Apparently the Eagles song, "Hotel California" is loosely based on the fokelore around this hotel.
I always thought it was about the Hotel California in Todos Santos, México.
The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
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#112If, like me, you were curious about the visuals to go with this piece, it appears that this is the pool today: https://www.dorchestercollection.com/los-angeles/the-beverly...
I found a picture of him here:
https://patrickdowns.photoshelter.com/image/I0000Hbr_mkY_p2A
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
About $0.60 currently in the USA, which is quadruple what they were at this time last year. Supposedly this is mostly because many egg suppliers had to cull their flocks due to the current H5N1 bird flu. But there is also concern that egg prices have been rising in general in the long term due to industry consolidation and monopolization. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/business/egg-prices-bird-...
> About $0.60 currently in the USA, ... IF you can find them in a store. Our local Trader Joe's (a grocery store) in SF has been out of eggs for a while.
I would not consider Trader Joe's to be a grocery store.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people still "stay together" for the children.
I have no doubt this is a widespread behavior, but I do have doubts as to whether or not this benefits children. Children seem to benefit primarily from watching relationships that genuinely make both parents happy. There's very little evidence to support that faking it yields results of children reacting as if you weren't faking it. You might as well divorce.
My friend in high school suffered from depression in part because he was well aware of that fact that his parents were only staying together until he graduated. Despite any attempt to put a rational face on it, he believed his existence was the source of his parents' unhappiness.
Another friend of mine is doing this with his wife right now. He's utterly miserable, but the racial stereotype of the missing black father weighs so heavily in his mind that he's resigned to just counting down the years (despite my own attempt to convey the above story).
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people still "stay together" for the children.
I have no doubt this is a widespread behavior, but I do have doubts as to whether or not this benefits children. Children seem to benefit primarily from watching relationships that genuinely make both parents happy. There's very little evidence to support that faking it yields results of children reacting as if you weren't faking it. You might as well divorce.
> Children seem to benefit primarily from watching relationships that genuinely make both parents happy.
I think you'll find the data supports chidren benefiting from a happy loving home. Not from the concern of the parents relationships with others.
My childhood friends were mostly from divorced parents and it very much impacted them all in negative ways. Parents are security blankets for children. It's who they run to when scared and need love. They are dependent on them survival. Ripping that apart causes harm.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article mentions that he'd go home for dinner, up until his wife died. The hotel pool was apparently also where he did his "job": being a deal-making middleman for a 2% cut, per a later description in the article. His job, or at least his former jobs, paid well enough to have a home in Beverly Hills, drive a gold lexus, and wear beautiful suits every day. So they weren't necessarily estranged - he just worked lon…
Of course when they bought their house it would have cost mere 10s of thousands. You can see why there's an attraction to owning your own house.
If you live in a place that doesn't have oppresive taxes and the real estate market maintains an unrealistic growth rate.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article mentions that he'd go home for dinner, up until his wife died. The hotel pool was apparently also where he did his "job": being a deal-making middleman for a 2% cut, per a later description in the article. His job, or at least his former jobs, paid well enough to have a home in Beverly Hills, drive a gold lexus, and wear beautiful suits every day. So they weren't necessarily estranged - he just worked lon…
Of course when they bought their house it would have cost mere 10s of thousands. You can see why there's an attraction to owning your own house.
Owning a home is always good no matter what the finance influencers tell you. In fact, earlier the better. Its not even the buying vs renting thing, renting is bad, you don't get to own anything at the end of the journey, and often the kind of things you have to put up with to save rent, or avoid getting homeless in case of of a job loss or other life crisis is just worth your mental health. Most of your life is spent paying up for the landlords ownership.
People often arrive at the scene when most of the options are gone years back, and they wish they bought at the price that existed back then. Get disappointed and lawyer through the arguments to justify renting a home.
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#118Article summary: “ Irving V. Link spent 42 years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool, where his meticulous daily routine of breakfast, sunbathing, and gin rummy became legendary. He was admired by hotel staff and Hollywood figures alike, symbolizing the timeless charm of a bygone era in Los Angeles. His life was deeply intertwined with the hotel’s evolution, reflecting the glamour of old Hollywood and the shifting dynami…
Summary of Romeo & Juliet: “A few teenagers get way too dramatic about a crush and end up dead.” My point being that for a story like this the journey is more important than the destination.
Not always. Or not for everyone I would say. I personally was just interested in facts: why, when, how.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
In those days you didn’t get divorced, you “stayed together” for the children. So they were effectively separated most of those years. Just informally so.
Many people still "stay together" for the children.
But the point is that many, many more don't.
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#120> Then Irving would either walk back home to his wife and two children What the... he'd leave his wife at home with the kids while he hung out all day at the pool with "magnificent-looking young women, full of theatrical drive" and eat all his meals at the hotel?
The article mentions that he'd go home for dinner, up until his wife died. The hotel pool was apparently also where he did his "job": being a deal-making middleman for a 2% cut, per a later description in the article. His job, or at least his former jobs, paid well enough to have a home in Beverly Hills, drive a gold lexus, and wear beautiful suits every day. So they weren't necessarily estranged - he just worked lon…
>>he just worked long days every day that afforded a very nice lifestyle.
Some people do work jobs where affluence and a nice lifestyle are kind of baked into it.
I do know quite a few people who travel for work often, they stay in luxury hotels, business class travel, great food and fun opportunities at a often basis.
You need to get lucky with the job you do.