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Places Linda Lived - Original Thread May 23, 2021 9:28:45 GMT

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Sep 7, 2019 at 11:15am Val said:

The rock house in Topanga Canyon was on the opposite side of the road from Linda's house. On the Byrds cover, the horse with them (Buster) is actually from Topanga Stables where I worked. Bernie Leadon boarded a horse there as well as Michael Clarke at one time.

Sep 7, 2019 at 3:46pm QuotePost OptionsPost by the Scribe on Sep 7, 2019 at 3:46pm

Val, is that old stone house from the album covers still there? It was abandoned at the time and is so iconic now. Such a beautiful area that has attracted some very unsavory characters. What is it like living there in 2019? Is it still an area that attracts artists and musicians or is that now a bygone era? btw thank you for your insights.

Sep 7, 2019 at 6:27pm via mobile Val Guest said:

The house was bought and renovated and is still there today. I moved out of the Canyon in 1976 but I still have friends there. In 1971-1973 I lived at Bob “The Bear” Hites house at 701 N. Topanga Cyn Blvd. I worked at the Topanga Corral for awhile, which was the local roadhouse. It was a great time to be there. Sadly, it’s a bygone era of rock royalty and artists. It was certainly a great ride while it was happening.

Sep 7, 2019 at 8:00pm the Scribe said:

Is this the house you lived in?

Sep 7, 2019 at 9:13pm Val Guest said:

The original house was destroyed in a flood in the 80's. This was it after the flood. The property has been abandoned since they tore that down. Attempts to rebuild have never happened. The property sits in shambles. This is also the house that Canned Heat guitar player Alan Wilson died behind.

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Places Linda Lived - Original Thread May 23, 2021 9:43:10 GMT

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Sept 8, 2019 0:12:36 GMT -5 the Scribe said:

It looks like 954 Old Topanga Canyon Rd. is next to the Hinman house. Is this the house Linda lived in? Or was it the other side? This would have been around the time Hand Sown Home Grown was released, her performances at the Bitter End and Woodstock took place. Also the Manson murders. I believe this is just before she and JD Souther moved in together at another house. Linda mentioned "we" when living next to Hinman so I assume she didn't live alone when there.

www.zillow.com/b/954-Old-Topanga-Canyon-Rd-Topanga-CA/34.101987,-118.621113_ll/

Val, were you involved with Canned Heat? They really took off as a band after Woodstock. It is funny that they lived so close to Linda and both were in NY at the same time...one at the Bitter End and the other at Woodstock.

www.popspotsnyc.com/the_byrds/

Sep 7, 2019 at 10:40pm Val said:

That appears to be the place but it has changed so much. There was a garage with a blue door that is no longer there. As for my involvement with Canned Heat, my adopted Mom was married to Bob Hite.

Sep 8, 2019 at 1:24am the Scribe said:

So you were a neighborhood kid living amongst the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Bernie Leadon, the Byrds and Charlie Manson and his "family." Was the Topanga Corral a real corral or just a music club venue (and a Canned Heat album)? Is that a place where Manson and his family would sometimes hang out? I know Charlie was a wannabe musician so it would make sense he would be in those venues and places like the Palomino Club where Linda frequented as well. I think you had an interesting childhood with lots of interesting stories to tell. That was quite a neighborhood. Thanks for sharing with those of us who grew up in boring circumstances although that might be a little too much excitement for me. This is the first time we have gotten any insight into what the neighborhood was like when Linda was living there. When you saw Manson I hope he didn't try to lure you into his cult. I was surprised to learn he was only 5'2" which is Linda Ronstadt's height as well yet he wielded such an allure to some. He had an awful childhood that honed some cunning and manipulative skills.

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Places Linda Lived - Original Thread May 23, 2021 11:10:51 GMT

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Sep 8, 2019 at 6:13am QuotePost OptionsPost by eddiejinnj on Sep 8, 2019 at 6:13am

If you start calling him "Chuck", I may begin to worry, lol!!!! I have to look it up but I had an Aunt that lived in Arcadia and Upland, CA. Is Upland near that area? I know I saw mountains from her yard and neighborhood. eddiejinnj

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Places Linda Lived - Original Thread May 23, 2021 11:13:19 GMT

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Linda Ronstadt home for sale
Diana Walsh, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Published 4:00 am PDT, Thursday, September 25, 1997

Go to this address to see photo. s.hdnux.com/photos/11/26/67/2452962/7/920x920.jpg

1997-09-25 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Singer Linda Ronstadt wants to sell you her lavender Pacific Heights mansion, complete with seven bedrooms, au pair suite, office, stained glass windows and dumbwaiter, for $5.85 million. But don't expect to get that chandelier in the master bedroom: She's taking that with her.

Ronstadt, who bought the Jackson Street house in 1987, has packed up and moved to Tucson, where she was born and raised. The rock singer, who is as well known for her relationship with former Gov. Jerry Brown as she is for singing "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," is now a single mom raising her two adopted children and apparently wanted to be closer to family.

"She's just going back home," her manager, Ira Koslow, said Wednesday. "She loves it (in San Francisco). It's just sometimes you feel like you want to raise your kids where you were raised. It just seems silly to keep two houses."

After living in Los Angeles for 30 years, Ronstadt moved to San Francisco in the late 1980s because she said she never felt at home in Southern California. In an interview with The Examiner last year, she said she had picked San Francisco because: "I like the architecture, and I like that people don't occupy 90 percent of their thinking with whether they have the right haircut, or the right outfit, or whether their plastic surgery is up to date. I find that mentality exhausting."

But there may have been some sentimental reasons behind the move, too: At the time she was dating George Lucas, whose vast film studios are in Marin County.

During the late 1980s and early '90s, she made San Francisco her primary residence, but she bought a second home in Tucson three or four years ago, Koslow said. She then began splitting time between the two cities, with her children spending their early years in San Francisco schools.

In moving back to Tucson, she'll be just one of many well-known Ronstadts in town. Her brother, Peter, was once chief of police, cousin James is head of the city's park and recreation department, and James' son, Fred, is running for city council. When her parents were alive they owned a large downtown hardware store. And the main bus stop in town is known as, what else, the Ronstadt Transit Center.

The turn-of-the-century Victorian she's leaving behind in San Francisco is located across the street from Alta Plaza Park.

The real estate brochure, prepared by Realtor Elizabeth Pfau of Hill & Co., describes the stately home but doesn't mention its famous owner with the beautiful voice, saying only that it was "completely remodeled by present owner in 1988." The four-level house includes seven bedrooms, five full baths, two half-baths, office, powder room, music room, seven fireplaces and "fabulous views." For the kids, there's a playroom and a playhouse in the backyard.

The brochure also doesn't mention Ronstadt recorded

"Dedicated to the One I Love," a collection of lullabies for music fans, last year in the house in the presence of her two children, Mary Clementine and Carlos.

The only thing you won't get for your nearly $6 million is the chandelier in the master bedroom hall. That's excluded from the sale, according to the brochure. <

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Sep 8, 2019 at 10:22am QuotePost OptionsPost by Dianna on Sep 8, 2019 at 10:22am

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Sep 8, 2019 at 6:13am eddiejinnj said:
If you start calling him "Chuck", I may begin to worry, lol!!!! I have to look it up but I had an Aunt that lived in Arcadia and Upland, CA. Is Upland near that area? I know I saw mountains from her yard and neighborhood. eddiejinnj

Upland is in San Bernadino and Arcadia is in Los Angeles... Arcadia would be closer to Topanga which is near the valley.. ... Erik would know it well.. I think..

Anyway here is a map .. arcadia is near glendale

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Sep 8, 2019 at 11:06am QuotePost OptionsPost by erik on Sep 8, 2019 at 11:06am

Yes, I live within about a quarter mile or so of the Arcadia city limits, in an unincorporated (L.A. County) part of East Pasadena.

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Sep 8, 2019 at 2:16pm QuotePost OptionsPost by the Scribe on Sep 8, 2019 at 2:16pm

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That photo of the Corral was the one that burned down if I remember correctly in 1968. This is the one that hosted so many people in rock n roll. The most iconic night at the Corral is when Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Eagles all played in August 1973. The cover was $4.00. I went to school with Randy California's sister Janet Wolfe. I use to listen to Spirit rehearse all the time when I was at their house on Cuesta Cala. Chris Hillman boarded a horse at the stables where I worked as well. I also went to a party at Billy Preston's house up Entrada when the Stones were in town in 1974. For me, it was just part of canyon life and people we knew.

Charles Manson had a band called the Milky Way. They played the old Corral once that I know of.

Did the stables you worked at rent horses by the hour? There is a photo of Linda with Neil Young both on horseback in the hills. I wonder if they frequented the stables? I was blown away by Spirit's Taurus which has been in a controversy with Led Zeppelin for a while. I imagine you must have heard them practice that tune. It is very hypnotic. Who are the men pictured with Bob? Quite a collection of albums. First I heard of Milky Way. I wonder if that was before or after Manson's affiliation with Dennis Wilson? Oh, what was the occasion that you had to look Manson in the eyes? I hope you write a memoir if not for anything else but family history.

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Topanga Stables was for boarding and rentals of horses and was located at 121 Old Topanga Canyon Rd. Most likely they rented those horses from the stable but I only saw Linda up there once. Neil lived up on the hill above the stable in the Fernwood neighborhood. For a short time I washed dishes for his first wife, Susan Acevedo at her restaurant Canyon Kitchen. Neil would often come in and sit in the corner with a guitar.The men in the photo with Bob Hite are Fito de la parra the drummer for the Heat. That was in our living room of the house at 701 N. Topanga Cyn Blvd. The other guy I don't remember. When I saw Manson, he was at the Center, which was the local shopping center in Topanga. He hung around there a lot always talking to girls. He wanted them to go to his ranch but I had to work and wasn't interested.

Here is the Young/Ronstadt horses. Recognize the horses? (just kidding)

Sep 8, 2019 at 5:21pm the Scribe said:

It might just be me but Fito looks like he could be Charlies second cousin. Every time you comment you have something new and interesting to say. The cool thing is you lived around these people early in their careers when life was exciting. When you said Charlie hung around the Center that must be where Linda said she had seen the different girls around the area. I wonder if Gary Hinman's murder is what made Linda move? And then to find out the murder was because of the Manson family members would have had me on the next flight because no one knew who all the people in his sphere were. Some wisely left right before the killing spree. Thank goodness you had a job, had to work and had a good head on your shoulders to stay away from him. Val, did you ever get into the music business or were you just content to stay on the sidelines?

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Linda Ronstadt’s Childhood Home by Maynard Dixon #shorts #maynarddixon #westernart

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I can't tell you how much time I spent trying to figure this out by comparing Linda's childhood home photos to that Maynard Dixon painting! lol Finally resolved. Now, just a few more lingering questions before I can die in peace.

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