“She embodies everything about female empowerment. Doing what you want to do, how you want to do it, on your terms.”
Back in March, one of California’s original gal shredders, Janet MacPherson died, although it wasn’t exactly sudden, the old broad was eighty-four.
MacPherson, who started surfing after a trip to Hawaii in 1955, said sometimes men would chuck rocks at her ‘cause they didn’t dig a gal surfing.
It didn’t last long.
In an obituary in the NY Times, her son, the hotelier Shaun MacPherson, told ‘em, “Whenever Janet caught a wave, everyone — truly everyone — backed off and gave her the right of way. Janet was in a category of one.”
In the same obit, her daughter-in-law, Rachelle Hruska MacPherson, founder of the Lingua Franca label, said, “She embodies everything about female empowerment. Doing what you want to do, how you want to do it, on your terms. She never once mentioned being a feminist. She didn’t have to — she just was.”
Anyway, by virtue of being one of the first on the scene, ol Janet accumulated a vast property portfolio along the Malibu coast. And following her death, the family has been slowly offloading each piece, pretty house by pretty house.
A joint in Malibu Canyon fetched $4 million, another on PCH across the road from La Costa Beach is under contract for $2.6 mill.
Until her death in March, the house pictured, four beds, three bathrooms, along with a garage and a separate studio apartment, was bringing Janet ten grand a month.
Important note: if you buy, you get membership to La Costa Beach & Tennis Club, built right on the sand there on one of Malibu’s quieter beaches.
Yet to go on the market is a three-unit apartment building on Carbon Beach, a duplex looking over Broad Beach and another three-apartment complex above Point Dume.
A windfall for the kids, yes?
Bold move selling it all off…rather, should have ‘trusted’ the whole thing under one primary residence and rented-out the others into eternity with year-by-year depreciation greater than generated income…
Why always the same ugly cabinetry in every single American house I ever see ? doesnt matter if its a 3 million dollar house in Malibu or a “120 k flippers delight in a Florida ” on one of the dozens of home renovation shows
When I am doing a reno for a client and they make a god awful design decision as soon as they leave the room I look at the closest person that is not the architect or designer and say…. Well…Can’t see it from my house.
I heard the family is giving the place to Ben Marcus.
Good for the old broad for stacking properties there https://uploads.disquscdn.c… . Imagine staking your claim in the ‘Bu back in the day before it got developed. If only.
I’ll throw my hat in the ring for The Chumash People that were fishing and surfing here, as the first wave riders. Not as enthusiastic as the Peruvians ’cause the only intoxicants were peyote & tobacco; not exactly stimulants…
OK probably operates in the red, failing businesses are a common tax dodge. Pretty sure I’ve never even accidentally owned anything Patagonia and definitely not OK.
Has much better taste than Kelly.