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Old 03-19-2016, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Long Beach, CA
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My 25yo niece is a HUGE Three Stooges fan and is visiting me in LA next week.

I'm already planning to take her to see the stairs in Silver Lake that were in the Ache in Every Stake episode as well as the cemeteries & walk of fame star.

She loves books and other memorabilia; anyone have any lesser known ideas I could check out? Anyone know of any serious collectors in the LA area we could visit?

My niece has Asperger's and is a serious expert in all biographical and episodic information. (If you know someone with Asperger's you know what I mean when I say expert!) Also, she already has the Hollywood Filming Locations book and is bringing that with her.

Any advice is much appreciated! THANKS!

Nyuk nyuk...
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Old 03-19-2016, 06:35 PM
 
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I know Shemp Howard lived at 4604 Placidia Ave in Burbank not too far from Universal Studios. Hope your niece has a good time!

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Old 03-19-2016, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Long Beach, CA
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Thanks!
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Old 03-19-2016, 10:10 PM
 
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My 25yo niece is a HUGE Three Stooges fan and is visiting me in LA next week.

I'm already planning to take her to see the stairs in Silver Lake that were in the Ache in Every Stake episode as well as the cemeteries & walk of fame star.

She loves books and other memorabilia; anyone have any lesser known ideas I could check out? Anyone know of any serious collectors in the LA area we could visit?

My niece has Asperger's and is a serious expert in all biographical and episodic information. (If you know someone with Asperger's you know what I mean when I say expert!) Also, she already has the Hollywood Filming Locations book and is bringing that with her.

Any advice is much appreciated! THANKS!

Nyuk nyuk...
definitley the westwood cemetery. Its strange, its small, you can park on the street and you dont even see the cemetery, its a little park between office buildings. And its small, but there are so many HUGE celebs buried there, every few steps youll be amazed. I went with a friend and family and we had to tell him to chill and and quiet down that he needed to remeber where he was because he kept saying oo Peter Falk, oo rodney dangerfield, oo marilyn monroe. There are scores of big names and hardly any walking to do
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Old 03-20-2016, 02:21 AM
 
Location: Long Beach, CA
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Great tip, we'll check it out.
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Old 03-23-2016, 09:03 PM
 
Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Is your niece into any other famous comics of the same era? If she's into Laurel and Hardy, take her to the Culver Hotel for a meal/drinks/coffee or whatever in the lobby. They show old L&H films silently on the lobby wall (IIRC the early ones were silent anyway). The films were mostly shot in and around that same neighborhood, and as you watch them you'll see that the very hotel in which you're sitting appears frequently as a backdrop. I published a blog post on on downtown Culver City, including the hotel, several years ago

Some of the early Little Rascals films were shot a little north of there, in the Palms district of L.A. Quire a few buildings that appeared in those films still exist. ChrisBungoStudios on Youtube has uploaded then-and-now shooting location summaries for several individual LR films.



Above is a good example to get you started. It's strange to think that the building housing I Love Lucite and Norms Fabrics today was a blacksmith shop 90 years ago. You can learn more about the Norms Fabrics building, and the rest of the neighborhood, in another blog post I published several years ago.
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