Last week my wife and I spent some time in Asheville checking out the downtown scene with all the cool hipsters. Had some great eats, good drinks and according to my wife the people watching was spectacular. She doesn’t drink and I was toasted most of the time so maybe she’s talking about me. Anyway…While there she drug me on a tour of the The Biltmore Estate. The best part of the tour was the game room below with these two Brunswicks. The tour guide said they weigh almost 2,000 pounds each and were frequently used by the Vanderbilts and their guests. If anyone is ever in that area I highly suggest you take the tour and check it out.
Old Brunswicks from the Biltmore Estate
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My daughter lived in Asheville for. 14 years and still has a nice home there which she plans on using as a summer home once it’s paid off.
We spent lots of time there with her over the years and it is quite a place. Brevard is vey nice as well and I believe is now considered a Blue Zone healthy community.
The other big draw in Asheville is the weather (lower humidity) and the micro breweries!! An astonishing number of them.
She and her family are there now camping for a week!
It’s a beautiful area. We liked the Hendersonville downtown too and even looked at some properties, but we clearly missed our window for a deal.
We stayed in a AirBB in downtown Asheville and it would be in the low 70’s when we walked to breakfast each morning. Just perfect. From Asheville we went to Savannah for three days where it was 99 and 200% humidity.
In the spring, the gardens and flower blooms there will blow your mind. The only other thing that comes close is Christmas at Biltmore. The tour is pretty cool. Wild how the staff lived there. That place had one of the first refrigerated rooms/ice box or something like that, as I recall. Been 5 or longer since we've been.
Our daughters other home is in an area off the Chunns Cove Rd exit off 40. Four bedroom 3 baths, full basement with two car garage. 1/2 acre lot on a cul de sac. She paid $271,000.00
Value now is well over $600,000.00 and she clears Nine Hundred a month over her mortgage.
She knows how to make money and invest. Obtained her series 5 license at a financial firm she worked at years ago. Worked that for two years, then went back to grad school and got a pharm d at the number 1 pharma school in America. Graduated with 6 tassels and highest distinction honors...
Now she is a Medical Director for a pharma company and investing in a new franchise business. She is the first franchisee there so if it gets big she will be really rolling!
this is one proud daddy!
Value now is well over $600,000.00 and she clears Nine Hundred a month over her mortgage.
She knows how to make money and invest. Obtained her series 5 license at a financial firm she worked at years ago. Worked that for two years, then went back to grad school and got a pharm d at the number 1 pharma school in America. Graduated with 6 tassels and highest distinction honors...
Now she is a Medical Director for a pharma company and investing in a new franchise business. She is the first franchisee there so if it gets big she will be really rolling!
this is one proud daddy!
A friend lives in Zirconia and it has stunning countryside land/views. NC has some very nice places. If you play golf its heaven. https://www.google.com/search?clien...RpIB8oQtKgLegQIDxAB&biw=1408&bih=653&dpr=1.36
I remember them saying something about the fridge on the tour. The part I liked best was the poster boards about the team that built it. It was a mixture of locals and specialists from out of town as well as many different cultures.
The winery was cool but the wine they do the tastings with aren’t my thing. I did grab a nice cab to try so hopefully it’s good. That whole area with shops and the hotel is beautiful.
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I do remember they were big on no photography in the Biltmore. I took pictures anyway.
I was told no flash photography. They have some very expensive paintings- Rembrandt’s and the like. Nothing cool like dogs playing poker tho
Did they have 'pot passers' in the 'billy-yard' room??
Having a billiard room the size to accommodate a full-size carom billiard and pocket billiard table was a sure sign of the old line mansion crowd demonstrating their ability to devote an amount of time and money to travel and leisure unavailable to 99% of the population in those times.
Real pool playing aficionados have to look at a room like this and visualize having after golf and/or after dinner men's gatherings over these tables while the women shared tea and card games and gossip in another wing of the mansion. What a life!
Real pool playing aficionados have to look at a room like this and visualize having after golf and/or after dinner men's gatherings over these tables while the women shared tea and card games and gossip in another wing of the mansion. What a life!
Not that I saw. Lol
I don’t remember seeing any pool cues either.
I figured that flew right past those who aren't up on their 'Beverly Hillbillies' lore.
But oh how much fun it must have been to fk off that knda wad!!
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I figured that flew right past those who aren't up on their 'Beverly Hillbillies' lore.