FredCDobbs Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Click here for photos of the DOUBLE INDEMNITY house: http://www.latimes.com/features/la-hm-brunken-pictures,0,5555841.photogallery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 WOW ! Love that House.......it's so imposing ! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 Here is a newspaper story about the house: http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-brunken17-2009oct17,0,6259333.story 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I Love homes from that era,....1930s Right ?! ..obviously California Style, a style we do not see here in Canada . Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 On Google Images, use this search term for a lot of photos: *california spanish revival homes* AND ALSO SEE THIS: http://www.realtor.com/home-garden/home-styles/spanish-eclectic.aspx Origins of the Spanish Eclectic house style Spanish-inspired homes were first built in California in the early part of the 20th century, and were called Spanish Colonial Revival. But they really borrowed elements of all types of Mediterranean models. This broad base of sources made it relatively easy to create a believable harmony among the exterior image, interior space, decorative elements, and the building's function. The opening of the Panama Canal and the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, Calif., trained the national spotlight on this mixed, but heavily Spanish, style. Architect Bertram G. Goodhue, who was the lead designer of the exposition, gets much credit for popularizing the style with his focus on it as unifying design concept for the fair. Movies Spread Popularity The American movie industry of the early 1900s also helped to spread the popularity of the Spanish-style house. Movie stars were often photographed sunning themselves by the pools behind their Spanish Colonial mansions. The Spanish house movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1915 and 1931 and was most often exhibited in single-level detached houses. The influence of the Spanish Eclectic house style lives on as a national type in its influence on the Ranch house. The characteristic L- or U-shaped Ranch house floor plan, with a protected patio in the courtyard, derives from the California Spanish style ranchos of the late 1830s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 ...as the headline states: ART DECO '40s GLAMOUR hmmm,.. isn't that what I have been trying to say all along, how Glamorous the 30s and 40s were. I guess that article proves it ! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I've seen a lot of Mitzer Homes in Palm Beach that you can't help but fall in love with. They are still as popular today as when they were built, if not more so! Mar-A-Lago is something else ! I don't know if that is one of his homes or not. Edited by: twinkeee on Aug 7, 2013 11:01 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGrandMaster Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 It's cool to see that the house is still there, looking pretty much like it did back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbefree25 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I've seen a lot of Mitzer Homes in Palm Beach If they look like this one, they must be breath taking. If you want to see the house on Google Earth, and without the nauseating cheesecake shots, see here: 6301 Quebec Drive, Hollywood Hills From here: http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2009/05/double-indemnity-film-locations.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 > {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}I've seen a lot of Mitzer Homes in Palm Beach > > If they look like this one, they must be breath taking. > > If you want to see the house on Google Earth, and without the nauseating cheesecake shots, see here: > > 6301 Quebec Drive, Hollywood Hills > > From here: > > http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2009/05/double-indemnity-film-locations.html Yes they are "breathtaking" ! It is nice to see that the ART DECO Style is making a comeback, which is apparent in the DOUBLE INDEMNITY House ! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Twink, unless I'm missin' somethin' here, where are you seeing "Art Deco" in that house? It's a "Spanish Colonial Revival" style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Read the article that is posted. The Heading of it reads " ART DECO Glamor " ! The current owner decorated the INTERIOR in Art Deco . Twink PS..... 8 posts below yours, FredC's post. Edited by: twinkeee on Aug 8, 2013 2:55 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Oh, okay, THAT'S what I missed then, eh?! The interior is done in Art Deco style. (...thanks for the clarification) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Love that house. I wonder what it would sell for NOW? Probably over a million I'm sure, if not more. Only drawback is it seems to sit on a small lot. Love that foyer. I would think of the film every time I passed through it. LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Did they replicate the interior of the house for the movie? It seems to me, considering how movies were made back then( lighting, cameras, on set staff, etc.), there wouldn't have been enough ROOM inside for that sort of thing. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 >Only drawback is it seems to sit on a small lot. Welcome to the world of Southern California real estate, Hibi. My house there sat on less than 1/4 acre. I often felt like this guy in that old Right Guard commercial who opens his medicine cabinet to discover his next door neighbor(Chuck McCann) saying "Hi Guy!" LOL (...btw, I wonder if we Zillow-ed that address if we'd find its present market value...I'm guessin' it's at about $1.5M to $2M) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbefree25 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 You hit the nail on the head, Dargo: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6301-Quebec-Dr-Los-Angeles-CA-90068/20807072_zpid/ h3. Zestimate: $1,471,737 Not always accurate, but usually close. Not sure when Tootsie bought it - or was she just the interior designer? - but the last buyer was in 1996. * *Last Sold:** Aug 1996 for $585,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 HEY! I'm pretty good, huh?! In '96, SoCal real estate had reached its nadir during the previously bursted bubble of '91, due primarily to the closing of many of the SoCal defense plants at that time and which many people didn't realize supported a lot of the local economy. In fact, I remember in my neighborhood I could walk down my street and it seemed every third or fourth home had a For Sale sign planted in its front yard. It was just after that when home prices began increasing rapidly again and once again got ridiculously out of hand until the latest bubble burst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 > > > They did replicate the interior of the house except for the foyer. The original foyer, chandelier (which still hangs there today) and stairway were actually filmed in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 LOL. The cost of living in SoCal......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Over a million. I figured. Mind boggling. I think only the foyer and living room were used in the house/set. And the garage, which had to have been the real thing...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 It's on tonight!!! Here's a cool blog with some crazy, way-out photos, man... of the Double Indemnity house. Dig it, man. Click HERE (link re-posted from an earlier post) FredCDobbs' original post still has it's (way out cool) link to some great modern interior shots.. IN COLOR !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 LOL. The cost of living in SoCal......... Well the cost of living in SoCal is also relative. If one purchased their house after one of the crashes (like I did), they have a fairly modest monthly mortgage payment. One can than sell the home when the market is 'hot', move to an area where housing cost are much lower, buy a home for cash and have a lot of cash leftover for retirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 IF I ever take another trip out to the west coast and the L A area, that's another site I would mind checking out ( along with the house up on the hill in Robert Mitchum's ANGEL FACE, the Laurel and Hardy "steps", etc) I should start compiling a list, of course I would forget to bring it along on the trip. Probably remember about the list when passing through Barstow, now should I turn around and go home to get the list, its only about 3000 miles? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 The only movie location I visited were was 'the steps' from The Exorcist (1973). I was either club-hopping or playing gigs in that area, so I couldn't resist driving by. Spooky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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