The Log Cabin - Revision history

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−	'''The Log Cabin''' was a house, located at [[2401]] [[Laurel Canyon]] Boulevard in [[Los Angeles]]. The Log Cabin was home to the Zappa's from May to September 1968. Afterwards, Zappa moved to 7885 Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills, L.A., where he would live until his death in 1993.	+	'''The Log Cabin''' was a house, located at [[2401]] [[Laurel Canyon]] Boulevard in [[Los Angeles]]. The Log Cabin was home to the Zappa's from May to September 1968. Afterwards, Zappa moved to [[7885 Woodrow Wilson Drive]] in the Hollywood Hills, L.A., where he would live until his death in 1993.

	==Background==		==Background==

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-Located at [[2401]] Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The Log Cabin was home to the Zappa's from May to September 1968.
+'''The Log Cabin''' was a house, located at [[2401]] [[Laurel Canyon]] Boulevard in [[Los Angeles]]. The Log Cabin was home to the Zappa's from May to September 1968. Afterwards, Zappa moved to 7885 Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills, L.A., where he would live until his death in 1993.
-It was originally built as the Laurel Tavern in 1913 and had a 2,000+ square-foot formal dining room, guest rooms, and a bowling alley in the basement level. Gail Zappa described it as “huge and vault-like and cavernous".  The Tavern had been turned into a home by the silent-era film star [[wikipedia:Tom Mix|Tom Mix]].  It had beed extended with what was known as The Tree House by the architect [[wikipedia:Robert Byrd (architect)|Robert Byrd]] in the 1920s.
+==Background==
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 <blockquote>"Frank Zappa's house in the canyon, which I visited several times, looked exactly like a troll's kingdom.  Fuzzy haired women lounged in long antique dresses, and naked children ran to and fro while Frank sat behind piles of electronic equipment discussing his latest ideas for orchestrating satirical hippie rock music. Never a druggie, Frank openly made fun of the very counter-culture he was helping to sustain." — [[Grace Slick]], ''Somebody to Love?'' (1998 Autobiography ISBN 044652302X) </blockquote>
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 Pictures by Cal Schenkel.
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 Located at [[2401]] Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The Log Cabin was home to the Zappa's from May to September 1968.
-It was originally built as the Laurel Tavern in 1913 and had a 2,000+ square-foot formal dining room, guest rooms, and a bowling alley on the basement level. Gail Zappa described it as “huge and vault-like and cavernous".  The Tavern had been turned into a home by the silent-era film star [[wikipedia:Tom Mix|Tom Mix]].  It had beed extended with what was known as The Tree House by the architect [[wikipedia:Robert Byrd (architect)|Robert Byrd]] in the 1920s.
+It was originally built as the Laurel Tavern in 1913 and had a 2,000+ square-foot formal dining room, guest rooms, and a bowling alley in the basement level. Gail Zappa described it as “huge and vault-like and cavernous".  The Tavern had been turned into a home by the silent-era film star [[wikipedia:Tom Mix|Tom Mix]].  It had beed extended with what was known as The Tree House by the architect [[wikipedia:Robert Byrd (architect)|Robert Byrd]] in the 1920s.
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-Located at [[2401]] Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Home to the Zappa's during 1968.
+[[image:LogCabin.jpeg|right|thumb|300px|The Log Cabin]]
-[[File:ZappaAtLogCabin.jpg|thumb|right]]
+Located at [[2401]] Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The Log Cabin was home to the Zappa's from May to September 1968.
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 one-lane bowling alley and enough space for the band to rehearse. It had two walk-in safes -- like
 bank vaults -- and a subbasement which had probably been a wine cellar. It was rustic and decrepit; it
-really looked like an old-time log cabin, with rough-hewn wood, bristling with splinters.</p></blockquote>
+really looked like an old-time log cabin, with rough-hewn wood, bristling with splinters. - -[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</blockquote>
-<div align=right>-[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
+The Log Cabin was destroyed in a fire around 1970.
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