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Post by jamesw on Jul 4, 2021 14:55:41 GMT
Hello gang. Been a while. Life! Huh! Was watching old episodes of the Munsters this morning (an oxymoron, since there are no NEW episodes), and saw this in the first show from 1964. Lilly and Herman are invited to a masquerade party to try to impress Marilyn's new boyfriend (Poor Marilyn, she's not like us!) and receive their invite in the mail. I was struck by the stamp of course, a 1937 Canadian George VI mufti (cat#233).  A nod to Yvonne de Carlo's Canadian roots? She was from Vancouver. Anyway, nice to see you all. I'll try to pop in more often. |
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Post by JeffS on Jul 4, 2021 19:16:40 GMT
so, how does the bottom address line read. I'm not up on my Munster trivia  |
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Post by jamesw on Jul 4, 2021 20:52:47 GMT
Their address is 1313 Mockingbird Lane. The town is, I think, deliberately botched. Glen*****. Google tells us they lived in the fictional city of Mockingbird Heights, California, but as this was the first episode after the pilot, perhaps the producers hadn't developed that part of the story yet. Who knows.
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Post by khj on Jul 4, 2021 21:02:40 GMT
Supposedly, they lived in the fictional town of Mockingbird Heights -- a small town outside of Los Angeles.
Maybe the person making the prop couldn't find Mockingbird Heights on the map, and decided to scribble in Glendale or some botched variation thereof?
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Incidentally(?), there is a neighborhood in Glendale that is called Glenwood. Makes the gears move inside my head and wonder if the person making the prop decided to sneak a little of their persona in there?
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Post by jamesw on Jul 4, 2021 21:32:45 GMT
Now that you mention it, khj, it does look like they wrote Glenwood, and crossed out the last bit.
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Post by khj on Jul 4, 2021 22:35:26 GMT
Maybe Philatarium can chime in, as those places are close to his haunting grounds. I stayed in Glendale a couple times during my travels, but never long enough to know the neighborhoods. |
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Post by Philatarium on Jul 4, 2021 23:47:41 GMT
Hmmm ... I have no idea. For what it's worth, most film and tv studio lots were/are located either in Hollywood, on the south side of the Hollywood Hills, or else on the north side of the Hollywood Hills, in the cities of Glendale, Burbank, North Hollywood, Studio City, and Universal City. (There are a couple of exceptions I can think of, but I'm trying to keep this simple.) According to what I could find online, the Munsters were filmed on the Universal lot, so pretty much at the western end of that east-west stretch of studios, which runs for, I'd say, about 10 miles or so. In doing a little more Googling and Google Mapping, there *is* a neighborhood in Glendale called Glenwood (which I had never heard of before), so perhaps there is a connection there. (Maybe someone connected to the show lived in the Glenwood neighborhood?)  (I used to live about 15 minutes away from Glendale, and used to zip through these areas all the time back in the day, but there are other stamp people who know this area much better than I do and/or worked in the industry (I did not), but unfortunately they're not on this board.) |
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Post by Philatarium on Jul 4, 2021 23:49:25 GMT
I see that @ khj edited his prior post to suggest the Glenwood neighborhood. Sniped again! |
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Post by khj on Jul 5, 2021 3:11:49 GMT
Sorry, I should have just made another post instead of editing the first post. I hadn't realized some people had already read the original unedited post.
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