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Architectural Smackdown

Ya gotta love L.A.
My Rock star friend who happens to be Greek, has lived in Hollywood for some years.  I’ve crashed at that place before, always a sort of non-descript large place populated by artsy types. Heck, he’s even created a masterpiece of Greek home cooking for me there years ago.  Lo and behold, 2 weeks ago Pepper and I drove him home following our outing at Hollywood Cemetery (more on that another time): the building is now an uber-Greek  monument to Alexander, covered with purple paint, all sorts of gaudy trim, and golden spirals to boot:
Our mouths were agape.
I think it’s screamingly funny. The friend who lives there? Not so much. 

http://www.martinirevolution.com/2007/07/architectural-indigestion/

Ha, and that other dwelling of ill repute in Hancock park,  monument to monuments, happens to be near my in -laws home, where I get to marvel at the audacity and white columns every time we visit.
If L.A. trendsets for the rest of the nation if not the world, how long ’til we get the architectural smackdown in our neighorhood??
Will Faux Greek empire become the new look in Sunset magazine? Can we expect those home makeover shows to start toting in the columns and naked/toga wearing statues?  Or maybe each house gets its own theme and the whole town can start being like Disneyworld, you can go ’round the world, here’s mini-Greece, mini-Japan, mini-Germany, mini-Ghana, mini-China…

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