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


And if you want to stay tuned, please add your email, bookmark this page, share it with friends or repost on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.........Remember girls.... we're all in this together!

A Castle... Really?

Well while we are talking about the Cleaver family, and our perfect lives, let's talk about the castle.  Who can be really sure which castle Cinderella really lived in, it certainly wasn't the Cleaver homestead. So why the big coverup?  Why did they promise us we too could live happily ever after in the castle of our dreams?


 Let's see what we DO know.  Ok, yes there really ARE castles that have stood the test of time. Here are a few of the most celebrated and spectacular abodes created by charming families somewhere. Let's take a peak.

We all know what happened here......

Doesn't this look cozy? Somehow I think Cindy opted out of this one.......

Not his one either, maybe Harry Potter's fairy godmother?

 We all know this wasn't Cindy's palace, it was the original call center for Bank of America......

What's Wrong With This Picture?

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011

What's Wrong with this Picture?

As tiny Cindys, one of our first introductions to blissful boomer living was that huge, ugly box withmoving pictures. Pictures designed to entertain, engage and remind us that we too were part

 of the magic called television. Who better that to provide a mirror of all things domestic, beautiful and peaceful .... just like us!

The Cleaver Family 

Isn't this the perfect picture?  "Leave it To Beaver", was the quintessential TV show about perfect families and all that was to be yours in the future.

Didn't your family resemble the Cleavers in every way?  Doesn't it today?  Every thing purrr-....fect, purrrr...fectly together, neat, clean, no clutter -  immaculate home and yard.  Only the rascal Eddie Haskell  added a tiny fly of evil into the ointment of domestic family bliss.

According to Cinderella, "Everyone lived happily ever after".

First Question

But the first question we should have been asking our tiny selves was,  who in this picture is Cinderella?  June? Wally? The Beav?  Hugh Beaumont? They never give us any back story on the Beaumonts. That should've been the first clue something was amiss. Just where did they come from?  Who were their people? Were they illegal aliens working under assumed names?They certainly had boring clothes and furniture compared to the Cindy Charming's.

Very suspect.

As told to us in that magical fairytale, Cinderella and Prince Charming lived happily ever after in the royal palace -complete with the royal coach and footmen, glistening, palatial interiors and fabulous gardens.  Everything a girl could want -  and a husband in tights!

Second Question

What's up with the ride?  We never see the Beaumonts going anywhere.  How can that be possible?  The fanciest car in 1955 was the Cadillac (unless you were in Europe or Hollywood with a Rolls or Bentley).  Does this look like the June mobile?

Or this?

Well it's sort of girly.... pinkish...fins like a mermaid (damn, that's another story)

Since I'm off to my second job at the moment, I will leave you with these other dead giveaway questions to ponder....

When does June go grocery shopping?  Does she clip coupons?


What does the Cleaver family really eat for dinner? We never really get an idea of their "demographics"..... so do they eat hash? pork chops? mac and cheese? SPAM?


Why the hell doesn't Hugh take June out to dinner? Isn't she special?  Doesn't she slave over a hot stove and ironing board all day?


What about the twin beds?  Did they ever have "the talk" with the boys?


And lastly... why isn't either Cleaver parent ever shown driving madly to make one of the kid's sporting events, going to school events, picking up the dry cleaning, having road rage or getting mad at the IRS.........


Oh yeah... I forgot  "they're purr...fect" just like we were being groomed to be............


Til next time pumpkins......




RECIPE FOR SUCCESSFUL DINNER ala June

Martinis
Martinis Martinis
Kraft mac & cheese
Meatloaf
Martinis

Welcome fair maidens...

.....we were told we could have it all.  But funny thing about that.....THEY LIED! 


Darlings, it's about time the truth be told. As the largest (and most fabulous) generation of incredible females, we are all shapes and sizes, colors, creeds, personality types  and one of the most intelligent ganglions of estrogen ever to hit the earth.


So riddle me this. If the above statement is true ( and you KNOW it is), then why is it so many of us have found ourselves in somewhat curious circumstances of the present day? What pray tell do I mean by this? We'll get into all of that shortly.....but as you know everything has a beginning, a middle and an end.


Girls, apply lipgloss and fasten your seatbelts.  This is going to be a fabulous but bumpy journey!