Hollywood Then and Now - October 2023

This town is really one big sound stage.

Here you see a screen shot from the 1955 "I Love Lucy" where Lucy and Ethel get off a tour bus to pick a piece of fruit from Richard Widmark's yard.  In a rare exterior shot for this sitcom, you see Lucy and Ethel approaching the infamous wall around his property.   From the long shot, it might not even be Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance but their doubles.

Now the interesting factoid here is that the house in the photo is really the Arnaz house on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills.

You want to see what this looks like today?

Forgive my thumb in the photo.  It's still Hollywood magic.

Dinner last night:  Grilled bratwurst.