Many, many years ago I took the Universal Studios tour in Hollywood (though I
think it might actually be in Glendale). Their haunted house sits on a small
hill that overlooked the street with the Cleaver house. It was 1959 when Beaver
thought the house was haunted, and it was 1960 when the house became the Norman
Bates' house in "Psycho". I remember the tour guide showing us how the very
small hill became much larger through the magic of film editing so the house
looked like it really loomed over the Bates Motel. It's sort of reassuring to
hear that the house is still there & still being used in today's productions!
HistoryBuff
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Re: the Rimshaw place
Dixonhayes
Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:56:46 -0700
In a message dated 10/5/2010 11:01:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
wbmutbb-requ...@wbmutbb.com writes:
My husband thinks the "Rimshaw house" in the haunted house episode is also the
same house used in "The Munsters" Anyone know for sure?
No it wasn't. The Old Rimshaw House was part of the 40 Acres studios and was
torn down with the rest of the studio, as was downtown Mayberry. The Munsters
House was on the Universal lot, and reportedly still exists. A friend of mine
took a picture of it in the 1980s, and it's reportedly even been spotted on
"Desperate Housewives." I once heard it was another supposedly
"haunted" house on "Leave It to Beaver" (which might be what your husband is
thinking about).
Dixon
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