A Fresh Take on Money: How Bel-Air Handles the Banks Family Fortune

When I was younger, I sometimes wondered why we only saw two or three rooms in the house on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with any sort of regularity. The sitcom set of the Banks family’s home on the original Fresh Prince was like peering into a dollhouse miniature, and in some ways that helped to temper the level of money parents Philip and Vivian Banks had amassed. The rooms we saw in their home were—and I say this as someone who grew up in the New Jersey suburbs—not wildly out of the norm of what I might see at… Read Full Article