To recreate Sharon Tate’s Benedict Canyon house, Quentin Tarantino turned to a L.A. tour guide
While researching what Benedict Canyon looked like in 1969, Quentin Tarantino stumbled upon a documentary created by Scott Michaels, who owns and runs a Los Angeles-based guided tour company called Dearly Departed Tours. On his company’s menu is a four-hour tour called "Helter Skelter" that focuses on the Manson Family murders. It has turned Michaels into an unofficial expert on the subject.
That Tarantino sought expert input about Cielo Drive makes sense. The Tate House, which was originally designed by architect Robert Byrd and built in 1941 at the end of a winding cul-de-sac, no longer exists. It was razed in 1994 and the address was changed from 10050 Cielo Drive to 10066 in an effort by the property’s then-owner, real estate investor Alvin Weintraub, to exorcize its nightmarish history.
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