The floor is painted a muted black, except in the area where traffic has worn the paint away. There’s a nice brick fireplace flanked by floor-to-ceiling mirrors on one side and what appear to be more sheet-wrapped couches (along with another gigantic mirror) on the other. A green couch is draped in a white sheet.įuther on, a living room. Moving inside, we encounter a wood-paneled parlor with a pool table sporting burgundy felt to match the 1970s-casino vibe carpet and a couple of similar vintage vinyl-wrapped diner booths. At least there’s plenty of seating, from picnic tables to a fire pit to a few couches draped in white fabric. There’s the signature pool, along with a purple-lined above ground spa that has, for one reason or another, been drained.
Some of the first photos we see are of the exterior. The dead-end location abutting two freeways promises “minimal or no traffic,” while there is “ample pool room toward the back of the property. “Great potential considering the surrounding land use,” is how listing materials for the property describe its current state. However, it seems the striking brick façade, with an ornate chimney cutout and custom iron work near the entryway, are about all that remind us of the home’s former grandeur. With over 5100 square feet of living space, it was and still is considerably larger than other contemporary homes, particularly for a neighborhood where the average monthly rent just barely tops $1100 in a city where $2000-plus is almost a given housing cost.Īs a signature touch, Moore had a custom swimming pool dug in the shape of a boxing glove that easily stands out on Google Earth to this day. Moving up to a true heavyweight later in his career, Moore sparred with (and was defeated by) both Rocky Marciano and a young Muhammad Ali, the latter of whom would be among legends such as George Foreman whom Moore trained at one point in his career.īuilt in either 1935 or 1950 (depending on whether you believe the listing retrieved from Zillow or the tax rolls), Moore’s former home at 3517 E Street boasts a majestic red brick exterior that contrasts sharply with the muted stucco finishes adorning most California residences.
Active from 1935 through 1963 and one of the only pugilists to sustain a career spanning four decades, Moore sparred to a record of 186-23-10 and is still regarded as one of the best light-heavyweights of all time. Most of the land here, bounded by the 94 and 15 freeways to the north and east respectively, is given over to industrial uses, contractor yards, or simply barren dirt lots razed of all structures.īut this hasn’t always been the case, or at least it certainly wasn’t in 1950, when boxing great and SoCal transplant Archie Moore chose to make San Diego his home. Heck, there aren’t even that many houses along east E Street.
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With a median home value more than $300,000 below that of the typical San Diego community - never mind the Unreal mainstays of La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, and Del Mar - it probably doesn’t crack the top 10, or even 25, for locals who can name that many enclaves.
Hope, and Grant Hill, isn’t the first place one thinks of when imagining million-dollar homes. Stockton, a Southeast San Diego neighborhood wedged in among Logan Heights, Mt. Archie Moore’s estate: it’s a brick.house.
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