Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Former Playboy Mansion

One of the luxury condo units in the old Playboy mansion on State Street is for sale. You can check out the listing here.

Bridget and I used to live in the building directly behind the mansion. (You can see our old white building in the picture of the patio). I used to look at the old mansion from our rooftop and try to imagine what it was like twenty years earlier (now forty years).

Rolling Stones biographer Robert Greenfield described it this way in his book: "The couches pulse with women. In the nights to come, the Stones will have their own man on the door, selecting talent, but tonight the gathering is official...mostly bunnies, ex-Playmates, future Playmates, glossy four-color ladies with polished faces and made-up eyes. None of your New York city darkness here, no clean puritan New England faces or spaced-out California smiles; these ladies are the real thing: products of the heartland..."

That doesn't come with the condo, as I understand it. You'd think it does based on the asking price.