{"id":6164,"date":"2012-08-30T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2012-08-30T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:32:23","slug":"celebrity-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today, Kevin Roderick at LA Observed did a post about when Ayn Rand lived in the San Fernando Valley<\/a>. Kevin noted that she lived in Northridge during the late 1940s in a very architecturally distinct house.<\/p>\n

All steel, concrete and glass, with a moat encircling the house and a water-cooling system for those hot West Valley summers, the residence was built in 1935. Neutra was commissioned<\/a> by the director and art collector Josef von Sternberg<\/a>, at a time when the horse ranch district west of Northridge was home to a lot of Hollywood figures. \u201cI selected a distant meadow,\u201d von Sternberg said later, \u201cin the midst of an empty landscape, barren and forlorn, to make a retreat for myself, my books, and my collection of modern art.\u201d Julius Shulman photographed the home for Architectural Digest<\/a> in 1947.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rand moved in in 1943 and moved back east a few year later. The house was torn down in 1971.\u00a0 Kevin mentioned the house was in Northridge, so I was curious. I did some searching, and found an earlier article of Kevin’s where the address was given<\/a>:\u00a010000 Tampa Avenue.<\/p>\n

So, I looked up the address on Google maps. It is basically at Tampa and Merridy<\/a>, just north of Nobel Middle School<\/a> (where our daughter went).\u00a0 It’s the newish gated development space. There’s some good discussion on it here<\/a>. It’s only a few blocks from our house. Cool. (There are some good pictures of it here<\/a>; here’s a video<\/a> of the destruction of the house)<\/p>\n

(Note: Not that I admire Rand at all, although reading the summary of the critical review of her book was interesting<\/a>. I do, however, have some friends that are enamored of her, and I thought they would get a kick out of this.)<\/p>\n

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