this page of this thread remined me of something, I met a car friend through another guy. We organized a drive up to Mailbu etc. So a German guy I know(he is a trip) said "We meet at my place", sounded like a good idea, he said we'll have food etc then drive. 1000 Bel Aire Dr was the address or 1001, As your driving N on it on the left side. When they sell it it will be torn down for a much bigger house. Ocean views the whole bit, no traffic. Its the best possible location in LA(IMO)
When we rolled up, He greeted us and walked us around the back of the house it wasnt a huge house but in Bel Aire its in a GREAT location, wow what a location. We walked up this long flight of steps to a huge balcony, I looked inside and there was a old table, The black and gold in some pics in this thread reminded me of this story. There was a bar and a apartment style kitchen only and one bedroom, the main room with the pool table was the center of action. It was very old.
It had recently been recovered, with red nap cloth, it was level. 5" pockets with leather bags for the balls to drop into. The skirt wernt very fancy as I remember(I was pretty whacked out on pain pills back then-this was before the 5 operations). I have pics of it I have been up there many times since, but not in a year. I couldnt see but I dont think that the house below had stairs connecting to the top level party house.
I noticed alot of Sza Sza Gabor pics on the walls, like family stuff. Right then(i was wondering arounf the huge room looking at the pics) Fredick Sza Sza's husband walked up to me introduced himself, he is a trip, a real trip. Nice guy, we go to lunch from time to time. Sza Sza lives on the first floor and when Marcus comes in from Germany he uses the top floor with the pool table, I'll dig up some pics. I have never seen her once, but she lives there.
Fredrick is triple nice, but as full of shit as a christmas goose sometimes. He said that they bought the house from Elvis back in the 50's or 60's he couldnt remember. I did the math and that seemed reasonable. I asked if the table came with the house and he said it did. it sits on hardwood floors and there was signs of use of the table-or it had been there for 40 50 years. I looked around for any traces of Elvis, never saw any, I never tried to verify if it was indeed Elvis's house.
i'll find some links to Markus (my friend) websites, he is a trip too. They didnt build 2 of him, the world couldnt handle it. I have met others who are very close frinds of mine, through Markus. Markus throws his $$$ around like a maniac-he is one.LOL
Thats my after T-Day story,
best
eric
here is a link to one of the drives:
http://www.prinzmarcus.de/press/press54.html
my pic is in there somewhere(yellow car was mine), looks like he got a different house in LA.