Hold the Roses by Rose Marie

Author:Rose Marie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-05-16T21:15:00+00:00

With Milton Berle

Bobby was doing The George Gobel Show, The Milton Berle Show, The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show, as well as The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and The Dinah Shore Show. He was doing just fine and finally wound up on staff at NBC, where he did The Tonight Show. So things were going beautifully.

One day, out of the blue, Bobby decided we should move. I said, "Why?"

"They're going to build a drive-in theater in back of us and it will be annoying-the noise and everything."

I said, "I don't care, I know every nail in this house."

He said that the house would go down in value and that, in time, I would come to hate the drive-in theater. I knew he was right, but I hated the idea of selling our little dream house.

One day, Ginny Botkin called and said there was a house for sale in Variety. She said it must be sold by now, because it sounded too good to be true. She read me the ad and said, "Let's go see it-call the real estate agent." I did and we made an appointment for the next day.

We met, and the location was beautiful-all very pretty houses and a lot of land. It was three-quarters of an acre, with six gorgeous walnut trees. The house was pretty from the outside: lots of used brick, which I love. Then we walked inside and everything was beige, the walls and the furniture.

There were three bedrooms, all done in wild flowers. There was a maid's room and three baths. Quite a large house, but I really didn't like it. However, it had some possibilities. It had a lot of shutters and high-beamed ceilings, and all of the woodwork was done in a natural stain. It truly had an Early American look. There were three fireplaces, including one in the master bedroom, and also a built-in barbecue.

But still-I wasn't thrilled. Ginny said, "Once you get your furniture in here, it will be beautiful. Let the boys see it," meaning Bobby and Perry Botkin, and we left. I told Bobby about it and the four of us went the next day. Bobby loved it from the minute he walked in, and Perry said, "This house should be in Beverly Hills. Once you get your furniture in here, it will be terrific."

I said, "What do you see that I don't see?"

Bobby said, "I love this house. I want it, and you can do whatever you want to do fixing it up your way. You have carte blanche."

I said, "It needs a lot of changing!"

We found out that the builder of the house had built all the houses on the street and had built this one for himself and his wife, but it got too big. Everything was oversized. The plumbing was all copper. It was very well built. In fact, they told us we had the foundation of an apartment house, which comes in real handy during an earthquake!

We sold the "dream house" and moved into the new house.

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