I've posted previously about Oakwood Worldwide and a possible link with the CIA , and their partnership with the Marriott International who work with the Clintons in Haiti, and their real estate portfolio which includes properties within walking distance of Comet Ping Pong .
So, delving further. I've seen a list of people who have died at the Oakwood Apartments but for the moment, I can't find the link. Rick James is one of those stars that also met his end here.
The complex is described as : http://www.seeing-stars.com/Hotels/Oakwood.shtml
The Oakwood had once been called "the largest singles complex on earth,"
http://ew.com/article/2012/05/11/oakwood-apartments-michelle-williams-wuz-here/
Oakwood Worldwide is a corporate housing giant with 25,000 temporary-living locations throughout the world. The Toluca Hills outpost, perched on a hill between Hollywood and Burbank, was never intended to be a destination for aspiring child stars. When Oakwood’s activities director, Rosie Forti — a 64-year-old former seamstress with bad knees and a dramatic swoosh of white across her short black hair — first joined the company back in 1973, her job was to amuse a population of swinging singles. ”It was just a free-for-all,” recalls senior property manager Brett Hughett. That changed in 1988, when the Fair Housing Act added an amendment that made it illegal to deny housing to families with children.
It was a place for swingers: Oakwood Shedding Old Swinging Image
What clinched Oakwood's early reputation as "swinging singles central" was the fact that it was built by R&B Enterprises, a California company that was well-known in the Los Angeles area for its adults-only apartment developments -- and some of the adults-only games the tenants were said to play. Thus, Oakwood's reputation was assured before the first brick was in place.
Another complex associated with Oakwood Worldwide >>>
Remembering Torrance's Singles-Only Apartments of the 1960s
The Milano Apartments is a nondescript, 248-unit complex in Torrance that's just sold for *$60.75 million (it's likely to continue being apartments). Few would guess, however, that it began life in 1965, and enjoyed considerable national fame, as The South Bay Club, one of the first singles-only apartment buildings, according to the Daily Breeze's South Bay History. The swinging singles domain was featured in Time magazine and the LA Times, with each outlet getting more and more salacious interviews from residents, described by the former as "500 single stewardesses, doctors, teachers, engineers, secretaries and salesmen" (so you can probably imagine the shenanigans they got up to). The party kept going until about 1969 when the marketing plan (and name) changed, and the SBC became a dreaded Oakwood, but those first four years sound pretty nuts.
A present day property listing which shows on the Oakwood website a listing at the Torrance complex http://www.oakwood.com/oakwood/furnished/US/CA/Torrance/prop1385.html
South Bay Club http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history/2009/11/18/south-bay-club/
The company’s trio of Howard Ruby, Ed Broida and Ken Franks enivisioned a facility that would cater to the needs of young single people, with no married couples allowed.
http://www.oakwood.com/action/oakwood/cms/history.html
So in the sixties there was a push for singles complexes: New housing for new households in mid-century America.
In 1972, novelist Cynthia Buchanan published Maiden, a parody of mass-market post-collegiate life in the bleached-blonde world of Los Angeles when the birth control pill was still new.
(Interesting book cover: https://imgur.com/a/UUY21 )
To help program the South Bay Club, R&B partnered, initially, with the Never On Friday Club — the first of several large social organizations for singles that flourished in U.S. cities in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, and the model for Maiden’s Dionysus West. The idea was concocted in 1961 by four young bachelors who shared a house in Long Beach; one of them in particular, an enterprising engineer at North American Aviation named Dick Hoagland, ...
By 1963, Hoagland was hosting parties at the Lakewood County Club; soon he quit his aerospace job and incorporated Never on Friday, targeting “single, fun-loving young adults, 21 – 35,” and playing on the idea that Fridays were not for steady dates but instead for new friends.
Looking further into CIA connections with Sixties counterculture led me to the work of David McGowan and Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles- connects to Tavistock and Esalen Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeFGqYHsW8k
Video description: Celebrity road and the Wonderland path. Who is behind Pop Culture? Music Stars why and what are they involved with, and for what reason is Laurel Canyon a CIA, Military mind-control psyops center? Is this an outlying diabolical covert Black-ops Institution? The Fabian Society, Tavistock, Esalen Institute, etc. Who are the custodians of all of this.
Factfinder2 ago
Oakwood's Child Actor Program: http://www.oakwood.com/cms/child-actor-program.html (http://archive.is/3fCoK))
Factfinder2 ago
Background on the beginnings of Oakwood:
In this 2014 Forbes interview with Howard Ruby of Oakwood Worldwide http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/howard-ruby-the-father-of-corporate-housing/, Ruby says the company’s first venture was intended to provide housing for employees of the space program and military.
“Back in the ’60s, people were coming to California for the space program and the military, while the war built up in Vietnam. People wanted a place to meet others, so in 1965 we launched an apartment complex in Torrance called the South Bay Club. Our slogan was “Live where the fun is.”
Ruby was fresh out of the Navy himself, having served as the supply officer on a destroyer that traveled the world. “That exposure influenced the rest of my life,” he said.
Space program employees would have included those from nearby companies like Jet Propulsion Lab, which had been cofounded by occultist Jack Parsons and from which he was later expelled because of his association with Aleister Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
cantsleepawink ago
I saw this article but didn't read it thoroughly and completely missed the space program and military references. Thank you.
Factfinder2 ago
Yes. Appreciate your work on the puzzle.
Factfinder2 ago
https:// disobedient media dot com/2017/01/pedowood-the-hollywood-complex-at-the-heart-of-a-celebrity-child-sex-ring/
(http://archive.is/uxpvm))
http://deadline.com/2015/04/sex-offender-child-actors-oakwood-apartments-1201410736/ (http://archive.is/WyM0s))
carmencita ago
I looked up some of the reports of Rick James' death and there were mixed reports. Some were natural causes and others accidental death. Hmm. One said he took a cocktail of drugs. Does this mean they were all taken at once like you do with a drink, or separately and mindlessly thus causing someone to lose track of what was taken. This also causes another Hmm.
cantsleepawink ago
Frank Zappa Exposing the NWO
derram ago
https://files.catbox.moe/kqvs4l.jpg :
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=SeFGqYHsW8k | https://www.hooktube.com/embed/SeFGqYHsW8k :
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