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Here's a view <i>from</i> the walkway above the kitchen (shown in the prior photo), this time looking at the main house:
<blockquote><url>https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/166/mbphoto/149/genMid.889149_2_4.jpg</url></blockquote>
Note the arches on the ground floor (which we were looking through in the prior photo). Also note the tree at left, which is presumably the tree that's basically on the line between #835 and #837 in Google's aerial view -- this confirms that we're looking southeast, toward the main house.
There's also a tree in the next courtyard on <i>Longstreet</i> -- but it's by the other (southwest) end of #835's courtyard, not a good spot for a tree in real life (judging by the Google view, where there's a large building there, rather than another courtyard).
And here's #835's main page on that real-estate site, so you can "See all 13 photos," including the kitchen, a nice clear shot of the front, a view from the cast-iron gallery (the "balcony" where Mike and Duke were standing in "The Girl With the Broom"), and far more rooms than we've ever seen on the show:
<blockquote><url>https://www.redfin.com/LA/New-Orleans/835-Chartres-St-70116/home/79391838</url></blockquote>
Check out this photo -- look familiar?
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Look again! That's a courtyard view inside the <i>real</i> #835, from a real-estate website. As in the show, you're looking at one end of the kitchen building. Note that the privacy wall (at left) is <i>much</i> higher than in the show, so that you can barely see the top of it at one point. Note also the brick archway in the foreground -- don't recall ever seeing that in the show, so either I wasn't paying attention or they omitted it from the set.
It's been a couple of weeks, so I'll go ahead and post my current best guess as to how the robbers retrieved their rope -- but I'll blank it out as a spoiler (just mouse-over to reveal what it says):
<spoiler> <b>They used a double-length rope.</b> The fourth man attached one end to the building across the street. When the robbers arrived on the roof of the target building, he heaved the free end (with a weight attached) over to them. They passed the rope around some sturdy object and heaved the free end back to the fourth guy, who attached it to the same place as the first end. Then when the robbers were safely across, all that needed to be done was untie one end of the rope, pull the entire length onto that building, detach the second end, pack up the rope and leave.</spoiler>
Please point out any problems you see with that theory. Also, would love to hear more ideas of how they could have done it!
The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carré Digital Survey has information about the house, here:
<blockquote><url>https://www.hnoc.org/vcs/property_info.php?lot=18515</url></blockquote>
According to that site, the property is 24 feet wide and 65 feet 8 inches deep. My eyeball estimate of the Google aerial view in the previous post puts the house proper (the front building) at roughly 24 by 40 feet, the courtyard roughly 24 by 10, and the kitchen building the remaining 24 by 16 feet.
The "Chain of Title" tab lists owners of that bit of land back to 1722, although the three houses were not built till about a hundred years later. The "Citations" tab mentions (rather vaguely) that a newspaper article dated New Year's Day of 1971 says the house will serve as the title character's office in an upcoming television series called <i>Longstreet</i>.
Note: "<i>Vieux Carré</i>" (meaning "Old Square") is a French-language name for the historic part of New Orleans that's generally called the "French Quarter" in English.
You've made a valid point, liscarkat -- but it's really just a waste of time to feed the troll.
As others have already said, the dog's name was Pax. When the dog is first introduced (in the pilot), with his name pronounced like "packs," Mike correctly identifies it as the Latin word for "peace," but then asks wouldn't that be pronounced "pahx"-- which is indeed correct for Latin pronunciation.
Unfortunately, though, in American English, "pahx" is also the pronunciation of "pox" (as in "smallpox" and "chicken pox") -- therefore the dog's name continues to be pronounced with a short A (like "packs").