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Bread & Cie by word of mouth gets into Henry’s, Whole Foods, plus Vons, Albertsons, Ralphs
I'm pretty sure that the 750 Bel Air Road property is 6 acres, not 8. I don't have the address but if you search BHPO properties, I'm sure that there aren't too many listed at $39 million. There's also David Geffen's 10 acre estate in Beverly Hills. I'm sure you remember when he bought it in1990 for $47 million, at the time it was the highest price ever paid for a private residence. There's also a 10 acre lot for sale in BHPO, but I doubt anyone is going to pay the price and build a single home on it so it will most likely get subdivided, if it ever sells. I believe a property in Holmby Hills that Sonny and Cher owned in the 60's is around 10 acres. They bought it from Tony Curtis for about $750k, from what I've read. It backs up to LA Country Club. Of course, then there's the late actor Robert Taylor's ranch in Brentwood. It's been on the market for for several months for around $20 million. Sounds like a lot, but considering it's over 100 acres, sounds like a bargain. I know it's not really metro LA, but there are also a lot of 5+ acre estates out in Malibu also. Greenacres was 15 or 16 acres, depending on what you read. Lloyd's heirs sold it to a middle eastern businessman. He sold the mansion on 4 or 5 acre parcel and split the rest off into 15 parcels that were mostly under an acre, but he was still able to get $1-2 million for them. Not many people know that Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers actually tried to give Pickfair away. They wanted it maintained after they were gone. But nobody would take it because of the cost of upkeep. We went there a couple of times. You could see the house pretty clearly from the front gate. Very cool and pretty good views, too.— July 7, 2012 10:10 a.m.
Bread & Cie by word of mouth gets into Henry’s, Whole Foods, plus Vons, Albertsons, Ralphs
I'm not sure that it is bigger the house that Aaron built which is on about 5 acres. Just from looking at it, I would guess the Hope estate is around 4 acres or so give or take a little. The golf hole you see isn't a full golf hole, it's more like a little pitch and put area. Plus you can tell by comparing it to the pool. There are quite a few estates over 5 acres especially over on the west side around Brentwood and in the Beverly Hill Post Office area there at least a couple over ten acres. One of them was for sale a month or so ago for only $39 million.— July 6, 2012 6:21 p.m.
Bread & Cie by word of mouth gets into Henry’s, Whole Foods, plus Vons, Albertsons, Ralphs
Dude, seriously? You just need to do a search under "Bob Hope House". You'll be surprised at how many different sites there are. Besides that, up here it's pretty well known in the area. I think he bought the place back in the late 1930's. The intersection of Lankershim and Moorpark was recently named for him and his wife. They got married in the Catholic church on the corner and that's where his private funeral was. It's a pretty popular church with celebrities who live in the area. BTW, I'm not surprised that someone may have confused the area with Burbank. The Hope Estate is pretty big. It's like a block long and is only about 3 blocks from the Toluca/Burbank city limits. The oldest Bob's Big Boy is only like 5 or 6 blocks away, in Burbank, but people still refer to it as being in Toluca, so I guess it's just too confusing for some people.— July 6, 2012 11:13 a.m.
San Diego 4th of July Fireworks and Parades
I've always said, if you're gonna screw something up, then screw it up big time so EVERYONE notices. Way to go Garden State Fireworks. Mission accomplished. Gotta give those guys from Jersey their due credit, those I guess they won't be listing thi one on their website as one of their "accomplishments". BTW, what kind of computer was it and who wrote the software. Or was it just "operator error"? LOL— July 6, 2012 10:41 a.m.
The NFL's Dirty Secret
I don't know that the "mob" has such a large presence or hold on pro sports as it once may have.DB has his opinion and I have mine and let's just say they are not the same and leave it at that. However, gambling in one form or another has been in pro sports, including from the players side probably as long as sports have been around. Pick a sport, pick a country and there have been scandals. Same goes for college. I recall a scandal at one of the SD schools not that long ago. I think it would be at least naive if not downright foolish to think it still isn't going on at some level in many, if not most sports. But as I said, mob controlled, I think not so much anymore.— July 5, 2012 9:03 p.m.
Gaming the System
Richard, you've got to change your pic. Makes you look like you're stoned and just finished a munchie run.— July 5, 2012 6:38 p.m.
The NFL's Dirty Secret
It's the first week of July and unless you're a NO fan, no one gives a crap about football right now. Last Friday, Roger Goodell sent a memo to all 32 NFL teams in which he outlines the requirements for relocating a team to hear in Los Angeles. Unless I missed it, which is possible because we've bee pretty busy, there was nary a word about that either in the Reader or from DB. Like I said, summer time and nobody gives a crap.— July 5, 2012 6:36 p.m.
UT Bringing in VP of Sports
Perhaps you could enlighten us as to what the French people's celebrated proclivities are? I guess I should take the time to point out that my wife is French, so I'm wondering if there's something I've been missing out on all these years. LOL— July 5, 2012 8:33 a.m.
No on Dead Men Walking: Ex-Con Millionaire Staging Celebrity Bash Against Capital Punishment
Around the same time as the Elvis films, she made a surf film, "Ride The Wild Surf" which usually shows up on TCM a couple of times during the summer. It is a pretty good little flick, not nearly as campy as the Gidget or Annette/Frankie movies. She also was in a movie with Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits during that time called Hold On. I don't remember seeing it in the theatre, but shown at my HS during a summer rec program, probably '67 or '68. I only remember seeing it on tv a few times over the years. Basically a knockoff of "A Hard Day's Night" allowing HH to play a bunch of songs. HH websit used to have a few pics from the movie and Shelley was absolutely sweet.— June 29, 2012 9:29 a.m.
Stock of NC Times Parent Zooms
Buffett got involved back in January, I believe. The stock really didn't do much of anything between then and the first week of June. When BH was forced to make the disclosure of it's position on June 5, the stock bumped to $1.33 the next day, which is where it was last Thursday. As of about 11:30 this morning, it's up to $1.72. I don't think it's the possibility of Buffett buying more stock that's running up the price. I think it's more likely that it's being bought because Buffett bought it. They call him the Oracle for a reason. Investors want to own what Buffett owns BECAUSE Buffett owns it. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. And that's exactly why Buffett doesn't like to disclose his purchases most of the time. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— June 26, 2012 11:32 a.m.