29th March 2007

You Can Be Bobby Darin, and I’ll Be Sandra Dee

Posted by at 11:56 pm
Bobby Darin's house, photo by Jim Cherry
Bobby Darin’s house, photo by Jim Cherry
Dale Sizer pretends he's Bobby
Dale Sizer pretends he’s Bobby

My friend Jim Cherry just went on a tour of Bobby Darin’s midcentury Hollywood Hills home, and he wrote up the tour with photos in a recent blog post on his MySpace. Dale Sizer, who happened to be mentioned in my post earlier today, was also there to check out the digs.

The house is at 1411 Rising Glen Road, and has 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. Jim reports that it’s relatively un-mucked with. It’s being offered for just shy of 3.7M. Here’s the property’s website, with a full photo tour.


Posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 11:56 pm | Filed under Design, Midcentury
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There are currently 5 responses to “You Can Be Bobby Darin, and I’ll Be Sandra Dee”

  1. 1 On March 30th, 2007, MrBaliHai said:

    Great stuff. Leave it to Jim to make the first MySpace page I’ve ever seen that doesn’t make my head explode with a riot of bad design and embedded audio.

    Whatever happened to his Cartopia project?

    http://cartopia.us/

    posted on March 30th, 2007 at 3:59 am

  2. 2 On March 30th, 2007, Humuhumu said:

    Good question! I’ll ping him.

    posted on March 30th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

  3. 3 On March 30th, 2007, Humuhumu said:

    Just heard back from Jim — Cartopia is moving forward in a big way. I’m waiting to hear back from him how much of the info he gave me is okay for public consumption.

    Also, he says Danny DeVito was just arriving at Bobby Darin’s house as he was leaving. Who knew DeVito was a midmod fan?

    posted on March 30th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

  4. 4 On March 30th, 2007, Jim Cherry’s Cartopia » Junkyard Clubhouse said:

    [...] a comment on the Bobby Darin post, I was prompted by the always-on-it-like-a-bonnet Mr. Bali Hai to ask my friend Jim Cherry about [...]

    posted on March 30th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

  5. 5 On March 30th, 2007, Humuhumu said:

    In case that trackback above isn’t obvious — I just posted the full scoop on Jim’s Cartopia project here:

    Jim Cherry’s Cartopia

    posted on March 30th, 2007 at 7:18 pm