Curiousity Explores Mars, We Explore Burbank Looking for The Betty Davis House

Burbank is Warner Brothers, Disney Studios, NBC and ABC, and moderate albeit expensive homes and places where horses live. Walt Disney worked here, so did Bob Hope, and so did Johnny Carson.

People love their horses. It is an everyday part of their lives.

There is water in the river today.

Some of these businesses have been here for a long time.

These horses are getting a morning stretch, some fresh air, and same hay. Their stalls are probably being cleaned.

Beautiful animals that require a lot of work.

Here a man is mucking out a stall. The horse is oblivious.

People are paid to walk the horses.

This is a real treat for Ellie to see these large animals.

Now it's Ellie's turn to cross the horse bridge.

What have I discovered here?

Imagine if we humans behaved as dogs and met strangers and sniffed their private areas. Oh the things we think about.

Ellie thinks this getting to know each other is very fun. That man in the background has three dogs that don't seem to have anything in common other than they are dogs. We will in a few minutes find out that he bought the Betty Davis house.

This is a house Betty Davis had built in 1924 and she lived it it until she sold it to an old couple in 1946. Betty had two horses and a horse buggy. She wanted to live near a place where she could take her horses for a buggy ride. The wall that begins at our right is new. The man told us the only way he could get permission to build it was to prove that the wall he was replacing was there when the house was built. He was able to prove it because the mortar had lime in it which was no longer used in mortar after the 1920s. The adjacent park is named the Betty Davis Picnic Grounds.

The new owner said he didn't mind if I walked around the house and took pictures. He said he was the third owner. An older couple had it before him and they passed away and he bought it from their estate.