Long ago and far away, after the War-to-End-All-Wars and before Mexico retook possession, Los Angeles was a magic place.
Tinseltown, Hollywood, Movie Stars, Big Bucks and Irrational Exuberance.
Some of the people with the money also had imagination... or some of the people with imagination figured out how to get some of that money by building houses the people with money wanted.
Either way, some fairy-tale homes were built a few of which still exist.
I love these places but creating one today would be soooo expensive. Even away from the stratospheric CA real estate (land) costs. The battle with zoning boards, banks and inspectors, to not build a ticky tacky box, would be expensive and exhausting.
You'd have to be rich enough to have other people do that battle while you lived somewhere else.
But it sure would be cool.
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