LB's neighbors are the Golden Girls?

[markolas]

I heard somewhere that Lindsey lives down the street from the Golden Girls house, which is actually located in Brentwood (despite the show being set in Miami). Can anyone verify this?

[mylittledemon]

The real house (in Brentwood) was used for the first season of GG and then an exact replica of it was built in Orlando, which they used thereafter for exterior shots.

[WildHearted]

I believe this is correct.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

The real house (in Brentwood) was used for the first season of GG and then an exact replica of it was built in Orlando, which they used thereafter for exterior shots.

Yes, I know.

I love it when my fandoms collide. I have always wanted to know what the interior of the real GG house looks like. Who actually lives there? You know they get annoyed with everyone driving past it and taking pictures.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by markolas

Yes, I know.

haha sorry I couldn't answer the Buckingham part of the question.

I wonder if the original house is still there in Brentwood in it's Golden Girls form? One would think it would've been smashed for a bigger house or something.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I wonder if the original house is still there in Brentwood in it's Golden Girls form? One would think it would've been smashed for a bigger house or something.

No, it's still there. Here's a YT clip of some fabulous queens going to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyqkuNld4lY

[mylittledemon]

^haha, that was fab

[michelej1]

http://realestalker.blogspot.in/2013...ownsizing.html

BUYER: Lindsey Buckingham
LOCATION: Los Angeles (Brentwood), CA
PRICE: $5,800,000
SIZE: 2,958 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Looks like former Fleetwood Mac front man Lindsey Buckingham might be downsizing in Tinseltown. Although the Grammy winning singer and guitar-picking legend owns a fairly grand and gated estate with an 8,000-plus square foot main mansion in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles that he picked up in late 2004 for $6,600,000,000, according to both Yolanda Yakketyyak and at least one property record data base Your Mama consulted the sixty-something year old rock-n-roll veteran recently scooped up another but much smaller new house just 1.2 miles away for $5,800,000.*

Listing information shows the .82 acre spread sits desirably on a picturesque and prime, star-lined north of Sunset Boulevard street in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. Some of the other high-profile residents of the narrow, tree-lined street include Maria Shriver, Betty White, Ricky Lake and Arianna Huffington. Way back in 2008 Spiderman actor Tobey Maguire and his jewelry designer wife Jennifer Meyer Maguire dropped ten million big ones on a vacant lot that—as far as Your Mama knows—remains vacant and unimproved.

Anyhoo, the existing residence acquired by Mister Buckingham and his long-time wife Kristen is described in marketing materials as a five bedroom and three bathroom 1920s Spanish with just 2,958 square feet. The house must be a little down on its heels since no interior photos were used in the marketing of the property and listing information billed it as a "rare opportunity to build a magnificent estate." In case some of the children aren't able to interpret that, it's real estate speak for "this old girl is a tear down."**



The existing residence sits well and privately back from the street up a long gently curving driveway that passes under a somewhat graceless porte-cochère at the side of the house before it wraps tightly around to a small motor court at the rear of the residence where there appears to be a detached two car garage.

Beyond the house and garage there are a series of outdoor rooms defined by mature hedges and shrubbery, low red-brick walls and rows of probably near-ancient rose bushes. A classic, kidney-shaped swimming pool is sent into a flat grass pad and if we were the wagering type—and we're not—we'd bet both our long-bodied bitches, Linda and Beverly, that the Buckingham's plan to replace that pool with something more modern and with a built-in spa situation. But then again, what do we know? Nuthin', that's what.

As far as Your Mama's entirely unscientific research reveals, the Buckingham's current residence just over a mile away—a great big turreted affair on 1.16 acres and built in 2007 with six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a swimming pool and a tennis court according to the L.A. Tax Man—is not on the open market.

*As it turns out, this isn't the first time Mister Buckingham has downsized his real estate circumstances in Los Angeles. In June 2005 he sold a 1.25 acre estate in a particularly posh section of Bel Air—directly across the street from Jennifer Anniston's current crib—for $19,500,000 to a non-celebrity but clearly very rich couple.

**Your Mama has no idea what plans Mister and Missus Buckingham may or may not have for this property. For all we know they plan to restore the house to its original, modestly scaled 1920s glory.

[Lindsfan]

Originally Posted by michelej1

http://realestalker.blogspot.in/2013...ownsizing.html

BUYER: Lindsey Buckingham
LOCATION: Los Angeles (Brentwood), CA
PRICE: $5,800,000
SIZE: 2,958 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Looks like former Fleetwood Mac front man Lindsey Buckingham might be downsizing in Tinseltown. Although the Grammy winning singer and guitar-picking legend owns a fairly grand and gated estate with an 8,000-plus square foot main mansion in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles that he picked up in late 2004 for $6,600,000,000, according to both Yolanda Yakketyyak and at least one property record data base Your Mama consulted the sixty-something year old rock-n-roll veteran recently scooped up another but much smaller new house just 1.2 miles away for $5,800,000.*

He better get back together with Fleetwood Mac if he ever plans to pay that off!!

[michelej1]

Lindsey's family can't live in a 3,000 square foot house. I wonder whom he bought the "small" house for.

Michele

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Lindsey's family can't live in a 3,000 square foot house. I wonder whom he bought the "small" house for.

Michele

a hobby for the wife?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

a hobby for the wife?

I would think it'd be great to buy her a little design house where she can decorate and have the public in (and place all of her pears and picture frames), like a real house showroom. Of course, I wouldn't pay $5.5 million for that!

Michele

[michelej1]

Actually, the unfavorable way the house is described, it's probably going to be torn down completely and he will build another, bigger one on the land.

Michele

[Dex]

Originally Posted by markolas

No, it's still there. Here's a YT clip of some fabulous queens going to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyqkuNld4lY

This video has made my entire week. So I had to bump this thread.

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

The real house (in Brentwood) was used for the first season of GG and then an exact replica of it was built in Orlando, which they used thereafter for exterior shots.

Can anyone speculate on why they would bother doing that? It isn't like the exterior shots really changed ever. It was still pretty much a house in years 2-7.

Mind you, I'm from the school of sitcom thought where I think these external shots are basically a complete waste of time. It's not like we'd have been unable to figure out all those episodes took place in a house without the external shot to tell us so. All those shots really do is give me something to agonize over re: the interior floorplan not matching the exterior. But I guess it's good to have a hobby.

Cool that Lindsey lives/ed nearby, though! But somehow I doubt he finds it all that exciting.

[whitewingdove]

Originally Posted by michelej1

http://realestalker.blogspot.in/2013...ownsizing.html

BUYER: Lindsey Buckingham
LOCATION: Los Angeles (Brentwood), CA
PRICE: $5,800,000
SIZE: 2,958 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Looks like former Fleetwood Mac front man Lindsey Buckingham might be downsizing in Tinseltown. Although the Grammy winning singer and guitar-picking legend owns a fairly grand and gated estate with an 8,000-plus square foot main mansion in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles that he picked up in late 2004 for $6,600,000,000, according to both Yolanda Yakketyyak and at least one property record data base Your Mama consulted the sixty-something year old rock-n-roll veteran recently scooped up another but much smaller new house just 1.2 miles away for $5,800,000.*

Listing information shows the .82 acre spread sits desirably on a picturesque and prime, star-lined north of Sunset Boulevard street in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. Some of the other high-profile residents of the narrow, tree-lined street include Maria Shriver, Betty White, Ricky Lake and Arianna Huffington. Way back in 2008 Spiderman actor Tobey Maguire and his jewelry designer wife Jennifer Meyer Maguire dropped ten million big ones on a vacant lot that—as far as Your Mama knows—remains vacant and unimproved.

Anyhoo, the existing residence acquired by Mister Buckingham and his long-time wife Kristen is described in marketing materials as a five bedroom and three bathroom 1920s Spanish with just 2,958 square feet. The house must be a little down on its heels since no interior photos were used in the marketing of the property and listing information billed it as a "rare opportunity to build a magnificent estate." In case some of the children aren't able to interpret that, it's real estate speak for "this old girl is a tear down."**



The existing residence sits well and privately back from the street up a long gently curving driveway that passes under a somewhat graceless porte-cochère at the side of the house before it wraps tightly around to a small motor court at the rear of the residence where there appears to be a detached two car garage.

Beyond the house and garage there are a series of outdoor rooms defined by mature hedges and shrubbery, low red-brick walls and rows of probably near-ancient rose bushes. A classic, kidney-shaped swimming pool is sent into a flat grass pad and if we were the wagering type—and we're not—we'd bet both our long-bodied bitches, Linda and Beverly, that the Buckingham's plan to replace that pool with something more modern and with a built-in spa situation. But then again, what do we know? Nuthin', that's what.

As far as Your Mama's entirely unscientific research reveals, the Buckingham's current residence just over a mile away—a great big turreted affair on 1.16 acres and built in 2007 with six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a swimming pool and a tennis court according to the L.A. Tax Man—is not on the open market.

*As it turns out, this isn't the first time Mister Buckingham has downsized his real estate circumstances in Los Angeles. In June 2005 he sold a 1.25 acre estate in a particularly posh section of Bel Air—directly across the street from Jennifer Anniston's current crib—for $19,500,000 to a non-celebrity but clearly very rich couple.

**Your Mama has no idea what plans Mister and Missus Buckingham may or may not have for this property. For all we know they plan to restore the house to its original, modestly scaled 1920s glory.

1 bedroom for Kristen
1 bedroom for Lindsey
and 1 bedroom each for the kids.