This Is Ironic

A childhood home of Jimi Hendrix faces demolition unless Seattle activists win a legal battle to save it. Last week, city workers were prepared to destroy the house where the rock legend lived from age 10 to 13. However, a King County judge issued a two-week restraining order at the request of owner Pete Sikov .

Seattle officials say the issue is public safety. When a condominium complex was built on the home's original site in 2001, Sikov, treasurer of the nonprofit James Marshall Hendrix Foundation, relocated the house and got a six-month lease to store it on a city-owned lot in central Seattle. Since then, the building has reportedly become a haven for squatters and drug dealers. Sikov wants to move the structure to a permanent location near Hendrix's gravesite in Renton, Wash.