Meant to say today is Desi’s birthday. This is a marriage I wish had worked. There was real love there. I know some of the problems. I just wish there had not been those and I find it sad two people who did love each other did not stay together as husband and wife, completing the journey of life together.
Thanks for posting this. I clicked through all the photos and read the short vignette’s on each one. So many of the interior rooms remind me of the home I grew up in — the same upright piano, big console TV, huge picture frames, the kitchen. We bought our second house in the California Bay Area in 1983. We still have it - it’s a rancher built in 1952. Many of the details in Ball’s house from the early 50s look like the details we’ve ripped out and remodeled over the years.
I grew up with I Love Lucy so this was a trip down memory lane in many ways.
The problem was Desi couldn’t keep it in his pants and Lucy finally got sick of it.