Seattle news ... Kurt Cobains house is being torn down
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KOMO news 5 just announced that the Cobain house is being demolished...
it is 4:30 now and the station is advertising it as the big 5pm news story...
i will be watching & recording it , got the tape in the VCR now
and will be updating this story as it airs.
lori
Don Bartecsko
Why are they tearing it down???
Wayne Pollard
In <4pblaj$9...@news.injersey.com> Don Bartecsko <bla...@injersey.com>
writes:
>Why are they tearing it down???
>
Because the people hang around it and trash the place leaving their
beer cans and crap. Courtney doesn't want Frances to have to see all
of that. Also it costs 10,000 dollars every month for security.
see ya,
Steve
RSnyder332
Just the greenhouse part of the house is being torn down, the place where
Kurt committed suicide. Courtney said that fans kept going to this site,
throwing beer cans, etc. She wants the fans to stop doing this, and
getting rid of it will, obviously, stop them from coming to the place he
died.
"A deposit for a bottle-stick inside, no role model."
David Perle
rsnyd...@aol.com (RSnyder332) wrote:
> Just the greenhouse part of the house is being torn down, the place where
> Kurt committed suicide. Courtney said that fans kept going to this site,
> throwing beer cans, etc. She wants the fans to stop doing this, and
> getting rid of it will, obviously, stop them from coming to the place he
> died.
Don't forget the syringes...
David
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Terry Granillo
Viretta Park is along one of my occasional running routes (midway up one
hell of a climb . . .), and at least in the afternoons it doesn't seem to
be too mobbed. In fact I rarely see anyone there. The infamous carriage
house is in plain view over the bushes at the top of the hill -- complete
with conspicuous video camera.
If Nirvana fans are coming from all over the world to visit the place
Kurt died, don't you think they'll still come whether the structure's
there or not?
PenCapChew
wp2...@ix.netcom.com(Wayne Pollard ) wrote:
>see ya,
>Steve
Oh please! I have been to that park LOTS of times & there are NO BEER
CANS & SYRINGES!!!!! Once again cl LIES to make Kurt's fans look like
a bunch of lewzers. She wants to get rid of EVERYTHING that she
thinks people hold dear because of Kurt. she wants ALL the attention.
she hadn't been in the news for awhile SOOOOO she had to do something
to get the spotlight back on herself & she did.
David Perle
Terry Granillo <t...@seattleu.edu> wrote:
> If Nirvana fans are coming from all over the world to visit the place
> Kurt died, don't you think they'll still come whether the structure's
> there or not?
Only time will tell...
The Whitworth's
Don Bartecsko <bla...@injersey.com> wrote:
>Why are they tearing it down???
i think it's cuz courtney's tired of all the tourists. she says she
can't even take frances to the park cuz there are so many ppl. that's
what i heard anyway.
courtney
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In article <31BC7B...@seattleu.edu>, t...@seattleu.edu says...
>
>Viretta Park is along one of my occasional running routes (midway up one
>hell of a climb . . .), and at least in the afternoons it doesn't seem to
>be too mobbed. In fact I rarely see anyone there. The infamous carriage
>house is in plain view over the bushes at the top of the hill -- complete
>with conspicuous video camera.
>>>>
don't you also agree that there there are no needles and drunks
"laying around"
and isn't it also true that it is the city of Seattle & Friends Of
Viretta Park that are reclaiming the boundaries of the park. It is a
well known fact that a portion of the Cobain driveway is
flanking the side of the park, and it is park land .
it is in fact the city that is having her and Mr. Starbucks
(on the other side of the park) give back the land ... the
hype that is spinning is not the whole truth..
>If Nirvana fans are coming from all over the world to visit the place
>Kurt died, don't you think they'll still come whether the structure's
>there or not?
>>>
>>>> i agree . you can take away the place
.......but you can't change the space..
lori
artnet
In article <31BC7B...@seattleu.edu>, t...@seattleu.edu says...
>
>Viretta Park is along one of my occasional running routes (midway up one
>hell of a climb . . .), and at least in the afternoons it doesn't seem to
>be too mobbed. In fact I rarely see anyone there. The infamous carriage
>house is in plain view over the bushes at the top of the hill -- complete
>with conspicuous video camera.
>
>Kurt died, don't you think they'll still come whether the structure's
>there or not?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>
SECTION B: "Seattle & The Northwest", front page, top headline story
PHOTOGRAPH: full colour, Carriage House upper portion & surrounding wall of flowers.
HEADLINE: "Cobain's suicide site being torn down"
SUBHEADING: "Courtney Love cites threats to privacy and security"
REPOTER: for the Post-Intelligencer: Mike Barber
PHOTOGRAPHER: for the Post-Intelligencer: Phil H. Webber
VERBATIM:
The carriage house where Seattle's grunge rock legend Kurt
Cobain shot and killed himself in April 1993 is being torn down.
His wife, Courtney Love, a rock star in her own right as lead singer of
the group Hole, is removing it in part to be a good neighbor, but also to
ensure the privacy and security for herself and the couple's young
daughter, Frances Bean.
The structure has become a mecca for fans of Cobain and his band
Nirvana. Many make pilgrimages to stare at it from tiny Viretta Park next
door. Some go further, threatening the privacy and security of Cobain's
widow and daughter.
"I'm knocking down the greenhouse where Kurt died because it's become
bigger than the Space Needle," Love said recently.
Like the Paris tomb of 1960's rock legend Jim Morrison, the Viretta
Park benches have become graffiti-filled monuments to Cobain, who has been
called the poet of his generation.
But while many fans and curiosity seekers take pictures or stare at
the carriage house and leave, others "take pieces of the trees," Love
said.
"The erosion around my fenceline is unbelievable," she said. "Some of
them try to climb the fence. It's like beer cans littered everywhere and
icky debris. Who wants to walk their dog tripping over a syringe? This is
my (neighborhood) park and I can't bring my daughter into the park."
Love said she is seeking peace for her home and her neighborhood park
by tearing down the carriage house. But that may not last long.
She is being drawn into a turf dispute involving the city, a group
called Neighbors & Friends of Viretta Park, and another neighbor,
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, over encroachments by property owners on
the two acre park above Lake Washington.
A renet Superior Court decision ordered Schultz to give back pieces
of his property to the park, although he does not have to remove a
controversial driveway running through it to his house.
Love, who is meticulously restoring the 1901 Denny-Blaine mansion she
and Cobain bought a few months before his death, said she has willingly
returned land to the city in the past.
But she said the city and the Friends of the Park may be going too
farin their efforts to restore the park to its original boundaries.
The most recent surveyor's marks on Love's property shrank her
boundary to within 8.5 feet of her front porch. If that stands, she would
be forced to cut into her house to accomodate her one lane driveway.
She said she'd like the city to grant her just a few feet in front of
her house to give her breathing space. As a mother in the public eye, she
said, the proposed new boundaries make her feel vulnerable.
"I'm mainly worried for Frances Bean," Love said as she strolled with
her daughter outside the property. "It's intimidating. This park was
relatively obscure. Then Kurt killed himself and now it's a big deal."
"I've been conciliatory" about restoring land to the city, she said.
"I've been a simp, to be honest. Now I'm tired of being nice about it."
see COBAIN, page B3...
page B3, VERBATIM:
HEADLINE: Cobain: Greenhouse being razed
>From Page B1
Love said she already pays $10,000 a month for guards and surveillance
along her border with the park - a benefit to the city. And she said she
has already given the city eight to 10 feet with no complaints.
She said she's irritated with Schultz for stirring up the
controversy - and being allowed to keep his driveway - and with Friends of
Viretta Park for voicing more concern with the park's horticulture than
with drugs and other safety concerns.
"On top of overlooking the real problems in the park - which happen
to be real problems in this town - the city is asking me now to cut into
this 100-year-old house," she said. "I don't want to seem sour on the city
because I still haven't gotten an answer about whether they'll give me
those few feet. I hope they will."
Love's concerns may be premature, siad Terry Dunning, the Seattle
Parks Department's real estate manager.
"We appreciate her situation as she can appreciate the park's
situation, but there has been no serious discussion or negotiations with
her" in recent weeks, Dunning said. "We're always anxious to talk to them
and work something worked out."
Dunning said the issue only recently turned to Love's property
because the focus has been Schultz's property.
Love says she doesn't intend to move and wants a good relationship
with the city.
THE END
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In article <4pdjve$f...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, rsnyd...@aol.com
(RSnyder332) wrote:
> Just the greenhouse part of the house is being torn down, the place where
> Kurt committed suicide. Courtney said that fans kept going to this site,
> throwing beer cans, etc. She wants the fans to stop doing this, and
> getting rid of it will, obviously, stop them from coming to the place he
> died.
No it won't. If they raze the whole area, fans will still go there,
because it's the place where KC lived and died. In the UK, people still
visit "homes" of the Beatles where no one related to any Beatle has lived
for over 30 years. If CL ever moves, fans will still go there.
