Look at what is for sale in North Hollywood

[eauclaireliberal]

I'm sure you recognize it:


11222 Dilling st, North Hollywood, Ca 91602

Current value: $1,007,625

I wonder if it is worth it, and what brings it to it's current value: good neighborhood or the fact that it is an American icon.

In a way, this is kind of funny.

[huskerlaw]

1. Oh. My. God!

That house is in North Hollywood?!

Must go find it. Must take pictures.

Holy crap, that's hilarious!

[eauclaireliberal]

3. You didn't know that already?

With all the vendors selling maps to the sets and stars?

[huskerlaw]

4. Yeah, I don't buy those maps

though I did just mapquest the address, and it's less than 2 miles from where I live.

[eauclaireliberal]

6. Cool

Only 2? Wow.

[eauclaireliberal]

5. I wouldn't want to live there even if it was free

I mean think about it: that house must get a thousand rubberneckers a day, thanks in no small part to cable. Privacy would be non-existant.

[huskerlaw]

7. But this is Hollywood

people will pay more for it simply because of the attention it gets.

[eauclaireliberal]

8. I suppose

Yeah, but I like my privacy, so this wouldn't work.

Hell, I'm not sure I would want to live down the street from that.

[driver8]

14. North Hollywood is a long way away from the "glamorous Hollywood."

I remember when I first moved out to Los Angeles and had to go to North Hollywood for an appointment.

Wow -- talk about a letdown!

[huskerlaw]

17. Not anymore!

I live in North Hollywood. You should see what they're doing with the place.

It's the new "up and coming" neighborhood. Besides, what part of Hollywood have you been in that's actually glamorous? I believe they call that "Beverly Hills". ;)

[Shakespeare]

19. I live in Hollywood!

And it is tres glamorous. I'm in one of the way-mod 1950s courtyard buildings on Hollywood Blvd, west of La Brea.

<sobs with happiness>

I just love this place (H'wood) so much....

And the weather today is breathtaking.

[huskerlaw]

21. Ok, ok...

I'm thinking of like Hollywood & Vine/Hollywood & Highland. Glamorous isn't exactly the word that one would use to describe it.

Some buildings in Hollywood-proper are indeed very cute and, yes, actually glamorous. But that part of the city as a whole? Notsomuch.

[Shakespeare]

22. It's cleaning up nicely, though.

Have you roamed around since they re-did the Hollywood/Vine and Sunset/Vine areas? They're actually turning them into attractive, pedestrial-friedly areas. And there are such great "Old Hollywood" places still around, like Musso & Frank, and the old theaters (not knocking NoHo, which I in fact like very much, btw). I've always been kinda nutty for Hollywood, though--have loved every second I've lived here over the years--so maybe it's just me. :7

[huskerlaw]

23. I've only lived here for a year

so I honestly didn't see it when it was really skanky. I've heard the horror stories though!

It isn't that bad, honestly, it just isn't a place one would want to walk around alone at night...yet, anyway.

[driver8]

24. Walking around Hollywood at night is kind of fun...you never know

what you might see.

What's that bar next to the Pantages Theatre called? I love that place!!

[Shakespeare]

28. The Frolic Room? Or am I thinking of the wrong place....

Great retro dive-y places, aren't they?

[driver8]

29. That's it -- The Frolic Room! That is a great bar. n/t

[Shakespeare]

27. Oh, that's the BEST time to walk around!

Especially the stretch of Hollywood Blvd. between Highland and LaBrea (or Highland and Sycamore, really). Late at night you get the weirdo tourists, the young crowd out to party, the stragglers and--my favorite--the people who dress up as characters and hang out in front of the Chinese Theater to have their pictures taken with tourists. I always have a blast when I'm coming back from somewhere on the subway, and see the characters starting to drift home for the night. One recent night, I saw Jimi Hendrix on the Metro escalator, and was hit on by Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean character. :7

It's also just about the only time of day you can really wander freely around the handprints/footprints at the Chinese without being jostled by camera-wielding tourists.

[huskerlaw]

I've been part of the "young crowd out to party"

on Hollywood Blvd. a couple of times. It's totally fun if you're too drunk to be worried about anything. Or if you're with a big group of people. But I don't think I'd hang out there alone. :scared:

[driver8]

26. I meant "the glamour of Hollywood" that people outside of Los Angeles

think still exists.

[L A Woman]

18. i LOVE NoHo

it's very artsy now...super cool. I live nearby. :-)

[driver8]

25. I forgot all about NoHo -- that is a cool area.

They have done a nice job with that part of the city.

I guess I was talking more about Magnolia where all of the recording studios are (were). That is where I have spent most of my time while in North Hollywood.

[huskerlaw]

30. The NoHo Arts District

is on Magnolia...particularly the part between Lankershim & Vineland

[driver8]

34. Oh, I know that. But I used to do a lot of work at a studio on

Magnolia near Cahuenga -- not a nice area at all.

I really like that NoHo Arts district, though.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

16. Wasn't there an X-Files about that very house/thing?

I seem to remember something involving the Brady house...and I think Bud from Married With Children was there.

On edit: yes, there was. "Sunshine Days" -- Reyes and Doggett investigate two murders revolving around a house that is, at some points in time, identical to the Brady Bunch house.

[GOPisEvil]

31. OK, I know what we're doing while I'm out there!

:bounce:

[huskerlaw]

32. Ok!

It's between here and Studio City. Totally not far at all. I think I'm gonna scope it out this weekend.

[GOPisEvil]

33. Excellent!

Two weeks!!! :bounce:

[auntAgonist]

2. delete

[formerrepuke]

9. ...and the unfinished attic can be transformed into a groovy pad!

[eauclaireliberal]

10. LOL

I wonder if some boneheads actually stalk through the windows to see if Bobby or Cindy is at home.

[blondeatlast]

15. Shared by Greg and Marsha, IIRC...

See what those damn gays have wrought with their agenda?

Or maybe it was Woody Allen?

[QMPMom]

11. Now, if it was the Partridge Family house.....

I might have to talk DH into winning the lottery and moving to LA! Not so much the BB house.

[eauclaireliberal]

12. RE: Now, if it was the Partridge Family house.....

I don't even recall what the Partridge Family house looked like.

But then again, I watched BB more than PF.

[QMPMom]

13. It was a neat Cape Cod.

The PF preference stems from a teenybopper crush on David Cassidy. I was so "in love" that I was sure I was going to marry him.

I know. I know. Sad, but I was really sure it was going to happen.:loveya:

[trof]

20. I thought they lived in a bus?

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. How come the driveway's on the right side of the house

when in all the back yard scenes, it was on the left? :shrug: