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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:37:03 GMT
Speaking of homes.. Did Linda also live in Brentwood near Rockingham (the simpson house)? I remember she mentioned Nicole Brown Simpson during the O.J. trial.. they'd walk their dogs.. together..
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:37:27 GMT
Speaking of homes.. Did Linda also live in Brentwood near Rockingham (the simpson house)? I remember she mentioned Nicole Brown Simpson during the O.J. trial.. they'd walk their dogs.. together.. That would be incredibly interesting fodder for her memoir along with her propinquity to Charles Manson in the earlier years. Anything she could give us about those years and location would be great. I think that whole time period and the Canyon location is legendary on the verge of mythic and will eventually become a popular focus by the public for years to come.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:37:50 GMT
Ronstadt's house on Jackson in Pacific Heights was her fanciest, and even it was modest compared to most of those around it. The house she lives in San Fran today is common compared to the one on Jackson, though it still is a very nice home. If you google you can see photos of it while it was for sale right before she bought it. It is very intrusive to be checking out her home but homes speak of their owner when they can afford to choose the one they want. The older Ronstadt gets the less she seems to need, which means the person is on the right track IMO. MORE means MORE...upkeep, worry, bills...
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:38:15 GMT
Ronstadt's house on Jackson in Pacific Heights was her fanciest, and even it was modest compared to most of those around it. The house she lives in San Fran today is common compared to the one on Jackson, though it still is a very nice home. If you google you can see photos of it while it was for sale right before she bought it. It is very intrusive to be checking out her home but homes speak of their owner when they can afford to choose the one they want. The older Ronstadt gets the less she seems to need, which means the person is on the right track IMO. MORE means MORE...upkeep, worry, bills... wow, houses are still very very expensive, and esp in ca (san fran and la/oc esp) Linda did mention this.(high cost) That newer san fran home, around 2 mil, (and I choke when saying this) was probably more in her budget. I don't know what her needs are these days or if she needs more or less.. but she chose a very very expensive area in the US to live.. (from Tucson) to SF it's all about location.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:38:39 GMT
I am sure she can afford it and like everyone else deserves to be happy in her final years.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:39:13 GMT
wow, houses are still very very expensive, and esp in ca (san fran and la/oc esp) Linda did mention this.(high cost) That newer san fran home, around 2 mil, (and I choke when saying this) was probably more in her budget. I don't know what her needs are these days or if she needs more or less.. but she chose a very very expensive area in the US to live.. (from Tucson) to SF it's all about location. I tend to think the housing market is one very overpriced market. I recall Linda was taken aback by how expensive homes in the San Francisco area had gotten but I didn't think San Francisco was that much different from any other location in the US. Like what seems to be the case on everything else going on in the US with the cost of living, the cost of housing is way out of proportion to the wages earned. Of course, Linda probably paid cash and likely didn't have to take out a mortgage, so she probably wouldn't have to worry about that count. But, should she ever decide to sell and relocate again, I'd hope she'd get what she paid for it although there are hundreds if thousands of stories about homes whose value have decreased considerably from their selling price. I don't know what her needs are either but I recall reading on her wikipedia entry that when her adopted son Carlos turned 18 earlier this year, he sought out his birth parents, found them, took their last name and I guess moved out to be with them. I had to wonder how Linda felt about that if the entry was true? Was it with her blessing or was it a bitter slap in the face? I haven't read anything on whether her adopted daughter Mary still lives at home with her or has moved out but if Linda is the only one living in the home, well, ir may be more than what she needs but it may just be what she likes.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:39:45 GMT
Wow, how awful about her son....
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:40:11 GMT
That sounds like something a "hater" would put on there for a laugh if you ask me. I wouldn't put money on it if I were you.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:40:38 GMT
That sounds like something a "hater" would put on there for a laugh if you ask me. I wouldn't put money on it if I were you. Given there isn't much info to be found as to the validity of the story, I don't know that it's true. But, the bad part is, I don't know that it's false either. I know adopted children often seek out their biological parents for various reasons including knowing who they really are, what medical issues they may need to know about, what other siblings they may have, et al. If the story is true, Carlos may have sought out his birth parents with Linda's knowledge, encouragement and blessing. I'd certainly hope so but the other side of that coin is that if true and Linda didn't know about it, I think it would be a slap in the face because she gave him 18 years of her life to raise him. But, here again, given it's an entry on wikipedia and a lot of stuff posted there has never been verified as to the accuracy, it's possible a hater could've posted the info just to get a rise out of people. But, you have to think who was the hater hoping would see the info? Linda? Or members of her family or friends or someone they thought could get the info back to Linda in some way? My guess is that if that was the case, they wasted their time as I couldn't see Linda giving two bits about what was written on her wikipedia entry. I couldn't even see her even knowing what wikipedia is, given she's not into computers (or says she's not into them).
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:41:02 GMT
Just had another look at the wikipedia entry for Linda. The reference to her son has been modified to where it just says he took the last names of his birth parents. The part about Carlos moving out and moving closer to his birth parents is no longer there. As with all wikipedia entries, never any indication who put it there in the first place or who removed it or why.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:41:25 GMT
Just something that Linda, if she feels the need to, will detail in her memoir (IMHO).
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:41:48 GMT
Mark Islam told me that Ronstadt Generations was visiting up in San Francisco with Linda and her children, in fact, he mentioned a performance in San Jose that Carlos and Mary were going to be part of, so I am pretty sure what is on Wiki is bull. When I was in line for a Jimmy Webb show with Mark at the Roxy in LA there were people behind who were speaking of Linda like they knew her, she had just adopted Carlos and they mentioned it was an open adoption. They also spoke of the heartache she went through when the child she was adopting fell apart, before she adopted her son, after she did her daughter. If anything he found his birth parent/parents and she knows and is/was supporting of it. The fact that some put it like he dropped Linda to return to his birth parents at the age of 18...on wiki...it's bull from a "hater" most likely, and if it is anything Carlos found his birth parent/s and she helped him do so. I feel like I am over stepping and repeating something Mark told me, but I can't not say something with people starting to write negative crap. You can be sure Ronstadt wants her life with her children private so maybe we should drop it and move on
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:42:10 GMT
Ronstadt Generations has done several of Mark's shows in LA and Mark doesn't talk bull, this conversation we had via email was when the band was up in San Fran with her days before they were performing at Marks show in LA. The last one Ronstadt Generations appeared at.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:42:47 GMT
The business about Linda's son seems like hogwash to me. In the first place, the reference cited on Wikipedia is a Sept. 1997 article from the San Fransico Chronicle. Even if you look past the fact that an 18 year-old was 3 years old at the time--unlikely to even contemplate the notion of "birth parents", the article is still availabe online: the only information about Linda's children are their first names. If there were no source it all, this could at least qualify as an unseemly rumor. Since the source cited is erroneous, however, its just a good old-fashioned fabrication. Kudos to Linda for keeping her family out of the limelight and the foolishness that comes with it. end page 1
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 24, 2021 22:45:18 GMT
Linda In Wonderland ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/401/linda-wonderlandLast part of djays post says all that needs to be said about her children. He said it well, let's out of respect for "our girl" not be discussing her life w/kids on this website unless we are speaking of something she has said concerning them herself in the press.
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