Future of Hendrix's childhood home looks hazy

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Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.

Danny Westneat / Times staff columnist
Future of Hendrix's childhood home looks hazy

"Excuse me, do you know whose house this is?"

A man gives me a vacant stare. He's lying in the underbrush outside a boarded-up shack. He rolls over and covers his head with a black plastic sheet. Nearby lie a condom wrapper, an old boot, some beer bottles. A ragged roof tarp flaps in the breeze.

I peek under the house, which sits on steel girders like a car on blocks. Underneath is the source of a putrid stench — a dead possum rotting in the dirt.

Welcome to what has to be the saddest monument in Seattle, the childhood home of Jimi Hendrix.

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I don't believe this house is going to exist much longer. If you are interested in Hendrix's Seattle story, you should visit it now.

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