Denny's address

[dennyschild]

I need help and figured I would turn to the experts here. Besides the sunset and the marina address, where did Denny live. There has to be other homes he lived in. I need to know for my vacation is coming soon. Any Info will be much appreciated. Thanks Denni.

[Andrew G. Doe]

8012 Sth. Harvard Blvd. (born there 12/4/44)*
3701 W. 119th Hawthorne (1946-1964)**
600 Hyde Park Avenue, Inglewood (1964)
124 Hillsdale, Inglewood (1965)
2600 Benedict Canyon (Dennis & Carol)+
14400 Sunset Blvd (the 'Manson' house)++
Wavecrest Ave., Venice Beach
Beverly Glen
Slip C-1100, Marina Del Ray (berth of  Harmony 1974-80)
3109 Ocean Front Walk
32184 Broad Beach, Trancas (Dennis & Karen)
9747 Yokum Drive, Beverly Hills (Dennis & Karen)
Coldwater canyon (Dennis & Christine 1980 - Christine's house, I believe)
Trancas Beach (11/83)
Santa Monica Bay Inn, Ocean Park Avenue (Dennis & Shawn)

  * - house still stands but almost entirely remodelled
** - demolished mid-80s.
  + - gated community with guards
++ - demolished/extensively remodelled mid-2000s

[dennyschild]

8012 Sth. Harvard Blvd. (born there 12/4/44)*
3701 W. 119th Hawthorne (1946-1964)**
600 Hyde Park Avenue, Inglewood (1964)
124 Hillsdale, Inglewood (1965)
2600 Benedict Canyon (Dennis & Carol)+
14400 Sunset Blvd (the 'Manson' house)++
Wavecrest Ave., Venice Beach
Beverly Glen
Slip C-1100, Marina Del Ray (berth of  Harmony 1974-80)
3109 Ocean Front Walk
32184 Broad Beach, Trancas (Dennis & Karen)
9747 Yokum Drive, Beverly Hills (Dennis & Karen)
Coldwater canyon (Dennis & Christine 1980 - Christine's house, I believe)
Trancas Beach (11/83)
Santa Monica Bay Inn, Ocean Park Avenue (Dennis & Shawn)

  * - house still stands but almost entirely remodelled
** - demolished mid-80s.
  + - gated community with guards
++ - demolished/extensively remodelled mid-2000s

Thanks AGD.  I was hopeing to see the sunset house the most, besides marina del ray. I will note all.

[The Shift]

8012 Sth. Harvard Blvd. (born there 12/4/44)*
3701 W. 119th Hawthorne (1946-1964)**
600 Hyde Park Avenue, Inglewood (1964)
124 Hillsdale, Inglewood (1965)
2600 Benedict Canyon (Dennis & Carol)+
14400 Sunset Blvd (the 'Manson' house)++
Wavecrest Ave., Venice Beach
Beverly Glen
Slip C-1100, Marina Del Ray (berth of  Harmony 1974-80)
3109 Ocean Front Walk
32184 Broad Beach, Trancas (Dennis & Karen)
9747 Yokum Drive, Beverly Hills (Dennis & Karen)
Coldwater canyon (Dennis & Christine 1980 - Christine's house, I believe)
Trancas Beach (11/83)
Santa Monica Bay Inn, Ocean Park Avenue (Dennis & Shawn)

  * - house still stands but almost entirely remodelled
** - demolished mid-80s.
  + - gated community with guards
++ - demolished/extensively remodelled mid-2000s

You'd make a very efficient stalker!

[Andrew G. Doe]

This -



- is alleged to be a photo of the old Will Rogers house that Dennis bought... but something doesn't sit right with me about it... vegetation looks insufficient.

[Roger Ryan]

From what I can tell (by Googling), this was Will Rogers' home in Los Angeles...

[Andrew G. Doe]

That's his ranch, in Will Rogers State Park, just a hoot 'n' a holler up the road. Not 14400. Note the sign says it was gift deeded to the state in 1944.

I'd be happier iffn I knew when the photo of the 14400 house was taken.

[Jon Stebbins]

This -



- is alleged to be a photo of the old Will Rogers house that Dennis bought... but something doesn't sit right with me about it... vegetation looks insufficient.

Whoa...not even close. The Will Rogers hunting lodge that Dennis lived in at 14400 was basically a fancy log cabin...looked nothing like the home above. It has since been completely remodeled, so what sits there now only has a few minor elements of the original...but again, looks nothing like that photo. You can see the current set up in The Real Beach Boy documentary, and also some older footage of the grounds during the remodel phase from 2005 when the cabin was still there.

[Jon Stebbins]

Entrance from Sunset Blvd. looks like this now...
http://www.inthecanyon.com/realestate/listing.asp?Page=escrow.asp&PageID=610

[Andrew G. Doe]

This -



- is alleged to be a photo of the old Will Rogers house that Dennis bought... but something doesn't sit right with me about it... vegetation looks insufficient.

Whoa...not even close. The Will Rogers hunting lodge that Dennis lived in at 14400 was basically a fancy log cabin...looked nothing like the home above. It has since been completely remodeled, so what sits there now only has a few minor elements of the original...but again, looks nothing like that photo. You can see the current set up in The Real Beach Boy documentary, and also some older footage of the grounds during the remodel phase from 2005 when the cabin was still there.

That was what didn't lie right - I've always remembered 14400 being described as a log cabin style house... plus it looked way too close to the road in that photo.

[bgas]

This -



- is alleged to be a photo of the old Will Rogers house that Dennis bought... but something doesn't sit right with me about it... vegetation looks insufficient.

Whoa...not even close. The Will Rogers hunting lodge that Dennis lived in at 14400 was basically a fancy log cabin...looked nothing like the home above. It has since been completely remodeled, so what sits there now only has a few minor elements of the original...but again, looks nothing like that photo. You can see the current set up in The Real Beach Boy documentary, and also some older footage of the grounds during the remodel phase from 2005 when the cabin was still there.

That was what didn't lie right - I've always remembered 14400 being described as a log cabin style house... plus it looked way too close to the road in that photo.

So, is this a photo of any of Denny's houses?

[Ed Roach]

First off, no, he never lived in that big white house.  The State Park & ranch, with it's giant polo field and stables, is directly across Sunset Blvd. from 14400; (in fact, the best view you can get of 14400 is from the road that leads up to the park gate).  Dennis had told me that Will Rogers lived in 14400 while he built the ranch house & property, but I can't remember if Will had built this house, too.  It certainly had many of his traces, from the log cabin house & guest houses, to the oak tree lined drive up to the house, to the swimming pool in the shape of the United States!

[Rocker]

8012 Sth. Harvard Blvd. (born there 12/4/44)*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9G42Zs0zk4

[bgas]

8012 Sth. Harvard Blvd. (born there 12/4/44)*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9G42Zs0zk4

Seems like the comments are saying the house in this video was remodeled/rebuilt. Looks like it would have been easier to build new walls entirely, than rebuild what is shown in the video...

[Andrew G. Doe]

8012 Sth. Harvard Blvd. (born there 12/4/44)*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9G42Zs0zk4

Seems like the comments are saying the house in this video was remodeled/rebuilt. Looks like it would have been easier to build new walls entirely, than rebuild what is shown in the video...

That's exactly what they did - about the only original part is the garage. The house itself is new from the foundations on up.

[dennyschild]

Thank you. I will go to each address and see what I find. It would be nice to go inside sunset, look around the ground even if it looks different, Denny still walked the grounds there. I have many places to visit while I'm there. We are going to see if my moms apartment is still there, that will be memory lane for her and I get to see where it all happened. I better shut up now before i get somebody pissed off and end up in the sandbox

[Ed Roach]

3109 Ocean Front Walk

I must admit, this thread has caused me to delve into this subject with great depth, as the actual timeframe is essential to me if I'm ever going to tackle finishing my book...  The clues are always right there for me - heck, there's all kinds of dates on my photos, and on various things in my archive.  But something like this thread leads me to look at things from a different perspective.  And, although this list misses quite a few places, and the sequences are a bit jarring at times, nailing down the specific changes is tantamount to my being able to sort details of the haziest of the years in my memories.  For various reasons, Dennis & I shared homes through the years, sometimes mine, usually his, sometimes briefly, sometimes for months; almost all of these places mentioned are significant to me.  
Once he began his serious nomadic, vagabond existence, (which pretty much started after Sunset -- Blvd., that is, although sunset was when he really woke up!), life truly became a three-ring circus, with our time spent racing from touring, to countless hours at Brother Studio, to daze & nites at sea on The Harmony, to one or another of the crazy houses listed here, as well as a dozen others that aren't mentioned...
However, this address above really puzzles me, especially after googling it, http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=3109+Ocean+Front+Walk%2C+Los+Angeles%2C+CA&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= and midway down the page seeing this: "3109 Ocean Front Walk (Dennis) .... Los Angeles, CA 90046. Warren Zevon lived here for a while".  When I looked a little deeper, it turned out the Zevon reference was to somewhere else, but it could have been this place.  This was a period of tons of crazy musicians discovering the bars & haunts of lower Venice, and everybody from Zevon & Waddy to Lindsey to Van Morrison & Rickie Lee Jones were either playing in bars of just hanging out.  From google maps, I think this is an apartment he had behind a restaurant overlooking the Venice pier - an apartment he spent thousands to have fixed up, only to decide he didn't like the 'vibe', and never really move in!  
But this did begin his love affair with that little strip of Venice/Marina Del Rey below Washington, with the nautical/alphabetical street names.  And he lived on a lot of them, all of them opening right out onto the sand, none of them standing any longer: a great one Hurricane St., (where that great shot of he & Fred Vail was taken, and Bobby Dylan lived right down the street - we'd kind of creepy-crawl his place sometimes, to listen to him playing piano!), and on Driftwood , and Catamaran St., where he first moved with Shawn, and where Stan & Rocky found him that fateful night.  That's the event that ended the love affair with Venice, for awhile at least, and sent him back to Malibu.  Ah, memories...

[dennyschild]

3109 Ocean Front Walk

I must admit, this thread has caused me to delve into this subject with great depth, as the actual timeframe is essential to me if I'm ever going to tackle finishing my book...  The clues are always right there for me - heck, there's all kinds of dates on my photos, and on various things in my archive.  But something like this thread leads me to look at things from a different perspective.  And, although this list misses quite a few places, and the sequences are a bit jarring at times, nailing down the specific changes is tantamount to my being able to sort details of the haziest of the years in my memories.  For various reasons, Dennis & I shared homes through the years, sometimes mine, usually his, sometimes briefly, sometimes for months; almost all of these places mentioned are significant to me.  
Once he began his serious nomadic, vagabond existence, (which pretty much started after Sunset -- Blvd., that is, although sunset was when he really woke up!), life truly became a three-ring circus, with our time spent racing from touring, to countless hours at Brother Studio, to daze & nites at sea on The Harmony, to one or another of the crazy houses listed here, as well as a dozen others that aren't mentioned...
However, this address above really puzzles me, especially after googling it, http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=3109+Ocean+Front+Walk%2C+Los+Angeles%2C+CA&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= and midway down the page seeing this: "3109 Ocean Front Walk (Dennis) .... Los Angeles, CA 90046. Warren Zevon lived here for a while".  When I looked a little deeper, it turned out the Zevon reference was to somewhere else, but it could have been this place.  This was a period of tons of crazy musicians discovering the bars & haunts of lower Venice, and everybody from Zevon & Waddy to Lindsey to Van Morrison & Rickie Lee Jones were either playing in bars of just hanging out.  From google maps, I think this is an apartment he had behind a restaurant overlooking the Venice pier - an apartment he spent thousands to have fixed up, only to decide he didn't like the 'vibe', and never really move in!  
But this did begin his love affair with that little strip of Venice/Marina Del Rey below Washington, with the nautical/alphabetical street names.  And he lived on a lot of them, all of them opening right out onto the sand, none of them standing any longer: a great one Hurricane St., (where that great shot of he & Fred Vail was taken, and Bobby Dylan lived right down the street - we'd kind of creepy-crawl his place sometimes, to listen to him playing piano!), and on Driftwood , and Catamaran St., where he first moved with Shawn, and where Stan & Rocky found him that fateful night.  That's the event that ended the love affair with Venice, for awhile at least, and sent him back to Malibu.  Ah, memories...

I would enjoy listening to you're memories.  I have been in touch with some that knew Denny and loved what they had to say. I know you were a lot closer to him. I am vacationing in mid april to visit Denny's stomping grounds. Any advice?

[Beckgtr09]

Back in the early 1990's I picked up a book all about the sights to see in L.A. from a music fans perspective. I don't know if it's still in print or not.  But if it is maybe you can order it. The title is : The L.A. Musical History Tour by Art Fein. It was put together in 1990, and I found my copy at a used bookstore in Ohio for a quarter. It doesn't have a LOT of Beach Boys addresses in it, but it does have a lot of other places that are important in L.A. I hope that helps out a little on your searching.

Ted

[dennyschild]

Back in the early 1990's I picked up a book all about the sights to see in L.A. from a music fans perspective. I don't know if it's still in print or not.  But if it is maybe you can order it. The title is : The L.A. Musical History Tour by Art Fein. It was put together in 1990, and I found my copy at a used bookstore in Ohio for a quarter. It doesn't have a LOT of Beach Boys addresses in it, but it does have a lot of other places that are important in L.A. I hope that helps out a little on your searching.

Ted

Thank you. I will check into it.

[Pretty Funky]

I knew this thread would be of use one day to someone!

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,5541.0.html

[dennyschild]

I knew this thread would be of use one day to someone!

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,5541.0.html

http://www.cinetropic.com/blacktop/harmony/index.html


Was this the real Harmony.

[dennyschild]

Thank you very much. I'm still reading all the threads. Lot's of info there.

[Andrew G. Doe]

I knew this thread would be of use one day to someone!

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,5541.0.html

http://www.cinetropic.com/blacktop/harmony/index.html


Was this the real Harmony.

She's the real deal. Awesome boat.

[dennyschild]

Pay your respects to Dennis at Basin C, 1100 is the slip number I think.  It's off a street called Marquessa.



Can I just walk out there? I know that the actual gate to the pier where the owners walk to get to their boats is locked, but can I at least walk that far so I can take a picture? Am I allowed to throw a rose in the water? Maybe I should skip that part.

Can this be done? Will they allow me in side to view the slip.