Watching The Truman Show & Spotting Filming Locations In Seaside, Florida

If you walk down the pastel-colored, picture-perfect streets of Seaside, Florida, for the first time, you might get a strange sense of deja vu. That is because nearly three decades ago, our quiet 80-acre coastal neighborhood transformed into "Seahaven Island"—the fictional, hyper-idyllic town built inside a giant Hollywood dome for Peter Weir’s 1998 satirical masterpiece, The Truman Show.

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[Lake View Too]

I never walk down the streets of Seaside anymore. I’m afraid I might get hit by a falling stage light.

 

[Kurt]

I never walk down the streets of Seaside anymore. I’m afraid I might get hit by a falling stage light.

I have a lot of friends there but they all seem so fake. Am I being paranoid?

 

[Lake View Too]

"Cue the sun!!"

 

[Dawn]

Grayt movie!

 

[Lake View Too]

Little known fact: when the sets were being dismantled, I got Tom Stein to get me one of the roofs of the "Bus Station", and he delivered it to my property and I used it for the roof of a gazebo in my back yard, and it's still there.

 

[bob bob]

Cool! You have a Seahaven island bus stop / gazebo in your yard.