Before they moved into Hayvenhurst, the Jackson family lived briefly in a house at 1601 Queens Road. The photo on the left shows the group posing around the street signs marking the intersection of Queens Road and Hollywood Boulevard. Their house was on that corner.This morning the Trumble Island blog, for a reason I can't quite figure out, started posting excerpts from an email message one of them received from the man who had rented the same house just before the Jackson 5 lived there. It'll be interesting to see what he remembers from that time. Stay tuned.
the boys lived at this house for one month only, throughout November 1969, according to Taraborrelli's book.
ReplyDeleteI´m Domin from Spain; the last month a good friend of mine traveled to Los Angeles and visited, among other places, that house, here you have a photo:
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So this photos was taken in 1969? I have a few more from this session and they looked a little more like they were taken in 1970. But I suppose it would have been late in '69.
ReplyDeleteNovember 1969 is sort of a mystery month for the Jackson 5. There's not much of a record of what they were doing that month.
nice picture Domin. great stuff.
ReplyDeletei agree J5Collector it does look like the picture could have been taken in 1970, perhaps they stayed at this house into the new decade. however given their quick rise in popularity once IWYB hit i don't think they could have stayed here that much longer. the hustle and bustle of Sunset Boulevard is just down the hill from this property. it may have attracted alot of attention. wasn't it on a Star Map too? we'll see what the Trumble Island blog throws our way..
nice picture Domin. great stuff.
ReplyDeletei agree J5Collector it does look like the picture could have been taken in 1970, perhaps they stayed at this house into the new decade. however given their quick rise in popularity once IWYB hit i don't think they could have stayed here that much longer. the hustle and bustle of Sunset Boulevard is just down the hill from this property. it may have attracted alot of attention. wasn't it on a Star Map too? we'll see what the Trumble Island blog throws our way..
my bad. i just read that they vacated "1601" in May 1970.
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense then. Do you know when they moved in? I keep waiting for Part Two from Trumble Island, because something tells me "Phil, age 63," would know.
ReplyDeletehahaha Taraborrelli states November 1969. which makes perfect sense. so for a period of just seven months Nov'69 - May'70 the boys quite possible lived at this house.. every day. it was an exciting time. what did they do in this period? appearances on American Bandstand, 2 appearances on Ed Sullivan. Andy Williams. i like to imagine that there were many teenaged girls staked outside this house on Queens Road in those early days.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention seeing the release of their first album, recording the ABC LP, and going to the beach to pose for the album art. And being reunited with their mother.
ReplyDelete... i googled the address because growing up, my aunt used to tell me that 'the little boy who became Michael Jackson used to live here...' Sure nuff - i guess this posting confirms that. In which case, I can assure you, they lived in this house for alot longer than 6 months... the documentation on the house shows that they lived there for at least 2 years (though i supposed its possible that they listed another address to deter fans). when they lived at 1601, they were not nearly as dogged as when they later moved to Hayvenhurst. that area, fyi, is not easily gotten to nor 'findable' winding up from Sunset -- it takes many many twists and turns and no clear line up from the Strip... starstruck tourists and teenagers alike would have had a difficult time finding the house, especially back in the 60's when street paving and signage was not as accessible and streamlined as today (50 years later).
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