Next we visited the Hollywood Museum at North Highland Avenue, housed in a building originally purchased by Hollywood make-up artist Max Factor in 1928. The four makeup rooms used by Factor are even still inside to this day (one for blondes, one for redheads, one for brunettes and one for brownettes). But the place was sold in 1994 and opened as the Hollywood Museum in 2003 and now it displays over 11,000 pieces of memorabilia from costumes to props to photos to scripts and more from throughout Hollywood history so you know I had to check it out. Here are just a few of the things I saw inside.

The actual ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore when she tapped her heels together and said “There’s no place like home” in The Wizard of Oz.

Scarlett O’Hara’s dining chair from the set of Gone with the Wind.

Script pages and production notes from The Godfather.

Masks and costumes from Planet of the Apes.

Pretty cool to see the outfits worn by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap.

I loved this. Mannequins of actresses who have portrayed Catwoman on screen through the years. Including Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry and Anne Hathaway.

In addition to the Laurel and Hardy memorabilia on display, it was also a nice surprise to see my favorite scene from their film Way Out West, in which they break out in an impromptu dance while the Avalon Boys sing outside Mickey Finn’s Saloon, play on the screen while I was looking around.

Nothing made me whip out my camera faster than when I spotted Pee-wee Herman’s bike. My inner Pee-wee Herman almost came out in giddy excitement at the mere sight of it.

This is the closest I’ll ever get to winning an Oscar.

More to come from Hollywood Boulevard in my next article!