNOTASTALKER.  And be sure to check out my other blog, The Well-Heeled Diabetic.

Big THANK YOU to Cris for asking me to find this location! Smile

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Jimmie’s house from Pulp Fiction (the correct one) is located at 4145 Kraft Avenue in Studio City.  In the movie, The Wolf pulled up in front of the house located next door, at 4149 Kraft Avenue.  The “Smallest Park” from the “Smallest Park” episode of Parks and Recreation (which I blogged about here) can be found just up the street, in the parking lot located next to 4378 Kraft Avenue.  Vitello’s Italian Restaurant from The Deep End of the Ocean and Robert Blake-fame (which I blogged about here) is located just around the corner at 4349 Tujunga Avenue, as is Robert Blake’s former house (which I blogged about here) at 11604 Dilling Street; The Brady Bunch house (which I blogged about here) at 11222 Dilling Street; and the house where Kevin Federline and Britney Spears got married (which I blogged about here) at 4053 Farmdale AvenueHenry’s Tacos from People Like Us (which I have yet to blog about) is also located up the street at 11401 Moorpark Street.

16 Replies to “Jimmie’s House from “Pulp Fiction” – the Correct One!”

  1. I lived at 4149 Kraft Avenue from 1987 to 2020 and witnessed the filming of Pulp Fiction next door. ( My red Toyota Land Rover can be seen parked on Kraft on the right when the Wolf drives up to Jimmy’s house!) My wife baked cookies for Tarantino, and the kids in the neighborhood flocked around Travolta and Jackson in their blood-spattered garb as they stood out front. I was on the other side of the brick wall during the scene Travolta and Jackson were hosed off in the back yard and called”a couple of dorks”…..my claim to Hollywood fame! They used the interior of the house and the garage as well. Everyone was great, and we had no idea the film would be so influential and have such a huge following. Fun memories, thanks for documenting it so thoroughly!

  2. So, Lindsay – what’s the most compelling evidence or reason that OJ is innocent?

    I have no idea & it certainly appears he is guilty but idk.

    Thanks!

    Great post ! btw as usual 😉

  3. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for being such a stickler about correct info.

    If I read one more Marilyn Monroe website that says she attended Vine Street School in Hollywood while she lived with her foster parents, the Bolenders, in Torrance (20 miles away!) I’ll scream.

  4. Love this! You & I definitely come from the same school of thought where we are driven mad by people regurgitating false information without taking any time to verify the accuracy of it! How funny that this was so easy! I wonder why someone made the goof in the first place. Way to go, Linds!

    1. You said it! In Anthony Robbins’ waken The Giant Within” he claims that Steven Spielberg got into filming by sneaking into a vacant trailer and then putting his name on the door and then was magically hired to make movies. Spielberg himself has denounced the myth.

  5. Lindsay,
    Thanks for reading my book about OJ and your kind words. Stay tuned to my fb page as we are very close to releasing new information that will prove OJ visited the scene AFTER the crime! We as well find your information on locations very interesting and may need your assistance the next time we’re working in LA.

  6. Yes I have already changed my website. My point for the website has always been for people to know where things are filmed. That same crew meember had Lance’s and Mia’s houses correct which I know made people happy. If I went by your philosophy then stuff may never been known about. My site is not called Ifoundit.com I am happy it is corrected now. I am not perfect and am sorry that I mislead people.

  7. Hi Lindsay,

    Thank you and your research for finding the correct house. I was always worried I had the wrong house as a crew member was sure the one I listed was the correct one. The Pulp Fictions fans will be thrilled that you found it.

    Chas

    1. That’s a funny comment, if anyone feels “WORRIED” they had the WRONG house, then why post it and mislead people to false information? I’m sure it’s late enough in the morning for everyone to have already changed the location on their BLOGS…..do the fukkin research and stop copying people and calling location managers for locations. Yes I’m talking to you , you & YOU!!!

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