![]() ![]() ![]() The lighting was all voice activated, and at the bar, built-in faucets dispensed scotch, bourbon and champagne. The branches of one particularly large tree reached up through the roof and, by way of a painful-looking graft, a television protruded from the trunk. The beach-banked pool extended into the living room of the house itself (the underwater escape route always accessible), as did the jungle. Swimming through to the tunnel, you would emerge in a bombproof hideaway, stocked with food, drinking water and oxygen tanks. Just visible under the surface of the water there was a tunnel. The stair was flanked by two large and aggressively twisted statues (representations of war and death) that had been sculpted in the same rough concrete by the owner himself.Īt the next plateau, there was an artificial sandy beach, with a pool, palm trees and topless starlets sunbathing. The stair led up and out of the orchids, through a lush canyon of dense jungle-like foliage. It hung over the steep driveway that connects to Sierra Alta Way below-a “space-saving measure.” When attending an engagement at the home of Hal Braxton Hayes in the hills above West Hollywood, one entered through the orchid grotto - a multi-story, glass-walled atrium, with the stairs carved into an artificial coral cliff of spray-applied “Gunite” fireproof concrete.Ī quick look back at your car would show you that it was parked on metal rails that slid out to cantilever over the side of a mountain-supporting retaining wall. The exterior of Hal Braxton Hayes’ house at 1235 Sierra Alta Way in 1953 (Photo from Popular Mechanics)
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