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Jared Leto's new home
https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/jared-leto-s-new-home-is--5m--50k-square-foot-ex-military-complex-225156784.html
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NervousNell
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
Honestly, I hate it.
It's very strange
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:29 AM |
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summerBaby10
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
Other than the outdoor pool area, I hate it too. Cold & creepy.
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:31 AM |
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ThreeforTea
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Jared Leto's new home
ugh the link won't work for me...anyone have a pic that they can post?
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:32 AM |
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Posted by ThreeforTea
ugh the link won't work for me...anyone have a pic that they can post?
Oscar-winning actor and musician Jared Leto recently paid $5 million for a legendary ex-military complex where top-secret nuclear films were produced, Variety reports.
The complex is known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory, at 8935 Wonderland Avenue in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon area not far from the Sunset Strip. It was built as the Lookout Mountain Air Force Station but became best known — after declassification, at least — for its studios that documented atomic bomb testing in the Nevada desert and the Pacific. (Click here or on a photo for a slideshow, including a few historical pictures.)
"Every time you see an atomic explosion on TV, for a scare film or whatever, we filmed it," photographer Jack Cannon told the Los Angeles Times in 1999.
The nuclear-related work produced there — thousands of motion pictures and still photographs — was classified for decades, seen only by military and government functionaries. Between the 331 bomb blasts they documented, they produced training films, the L.A. Times said.
From the Lookout Mountain Laboratory studio.
From the Lookout Mountain Laboratory studio.
The studio workers are considered "unrecognized patriots" for the risks they took and sacrifices they made. They'd get as close as two miles to the blast center. One cameraman recalled flying over a blast when a protective lens fell out of his goggles: "All I could do was put my hand over my eyes. The blast was so bright I could see my bones through my skin."
Many of the atomic cameramen died of cancer, one studio survivor told the New York Times in 2010. "No doubt it was related to the testing."
For the past 20 years, Variety reports, Lookout Mountain Laboratory had been the 50,000-square-foot home of artist Mark Lipscomb and John Ladner, an ex-judge and lawyer to philanthropist Aileen Getty. They bought the complex in 1994 and began trying to sell it in 2010, asking as much as $6.5 million in various listings. Click here or on a photo for many more pictures.
John Venti, a Redfin agent who visited the compound a few years ago, said: "I have never seen anything like this in my entire life. ... It is an endless property with multiple levels and areas that aided in scientific experiments to rooms that looked like interrogation rooms as well as film and weapon vaults." (For the record, we have come across no evidence that it was used to conduct experiments or interrogations, nor to store weapons. Its original intent when built in 1941 was as "a World War II air defense center that coordinated radar installations on nearby mountaintops," the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1997.)
This screening room is now a bathroom; you can see the tub in the background, and a toilet or bidet in one of the alcoves beyond it.
This is a bathroom. And a screening room. Click a photo for a slideshow.
The complex is fortified with 3-foot-thick concrete walls, the Times said, and has a bomb shelter (naturally), two subterranean parking garages, a sound stage, three screening rooms and 17 climate-controlled film vaults. One of the screening rooms now doubles as a bathroom (really -- see the photo at right or in our slideshow).
Locals whisper that there are secret tunnels, too, but the owners who just sold it to Leto told the Times: "We've heard all the legends. If they've closed them off, they did it very skillfully."
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:34 AM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
Interesting concept/idea but completely hideous house. The outside is ugly and the inside is just a bizarre mish-mash of styles and decades. I don't like it at all. 
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:35 AM |
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jendar
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
Posted by Hofstra26
Interesting concept/idea but completely hideous house. The outside is ugly and the inside is just a bizarre mish-mash of styles and decades. I don't like it at all.
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:36 AM |
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MsSissy
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
The views and the pool are my favorite parts.
And those stairs remind me of The Guggenheim.
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:36 AM |
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sorry i cant get the pictures to work but that is the article. the whole place freaks me out. i wonder about those tunnels though. i feel like they must be real but if the old owners don't know about it... I'm unsure. there is a bomb shelter though. very interesting. i wouldnt want to live there. and i feel so bad for all those cameraman who died of cancer from filming.
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:38 AM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
I love repurposed buildings. A lot of the rooms are very dated, but it's got a lot of potential. Some renovations on a couple of rooms and it could be really amazing.
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| Posted 1/13/15 9:39 AM |
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StaceyWill
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
I love it! When can I move in? 
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| Posted 1/13/15 10:18 AM |
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PearlJamChick
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
I am SO HAPPY that they managed to avoid photos of me hiding in the bushes.
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| Posted 1/13/15 10:39 AM |
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alli3131
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Jared Leto's new home
I love it. I love that it is something that most would want to rip down.
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| Posted 1/13/15 10:40 AM |
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DMT
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
I think it is cool. He is a bachelor and why not ya know?
I think minus the "stuff" in the house, it has history and potential and I bet he makes it look amazing.
Doesn't he have a band as well? I see lots of cool spaces to rehearse, film videos, etc.
He seems to pride himself in going against the tide, this home certainly lends itself to the same.
Good for him.
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| Posted 1/13/15 11:04 AM |
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JennyPenny
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Jared Leto's new home
It's pretty awful right now, but I'm sure he will renovate/redecorate the entire thing.
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| Posted 1/13/15 11:38 AM |
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HomeIsWithU
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Re: Jared Leto's new home
Posted by DMT
I think it is cool. He is a bachelor and why not ya know?
I think minus the "stuff" in the house, it has history and potential and I bet he makes it look amazing.
Doesn't he have a band as well? I see lots of cool spaces to rehearse, film videos, etc.
He seems to pride himself in going against the tide, this home certainly lends itself to the same.
Good for him.
Yes he's the lead singer for 30 Seconds to Mars (I honestly think he's equally if not MORE talented as a musician as he is an actor)! I could totally see him doing music videos there.
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Ayne11
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Jared Leto's new home
LOL I'm surprised he isn't living in a Tee Pee off the grid somewhere.
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| Posted 1/13/15 4:00 PM |
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BlessedMomma
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Jared Leto's new home
As howard stern why do hot guys try so hard to ugly themselves up? Try sooo hard to be weird Oops i mean interesting? Lol
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