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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:29:08 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:30:11 GMT
Alan, that was fantastic, more than fantastic. Your editing is superb. I am in love all over again!!! Linda's persona is so cute, charming, heart warming and intelligent. I love her insight into the music culture at the time and her performances here are some of the best on youtube. Lose Again is brought to a whole new level with video. Her house looked pretty clean too. No black hole of Calcutta there!
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:30:38 GMT
Thanks Alan. Though I've seen the clips before, to have them as one is a treat.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:31:04 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:31:34 GMT
That is what beach houses often look like. They are usually geared towards getting as much of the house facing the ocean as possible. I have seen many houses like that atop the dunes on the East Coast as well. One usually wants to leave town when the big storms roll in as many usually find their homes in the ocean or in the bay after it is all over.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:32:01 GMT
dianna, the picture you provided a link to is not Ronstadt's old beach house. I think the one you provided the link to once belonged to Larry Hagman. Ronstadt's is the white one in the lower right side of the 4 square in Cornish Pirate's post that began this thread. The one with the french doors on the second floor that lead out to a walkway that over looked her patio that she was walking through in the video where that guy was doing construction.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:32:27 GMT
Oh, I did a google search, and that house came up. Yeah, I can see, Linda's was more of a white.. I wonder what the home looks like now. I've seen all those houses, in malibu and living in so ca for most of my life, I am used to seeing beach houses, whether in newport beach, laguna, san juan capistrano.. san diego, ect or malibu, santa barbara, carmel, monterrey ect.. what I am saying is, I don't care for that particular style of house back then... homes are much more beautiful today, IMO.. even the older homes from turn of the century or older (the ones have been refurbished ) I have seen are even more beautiful now as oppossed to then.. landscape, interior, exterior, colors ect.. the art aspect of it.. unlike music, which I think, has gotten worse. Home styles and Decor from the 70's and 80's was pretty ugly. imo
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:33:00 GMT
Oh, I did a google search, and that house came up. Yeah, I can see, Linda's was more of a white.. I wonder what the home looks like now. I've seen all those houses, in malibu and living in so ca for most of my life, I am used to seeing beach houses, whether in newport beach, laguna, san juan capistrano.. san diego, ect or malibu, santa barbara, carmel, monterrey ect.. what I am saying is, I don't care for that particular style of house back then... homes are much more beautiful today, IMO.. even the older homes from turn of the century or older (the ones have been refurbished ) I have seen are even more beautiful now as oppossed to then.. landscape, interior, exterior, colors ect.. the art aspect of it.. unlike music, which I think, has gotten worse. Home styles and Decor from the 70's and 80's was pretty ugly. imo The 70s get a pretty bad rap for almost everything, even homes, but one could find ugly houses in any decade. Mike Nesmith lived in a house whose exterior I thought was very ugly. It looked a giant two story cube. The inside of the house though was a different story. Gorgeous. If all you saw was the interior and never the exterior, you'd think the exterior was just as gorgeous instead of a monstrosity. It was up for sell a few years ago and the then-current owner was wanting something like three million for the house. Linda's house was much nicer looking by comparison. More modest looking, too - not of Graceland proportions or Neverland proportions. I wonder who owns the house now?
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:33:25 GMT
Slide, Graceland is a perfect example.. Beautiful house on the outside (and for a mere 100,000 back then) but the inside is horrible and gaudy.. I think Linda (for my taste lol) was always on the right path, she seems to lean more towards cozy or cottage like... like that needlepoint chair she picked up off the curb somewhere in SF, had it redone and it went beautifully with her mission style tucson decor. She has a good eye.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:33:49 GMT
Graceland looks like a funeral parlor to me.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:34:20 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:34:59 GMT
Slide, Graceland is a perfect example.. Beautiful house on the outside (and for a mere 100,000 back then) but the inside is horrible and gaudy.. I think Linda (for my taste lol) was always on the right path, she seems to lean more towards cozy or cottage like... like that needlepoint chair she picked up off the curb somewhere in SF, had it redone and it went beautifully with her mission style tucson decor. She has a good eye. I've never been to Graceland, have no interest in going there as Elvis is no longer there and hasn't been there since 1977. About his home post-August 16, 1977, horrible and gaudy are two words I've heard associated with the inside of the home but the inside of the house isn't exactly as he left it in August of 1977. They've made several changes over the years since Elvis's passing and as I think very few people actually saw the inside of the house while he was living, I think those who have seen the inside of the house after his death have come away with the false impression that the way it was after death and up to now was exactly as Elvis had left it. But, it's not. The way it looks now is the way the estate and its managers assume Elvis would've wanted the house to look like, but it's just their tastes accenting Elvis's personal belongings and not Elvis's tastes. And that's the thing. Even if Graceland during Elvis's time here was horrible and gaudy as far as tastes go, that's what you would've wanted to have seen. Not someone's interpretation of what they thought Elvis would've liked. You would've wanted to have gotten a sense of his spirit, who he was as a human being rather than the King of Rock and Roll persona. Graceland today isn't an accurate reflection of who Elvis was in his lifetime. It's a museum. Would he have approved? I've got my doubts. I'd rather like Linda's tastes as well, but who knows how many people if they toured any of the homes she lived in with some of her own personal property, could possibly say the exact same thing about her tastes? Gaudy and horrible. Certain people have the false impression that an Elvis Presley or a Linda Ronstadt live or lived in a grand, exotic style, never once thinking their homes might be a little more down to earth, more ordinary than extraordinary. And I guess that can be a huge let down for some, disappointed that an Elvis or Linda as a person didn't live up to their perceived image.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:35:32 GMT
Quote by sliderocker: People who have a cliched idea of the lifestyles of the rich and famous might be let down by the way Linda's house looks in that Wonderland video, but then again, others might have been put off if she had flaunted all that wealth of hers around; and fortunately, she doesn't--either on the house, or on herself. She tries to live as close to a normal life as she can given her chosen profession, and that's a lot more than you can say for some others in the entertainment business.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:36:12 GMT
I never ever got that impression of Linda, that she lived this exotic or extreme and phony kardashian like lol lifestyle. Not once you can just tell the way she is by listening to her and her style fits her perfectly. cute, warm and cozy. I was actually a bit surprised at her tucson bedroom, it was a little more frilly than what I'd expect from her. Now, Elvis, as much as I love him, Graceland and it's decor, whether he chose it or now, fits him too.. but in a good way, if that makes sense. I mean, Elvis, was over the top
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:36:36 GMT
Linda In Wonderland ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/401/linda-wonderlandQuote by dianna: With Linda, I think she never felt the need to pile it on because she had come from an upper-middle-class upbringing, but also an extremely modest disposition. Granted her Arizona digs were a bit plush, but it still fit her Southwestern roots. As for Elvis--well, one must remind themselves that he went from extreme, abject poverty in Mississippi to extreme wealth in Memphis in a very short time. All that Graceland became was both his way not to be reminded of that hard life, and also a reminder of the fact that he was easily and (at times) dangerously bored with the way things went with his career in the 1960s, and pretty much after 1973.
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