Thomas Mann Haus: 1550 San Remo Drive, Pacific Palisades

thomas mann haus by mrlange
thomas mann haus, a photo by mrlange on Flickr.
1550 San Remo Drive, Pacific Palisades. Have always intended on seeing it, but never have.

Christa Wolf visited Mann's house and in City of Angels she quotes a bit from Mann's Diaries. As you can see, I couldn't find a good photo on Flickr that gets beyond the front gate (some day). On the Net I also saw that the house (apparently very different from when Mann lived there) rents for $15,500 per month. Pocket change.


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Wolf, quoting from Mann's Diaries:

Pacific Palisades, Saturday, 10/15/49:... Letter to a German man who sent me a note declaring his love for Serenus Zeitblom ... It does me good to see that there are still people  in Germany who find something to love in the work of my old age, in my work at all -- not just something to carp about. When it comes right down to it, it's a stupid German trait always to have to tear down and belittle the best they have, anything that represents them nobly and well to the  world. No other nations do that.
 

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Ran across an online article in the New York Times re Germans on the West Coast: "When Weimar Luminaries Went West Coast."

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