That Door Used to be Purple.

Just as Plotnik moves into his new "let the old stuff disappear, embrace the new..." philosophy, we see this announcement:

As many Plotnikkies realize, when you punch the link, this was the original home of Great Plotnik World Headquarters, only it didn't look like this back then. A local politician bought it (you're looking at him), renovated it with code allowances not allowed to the Plotniks but granted to him, bought up the property around him and fenced it in, then decided to move away. The house is now for rent for $4500/month!

In the same issue of "Curbed" from which this article was taken, we see the big red box -- the Circuit City on Sunset that now is being turned into offices, according to the article. No mention of how it was torched during the Rodney King riots, but the McDonald's next door was left untouched. Revolutionaries got to eat!

When you think about it, the Plotniks' old house is the essence of what has happened in Stiletto. Built in the 1950s, it was a little box, next door to its twin, both lots carved out of a piece of rock in a neighborhood nobody wanted to go into. The word "beautiful" never came up when talking about Schmecko Park. When Plot and Duck showed Mummy P. the house they had been able to buy, she said "I wish you'd told us you'd needed money."

The Plotniks waited for the neighborhood to appreciate, but it didn't happen until after they moved to Saint Plotniko.

Now, if you want to live on that piece of rock, and buy scones on the corner for $3.50, nobody will tell you about the time vandals pulled the elementary school's pet goat up over a twenty foot fence so they could steal it and roast it. And you can pay $4,500 per month to rent that house on that hill where "beautiful" is just about the only word that fits.