Weird looking TOC bike....

[IngoMike]

Nope, the building was sold so the Museum got the 90 day notice, just like I am waiting for. The new owners are nice enough, but they are going to turn the building into two Condo's, I talked to them and their interest is in the $. The Museum was offered some space down the street, but the landlords are silly heads, and want your first born, a personal guarantee, a buyout clause, and a percentage of sales. The landlords own most of Cannery Row and I would think that a Steinbeck Museum would be a draw, or at least a novelty, but not when the $ of square footage is involved.

 

[TR6SC]

Nope, the building was sold so the Museum got the 90 day notice, just like I am waiting for. The new owners are nice enough, but they are going to turn the building into two Condo's, I talked to them and their interest is in the $. The Museum was offered some space down the street, but the landlords are silly heads, and want your first born, a personal guarantee, a buyout clause, and a percentage of sales. The landlords own most of Cannery Row and I would think that a Steinbeck Museum would be a draw, or at least a novelty, but not when the $ of square footage is involved.

I'd give you a Like for this post, because it's a good one, but damn, it's such a shame. The greed never fails to amaze me.

 

[gkeep]

Really sorry to hear this. I know his grand niece, her grandmother was his sister. She and her husband are restoring the cottage in Carmel where he wrote. It was her Great Grandparents vacation/beach cottage built turn of the century or so. She says it was really just a hunting/fishermans shack but the family kept adding rooms over the decades. According to her they have a closet full of signed first additions and when they need some cash for work on the house they put a couple up for auction with rare book dealers.

She says the worst part is going down to work on it on a weekend and going out front in her bathrobe with a cup of coffee at 8am to get the Sunday paper and the yard is full of a bus load of Japanese Tourists taking her picture with bed head and bathrobe. Wonder if any of the old family bikes are still around the house!

Gary