On 07/09/2012 05:19 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> I'm in Pacific Grove (Asilomar) at an unrelated conference. On a whim, I
> told the dash demon to take me to 801 Lighthouse - less than a mile away.
> The current owner gave me a short tour!
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Dave McGuire
wrote:
I also snapped
a couple of pictures of 716 and 734.
PICS!!
I'm using a hotel lobby ("business center") computer (the "wifi in
every
room" is too weak for anybody to connect). I might try with this machine
tonight. Otherwise it'll be a few days.
No quality pictures; just rough snapshots, and no interior pictures (that
would have pushed the limits on the owner's hospitality - he had not
been expecting visitors).
He was painting a chair in the yard when I walked up. I asked him if he
would mind if I took a few snapshots of the outside of his house, and he
was way more than obliging. I explained that I was NOT a professional
historian, just a librarian who had a nostalgic curiousity. (OK, OK, "old
fart" would have been more accurate)
He bought the house on a short-sale ($850K), with no idea that it had a
history. Since then, he has heard a fair amount about it. Within hours
after his bid was accepted, other bids WAY higher started to come in!
He is not "restoring" the house, but he is making repairs, and not
changing it.
Some time, if you want to organize a serious documentary set of
photographs of, and in, the house, I think that he might be amenable!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com
