Trailer for Sale or Rent............

Where were we? Summer heat is making my brain melt! I believe we were talking about what happened to the poor beauties who were overthrown for another in the golden days of the robber barons.  McMansions today often house newer Mrs. So and So's. Or the newest Mrs. So and So. A lot of today's mega billionaires and garden variety multi-millionaires run through wives like water through a sieve.  But that is to be continued............

Since it is scorched- earth hot today, let's dispense with our story since it is really too bloody hot to read unless you are standing in a pool, or at the beach, in which case, I hope you do not get sand in your iPad or phone!!!

As reality shimmers in the stultifying heat, take a gander at some of the largest houses in America today, some courtesy of Forbes, others from my secret stock of web finds.

Today I am introducing another feature  - The Cinderella Slipper of the Day - because shoes really are to blame for the beginning of this whole mess, and something us girls seem to remain obsessed with no matter how dire the situation!

Enjoy!

 Redunculus   -   Largest family home ever built in US

30 bedrooms! Roller skating rink, baseball field, 10 satellite kitchens, rock grotto with three separate spas behind an 80 ft waterfall   - Think these people are on drugs?

If you're going to do it ... do it right fool!

Biltmore House, Asheville, NC

Note natural mountains in backdrop.... no faux fauna here!

Or build something for your mistress and posse.......

It's good to have plenty of beach towels on hand for your guests

Yesterday.....Hearst Castle

San Simeon

Built for Marion Davies

Today....John Kluge  Albemarle estate in Virginia  for wifey-poo Patricia

foreclosed on and picked up by non other than The Donald  -  figures   doesn't it? ....

Invite the neighbors over for pizza?

Doesn't everyone need their own personal chapel?

Sour grapes?  Too bad the winery didn't make it

Yesterday...... Okeka Castle

Today..... Royal Pains

Home of Hank Med

Dr. Hank Lawson

 A few other humble abodes.............

50 Cent crib

The house that Spelling  built

Evander Holyfield

Bill Gates..... but he gives away billions!

Cinderella Slipper of the Day

Roberto Cavalli   2012

  
Tootles tootsies!     Stay cool and drink lots of H20  :)   BoomerGirl

CastleMania in America.... where is Cindy Really Sleeping?

Of course the wannabe American robber barons would build their own castles just to prove they could.
The origin of McMansions of today, these monuments to colossal power and wealth were truly a new phenomena in the young upstart country of the United States.

What many people do not know or remember is the fact  most of these enormous residences were considered ostentatious displays of bad taste by those with truly aristocratic European lineage. Vulgar!
Heinous!  Scandalous!

Just who did those nouveau riche magnates of American industry think they were anyway? However just like many of today's newly mega wealthy and celebrity owners, these incredible edifices were the place of incredible balls and dinners, sporting weekends and house parties, manifestations of the owner's capability to display their newly acquired colossal wealth.

Which mistress of the manor, or in many cases Mistresses of the manor barons, was the descendant of the original Cinderella Charming? So many ladies... so little time... who really knew for sure.

Just like their husbands or paramours, these women knew that it was all about size - the size of the estate and staff, the size of their jewels, the size of their balls and parties.   And for the men, as it's always been.... the size of the junk.

Biltmore House - the largest home in America

Often these women were thrown over for the mistress, a better business arrangement, the latest beauty, or for the most cunning of competitors.  And sadly, these women were faced with the prospect of starting over, finding work or another man who could provide the basics of life and more. Some landed on their feet quite nicely, some not so much.

Newport Summer Cottage

While You Were Sleeping.....................

Backstory of Cinderella Continues.........BoomerGirl Confesses


I'm back dear friends! BoomerGirl had to take a much needed break to take care of a whole bunch of things. Funny how life happens that way.  Anyway, where were we?

Oh yeah, I think we were looking at the curious case of Cinderella and her affect on us baby boom girls. Needless to say, the whole theory of 'happily ever after' is a flawed one don't you think?

I have a funny feeling that I am not alone in thinking that "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Our Kansas, or the good old USA is not the same USA of our past, and we are all living in very new realities, regardless of where we stand on the class scale.

After all, we were all promised we could be princesses and that fairytales could come true. Our entire pop culture was predicated on furthering the fantasy and we all bought in, only to find shattered mirrors and shattered dreams scattered around our later lives.

Sounding too grim for you reader? Nah, I promise this will not be a 'Grimm' fairytale, only a look from one BoomerGirl perspective. A rear view mirror glimpse at the mirage of our innocence, told with humor, truth and yeah.... a big dose of cyncism. I will include my own story at times.

Be forewarned fair maidens....... I am and always was the one who told it like it was, (is) and would 
always manage to say the things no one else would. As we travel the yellow brick road together, I hope you will feel free to comment or share your own stories. I will include them ( anonymously or however you prefer) along the way with the rest of the tale as it unfolds. Eventually, you will be able to see it, touch it and feel it in the form of an e-book.  ( NOT the image below)

Just Another Bedtime Story?................ I Don't Think So


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