First off, I need some time to pick out the right song for this, so it just has a working title for now. ** OK...I put this song on here because it was the one playing as I typed that last line of the story.
Then I should probably say that any pictures I post here on my blog are from the listing, if you would like to buy this 3/4 of a million dollar baby. I'll even put the listing here: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/reb/1584681923.html.
And if you would like to take a video tour, the realtor has one, but be forewarned, if you were in the house when I lived in it, this will shock you, you can see it here: http://db.stellamedia.com/dl/?video=tour326&agent=joell_mower
But what a crock of shit that video narrative is. It says, if the walls could talk, Clark Gable is said to have slept here. Bull shit. Clark Gable never left the house he lived in with Carole Lombard, his 3rd wife who was killed in a plane crash. He moved his next two wives into the home he had owned with Carole and never got over her. He did not stay in this house. If you listen to the video tour, I think they might mean that he stayed in the Rio Del Mar area.
Oh, my house, how sad. It was a beautiful big old farmhouse style 2 story with charm, and I put a lot of love into it. My best friend rented it for me after I crashed his car into some smart ass teen who pulled out of Tortilla Flats driveway without looking. My daughter and I lived there for about 7 months in the first part of 1986, she even transferred to Rio Del Mar Elementary School. He lived in Oregon and came down on the weekends to visit. We spent hours and hours sitting at my big oak kitchen table playing poker. I'm good. He's a professional. I beat him once. But while I was recuperating from that awful accident we lived there and my favorite thing was to sit for hours and play poker. Sometimes it went on from morning until late at night, just me and him.
The house was cozy, although it gets real cold there in Aptos. It is always foggy. But that's why it was so nice to go out on the front lawn, to sit in the sun. Back in 1986 the heating bill ran over $400 a month from P. G. and E. We had some kook environmentalist landlord who wouldn't let me put up curtains unless they were environmental cotton. Dick - that's was his name, and, he fit it too. I couldn't use any cleanser to clean, I had to use vinegar. I am certain he must have sold it because it now looks like it is straight out of Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil
Here is one of the photos from the listing. First off, I do not believe the sky was that blue. It is always foggy there all day, and I believe that the sky is painted in. Never the less, if it WAS sunny that day, here is what looks like.
My gawd, that veranda thing, that supposedly evokes images of yesteryear is from 2006! It was never on the house before that. Look at that picture and try to just remove the veranda with your eyes and see the farmhouse behind that ugly wrap around eyesore!
Here is the cool thing. I have a video, a 1/2 hour video taken Mother's Day, May 11, 1986 of the inside and outside of that house. It just so happened that my friend's sister was visiting with her really strange husband, and they had a brand new video camera, they wanted to try it out so they took a tour of inside and outside the entire house. It is a fun video, it is more than just a tour, it is a 1/2 hour piece of my life from 24 years ago. Its so strange that now, I can look at that, so many years later and see what a beautiful home it was in its pure state.
And best of all, I see my good friend, all the little quirks about him that I loved. And one last thing - at least 1/2 of the video was taken by my then 3rd grade daughter. When she wasn't jumping around and doing flips for the camera she was behind it telling me to Give us a kiss Mom.
I wish I would have.....
I'm not gonna beg you for nothing
I'm not gonna beg you for your love
Straight talk, give me the straight talk
Tell me what's on your mind if it ain't love
I'm not gonna beg you for nothing
I'm not gonna beg you for your love
Scared now, what are you scared of?
Afraid I might fall on my knees and break down?
I'm not gonna beg you for nothing
I'm not gonna beg you for your love
Don't you think you can take me for a pretty little ride
I know "once upon a time" and "ever after" is a lie
I'm not gonna beg
I'm not gonna beg
I'm not gonna beg you for nothing at all
There's nothing I want from you
Nothing you can say or do
There is nothing I want for you say anyway
I'm not gonna beg you for nothing
I'm not gonna beg you for your love
Music and Lyrics - Natalie Merchant
6 comments:
I'd like to see that video.
I'd also like to own this house.......
even though I knocked out my front tooth here, and it was haunted, and the building next to it was....a former school or something.
:D
Its a DVD....and I have no idea how to copy it. Look how much confusion I had trying to get that MP3 file to you on that radio show. BTW...the CD has been mailed to you from OR also. If I can figure out how to copy a DVD I'll send it, otherwise I'll bring it next time I come there, or save it for when you come here:P
You are so cute on there. You have your school science project that is a paper body that is same size as you and all the organs and you name them. Then you do flips and giggle and stick out your tongue. And you follow people around taping them when you get the camera. You were very good way back then, I guess I should have figured it out then you would be a photographer.
Yes...I'd like to have the house, but not the way it is. Did you look at the video? What a strange room that is up on top of the house. How useable is that? Off what I would consider the master bedroom. It was so charming with all the built in dressers, vanities, tables, etc.
If I had that house, like if I get 3/4 of a million, I would put it back to how it was. Who needs a veranda (I would say "lanai") in APTOS? Its foggy there. Its not even the same period style as the house. Its so strange looking.
What it really needed was a good heating system and parking a little closer to the door (not back by the school).
Clark Gable slept there...hahaha!
I SLEPT THERE! YOU SLEPT THERE!
Did you see him? Oh, maybe he was the one haunting the place. It definitely was haunted!
I can send Heather a copy of the DVD if you'd like.
Just watched it again... feels like it was yesterday!
> VB said...
I can send Heather a copy of the DVD if you'd like.
OH, Please would you?
Do you still have her address?
I'll send a follow up email in a little bit, right after today's blog post.
I was just going to ask "VB" if he could send me a copy. I just got the cd he sent yesterday.
Thanks again!
I wonder if it was Clark Gable that I spotted in the kitchen that day. Remember that? Looking thru our silverware.
I loved the closet in my room and that giant window and that I could roller skate in my room (although I know I shouldn't have!)
You ROLLER SKATED in your room?
No wonder that Dick guy didn't want to give the deposit back....
I don't think that was Clark Gable in the kitchen going through the silverware. Didn't you say he was wearing a hood? I don't think Gable wore hoods - maybe cowboy hats, but not hoods......
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