Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where it really does all connect.

Thank you for joining me today for one tiny tour of a Hollywood home. I do love connecting the three lines of time, and there is one other Natalie Woodthread for now that I want to connect for all of you.

This one attaches to so many other famous names in our story, including Cass Elliott, Harry Nelson,

Ringo star Dan Aykroyd, and even Beverly DeAngelo, just to mention a few.

This one home is packed with a whole lot of history

and maybe some ghosts. Today we are dropping into Laurel Canyon to pin our location to 77-08 Woodrow-Wilson

Drive. Let's investigate.

Laurel Canyon, California, the place to so many famous homes and stories and people.

Laurel Canyon begins very sleepily. In the 1920s, it is becoming the home away from home for Hollywood stars.

It's a little vacation spot in town. We have talked about these stories in the past, but of course, in today's story development happens. There's a post-World

War II boom in California, and with a little bit more infrastructure, roads being built,

Lower Canyon becomes quite the place for new building in the 40s and the 50s.

Certainly in the past, it was a home for movie stars and eccentrics,

but hey, land is land.

And it's kind of cheap in the canyon.

It is in 1951 that the parents of Natalie Wood will use her movie

money and build a home for the whole family. And honestly, Laurel Canyon's a terrific location

for a home. It's beautiful. It's still kind of a hideaway, but it's five minutes away from the sunset strip.

Again, roads and support structures have been built throughout the war years, and the canyon now has

east and west cut-throughs. It has north and south cut-throughs. It is an easily livable, accessible

place. You can have some beauty and privacy and affordability.

Lots of families are building homes here now. 1951, the family builds the home. It is by the mid-1950s that

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