I know they had a shared bathroom. OK, I know it wasn't shown cause it didn't fit TV at the time, but we can just think they had a semi bathroom with just a toilet & sink up there somewhere.
Of course, it was before seat belts, where the baby of the family got to ride in the front. Mom and Dad's arms slamming across your chest were your seat belts.
Yep, just like I remember when I was a kid. My dad would drive and he hated stopping unless it was for a stop light. We were going somewhere and just wanted to get there. 😅😅😅❤❤❤
In 2023 Carol would DEFINITELY need to be working. Probably Greg and Marcia as well. Can you imagine what the rent/mortgage would be on that house today!?
Mike was college educated at a time when a university degree still had cachet, and in a profession where not everyone could do well or would even consider pursuing, considering the tough course load. Architecture is an area of study--then work--that a person needs a certain natural affinity for in order to do really well.
@@ECJ49Not to mention live in a custom home and have two new cars every year, and seem to have endless funds for vacations and other luxuries. Even by the early 1970s standards, Mike would have been a pretty heavy hitter at his firm. Probably making well over 100K back then.
People didn't lock their doors back then. You trusted your neighbors. Usually everyone in the neighborhood knew you were going on vacation and would keep an eye on your house
@@dianewinters8628 I grew up back then and we locked our doors and so did everybody else. Ironically, older people back then said that they didn't lock their doors back when they grew up. I've come to the conclusion that the only people that didn't lock their doors lived when there no locks.
One of the shows funniest moments. Poor Mike. The sane thing happened during a rest stop in the sane trip to the Grand Canyon. That was when the attendant told thrm if a ghost town where they camped out for the night. An old prospector thinks they are after his claim so locks them in the town jail and steals their car to file thr claim. After several attempts they finally get out and make a number of attempts to get help. The oldest boy finds a phone and hooks batteries to it and cranks it abd a phone rings nearby and the youngest picks itvup wnd the boy yells fir help saying they are stranded un a ghost town and thr girl says, "that's funny, sobered we!" Susan Olson as Cindy was adorable!
Why would Alice (the house keeper played byvtge Kate great Ann B Davis), wear a backpack in tge car for a two day trip? Also 5 kids in the back seat HAD to be uncomfortable!
The car has 4 doors. 2 bench seats & 3rd smaller one in the back. It looks like Alice is the only one in the back. Mom & dad in front seat with Cindy. Then 2 sisters get out of the 2nd row, and 3 brothers out of the same door. That’s 5 kids on one bench seat. Hell on earth.
Having grown up in the '70s and been a veteran of many station wagon rides, I can say that riding five in a row never happened. The way we would have done it would have been Mike Carol and Cindy in the front. Alice and the two older kids in the middle row and the younger kids in the backseat. However, this brings up another problem as this is only an eight-passenger wagon. In reality, they would have in real life opted for the nine-passenger wagon. I wonder if the decision for supplying them with the smaller Plymouth wagon had more to do with the writers of the show wanting the Brady's to look less ostentatious and more youthful in a Plymouth than having a big stodgy Chrysler. Either that, or that's maybe what Chrysler wanted to supply the studio as that would have better met the demographic of the audience that they wanted to sell to. I also can't help but wonder if the five kids in the second row would have generated one of the many memos that Robert Reed sent to Sherwood Schwartz about things on the show that were unrealistic.
@@kennethsouthard6042 we had our grandparents and their station wagon and we kept the younger kids in the middle seats 💺 so they were between the parents and the older kids !
I remember being a kid in late 70s this was 1971. Let me tell you did you notice not one person had a seatbelt on no cell phone no AAA but somehow we made it.😅
I remember trips like this to Mayo in Ireland. We always asked for the toilet in a town called Mullingar because they had the best bun burgers and chips there. Good times 🇮🇪
They put Alice in the back as to concentrate on her and her outfit as Ann B. Davis could get a laugh without speaking a line, just through her mannerisms. She was the glue that brought the show together.
@@susanburke3722 Exactly! As between riding backwards or sometimes sideways, the tail whip, getting hit by the sun from three angles and the air conditioning never reaching back there it was not nearly as fun as it looked.
How many people did the Brady station wagon hold? There were nine people in the station wagon in this clip. Alice should have been sitting with Marcia and Jan. There was no need for her to sit cramped up with the stuff in the cargo in the back of the station wagon. Cindy was sitting up front with Mike and Carol. Behind them were Greg , Peter , and Bobby.
Ann B. Davis died on June 1, 2014 at the age of 88. She fell in the bathroom of her home, hit her head, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never regained consciousness.
It aired on ITV from May 1975 to 1982 on weekdays at 5:15pm between children's programming and the evening news. Apparently. It was not a big hit and was 'deemed American juvenile tripe' by critics.
