Date: Wednesday, 12-Mar-97 11:47 AM

From: David E. Brady           \ Internet:    (******@primenet.com)
To:   Brent Tucker             \ Internet:    (homer@compuglobalhypermeganet.biz)

Subject: BB item from L.A. Times

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Item from the Los Angeles Times' San Fernando Valley edition:

[ Some context: For 200 days between February and September the newspaper is
spotlighting people who have left their mark on California's San Fernando Valley.
The occasion is the upcoming 200th anniversary of the founding of the San
Fernando Mission, the event that in many ways was the birth of the modern Valley.
]


>Wednesday, March 12, 1997 
>
>Brady Bunch's Version of Suburbia 
> 
>   Theirs is a uniquely San Fernando Valley story. A lovely lady. A man named
>Brady. Three very lovely girls. Three boys of his own. And Alice, the
>housekeeper. 
>   Although it lasted just five unremarkable seasons on ABC from1969-74, "The
>Brady Bunch" has become a love-it-or-hate-it icon of blissful middle-class
>suburbia with roots deep in the Valley. 
>   "It deals with stories that were true 100 years ago and that will be true
>100 years from now," mused series creator Sherwood Schwartz on the show's
>25th anniversary in 1994. 
>   On television, the Bradys lived in an unnamed Southern California city.
>Sharp-eyed Valleyites, however, can spot numerous clues in the sitcom's 117
>episodes--from glimpses of Dixie Canyon Avenue elementary school and Valley
>Drug to the North Hollywood home used as the Brady residence, a 1959
>split-level once owned by a descendant of the family that built portions of
>the East Valley in the early 20th century. 
>   "After we used it, it became a focal point for a lot of people's visits
>to California," Schwartz said of the ranch-style home. "We didn't want it
>to be too affluent, we didn't want it to be too blue-collar. We wanted it
>to look like it would fit a place an architect would live." 
> 
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