OH YIKES! As it were, I was at UCLA at that time, although school had not yet started, but we were milling around, deciding where to live, so we were “looking at real estate in that very area!” given that several of us girls always rented a house with pool and then we would all pack-in like 3 to one bedroom, so a 4 bedroom house would be home to at 12 of us! LOL. I REMEMBER the exact bar in Hollywood where we sitting that morning when the LATimes was delivered with that horrid headline and the bartender, “Eddie” turned on the radio to let all of us hear the gory details. OMG. We had just scoped out a house on Bella Drive which was VERY NEAR BY to Cielo! Haunting memories. Sharon was so beautiful and very sweet.
Wow, Onyx, I’m a Bruin too! Didn’t realize that about you. My grandfather was in one of the first graduating classes, both my parents did their undergrad studies there, and now my son has applied and has his interview later this month (transferring junior).
One thing that freaked my little teen self out when I read that book was how the Manson family would go into San Fernando valley homes when all were asleep and do those “creepy crawlies” where they would just rearrange the furniture and leave. My parents used to leave the doors open, screens only, all the time. I started locking up the doors even though the Mansons were all in jail by then.
12 college girls in a Hollywood hills house, sounds like a lot of fun!!