Small Hendrix House Bid for on eBay

SEATTLE (AP) - A small house where acid-blues-rock legend Jimi Hendrix lived for a few years has brought a high bid of $33,853 on eBay, and now the buyer faces a tough choice.

Richard Osborn of Michigan, who submitted the top bid in an Internet auction that ended Wednesday, must arrange to move the one-story house in the city's Central Area, strip it of its Hendrix memorabilia and other valuables and demolish the rest, or walk away from the deal.
If he chooses the third option, the next-highest bidder would have a crack at the white, two-bedroom house with purple trim, a clawfoot bathtub and original cabinets.

Michael Hilow and Anne Harrington, who bought the house and land for $69,500 in 1995, want to clear the property and build condominiums. They want the house gone by Oct. 7.

In the past several months, Osborn has bought dozens of Hendrix items on eBay, ranging from a Hendrix postcard for 69 cents to $203.33 for a live compact disc set. He couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday by The Seattle Times.

Hendrix, whose hits included "Purple Haze,'' "Hey Joe'' and "Foxy Lady,'' was 10 when his father bought the property on June 2, 1953. He died in London at age 27 when he choked on his own vomit from a drug overdose in 1970.