Fans Urge Preservation of Carpenters’ Home

We all know The Carpenters, right? I don’t need to explain? OK, as the article states, they bought this house for them (the singing sister and brother team) and their parents. Then the girl dies of anorexia at age 32, and the parents died and then Richard sells the house. The current owner of the house wants to demolish it and now fans are wanting Los Angeles to declare it a historical landmark.

WTF?

Getting past how creepy it is for a family of presumably rich musicians to be living together in the same house (in their early 30’s no less) with their parents, what makes this house so special? Their studio and recording spaces have already been destroyed, and Richard Carpenter saw fit to sell the house his sister died in (hey, maybe he’s not so fond of the place, eh? Ever think of that, obnoxiously zealous fans?) so why save the house?

Because it’s on the cover of their album “Now and Then”? I hope not. Google the album - the house is a typical 2-story bungalow with hopelessly 70’s-ish colour scheme (my parents had the same scheme - it happens).

There’s nothing special about this house. I’m going on record supporting the destruction of this building. Just looking at a picture of it - I can smell the faux wood panelling. Ugh.

What is it with this kind of obsession over useless artifacts? Why do we clutch to fragments of the past? Because we are unhappy with the present? Uncertain of the future?