Continuing "Log 141: The Color TV Bandit":
"I have no more than I did before, but now I've got all that I need" -- Mike Nesmith was my favorite Monkee. Melody Patterson was Ella Mae in the Monkees "Hillbilly Honeymoon" episode. Here Melody Patterson plays the angry recipient of a traffic ticket. Sadly, she passed in 2015.
Our Adam-12 duo were taking time out of their hunt for the color TV bandit to pursue a VW that made an illegal left in front of Universal.
They end up on Valleyheart Drive immediately to the west of Universal, just east of the 101. This is the stretch of Valleyheart that runs alongside South Weddington Park, where the food trucks and homeless encampments are.
The Weddington Family owned and developed much of North Hollywood beginning in the 19th century when it was called Lankershim, so you see the Weddington name in the area. Great site on the Weddingtons.
Isaac Lankershim and his son-in-law Isaac Van Nuys (rhymes with "guys") were the other BIG names in the area in the 19th century. Lankershim was born in Germany, which makes me wonder if the family name was actually pronounced "Lankers-heem"? Around here it's "LANKer-shim."
Notice the tall Italian cypress blocking the chimney of the middle house. The chimney is exposed in the more modern photo below.
I'm gonna drive over there in a pink dress and pose for pix in front of that house!
Well, take me with you in your time machine, please!!!!
This is what happened behind the Green Construction Fence of Impending Doom:
Isn't this great?
Note: There is another stretch of Valleyheart in Studio City, which lines either side of the LA River between Laurel Canyon and Colfax. It's right next to CBS. A lot of architectural destruction has been going on over there.
"We don't need to wait for The Big One to knock everything down. We'll do that ourselves." [Clearly the LA motto.]
I'll post them small as really they shouldn't be viewed by anyone. This could easily happen to any of those older single family homes.
Discovered this nice structure, I'd say 1930s based on its Streamline Moderne feel. But of course, it is no more. 👿
Back to Adam-12! We do have a survivor story up ahead:
Harbor Isle apartments on Bennett, southwest of Cahuenga [I always say it "Ca-HWANGGGGG-ga"!] right near where Barham comes out of Burbank and crosses the 101. That's fairly close to Universal City.
Here is where female viewers roll their eyes and declare, "Oh, puh-lease!" while I'm sure every male crew member felt they just didn't get that scene quite right. Clearly they would need another 30 takes. Not sure if this scene gets tagged "Pete's Love Life" or not.
Gratuitous shots of Mac.
His eyes look red. I think I've found the culprit.
You wanna put that out, Freckles?
Somewhere in there they couldn't pin the TV thefts on this dude, but combining old school fingerprinting with the latest in 1968 technology, they manage to get him on other burglaries. And three years ago on a call, dirty old man Pete had the cutest little girl you ever saw push him into that very same pool Reed took an unintentional dip in.
