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Finally, after 30 years of obsessing about how the interior looks, 11222 Dilling Street goes on market in the age of Zillow, allowing us to be a virtual Lookey Lou.

I was hoping to find a MCM building frozen in time at 1959, the year it was built. I was disappointed, as most of the property has been refreshed at some point.

I was correct in my surmise that the kitchen is where it is, although where the breakfast nook is located is where I had imagined a living room to be. I was *not* correct that this is a split level home, with a deep basement beneath the second floor.

I wished there had been more pics of what looks to be a dramatic foyer.

It's a quirky layout, but I seem to recall
reading that the original owner designed it himself, and gave it to his wife as a gift - I may be mis-remembering, however...

I don't see an intercom system being a selling point nowadays, but I had never heard of Musi-Call; I thought NuTone and Rittenhouse were all there was.

http://https//www.zillow.com/homede...ood-CA-91602/20025974_zpid/?fromHomePage=true
 
Only the exterior of the house in Sherman Oaks

was shown on the show. The interior was a set. It's a ranch house. Probably built for around $50 grand then.
 


I think the house looks great but i think would look a great deal better if it had MCM furniture and I wonder if there has been some re-division in the living room as the fireplace in the corner does not looks right to me. The bar also looks somewhat out of charactor. And that bedroom wall paper would have to go before I could ever sleep in there. The kitchen looks nice enough but it would be interesting to know what the original kitchen was like. And, although the furnising is a long way from my taste, it certainly looks like it was looked after well

Al
 
I also noticed that the fireplace is in a weird location, like possibly a wall was put up at some point? And, yeah: that busy pink wallpaper in the boudoir would need to go. Phew!

But, I was pleased to see that the butt-ugly fence erected to keep crazed fans of the show at a safe distance was taken down before the house was listed...

The sales agents reported in a news article that one or two of the more serious inquiries have been from developers who just want that .75 acre land, and will tear down the building.
 
Wow - the 2017 property taxes ($2,262) are less than my little 1950s 1400 square foot ranch in Iowa!

 

A lot of Gen-Xers grew up watching Brady reruns.  I will always remember my Sociology professor using the show to make a point about how much television influenced our lives.

 

He first asked everyone to write down all the characters on the Bunch and everything they could remember about them (age progressions, etc.)  Almost everyone could remember the all the names of the family and who was the youngest/oldest, even that Alice dated Sam the butcher, etc.

 

Next he asked us to do the same for our own family and extended family.  Aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.  Most didn't do so well on their own extended family.

 

 

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Clearly, the current owners of this property qualified for Proposition 13's tax roll-back in 1978.   

 

This house should easily sell for asking price or higher.  After that happens, the property taxes will be ten times higher.
 
Didn't know that the Brady's would need servants to wait on 'em hand & foot... --Alice would probably no longer have to be their maid--if this is what the inside of that house was like, & really had been used...

I remember there being a window on one of the gables, too and how it got worked out of the shots, or something like that--read it somewhere, Online, perhaps here...

Think, interior-wise, the set design worked a lot better & for my money, would rather be getting that, as opposed to that McMansion...

-- Dave
 
If I had the ching

I'd buy it.

 

Then I'd rip out all the modern stuff and scour the solar system if need be to make it retro 70's, say 71 or 72.

 

Oh how I long for those  young boy days................................
 
American series were rather popular, especially those meant for a younger public. The Brady Bunch was one of the series we watched. For us it was besides a series also a peek into American culture, at least the way it was presented on TV. Housekeepers were not something strange here, but Alice was more part of the family than the housekeepers on this side of the pond. Ofcourse the washer and dryer were intrigueing, although I had no idea what the inside looked like.

Another thing that intrigued me was that Mike Brady drove a convertible. Convertibles or cabrios was something for glamourous women rather than for men. I also remember an episode with one of the girls on the telephone. IIRC a second phone was picked up and both could talk to the person on the other side of the line. That was impossible here, you could put a call through but never talk together with someone on the line.
 
Louis, I'm surprised that extension phones weren't offered by your telephone service provider.  They were a major source of additional revenue for telcos here in the U.S. almost since the very beginning.  At one time, Ma Bell even levied a service charge on a 25' telephone cord, using the argument that it served the same purpose as an extension phone.

 

My dad bootlegged extension phones all over our house.  As long as the ringers were disabled, Ma Bell was none the wiser.  There was usually a slight loss of volume when an extension was picked up, but it was more pronounced with older phone sets and not too noticeable on more modern equipment.
 
Mike drove first a

Plymouth Fury or Dodge Monaco convertible. Then later a Chevrolet Caprice Classic, the one Marsha took her driving test in. I had that vintage of a Caprice. Nice car back in the day.
Carol drove the Plymouth Satellite wagon.
I'd get rid of all the pink. The tile counter tops too. I'd continue the craftsman them of the patio doors throughout.
Florence Henderson used to do Oldsmobile commercials circa 1960, 61, 62.
 
Very interesting Louis!  That's an exclusionary type of telephonic circuitry I'm not familiar with. 

 

One fun thing about the model 500 (and all later models made by Western Electric that used the "G" type handset) extension phones was that if you wanted to listen in on your sibling's conversation, you could easily remove the transmitter capsule and still hear everything.  The earlier type phones like the model 302 didn't work like that.  If you removed the transmitter from those, you heard nothing.
 
Shots of The House from The Show

Another thing is that the interiors of the show are actually backwards from the exteriors.
The stairs were on the RIGHT as you walked in the door as were the upstairs bedrooms.
The window on the left front was added on by the show and was a "fake" just for looks.
There's the Plymouth wagon in the second photo!

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Brady cat

Ralph mentioned a cat - they did have one in the first episode. It's name was Fluffy, and it attended the wedding, as did Tiger the dog. I don't think I have to tell you what happened when Tiger saw Fluffy! It resulted in the funniest episode of the whole series.
 
Yes, I saw that.

Usually, the high offer is accepted, and wins the property. Bass says a studio won it though. Maybe even a little padding on the sideline to the seller. Who knows.
A German lady in our area took the first offer, telling me they were the type of people she felt should be moving into the neighborhood. A young doctor couple.
Not really a doctor's prefered area, so we'll see how long they stay, and who the next residents are.
 
It would be nice to see it saved.  I'm not sure Bass's project to remodel the interior into the set was a practical one but it would have been interesting to see it attempted.

 

One analysis of the show described it as being almost a "real-live cartoon" with its one-dimensional characters and simple scripts.  That is sort of true I think, but that make-believe world of kind people and sunny California technicolor was pure after-school escape for us Midwestern blue-collar kids.

 

It has actually been decades since I've watched any of the shows in whole.  Something to do one day when I find the DVD set at a yard sale.
 
The show took a turn for the worse

When, in the fifth season, they starting using GM cars instead of Mopar.

 

And it made NO sense whatsoever for MIke to be driving a 2 door convertible Cuda with 9 people to haul around!

 

Heck in the last season, they showed a 2 door Caprice convertible also!
 
The house won't be raised.

Mike deserved a convertible He earned it. The wagon was large enough for the family.
My aunt and uncle had 7 kids, and my aunt drove a Colony Park, and my uncle had both a '69, and a '71 Cougar XR7. Then he had Lincoln town cars after.
Mike drove three Caprice Classics. A '73, '74, and a '75.
I had one. Loved it!
 
HGTV is the Buyer

“I am excited to share that HGTV is the winning bidder and will restore the Brady Bunch home to its 1970s glory as only HGTV can,” said Zaslav. “More details to come over the next few months, but we will bring all the resources to bear to tell safe, fun stories with this beloved piece of American TV history.”

 

Probably as good as outcome as any.
 
been decades since I've watched any of the shows

MeTV and other cable channels play episodes of the Brady Bunch.

Unfortunately, the endless commercials for "final expense" insurance, animal cruelty, kids with cancer, adult diapers, catheters, etc, etc, totally ruin what would be an otherwise enjoyable show.

As they say; You can't go home again.
 

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