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That sucks
That's too bad. I can't understand people taking things so seriously here, though. Most of the time I am on the forum, it feels like hanging out at a bar with a bunch of buddies. I love the good-natured banter and joking around.
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08-27-2006, 10:48 AM
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Longston - Turbos whistle and grapes wine - or something like that.
I was wondering what happened to him. I don't have enough gonads to sell for that 1850 home on the lake. If I did, I'd be walking funny.
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"if your blue and you dont know where to go to.. why dont you go to where fashion sits.... putting on the ritz"
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08-27-2006, 12:59 PM
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Newport! Only 20 minutes away. Rhode Island finally has most places beat with how ostentasious(sp) these guilded age mansions are. Example:
 It has 500,000 cubic feet of marble. It cost 11 million dollars in 1892.   Chew on that, Hamptons! This one is also completely unecessary: Rosecliff. Designed after the Grand Trianon, in Versailles 
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btw that isn't a lake, its Long Island sound.
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08-27-2006, 01:56 PM
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No body can top the old industrial barrons.
   The grand hall of the Breakers is quite impressive. Not only in size, but in detail.
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This is what I see across the lake...
 "Among these are Stone Manor (officially Younglands), the 18,000 sq' magnificent Italianate palace with a 250' veranda and an expansive lawn visible from downtown Lake Geneva. The estate was built in 1900-1901 by Otto Young, a man who made his fortune buying real estate along State Street in Chicago following the great fire of 1871. It was constructed for over $1,000,000 and features such as gold-plated fixtures, a basement bowling alley, and a third floor miniature golf course astounded even the wealthiest resident. The property was a single family home until 1939 when it was presented to the order of St. Anne to be used as an Episcopalian private school for girls. The school was discontinued after only a few years. Later the mansion housed an elegant French restaurant Around the 1980's the mansion and remaining property were purchased for back taxes, reportedly for $74,000. It has recently been restored and converted to 6 condominiums ranging in price up to $1.6 million." I wish I had $74K back in the 1980's!! It's worth it just for the property!!
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The Breakers is nice, Hat, but how about the Biltmore in Asheville, NC? Another Vanderbilt house. I believe it's the largest private home in the US, 250 rooms. Those Vanderbilts knew how to throw money around, that's for sure.
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Never been to Biltmore.
The Vanderbilts also had a huge house in NY, I think it was about 200 rooms. The Breakers is actualy "small" by there standards, only 70 rooms. I think it cost them $10M or somthing like that back in 1895 or so when they built it. They had so much money it was crazy, and didn't mind spending it!
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i wouldnt ever want one of those huge homes!
if i had that folks would expect me to wear a fancy wristwatch. tom w
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