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By India McCarty
BRADY BUNCH star Eve Plumb had a fun hobby when she wasn’t working on set: collecting stickers.
“My parents let me put stickers on my door. They, you know, they just wanted me to be a kid,” she told Spectrum 1 News. “My wonderful husband, when we were selling my parents’ house, decided to save that door…and then I found out about the Valley Relics Museum, and I thought this is perfect because I would wear surfer t-shirts and, you know, long blonde hair, and was pretty much one of the original Valley girls.”
The stickers include ones for bands like The Raspberries, Mad Magazine and period-accurate messages like “Hang Loose.”
Plumb spoke further about her sticker-covered door in an interview with Vintage Los Angeles.
“This is the door from my childhood home in Van Nuys,” she shared, showing off the item. “My parents built houses in Toluca Lake and in Van Nuys, and I grew up in the Van Nuys house. And when we sold the house, we decided to hang on to this. My parents were very indulgent in letting me put stickers on my door when I was a teenager, while I was doing THE BRADY BUNCH, my mother would save things.”
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For example, a name plate with Plumb’s name, likely taken from a BRADY BUNCH wrap party.
“Some of these are really old stickers that I would collect when the Brady kids were on tour, and I would do it as a memento,” Plumb explained. “I was a big comic book fan and Mad Magazine, Cracked magazine, so it was a hobby. I guess some girls have charms for bracelets. I had stickers.”
The door might have been part of Plumb’s real-life home, but the actress recently shared how she felt about revisiting her television home.
“It’s funny because it’s been made a historic cultural monument now. So, it’s this thing that’s been made up out of whole cloth,” she told Houston Public Media, explaining that it’s “a historic cultural recreation of a set that was on Paramount Lot.”
Plumb called it “fabulous” but admitted it “does feel odd” to visit the recreation.
“Chris Knight [one of her onscreen BRADY BUNCH brothers] and I were there to talk about the plaque [naming it a Historic-Cultural Monument] that they’re going to put near the house,” she said. “It was a very fun event, and it’s always odd to be there because it feels like I’m on the set, but I’ve gotten a little more used to it.”
Plumb might have been a child star on THE BRADY BUNCH, but her sticker-covered door shows she was just like any other little girl when the cameras stopped rolling.
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