A couple of years ago, I attended a fascinating Hollywood Heritage Museum program on Three Stooges locations in L.A.

Up till then I thought the "Music Box" steps over on Vendome in the Silverlake district were the same steps in "An Ache in Every Stake." Actually, they're an entirely different set, but in the same general vicinity. The writer who did the presentation had excellent "then-and-now" shots as well as comparisons of the "Music Box" steps and the Stooges steps. The "Stooges Steps" (147 steps in length) can be found about two miles northeast, between 2257 and 2258 Fair Oak View Terrace.

The "Music Box" steps (a mere 131 of them) connect Vendome Street (at the foot of the hill) with Descanso Drive (at the top of the hill). Those steps are located in the neighborhood where Sunset Boulevard and Silver Lake Boulevard intersect. The address is 923-935 Vendome Street, close to the Del Monte Street intersection. If you're an L&H buff, it's well worth a visit.

Terry Pace
pillaroffire@bellsouth.net

"They're going to have to think up a lot of new adjectives when I come back!" -- Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) in King Kong (1933)