Thank you SO much Rick for this amazing video! I doubt I will ever have the opportunity to visit Jamestown and the museum, and really appreciate your taking us along on your trip there. There was so much to see, I did find myself pausing your video several times along the way to ensure I didn't miss a thing! I'm also appreciative of the Ball / Arnaz family allowing so many treasured items to be displayed here for their fans world wide to see in person. I'm happy to see the Jamestown and Celoron areas celebrate their most famous one-time resident with such memorials as well. Cheers Rick from Sacramento!
I totally agree. I may never have the chance to see something like this. What amazes me is the nostalgia that immediately comes back and how you feel such a love an affinity for something that was such a big part of so many lives. That is part of the joy is being able to go back in time to a happier day and relive....for even a few moments the happiness that came as a kid the shows that let you escape reality for a few laughs and great moments. Perhaps its cliche but I don't know if any of the younger generation will understand it, because of having so much at their fingertips today. I know thats what the generation before mine said about us. You just wish you could bring people back together for one last show.
Robert Wilhelm .... I know what you mean to go back just a while! Good old days! I am a baby boomer too! Lol 😆 1956...👴👵....🐨🐨🌲🌲🌲🏯🏰🌃🌉🌉🌉🌉🗽🌉🗿🎪🎭🇺🇸 Have a good day! 💒⛪🌈
I also doubt I'll ever get to Jamestown or to Celoron, so thank you for showing us the Desilu Museum. I grew up with the Ricardos in the 1950's. All my male cats have been named Desi.
I never get tired of watching I Love Lucy every morning on MeTV and the Hallmark channel! This show is still better than any of the moronic sitcoms today!
Thanks for showing us this amazing video. It was like we were right there with you. This is one of my all- time favorite TV shows. I never get tired of watching it. Loved seeing the color versions. You did a great job. Thanks Rick for presenting this too all of us.
Thanks Rick for taking us along to Jamestown. I'm guessing that the entire trip had to be very surreal, it would be for me. You showed us lots of good stuff!! Thanks for your cheerful & positive thoughts! 😊🗽🗽
Hi Rick, so impressed that young people as yourself admire the I Love Lucy series; this speaks of the enduring talent and magic of the actors and production team. I went to see Jamestown about 15 years ago for Lucy's birthday of August 6th, visited Lucy's final resting place surrounded by her favourite flower, lilacs (most were plastic but decorative); tears filled my eyes perhaps because I never met her in person to thank her for what she means to me. I met her chauffeur of many years and he spoke kindly of them both, Lucy would make him sandwiches and Desi insisted on careful driving. I wish you could interview Lucy and Desi Jr. for your channel!
I was there in 2011. That historic feeling really grabs you. I could sit and stare at those items all day. So many details that deserve to be noticed are there!!! I became a major Lucy fan right about the time she passed away and I can’t say I know why... everything about this show and all her shows, just knows how to lock in that sense of history and of course laughter. Thank you Rick for all your hard work here.
There are so many cool things is this video! You do a great job giving all of us Lucy Lovers a glimpse of Lucy is a way most of us would not be able to ever do on our own. Thank you so much for sharing this! ❤️
Rick, I don’t know how to to thank you and your girlfriend for making this wonderful video and sharing it with me and every other “I Love Lucy” fan lucky enough to see it. You seem like a swell guy, and if your girlfriend is as nice as you-which I sense is the case-you will have a wonderful life, laughing while you watch “Lucy” together for years and years to come. I can attest to this, having watched two episodes with my wife and college-age kids just today! God bless you, son, and may God bless Lucy.
Rick, you did it again! Great video. I agree with you, the behind the scenes photos really add depth and context and are great to see. The costumes, scripts, telegraphs and work furniture are fascinating. I was not familiar with this museum, but now I can't wait to go visit it. Thank you again for the great work and for sharing with us. You rock. Oh, and thank you too Noelle (I apologize if I spelled your name wrong. I haven't seen it in print.) for being wiling to take us along for the ride.
Omg why did I cry!!! 😢 😭 😭 I love you Lucy!!!! ❤️ thank you so very much Rick for taking me on this trip with you, even in this manner !! I didn't have many positive role models growing up and my childhood was not at all a good one!! BUT LUCY, WATCHING LUCY, WAS DEFINITELY THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAYS ... SHE SIMPLE MADE ME HAPPY! ... SHE TOOK ME AWAY FROM ALL THE. NEGATIVE AND I TRULY WITH ALL MY HEART THAT LUCY IS THE REASON WHY I SURVIVED MY CHILDHOOD.. and i was only 3 when she passed, thats the crazy part !!! ... I WOULD HAVE GIVEN EVERYTHING TO MEET HER IN PERSON AND GIVE HER A HUGE WARM HUG .. I LOVE HER SO MUCH... THANK YOU FOR SHARING ... THANK YOU! ❤️
Have a friend that lives in Celeron, and we went out to see everything you filmed. First thing we went to was her final resting place. We went to the house she was born in, and then went to that blue house with the polka dotted garage. It was in the summertime, so we walked around being nosey, sat by the bbq, THAT THEY HAD RECREATED from the bbq fiasco out in their country home. They actually do give tours every so often inside the house, but it wasn't offered at that time. A month later, my friend did get to go on that house tour and she took lots of pictures. The best was the step-up area that was separating the living room and dining area (I think). It had curtains that Lucy would draw open and use as her stage to entertain family and neighbors. So awesome!! It's a once in a lifetime trip, and I'm happy to have relived it through you. Thank you!! Btw, we went right before they replaced the "ugly Lucy". Was cool getting all the nasty gossip, regarding that replacement, in their local papers, thanks to my friend.
Omg Rick! Thank you so much for this. I know you as well as alot of us longtime subscribers have been waiting for this. This is truly amazing to see. I'm so glad you were finally able to go. I love how informative this vlog is. Thank you for capturing all of this. I'll definitely be saving this in my favorites to look back on. You did outstanding! 🙌 oh and a huge thanks to Noelle! I hope spelled that correctly. I'm glad she was able to go with you! 😊
Great tour! I have always been a big fan of I Love Lucy. The show used to come on every afternoon and I would watch it when I got home from school. I bet that I have watched each episode over a million times and I still laugh like it was made yesterday.
Loved seeing Lucy’s home and township! I can just imagine her big dreams to become a star while living there. What talent Lucy truly was!!! Fun seeing all these outfits and recreations! Thank you so much Rick👏🏼👍🏻💫
@@civilrevolution10 I love that Lucille Ball and Desi arnaz and William Farley and very advanced they all very talented actors and actress my name is John brista Senior from East New York Brooklyn I've been watching I Love Lucy all my life and I still love looking at the repeats nowadays a very talented actress and actors I have love and respect for them and they will live forever and I'm life and our memories I would like to say to their son Desi arnaz Jr and today daughter Lucy that we love your parents they were very talented good people and they memories will last forever John Bristol senior from East New York Brooklyn much love and respect and my deepest condolences
Awesome video! I loved seeing Lucy's hometown. That newer statue is a huge improvement over the original one. The museum tour was cool! Looking forward to seeing part three!
Wow what a beautiful video many thanks to you & Noelle for shooting & sharing this you'll must have had an awesome time visiting the hometown & museum of the great Lucille ball. You have captured the real essence of a tour guide to I love Lucy. Many thanks from an avid fan.
It's amazing. I can't believe the accuracy of the sets and that costumes and scripts have been saved and are in tact. A wonderful record of our American life!!!
Thanks for sharing Rick and Noelle. I live in Canada about 3 hours north of Jamestown. I did visit because I am a huge fan of Lucille Ball. We do travel in that area quite a bit. Hope you enjoyed. I love how you can quote so many references from “I love Lucy”. I thought I was a huge fan but you are amazing. That first statue was horrible but the second one is much better! Thanks for sharing your journey. I have loved her for so long. I really respect her work. I like how someone of your young age appreciates her talent so many years later. You rock.
Seeing the museum and all the sites around Lucy’s hometown was incredible to watch Rick. Glad you had a great time and thanks again for the great video! Can’t wait for the next part.
A true pro, thanks for taking the time to go on site, brave the rough roads into Jamestown, NY and give us a first hand tour of Ball's hometown and the things there remembering and honoring her. Good stuff.
I have watched ILove Lucy since it first was aired..now I even introduced my grandchildren to her n they love Lucy as well..ur doing a great job these shows are great tyty
Rick, Wow! What fun! Thank you so much for sharing your trip to Jamestown. I really enjoyed seeing all the props and costumes - so cool! And I really found the whole 3-camera system really interesting. I hope to make it up to Jamestown sometime. As I think you know, I'm from New York myself, Long Island specifically. However, I did live Upstate NY for a few years and travelled to most of the cities and towns up there, but I never made it any further west than Buffalo. Besides, not even sure when the museum first opened to the public... As for the statues, thank goodness someone made a 2nd one! Big improvement over the first! Plus, I really liked your Vitameatvegamin commercial. That was cute... Well, Jamestown is now on my Bucket List, thanks to your trip and inspiration! Stay well and be hopeful, Paul
Well, yes as one who has lived and traveled throughout the Northeast, from Northern NJ to NH you must come back and shoot the exteriors again in another more favorable viewing season. As a professional documentarian {as well as other programming} I would favor shooting the area in autumn as the foliage turns magnificent colors in this area and film on a bright sunny day. Your interior footage was top notch so I would just re-edit in new exterior footage to make the video a thing of perfection! Great job. Best, Jack A.S VanNote President JAV Communicative Enterprises. A Multimedia Firm with interests in Film Television and Video Productions -- General Programming Documentaries Sports/Entertainment and Christian ✝️ Family Fare.
Excellent video. This is wonderful seeing this and it is amazing to see where Lucille Ball lived and got her start and to learn some of her background. I just loved seeing the Lucy Desi Museum and all the sets and artifacts from the production of the show. Wonderful video thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much Rick!! I watched so many videos on UA-cam and this has to be one of my favorite ever! I felt like we were all friends on a trip. Crazy I know! Fantastic video. Thanks for taking me along , doubt I will ever get there but almost feel like aI did. Thanks to you both for sharing your trip!
This is so amazing! I have literally “loved” Lucy for as long as I can remember, my mom tells me stories of when I was little about 4 or so and would put on I love Lucy when it was on channel 11. I love this, thank you so much!
Thank you, guys. Rick, what a great boyfriend you are! Loved you doing the commercial but I must say that seeing Fred’s frog costume from Little Ricky’s School Pageant was a highlight for me! So great you shared this with us!
This video blew me away! Wow, THANK YOU for sharing your trip with us. I feel like I was right along with you on it 😄 It was amazing to see all the sets and costumes.
Yes I know I'm 9 months late but always enjoy your Videos, I have a child and we went to Jamestown NY to the movie set on our way to Niagara Falls Canada side and went through the museum which was very cool... THANK YOU GREAT JOB !!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the time to make this video for us! Such a cool place! I actually felt myself get a bit emotional at some spots. So much history there that means so much to many of us. Thank you for being our tour guide! Also... Vitametavegamin! Well done! 👏👏
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing your trip with us of your visit to Jamestown and to the I love Lucy Museum. I am a huge fan and I am so glad that I could see this. Hopefully I will get to visit there one day myself. I enjoy all of your other videos along with your Vitameatavegamin commerical! Great job and keep up the good work! : )
Thank you for the entire road trip and museum tour! I watched Dick Cavett's interview with Lucy Arnez, Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball's interview tonight. Nice to get to know her better!
Rick I just discovered this video. Thanks for making such an awesome video! I have always wanted to go the museum, but never had the opportunity. You brought the museum to all of us. Great job with the narration and the behind the scenes information throughout the entire video!! Thanks again!
Thanks for the tour of the museum. I always hoped to see it one day, but became disabled in the last few years and can’t travel as much. A few years ago, my husband gave me a beautiful 8 x 10, autographed, B/W photo of Lucy from the 40’s. It hangs in our living room, and I enjoy seeing it every day. Thanks again, we enjoyed it.
Rick~ That was so amazing. I've been wanting to know forever what color her dresses were and what the sofas look like and the kitchen. Thank you for taking us on that little tour how amazing is that. It's interesting to note that the kitchen always changed at Lucy's house. Because sometimes it was just a table and then sometimes they would eat at the counter and remember when Lucy had to babysit those twins they went around and they were drawing a picture on the back of the counter. That was funny. I used to live in Upstate New York in Rochester which is in Monroe County and had I been a huge fan back in those days I would have driven to Jamestown. But I remember seeing signs for Lake Chautauqua and I've been to Buffalo New York and I've been over the Canada Niagara Falls on the Canadian and the American side and I've been all through that area and I've seen Lake Ontario. But I really want to go now. Thank you for showing us that trip that was pretty cool
Thanks. Love ur video. I'm a big I love Lucy fan! She was the best. !!!! No one has every come close to the memories, the laughter she brought into our family! My whole family using quotes daily from Lucy. Her legacy truly will never die!
Hi Rick, greetings from Australia,I was privileged to have been alive when it was being aired in America, as a child I was obsessed with the show couldn't wait for the next episode, as there is not much chance of me doing the same trip your doing especially now i am enjoying it with you, thank you.
The Sally Sweet costume was SILVER AND WHITE? HOW on EARTH did it photograph so darkly? Like another commenter, I also pictured it as emerald green. Thank you so, so much for posting this. This is wonderful to have.
Thank you Rick for taking us along on this journey. What a special place to be able to experience. It’s almost like you were there with Lucy. I love all of the costumes and props that are on display and the recreations of the sets were pretty cool. It’s sad that they are no longer here, but how special it is that they can live on through places like this. Thanks again for allowing us to experience this with you.
Lucy and Desi were some of the original tv creators and producers. So much came out of there studio that it would make your head spin. Star Trek, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, and of course I Love Lucy, etc.
Thanks so much for sharing this experience with us! I only learned of this museum 3 weeks ago & it immediately went on my list of things to see if I ever travel again. It was nice to get a little intro to the museum & the town in advance.
When it comes to UA-cam videos I usually won’t watch one longer than 10 minutes... I watched the complete video and was kinda sad that it ended. You did a fabulous job! Thank you Rick and to Holly too! P.S. This was the first video where I actually saw you. I’m used to seeing the “little cartoon” version of you. (Adorable) I always liked your voice now, I’m glad I can match it to your face.
That's crazy. I always pictured the Sally Sweet dress as like an emerald green and I wouldn't have guessed that the couch or her Professor costume were so blue.
The Sally Sweet dress was emerald green - the costume faded due to lights / and chemical reaction over the years -- the only way to have protected it was to have it in a special air controlled case.
Did you see the furniture factory where Lucy bought most of her furniture for the Roxbury Mansion?. She bought it because the factory was in Jamestown NY. Lucy was very devoted to her NY!!!
Great tour, Rick! Many thanks! While you balked at showing all the script pages (can't blame you!), "you got some 'splainin' to do": it would have been great to see a close-up of some of the pages that had massive redactions, so we could be privy to what might have been in the minds of the writers, and add that to our memories of the scene as eventually shot (as well as debate why they were excised). A minor "aw shucks" in an otherwise special trip I know I'll never be able to take!! Again, thanks, Rick! Anyone (like me!) who wins the lottery and wants to recreate the apartment set (and especially, the Hollywood set), now has a blueprint!
Thanks Rick!! Great video, the trip wasn't exactly Paris in springtime but you guys will remember it for the rest of your lives. The first statue of Lucy STINKS! A terrible likeness, the second is much better, but her jaw is jutted too much but it's recognizable as Lucy. You did a great tour. I finished watching just in time for I Love Lucy to come on.
gotta agree..the first statue does not even look like her, not well done. the second one did look like her features and body size. Wonder if she saw them. Did you know she is buried there too? Her body was exhumed and moved from Calif. to Jamestown, NY at family request. It is a tombstone that reads simply: BALL. Another vlogger was in the cemetary where she is, as well as others well known, and found Lucys. Amazing how very simple it is and does not designate her married name(s), or dates but then she never wanted anyone to know her real age....likely because she was older than Desi.
Hey Rick, I am so enjoying "being on vacation" with you via video! I am somewhat jealous because, even though I live in NYS, I have never been to Jamestown, which has always been a dream of mine. But I am one of the world's self admitted worst drivers, so I need someone to accompany me and do the driving, and no one seems to want to take on the multi-hour trip with me. I remember reading that Karl Freund was the master of black and white photography during his day, and that the "background" of each set was deliberately made the colors that they were because of that fact. That is why I am a always a bit leery of the colorized versions of the program. The shows were meant to be viewed in black and white, and I am a traditionalist. You made me chuckle when you said how dark and scary the backroads were. That is suburban living in New York, Rick, and I am less than 90 minutes outside of NYC. I live in an area that has no streetlights, and has only two lanes, one going one way and one going the other. Also, you mentioned that the woods surrounding the "back roads" were a bit scary. Let me tell you, that is what I especially love about living where I do. We have hundreds (if not thousands) of acres of "protected" dense wooded terrain that can never, EVER be built upon, because the adjoining water supply system to NYC is part of the protected "NYC Watershed Area" (this water eventually travels down to NYC, which supposedly has the best drinking water of any major city on the world). It is pure, clean water, and I hope that laws are never changed to allow encroachment on these watershed areas. Thanks so much for sharing your trip with your friend with us. I greatly look forward to your third and final entry. Take care and be well.
Quote of the year...”do they really still have video rental stores?”. You did so good. Thank you for making this vid. Had a blast seeing so much behind the scenes stuff. You should do more of this kind of work...you’re good at it.
Thank you for this great video. Someday I hope to go to the Museum. When 'I Love Lucy' turned 50 I traveled to Sacramento, CA to see those great recreated sets.
Hi Rick & Noelle - I can tell you something you enjoyed about the museum you didn't mention: Your feet were much warmer than when you were walking in the park! The weather looked rather raw that day. Lol! Another thought is that Lucy's childhood home is a bit more modest than the accommodations she shared with Desi (& later with Gary Morton) on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Terrific videos, thank you for bringing us along! Rick, are you getting closer to spending some quality time with the Designated Pilot Examiner? As a pilot myself I'm curious.
I'm glad night flying is a training requirement today. When I learned it wasn't. I remember flying with a passenger one Autumn evening and it was totally dark when we arrived back at the airport. I remember thinking about saying, "This will be my first night landing, wish me luck." Of course I didn't and everything went fine. But I'll never forget it!
What an awesome experience thanks for sharing. It was awesome seeing the Jamestown sites and the museum is still pretty amazing. So cool seeing how everything looked and the colors of everything. Even tho the colorized episodes showed the couches as blue I just imagined them an olive green. Thanks for explaining the reasoning for using certain colors and I thought the colorized episodes were overdone. So cool seeing the scripts and how they edited the reels and put things together. Very hardworking team. Did Noelle have any more interest in Lucy after coming back from the trip? Even if it was just the first viewings after coming home “Ah yeah there’s that kitchen i saw that...ok next” 😆 Cool Vitametavegemin act too 😉
I actually live in Falconer, NY. It is about 10 minutes from the museum and 5 minutes from the memorial park. I posted a short video from the park about a week ago. I moved here just because of all the Lucy stuff. Well, and for all the snow too.
You nailed that Vitameatavegamin routine down to the wink at the end ! LOL Thanks so much Rick. That was an excellent video of the museum and park and it was very interesting to see the surrounding area that she grew up in.
I live in Jamestown NY, born and raised. I also worked for a few years at the Lucy/Desi museum and Desilu Playhouse. Thank you for taking a trip to visit. I was there on opening day when they added the Playhouse building that you toured. Why didn’t you visit the museum next-door? Anyway, feel free to contact me if you need any additional information.
rick nineg they used to not allow filming in the Playhouse too. That was actually what I was hired for. For the grand opening of the Playhouse I was brought in to walk the floor and make sure no one took pictures or video and of course that no one tried to get on the sets.
Cool video. A quicker way to go would be to take a bus to Binghamton New York and then drive 3 hours to Jamestown on Highway 86 -- you could do the trip in under 8 hours.
Very cool video. Then again I like most all your videos with the behind-the-scenes look, trivia and bloopers. Also nice to put a face to the voice. I'm sure there are others that did that but this is the first one I've seen. Anyway thanks again for your videos, all very interesting especially since I was a preteen in the 60s growing up with many of the shows you feature. 👍
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Thank you SO much Rick for this amazing video! I doubt I will ever have the opportunity to visit Jamestown and the museum, and really appreciate your taking us along on your trip there. There was so much to see, I did find myself pausing your video several times along the way to ensure I didn't miss a thing! I'm also appreciative of the Ball / Arnaz family allowing so many treasured items to be displayed here for their fans world wide to see in person. I'm happy to see the Jamestown and Celoron areas celebrate their most famous one-time resident with such memorials as well. Cheers Rick from Sacramento!
I totally agree. I may never have the chance to see something like this. What amazes me is the nostalgia that immediately comes back and how you feel such a love an affinity for something that was such a big part of so many lives. That is part of the joy is being able to go back in time to a happier day and relive....for even a few moments the happiness that came as a kid the shows that let you escape reality for a few laughs and great moments. Perhaps its cliche but I don't know if any of the younger generation will understand it, because of having so much at their fingertips today. I know thats what the generation before mine said about us. You just wish you could bring people back together for one last show.
Robert Wilhelm .... I know what you mean to go back just a while! Good old days! I am a baby boomer too! Lol 😆 1956...👴👵....🐨🐨🌲🌲🌲🏯🏰🌃🌉🌉🌉🌉🗽🌉🗿🎪🎭🇺🇸 Have a good day! 💒⛪🌈
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I also doubt I'll ever get to Jamestown or to Celoron, so thank you for showing us the Desilu Museum. I grew up with the Ricardos in the 1950's. All my male cats have been named Desi.
I never get tired of watching I Love Lucy every morning on MeTV and the Hallmark channel!
This show is still better than any of the moronic sitcoms today!
Thanks for showing us this amazing video. It was like we were right there with you. This is one of my all- time favorite TV shows. I never get tired of watching it. Loved seeing the color versions. You did a great job. Thanks Rick for presenting this too all of us.
Thanks Rick for taking us along to Jamestown. I'm guessing that the entire trip had to be very surreal, it would be for me. You showed us lots of good stuff!! Thanks for your cheerful & positive thoughts! 😊🗽🗽
Hi Rick, so impressed that young people as yourself admire the I Love Lucy series; this speaks of the enduring talent and magic of the actors and production team.
I went to see Jamestown about 15 years ago for Lucy's birthday of August 6th, visited Lucy's final resting place surrounded by her favourite flower, lilacs (most were plastic but decorative); tears filled my eyes perhaps because I never met her in person to thank her for what she means to me. I met her chauffeur of many years and he spoke kindly of them both, Lucy would make him sandwiches and Desi insisted on careful driving.
I wish you could interview Lucy and Desi Jr. for your channel!
The year I was there for the festival the lilacs were real and beautiful
Thanks a million for this great video for all of us fans of I Love Lucy! So many memories!
I was there in 2011. That historic feeling really grabs you. I could sit and stare at those items all day. So many details that deserve to be noticed are there!!! I became a major Lucy fan right about the time she passed away and I can’t say I know why... everything about this show and all her shows, just knows how to lock in that sense of history and of course laughter. Thank you Rick for all your hard work here.
There are so many cool things is this video! You do a great job giving all of us Lucy Lovers a glimpse of Lucy is a way most of us would not be able to ever do on our own. Thank you so much for sharing this! ❤️
Thankyou! I thoroughly enjoyed this video! I'm glad there are many more Ball fans out there!
Rick, I don’t know how to to thank you and your girlfriend for making this wonderful video and sharing it with me and every other “I Love Lucy” fan lucky enough to see it. You seem like a swell guy, and if your girlfriend is as nice as you-which I sense is the case-you will have a wonderful life, laughing while you watch “Lucy” together for years and years to come. I can attest to this, having watched two episodes with my wife and college-age kids just today! God bless you, son, and may God bless Lucy.
I absolutely love watching videos of behind the scenes and getting a sneak peek of the secrets of television! Thank you so much for the great videos!
Rick, you did it again! Great video. I agree with you, the behind the scenes photos really add depth and context and are great to see. The costumes, scripts, telegraphs and work furniture are fascinating. I was not familiar with this museum, but now I can't wait to go visit it. Thank you again for the great work and for sharing with us. You rock. Oh, and thank you too Noelle (I apologize if I spelled your name wrong. I haven't seen it in print.) for being wiling to take us along for the ride.
Omg why did I cry!!! 😢 😭 😭
I love you Lucy!!!! ❤️ thank you so very much Rick for taking me on this trip with you, even in this manner !!
I didn't have many positive role models growing up and my childhood was not at all a good one!!
BUT LUCY, WATCHING LUCY, WAS DEFINITELY THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAYS ... SHE SIMPLE MADE ME HAPPY! ... SHE TOOK ME AWAY FROM ALL THE. NEGATIVE AND I TRULY WITH ALL MY HEART THAT LUCY IS THE REASON WHY I SURVIVED MY CHILDHOOD.. and i was only 3 when she passed, thats the crazy part !!! ... I WOULD HAVE GIVEN EVERYTHING TO MEET HER IN PERSON AND GIVE HER A HUGE WARM HUG .. I LOVE HER SO MUCH... THANK YOU FOR SHARING ... THANK YOU! ❤️
So glad you enjoyed it
Have a friend that lives in Celeron, and we went out to see everything you filmed. First thing we went to was her final resting place. We went to the house she was born in, and then went to that blue house with the polka dotted garage. It was in the summertime, so we walked around being nosey, sat by the bbq, THAT THEY HAD RECREATED from the bbq fiasco out in their country home. They actually do give tours every so often inside the house, but it wasn't offered at that time. A month later, my friend did get to go on that house tour and she took lots of pictures. The best was the step-up area that was separating the living room and dining area (I think). It had curtains that Lucy would draw open and use as her stage to entertain family and neighbors. So awesome!! It's a once in a lifetime trip, and I'm happy to have relived it through you. Thank you!! Btw, we went right before they replaced the "ugly Lucy". Was cool getting all the nasty gossip, regarding that replacement, in their local papers, thanks to my friend.
Thanks for sharing. It's nice that the two of you share these common interests and can enjoy hitting the road like this.
Omg Rick! Thank you so much for this. I know you as well as alot of us longtime subscribers have been waiting for this. This is truly amazing to see. I'm so glad you were finally able to go. I love how informative this vlog is. Thank you for capturing all of this. I'll definitely be saving this in my favorites to look back on. You did outstanding! 🙌 oh and a huge thanks to Noelle! I hope spelled that correctly. I'm glad she was able to go with you! 😊
Great tour! I have always been a big fan of I Love Lucy. The show used to come on every afternoon and I would watch it when I got home from school. I bet that I have watched each episode over a million times and I still laugh like it was made yesterday.
Loved seeing Lucy’s home and township! I can just imagine her big dreams to become a star while living there. What talent Lucy truly was!!! Fun seeing all these outfits and recreations! Thank you so much Rick👏🏼👍🏻💫
She had to have big dreams. There’s nothing to do in that town. I grew up there.
@@civilrevolution10 I love that Lucille Ball and Desi arnaz and William Farley and very advanced they all very talented actors and actress my name is John brista Senior from East New York Brooklyn I've been watching I Love Lucy all my life and I still love looking at the repeats nowadays a very talented actress and actors I have love and respect for them and they will live forever and I'm life and our memories I would like to say to their son Desi arnaz Jr and today daughter Lucy that we love your parents they were very talented good people and they memories will last forever John Bristol senior from East New York Brooklyn much love and respect and my deepest condolences
Thank you. Really. Just thank you. What a treat to watch and what a generous gesture to share. Much appreciation for thinking of others. God Bless!
Awesome video! I loved seeing Lucy's hometown. That newer statue is a huge improvement over the original one. The museum tour was cool! Looking forward to seeing part three!
I agree, the first statue looked nothing like Lucy. I wonder who the artist used as a model?
I love 💟💟💟💟 his the videos are great I love them it's a lie history my love history
My sister and I took a bus trip to Jamestown and it was amazing this video helped me to relive the experience
I loved my trip to Jamestown! The Lucy Desi museum was a dream come true!
I’m glad you finally got to visit the museum, and that you enjoyed it! It’s a wonderful trip for any Lucy fan.
Cool to know you worked there!
Wow what a beautiful video many thanks to you & Noelle for shooting & sharing this you'll must have had an awesome time visiting the hometown & museum of the great Lucille ball. You have captured the real essence of a tour guide to I love Lucy. Many thanks from an avid fan.
Your love for I Love Lucy gives me life. Another great video. Thank you so much Rick, love taking each and every Lucy journey with you.
It's amazing. I can't believe the accuracy of the sets and that costumes and scripts have been saved and are in tact. A wonderful record of our American life!!!
It was very well done
Since I will never go there myself this was a great video. I have always wanted to see it and I loved it!! Thank-you for sharing!!
Thanks for sharing Rick and Noelle. I live in Canada about 3 hours north of Jamestown. I did visit because I am a huge fan of Lucille Ball. We do travel in that area quite a bit. Hope you enjoyed. I love how you can quote so many references from “I love Lucy”. I thought I was a huge fan but you are amazing. That first statue was horrible but the second one is much better! Thanks for sharing your journey. I have loved her for so long. I really respect her work. I like how someone of your young age appreciates her talent so many years later. You rock.
You rock even more Cathy
Seeing the museum and all the sites around Lucy’s hometown was incredible to watch Rick. Glad you had a great time and thanks again for the great video! Can’t wait for the next part.
Thank you so very much for filming that!! So awesome to see all those things!! You did an amazing job!! Keep up the great work!!!
A true pro, thanks for taking the time to go on site, brave the rough roads into Jamestown, NY and give us a first hand tour of Ball's hometown and the things there remembering and honoring her.
Good stuff.
I have watched ILove Lucy since it first was aired..now I even introduced my grandchildren to her n they love Lucy as well..ur doing a great job these shows are great tyty
Rick,
Wow! What fun! Thank you so much for sharing your trip to Jamestown. I really enjoyed seeing all the props and costumes - so cool! And I really found the whole 3-camera system really interesting.
I hope to make it up to Jamestown sometime. As I think you know, I'm from New York myself, Long Island specifically. However, I did live Upstate NY for a few years and travelled to most of the cities and towns up there, but I never made it any further west than Buffalo. Besides, not even sure when the museum first opened to the public...
As for the statues, thank goodness someone made a 2nd one! Big improvement over the first!
Plus, I really liked your Vitameatvegamin commercial. That was cute...
Well, Jamestown is now on my Bucket List, thanks to your trip and inspiration!
Stay well and be hopeful,
Paul
Great Vlog. Nice to see Upstate NY again. However, it’s so much nicer- and warmer- in the Spring.
Well, yes as one who has lived and traveled throughout the Northeast, from Northern NJ to NH you must come back and shoot the exteriors again in another more favorable viewing season. As a professional documentarian {as well as other programming} I would favor shooting the area in autumn as the foliage turns magnificent colors in this area and film on a bright sunny day. Your interior footage was top notch so I would just re-edit in new exterior footage to make the video a thing of perfection! Great job. Best, Jack A.S VanNote President JAV Communicative Enterprises. A Multimedia Firm with interests in Film Television and Video Productions -- General Programming Documentaries Sports/Entertainment and Christian ✝️ Family Fare.
Excellent video. This is wonderful seeing this and it is amazing to see where Lucille Ball lived and got her start and to learn some of her background. I just loved seeing the Lucy Desi Museum and all the sets and artifacts from the production of the show. Wonderful video thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much Rick!! I watched so many videos on UA-cam and this has to be one of my favorite ever! I felt like we were all friends on a trip. Crazy I know!
Fantastic video. Thanks for taking me along , doubt I will ever get there but almost feel like aI did.
Thanks to you both for sharing your trip!
This is so amazing! I have literally “loved” Lucy for as long as I can remember, my mom tells me stories of when I was little about 4 or so and would put on I love Lucy when it was on channel 11. I love this, thank you so much!
Leeana Garcia yes, channel 11. Metromedia television!
Thank you, guys. Rick, what a great boyfriend you are! Loved you doing the commercial but I must say that seeing Fred’s frog costume from Little Ricky’s School Pageant was a highlight for me! So great you shared this with us!
This video blew me away! Wow, THANK YOU for sharing your trip with us. I feel like I was right along with you on it 😄 It was amazing to see all the sets and costumes.
So glad you liked it!
Thank you for sharing part 2 as well. Another great job.
This was such a treat. Thank you for sharing!
You are great for keeping her alive I watch you all the time . I love you guys filming your trip thank you. Mrs. Clump btw. You
Are awesome
Yes I know I'm 9 months late but always enjoy your Videos, I have a child and we went to Jamestown NY to the movie set on our way to Niagara Falls Canada side and went through the museum which was very cool... THANK YOU GREAT JOB !!!
This was great Rick! Lots of fun! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the time to make this video for us! Such a cool place! I actually felt myself get a bit emotional at some spots. So much history there that means so much to many of us. Thank you for being our tour guide! Also... Vitametavegamin! Well done! 👏👏
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing your trip with us of your visit to Jamestown and to the I love Lucy Museum. I am a huge fan and I am so glad that I could see this. Hopefully I will get to visit there one day myself. I enjoy all of your other videos along with your Vitameatavegamin commerical! Great job and keep up the good work! : )
Rick that was Awesome that you take the time to Explain every detail! Your a great guy... You really know your Job!
Thank you so much Jim and that means a lot coming from a fan!
Its great seeing someone so young enjoying the old shows.
Thank you for the entire road trip and museum tour! I watched Dick Cavett's interview with Lucy Arnez, Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball's interview tonight. Nice to get to know her better!
Rick I just discovered this video. Thanks for making such an awesome video! I have always wanted to go the museum, but never had the opportunity. You brought the museum to all of us. Great job with the narration and the behind the scenes information throughout the entire video!! Thanks again!
I’ll have go rewatch these a couple of times. Thank you Rick for taking your time & money and doing this for us. 🤜🏽🤛🏼🖖🏻👏🏼🥂
Thanks for the tour of the museum. I always hoped to see it one day, but became disabled in the last few years and can’t travel as much. A few years ago, my husband gave me a beautiful 8 x 10, autographed, B/W photo of Lucy from the 40’s. It hangs in our living room, and I enjoy seeing it every day. Thanks again, we enjoyed it.
What a awesome video loved every minute of it I’m such a lucy and desi fan thank you for sharing this with everyone.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Rick~
That was so amazing. I've been wanting to know forever what color her dresses were and what the sofas look like and the kitchen. Thank you for taking us on that little tour how amazing is that. It's interesting to note that the kitchen always changed at Lucy's house. Because sometimes it was just a table and then sometimes they would eat at the counter and remember when Lucy had to babysit those twins they went around and they were drawing a picture on the back of the counter. That was funny. I used to live in Upstate New York in Rochester which is in Monroe County and had I been a huge fan back in those days I would have driven to Jamestown. But I remember seeing signs for Lake Chautauqua and I've been to Buffalo New York and I've been over the Canada Niagara Falls on the Canadian and the American side and I've been all through that area and I've seen Lake Ontario. But I really want to go now. Thank you for showing us that trip that was pretty cool
Thanks. Love ur video. I'm a big I love Lucy fan! She was the best. !!!! No one has every come close to the memories, the laughter she brought into our family! My whole family using quotes daily from Lucy. Her legacy truly will never die!
For young people, you sure know a lot about the I Love Lucy show. Very nice.
It’s my fave show ever
@@ricknineg I like all the moving and re-decorating episodes.
Thanks for this video. I really enjoyed the tour you shared of the Lucy-Desi museum in Jamestown. Very well done.
I’m obsessed with all things I Love Lucy and I really enjoyed this video!!! Thanks so much!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Omg this is amazing!!! I can’t believe this show is going to be 70 years old soon!
Great video. Brought back memories when I went 4 years ago. You should definitely go back when they do the Lucy festival.
Hi Rick, greetings from Australia,I was privileged to have been alive when it was being aired in America, as a child I was obsessed with the show couldn't wait for the next episode, as there is not much chance of me doing the same trip your doing especially now i am enjoying it with you, thank you.
Diving in this video while chewing down breakfast. Love seeing this channel grow.
Had no idea that place existed! Wish I can visit one day but thanks for the tour it was amazing!!!
So cool! You guys should do more traveling videos. Thanks for sharing!
The Sally Sweet costume was SILVER AND WHITE? HOW on EARTH did it photograph so darkly? Like another commenter, I also pictured it as emerald green. Thank you so, so much for posting this. This is wonderful to have.
You’re are so good at this Rick. Much appreciated ❤️🇨🇦
Thank you Rick for taking us along on this journey. What a special place to be able to experience. It’s almost like you were there with Lucy. I love all of the costumes and props that are on display and the recreations of the sets were pretty cool. It’s sad that they are no longer here, but how special it is that they can live on through places like this. Thanks again for allowing us to experience this with you.
Lucy and Desi were some of the original tv creators and producers. So much came out of there studio that it would make your head spin. Star Trek, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, and of course I Love Lucy, etc.
Thank you so much for this wonderful tour of memories from I love Lucy! I look forward to your next video!
Loved this! So interesting.Thank you for uploading!
I had no idea their set had a yellow kitchen. I love it! I have a yellow kitchen. :-).
Great job again, alot of great behind the scenes stuff!😎👍👍
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. I did not even realize there was a museum. Would love to visit it some day.
Thanks so much for sharing this experience with us! I only learned of this museum 3 weeks ago & it immediately went on my list of things to see if I ever travel again. It was nice to get a little intro to the museum & the town in advance.
When it comes to UA-cam videos I usually won’t watch one longer than 10 minutes... I watched the complete video and was kinda sad that it ended. You did a fabulous job! Thank you Rick and to Holly too!
P.S. This was the first video where I actually saw you. I’m used to seeing the “little cartoon” version of you. (Adorable) I always liked your voice now, I’m glad I can match it to your face.
Jamestown and the Lucy Museum is on my bucket list!😍
I visited the Museum and her Burial Spot in Jamestown NY in Oct of this year and I gotta say it was Awesome I Can't wait to go again maybe next year 🌹
That's crazy. I always pictured the Sally Sweet dress as like an emerald green and I wouldn't have guessed that the couch or her Professor costume were so blue.
The Sally Sweet dress was emerald green - the costume faded due to lights / and chemical reaction over the years -- the only way to have protected it was to have it in a special air controlled case.
It was. There are pictures of their daughter wearing the costume online when she was older and it was definitely green.
Did you see the furniture factory where Lucy bought most of her furniture for the Roxbury Mansion?. She bought it because the factory was in Jamestown NY. Lucy was very devoted to her NY!!!
Awww so cute! I’ve always wanted to take the trip up there thanks for going so you can show us fans!
Very well done. *Thank you, so much !*
Thank you, I’ll never be able to see this in person- but thanks to you it was the next best thing
Great tour, Rick! Many thanks! While you balked at showing all the script pages (can't blame you!), "you got some 'splainin' to do": it would have been great to see a close-up of some of the pages that had massive redactions, so we could be privy to what might have been in the minds of the writers, and add that to our memories of the scene as eventually shot (as well as debate why they were excised). A minor "aw shucks" in an otherwise special trip I know I'll never be able to take!! Again, thanks, Rick! Anyone (like me!) who wins the lottery and wants to recreate the apartment set (and especially, the Hollywood set), now has a blueprint!
Thanks Rick!! Great video, the trip wasn't exactly Paris in springtime but you guys will remember it for the rest of your lives. The first statue of Lucy STINKS! A terrible likeness, the second is much better, but her jaw is jutted too much but it's recognizable as Lucy. You did a great tour. I finished watching just in time for I Love Lucy to come on.
gotta agree..the first statue does not even look like her, not well done. the second one did look like her features and body size. Wonder if she saw them. Did you know she is buried there too? Her body was exhumed and moved from Calif. to Jamestown, NY at family request. It is a tombstone that reads simply: BALL. Another vlogger was in the cemetary where she is, as well as others well known, and found Lucys. Amazing how very simple it is and does not designate her married name(s), or dates but then she never wanted anyone to know her real age....likely because she was older than Desi.
Hey Rick,
I am so enjoying "being on vacation" with you via video! I am somewhat jealous because, even though I live in NYS, I have never been to Jamestown, which has always been a dream of mine. But I am one of the world's self admitted worst drivers, so I need someone to accompany me and do the driving, and no one seems to want to take on the multi-hour trip with me.
I remember reading that Karl Freund was the master of black and white photography during his day, and that the "background" of each set was deliberately made the colors that they were because of that fact. That is why I am a always a bit leery of the colorized versions of the program. The shows were meant to be viewed in black and white, and I am a traditionalist.
You made me chuckle when you said how dark and scary the backroads were. That is suburban living in New York, Rick, and I am less than 90 minutes outside of NYC. I live in an area that has no streetlights, and has only two lanes, one going one way and one going the other. Also, you mentioned that the woods surrounding the "back roads" were a bit scary. Let me tell you, that is what I especially love about living where I do. We have hundreds (if not thousands) of acres of "protected" dense wooded terrain that can never, EVER be built upon, because the adjoining water supply system to NYC is part of the protected "NYC Watershed Area" (this water eventually travels down to NYC, which supposedly has the best drinking water of any major city on the world). It is pure, clean water, and I hope that laws are never changed to allow encroachment on these watershed areas.
Thanks so much for sharing your trip with your friend with us. I greatly look forward to your third and final entry.
Take care and be well.
That is so interesting about the woods. Scary at night but I am sure beautiful in the day
Quote of the year...”do they really still have video rental stores?”.
You did so good. Thank you for making this vid. Had a blast seeing so much behind the scenes stuff. You should do more of this kind of work...you’re good at it.
Thank you for this great video. Someday I hope to go to the Museum. When 'I Love Lucy' turned 50 I traveled to Sacramento, CA to see those great recreated sets.
Hi Rick & Noelle - I can tell you something you enjoyed about the museum you didn't mention: Your feet were much warmer than when you were walking in the park! The weather looked rather raw that day. Lol! Another thought is that Lucy's childhood home is a bit more modest than the accommodations she shared with Desi (& later with Gary Morton) on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. Terrific videos, thank you for bringing us along!
Rick, are you getting closer to spending some quality time with the Designated Pilot Examiner? As a pilot myself I'm curious.
Yes, getting very close. Fimishing my last night cross country
I'm glad night flying is a training requirement today. When I learned it wasn't. I remember flying with a passenger one Autumn evening and it was totally dark when we arrived back at the airport. I remember thinking about saying, "This will be my first night landing, wish me luck." Of course I didn't and everything went fine. But I'll never forget it!
Awesome!!! It looks amazing! I’ll HAVE to go someday!
What an awesome experience thanks for sharing. It was awesome seeing the Jamestown sites and the museum is still pretty amazing. So cool seeing how everything looked and the colors of everything. Even tho the colorized episodes showed the couches as blue I just imagined them an olive green. Thanks for explaining the reasoning for using certain colors and I thought the colorized episodes were overdone. So cool seeing the scripts and how they edited the reels and put things together. Very hardworking team. Did Noelle have any more interest in Lucy after coming back from the trip? Even if it was just the first viewings after coming home “Ah yeah there’s that kitchen i saw that...ok next” 😆 Cool Vitametavegemin act too 😉
I believe she respects the show more and watches it from time to time but not yet a fan like me
Thank you for sharing the museum. Very cool to see!
I actually live in Falconer, NY. It is about 10 minutes from the museum and 5 minutes from the memorial park. I posted a short video from the park about a week ago. I moved here just because of all the Lucy stuff. Well, and for all the snow too.
You nailed that Vitameatavegamin routine down to the wink at the end ! LOL Thanks so much Rick. That was an excellent video of the museum and park and it was very interesting to see the surrounding area that she grew up in.
I live in Jamestown NY, born and raised. I also worked for a few years at the Lucy/Desi museum and Desilu Playhouse. Thank you for taking a trip to visit. I was there on opening day when they added the Playhouse building that you toured. Why didn’t you visit the museum next-door? Anyway, feel free to contact me if you need any additional information.
I did go next door which was nice but no filming was allowed at all! I was heartbroken. They had so many cool things like Lucy’s Mercedes
rick nineg they used to not allow filming in the Playhouse too. That was actually what I was hired for. For the grand opening of the Playhouse I was brought in to walk the floor and make sure no one took pictures or video and of course that no one tried to get on the sets.
Cool video. A quicker way to go would be to take a bus to Binghamton New York and then drive 3 hours to Jamestown on Highway 86 -- you could do the trip in under 8 hours.
Very cool video. Then again I like most all your videos with the behind-the-scenes look, trivia and bloopers.
Also nice to put a face to the voice. I'm sure there are others that did that but this is the first one I've seen.
Anyway thanks again for your videos, all very interesting especially since I was a preteen in the 60s growing up with many of the shows you feature. 👍
Yes !!! I was super excited for this video thank u rick !
The Hollywood hotel room is almost EXACTLY like I've pictured it my entire life! This was so fun to see!
Absolutely fabulous Rick!
Thank you SO much Rick for this amazing video!
Great video Rick. I have driven by Jamestown on I90 but sadly never stopped .