Labels:text | screenshot OCR: Budd Friedman on the idea that was to become the IMPROVISATION and the rest, as they say, is history. Budd Friedman was to become a producer far beyond his wildest dreams. Opening a West Coast version of the Improv had been on his mind for some time when he arrived in L.A. in 1975. A rigorous search led him to the Improv's current location at 8162 Melrose Avenue, site of the Ash Grove for 19 years, long before "Melrose Avenue" became a synonym for hip and trendy. "I should have been a real estate agent," he notes ruefully. ufuly MENU Quote from the Biz