tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post81143948299226357..comments2023-11-05T01:14:14.295-07:00Comments on The Real Estalker: The Sweet Casa of Rachel SweetYour Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600002907755148264noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-79615501498307220132013-04-11T03:17:13.322-07:002013-04-11T03:17:13.322-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065953403625312396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-66602077611835885342010-03-10T11:13:54.641-08:002010-03-10T11:13:54.641-08:00Just dropped to under 5.Just dropped to under 5.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-39438094723134194092009-12-02T01:36:23.712-08:002009-12-02T01:36:23.712-08:00p.s. There is a ton of information about the prop...p.s. There is a ton of information about the property within that link. <br /><br />It's a 61-page document with historical descriptions on Neff and the house, external house photos, many close-up photos inside the house, an assessor's map of the entire neighborhood, building permit applications, scans of newspaper articles, you name it. <br /><br />Although I can't be sure, I think page 47 might include a reflection of Rachel Sweet's image. It certainly looks like her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-76184818712966994492009-12-02T01:24:26.042-08:002009-12-02T01:24:26.042-08:00Here's a city planning document outlining the ...Here's a city planning document outlining the application for historic-cultural monument status. Seems Mr. Palmer and Mrs. Sweet-Palmer applied. Financial or other advantage...? <br /><br />http://cityplanning.lacity.org/staffrpt/CHC/11-15-07/CHC-2007-5206.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-10947584026610177052009-07-11T21:18:32.127-07:002009-07-11T21:18:32.127-07:00Another tidbit:
"Los Pavoreales" (also ...Another tidbit:<br /><br />"Los Pavoreales" (also known as the Edward Petitfils Residence) is one of just three residences located in Los Feliz designated a "historical monument" by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as of 2008. The others are the Victor Rosetti Residence (2188 N. Ponet Drive) and the Bruce and Lula Blackburn Residence (4791 Cromwell Avenue), both designed by Paul R. Williams. Mr. Blackburn, of course, is famous as the inventor of the rollup window screen. But you already knew that. His residence did not, in fact, stint on roll-up window screens.<br /><br />Ciao bella!Kissyfacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-65586268540968856672009-07-11T12:39:48.213-07:002009-07-11T12:39:48.213-07:00One step off that Playhouse deck, and watch kiddie...One step off that Playhouse deck, and watch kiddies tumble into a ravine.. what's up with that?<br /><br />No air-conditioning was probably a plus for Madge- she hates it. Jokes about being cold-blooded go here.. Sounds like she bought it just after Evita, the Spanish aspects must have appealed to her. It also must be the house her treacherous brother talked about in his sad dishy book. <br /><br />Nice bones, but I just don't like the saltillo tiles, never have. Just me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-52219187870811287712009-07-10T21:36:36.292-07:002009-07-10T21:36:36.292-07:00Now, Mama, I'm shocked to hear you refer to Jo...Now, Mama, I'm shocked to hear you refer to John Revolta as "heterosexual".<br /><br />Has Mama, along with the rest of the children, forgotten about the hunky personal trainer he spent the early 90s sodomizing? <br /><br />OK, so he had a personality makeover at Scientology labs.<br /><br />Maybe we should call him a "Scientolosexual".CockSearch2009https://www.blogger.com/profile/07142546352670425525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-41156607358446697952009-07-08T19:20:54.101-07:002009-07-08T19:20:54.101-07:00"heterosexual actor John Travolta?" - do..."heterosexual actor John Travolta?" - do yuh think!?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-53779249151164429052009-07-08T17:54:05.987-07:002009-07-08T17:54:05.987-07:00I'll be shocked if the even get $6M, but what ...I'll be shocked if the even get $6M, but what do i know?<br /><br />Oddly the thing that would kill this house for me are the tiled floors. They're uneven (which is unavoidable) and kill my back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-79364134636011668502009-07-08T17:23:45.239-07:002009-07-08T17:23:45.239-07:00Lovely house with a lot of character. I remember s...Lovely house with a lot of character. I remember seeing Ms. Sweet live in 1978 - she was then on the ultra hip Stiff UK record label and was getting airplay for her version of Elvis Costello's Mystery Dance. She was actually tres cool, unlike all the current day teenybopper bumblegummers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-73663077701337747312009-07-08T16:34:22.804-07:002009-07-08T16:34:22.804-07:00I can stomach most of it pretty well except for th...I can stomach most of it pretty well except for the cherry red study? or whatever. Cherry red makes me want to vomit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-86736306556713448402009-07-08T15:52:04.562-07:002009-07-08T15:52:04.562-07:00make that.........stone. I apologize for not proo...make that.........stone. I apologize for not proof reading before I pressed the button. I usually only do that when there are zero comments and I am competing for number one.......just a little game!StPaulSnowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590800489107567022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-66776569911079640882009-07-08T15:50:11.798-07:002009-07-08T15:50:11.798-07:00Termite riddled white wooden entrance gates..........Termite riddled white wooden entrance gates........"you never get a second chance to make a first impression" For this price, they should have installed some hand made wrought iron and stome gate piers........that would have employed some local masons and metal workers.StPaulSnowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590800489107567022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-48816772963014082152009-07-08T14:27:00.232-07:002009-07-08T14:27:00.232-07:00I agree with Kissyface, I've done some studyin...I agree with Kissyface, I've done some studying of Wallace Neff work (for fun) and typically they were built on very large parcels. I'm sure when it was built the driveway and address came from Vermont, but in later years the large lot was chopped up and sold off, which you can see by all the small lots lining the Vermont side of the house. That would also explain the large and ugly current entrance gate to this estate.commentatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-87878005814529720792009-07-08T13:31:49.624-07:002009-07-08T13:31:49.624-07:00O, yes, here are some additional tidbits. If you l...O, yes, here are some additional tidbits. If you look up the hill at the back of the Sweet/Palmer house lot [here: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/birds-eye-view-map/20809094_zpid/#birds-eye-view] you will see there is an adjacent Mediterranean house with a multi-windowed turret/solarium on top. That turreted house is known in rock-and-roll history as "The Castle." Rooms in The Castle were let in the 1960's to many young R-'n-R greats ... such as Bob Dylan.<br /><br />During the more recent 1990's period Madonna owned what is now the Sweet/Palmer house, The Castle was bought by John Paul Getty (not the "real" John Paul Getty, but a younger member of the same family). Getty commenced a wonderful, extensive, long and LOUD rehabilitation of The Castle ... which provoked big fights between Mr. Getty and Ms. Kaballa (who likes her quietude at home). Mr. Getty would not quiet down, so Ms. Kaballa moved out. <br /><br />Getty still lives in The Castle. The outside looks great, although I understand he had to send back all the green onyx intended for the master bath .. which was finished in Home Depot vinyl instead. Pity, that. Sometimes even Gettys overrun their budgets and get hauled back to earth.Kissyfacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-67403163971275237032009-07-08T13:22:41.161-07:002009-07-08T13:22:41.161-07:00Kissyface - I agree a view (& pool) would be n...Kissyface - I agree a view (& pool) would be nice, but level lots usually mean you're level with your neighbors as well. <br /><br />Call me unsocialble, but I'll take a nice hilly buffer zone any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-41856463816500806302009-07-08T13:01:52.842-07:002009-07-08T13:01:52.842-07:00Overpriced......Overpriced......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-42142500348391667262009-07-08T12:53:23.557-07:002009-07-08T12:53:23.557-07:00Pleas multipl all above by 1000 X. I hinted I had ...Pleas multipl all above by 1000 X. I hinted I had slept hard.Billynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-79825494590895741862009-07-08T12:51:25.950-07:002009-07-08T12:51:25.950-07:00No pool.
More amazingly, the HOUSE has no VIEW, ...No pool. <br /><br />More amazingly, the HOUSE has no VIEW, despite the hilariously over-imaginative listing description: "The grounds feature rolling lawns, play house, and an ascending garden with spectacular city views." In other words, "hike up the steep hill at the back of the yard to see downtown." <br /><br />In fact, although the lot at first seems huge at 78,840 square feet, a surprisingly small portion of that is flat land reachable from the house. And a lot of the flat land is used up in the driveway/garage arrangement. See for yourself: <br /><br />http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/birds-eye-view-map/20809094_zpid/#birds-eye-view<br /><br /><br />Of course, the house is gorgeous. Very Raymond Chandler. One hopes the property come with a built-in femme fatale or at least with a sinister, rich dowager in the basement. <br /><br />The Sweet/Palmer house doesn't have any Vermont frontage despite it's alternate Vermont address, so perhaps part of its original lot was hived off and subdivided at some point in the past. Another interesting detail about the Sweet/Palmer house is that although it is now ONE story high, it was originally built as a TWO story house. After the house was finished it burned, singeing more than a few plumas de Pavoreales, and was rebuilt as the ONE story house it is today. I don't know if Wallace Neff was involved in the rebuilding. But even if he was involved, the house today diverges quite a bit from the architect's original vision (although if Neff was involved in the rebuild the house may conform to his ULTIMATE vision).<br /><br />This place is right across Vermont from the pink palace "Weeds" creator Jenji Kohan and Christopher Noxon bought for "just" $4 Million just a few months ago and Mama wrote about so winningly:<br /><br />http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2009/02/weeds-creator-jenji-kohan-gets-new-nest.html<br /><br />Love the Sweet/Palmer house. Love the Kohan/Noxon house. Love Mama! Love Jenji Kohan and Christopher Noxon! Love Rachel Sweet and Tom Palmer! Sweet, Palmer and their broker, Barry Sloane, must have been smoking some of Jenji Kohan's weeds to come up with that $9,995,000 Million price! But I hope a line of buyers forms right away at Mr. Sloane's office and the sellers get twice that! XXXXXXXX! OOOOOOOOO!Kissyfacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-22573224724283565572009-07-08T12:37:41.768-07:002009-07-08T12:37:41.768-07:00Did I sleep through the R/E rebound? 5.5k in late ...Did I sleep through the R/E rebound? 5.5k in late 2004 should yield about 7.7k at the peak and 6.2k , if perfect, now. Although Neff did do a great job of copying Smith.Billynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-15092332056632672942009-07-08T12:28:44.189-07:002009-07-08T12:28:44.189-07:00Beautiful house, but overpriced. I am thinking, it...Beautiful house, but overpriced. I am thinking, it's worth in the $6-7M range.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-44673235565787411652009-07-08T12:15:30.252-07:002009-07-08T12:15:30.252-07:00This is pretty much what I dream about. I'd pu...This is pretty much what I dream about. I'd put in some sweet landscaping and a giant pool. Lee Majors would be at our first barbeque. Way overpriced but it's only money. SOLD.OChousewifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-69254872177075106922009-07-08T12:00:58.832-07:002009-07-08T12:00:58.832-07:00Well children, I know taste is subjective, but you...Well children, I know taste is subjective, but you can keep you gauche Beverly Park monsters, and predictable Hollywood Hills modernist bachelor pads. This house does is it for me: gorgeous period detail, architectural provenance and a warm patina that only age can bring. Put in a pool, write a check to the big gay decorators and this home could totally be a tasteful show place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-86173863953850501502009-07-08T11:52:24.131-07:002009-07-08T11:52:24.131-07:00no pool!?no pool!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-35009894117886417262009-07-08T10:53:16.490-07:002009-07-08T10:53:16.490-07:00TheMLS listing states that the main house has 3 be...TheMLS listing states that the main house has 3 bedrooms and the guest house has 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, so there's 3.5 baths in the main house.Garfieldnoreply@blogger.com