Dooooooogs in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

[maxcelcat]

Tonight, evildoom_bunny, stillbeing and I went to visit the Dogs In Space house. It's on Berry Street in Richmond, and is being auctioned this weekend.

The poor real estate agent - there were maybe twenty people there, of whom maybe two were actually looking to buy the place. The rest of us were wandering around going "I hate parties. Where's the booze?" and "Chuck's Here!" and "Hate hate hate!" and "Hey, we were watching that" "You were asleep" "Doesn't mean we weren't watching it" and "Only one way! You know this! Only one way!" and "Ballarat! Ballarat" and "Baa baa" etc. etc. We saw a number of other pop culture tragics there as well.

The place is probably the biggest house I've seen in Richmond. If you really tried, it could have had seven bedrooms. Which could explain its use as a rental place back in the seventies when the Events were set. Although it's been done up just a tad since - has two bathrooms now, and a less bizarre kitchen, entirely lacking in chain saws. I was seriously thinking - could I scrape together the money, then rent all the rooms out to my friends? I actually asked the real estate man what he expected it to go for.

Anyone know where I can get $700,000 in the next two days? No? Bugger. And I suppose the $301 I have in the bank isn't really going to cover the deposit. Did I mention bugger?

The street itself is freaky - it's really tiny, almost no space to park on it. Heck knows where you'd put your car - could explain the collection of volkswagen beetles parked on the vacant lot. It really is just behind the Pelaco sign.

Looks like the place was a share house until quite recently. Half the folks have already moved out, but there was a drum kit and a lot of instruments in one of the rooms - looked terribly authentic. Not sure how keen the agents were to talk up the place's fame, but the instruments where a nice touch.

Great old view from the balcony. And a really weird brick building across the street. Looked like an old panel beaters, had five garage doors and a tiny flat thing on top. And a huge roof/balcony, larger even than the flat thing. Odd.

Ah well, I've seen it now, I can get on with my life. It's being auctioned on Saturday at 12 noon, I believe.

Comments

[divamelisande.livejournal.com]

your lovely girlfriend drove me past that house the first time I was in your fair city. the street IS tiny.

[evildoom-bunny.livejournal.com]

I loved that house *wistful sigh*