This question has been driving me crazy since I first watched the show as a kid - and it still does!!!

Does anyone know where I can see a blueprint of the Sanford House???
In the opening credits, Fred is in the front - under their famous sign.
He seens to have come out of a front door and the front is a storefront with all windows like any other shop.

Lamont drives up the side with their truck.

Now is this front where we the viewers (and the camera) would be - cause the living room never seems to indicate that there is this front door shop or folks would be knocking at the door. Everyone seems to go around to the famous side door.
Could the front be like a porch that is never used??

o.k. I realise that the credits are probably an exterior shot from a real location and what we always see on the show is just an interior soundstage, but I love the show so much I have always tried to make sense of this. They seem to have always worked with continuity well, so please - any help - blueprints, ideas etc.
please post and also email me...
Thanks!
- Robert

Originally posted by RobertJazz
This question has been driving me crazy since I first watched the show as a kid - and it still does!!!

Does anyone know where I can see a blueprint of the Sanford House???
In the opening credits, Fred is in the front - under their famous sign.
He seens to have come out of a front door and the front is a storefront with all windows like any other shop.

Lamont drives up the side with their truck.

Now is this front where we the viewers (and the camera) would be - cause the living room never seems to indicate that there is this front door shop or folks would be knocking at the door. Everyone seems to go around to the famous side door.
Could the front be like a porch that is never used??

o.k. I realise that the credits are probably an exterior shot from a real location and what we always see on the show is just an interior soundstage, but I love the show so much I have always tried to make sense of this. They seem to have always worked with continuity well, so please - any help - blueprints, ideas etc.
please post and also email me...
Thanks!
- Robert


I see what you mean. The way the house looks in the opening credits doesn't really mtach the way it looks on the show. I think it the side because when the go out the door there is no street or sidewalk, just a yard of junk. So it basically the side yard where Lamonts turns at in the opening credits.

and look at the width of space between fred's building the drive as lamont pulls in and the building next door. now in many episodes, look at the space between fred's house and what later became the sanford arms. BIG difference. maybe he shoulda got a surveyor. :lol:

Oh yeah,
I forgot all about the Sanford Arms being there later on.

Well, perhaps the buliding next door was taken down or rebuilt??

I'm thinking that the driveway Lamont pulls into in the credits starts out narrowish - sometimes he even backs into it - and then it opens up to that large side yard.

Still, anyone with any input on this no matter what it is is fun to read and speculate on...
Like I said, this is something I've always wondered about with this show...
(heh heh talk about obsessive compulsive):eek: :confused:
- Robert

Something completely unrelated -

If you notice, the place next door (first Julio's; then Sanford Arms) there is a barber's pole on the building.

Originally posted by maxcarey
Something completely unrelated -

If you notice, the place next door (first Julio's; then Sanford Arms) there is a barber's pole on the building.


I haven't noticed that i have to look for that again. Is it in the opening credits or on the set?

Opening credits, shown very quickly as Lamont is turning into the driveway, followed by Fred. It is on the upper portion of the building and not visable long.