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Post by NoShear on Dec 16, 2023 18:44:52 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Dec 16, 2023 18:47:41 GMT
Nice write-up! And great photos.
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Post by NoShear on Dec 16, 2023 18:55:22 GMT
Nice write-up! And great photos. Thanks, TopBilled... The hacienda house's (final) owner of about twenty years, school principal Rose Hopgood, tried to have the once Buck Jones estate declared a landmark, but with no takers, unfortunately saw the proverbial wrecking ball in 1980. |
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Post by topbilled on Dec 16, 2023 18:57:43 GMT
Nice write-up! And great photos. Thanks, TopBilled... The hacienda house's (final) owner of about twenty years, school principal Rose Hopgood, tried to have the once Buck Jones estate declared a landmark, but with no takers, unfortunately saw the proverbial wrecking ball in 1980. |
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 16, 2023 19:04:58 GMT
That's a very nice writeup, especially since you had a personal connection. Thank you for sharing that with us.
It's a shame the home couldn't have been saved. I see that happen in NYC all the time. The unfortunate reality is that it costs a lot of money to keep an old building or home going as is and sometime the economics just don't support it.
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Post by NoShear on Dec 16, 2023 19:37:53 GMT
Thanks, TopBilled... The hacienda house's (final) owner of about twenty years, school principal Rose Hopgood, tried to have the once Buck Jones estate declared a landmark, but with no takers, unfortunately saw the proverbial wrecking ball in 1980. OK, TopBilled, I won't tell you... The Laurel 'n' Hardy workshop, which was located at or very near the same intersection as the Buck Jones estate - Hazeltine and Magnolia, also is long gone:  |
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Post by sagebrush on Dec 16, 2023 21:22:36 GMT
Nice write-up! And great photos. Thanks, TopBilled... The hacienda house's (final) owner of about twenty years, school principal Rose Hopgood, tried to have the once Buck Jones estate declared a landmark, but with no takers, unfortunately saw the proverbial wrecking ball in 1980.
I was just going to ask if it was still standing....  |
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Post by NoShear on Dec 16, 2023 21:59:33 GMT
Thanks, TopBilled... The hacienda house's (final) owner of about twenty years, school principal Rose Hopgood, tried to have the once Buck Jones estate declared a landmark, but with no takers, unfortunately saw the proverbial wrecking ball in 1980.
I was just going to ask if it was still standing.... I'd planned to one day revisit the school and should've when I had the thought, sagebrush: In seemingly the next instant, I was regretfully gazing at razed dirt. |
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