My first stop is 1516 West Wright wood Avenue. The house here was shown at the beginning and during the opening of the credits for the show Family Matters. The show was the second longest-running U.S. sitcom with a predominantly African American cast.
My second stop includes visiting the Edgewater nieghborhood near Sheridan road. I followed all of the condominium towers along the road and found 5901 N. Sheridan Road. This was the home of Bob and Emily Hartley of the Bob Newhart Show.
Here is myself at Buckingham Fountain with my hands in my pants waistband in the vein of Al Bundy from Married with Children.
The next stop that I made was the place called home by Emmanuel Lewis and his NFL-pro godfather portrayed by Alex Karras and his socialite wife played by Susan Clark. The house from Webster is at 1432 North State Parkway. While the show focused primarily on the married couple, the congenial Webster was the center of the plot.
Next, I visited the old Cook County Hospital located at 1801 West Harrison Street. This hospital was the old facade for the show ER. The show took place at the trauma center which took in a lot of gang-related gunshots and stabbings.
I couldn't help, but be interested to see if Oprah's picture was still up at Harpo Studios and indeed, it was. Harpo Studios is a multimedia production company that was named after Oprah (spelled backwards).
The last stop that I made was the original playboy mansion. Much of the sexual revolution started in the basement of this mansion that was built in 1899. Hugh Hefner bought in 1959 and hung a brass plate over the door saying, "If you don't swing, don't ring."
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