Oral History, pt 1
kuaptic strives to provide the most accurate information in our posts. We like to back up the things we've heard through web and newspaper searches. Todays entry, however, brought up nothing. So we'll have to indulge in one of the world's oldest forms of information -- oral history.The piece of property at 9755 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills has long sat empty. We have some vague memory of a pale green house boarded up for years before it was condemned and destroyed.
At one time, the house was a massive Italian villa, sitting on a fairly sizeable piece of property, as is common on the north side of Sunset Boulevard before Beverly Hills turns into West Hollywood just after North Sierra Drive (you can tell when the buttery smooth pavement of BH hits the ruts and potholes of West Hollywood -- the sound of money vanishing.)
At some point, it was bought by a newly married Arabian couple. They commissioned a number of area artisans to do a huge amount of elaborate and costly work -- gold plated fixtures were to be put into the bathrooms, along with a huge amount of tile work, expensive marbles and an outer wall made of riverstone.
There were a number of statues on the property -- nudes -- which were painted in true to life hues, causing quite a scandal. The city insisted that the paint be removed.
Near the end of the construction, they threw a huge party and everyone in Beverly Hills was invited, including everyone who had worked on the house. Afterward, one of the dads of the couple came and whisked them back to Saudi Arabia. The debts for the work that the had done on the house were never paid.
posted by kuaptic. @ 9:38 AM
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