Photo showing the gutted White House exterior walls supported by an interior framework in preparation for the Truman Reconstruction.
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Category Archives: Architecture
Ah, Paris
Two 1980’s-era color lithographs of Paris.
Every place has its beauties and unique attractions, but there is no other city in the world quite like Paris.
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Suburban Evening
This is just the kind of place I imagine Charlie Brown and his friends living in. Schulz on occasion drew fairly detailed interiors for his cartoons, but not often – I’m sure they took a lot more time. But when he did, they were filled with furniture that would have fit in a suburban dwelling just like this. Having been born in the early 50’s, pictures like this take me right back.
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Rocky Homes
“The tiny Brittany town of Plougrescant’s claim to fame is a puzzling little house situated between two granite rocks by the sea.
The residence, Castel Meur, was built in 1861 with a specific goal in mind — to ward off the destructive heavy winds and storms the area is often troubled by.
After a postcard of the property created to boost local tourism caused such a stir with tourists that the private residence suffered damage, visitors can now only admire its unique form from a distance.”
(Found at CNN)
Another home in the Fafe mountains of Portugal is even more offbeat, “a Casa do Penedo” (House of the Rock)
Photographs above and below by Feliciano Guimarães
An article about the home, including a video tour of the interior (in Portugese) can be found here.
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Anaheim, California: Waikiki Motor Inn
I remember this motel. Although I grew up in New York, my dad used to take me to Disneyland, beginning as early as 1956; I have a memory of meeting Walt himself as he stood on one of the trolley cars in the center of Main Street.
Memories…
The Old Wolf has spoken.
The Order of the Phoenix
If you’re ever wandering down Leinster Gardens in Bayswater Road in London, take a careful look at Numbers 23 and 24. These houses are in fact just façades, built to disguise an exposed part of the Metropolitan underground railway that runs behind them. In the 1930s, a man famously sold hundreds of guests tickets to a black tie charity ball there – only for them to turn up and discover the houses were fakes.
Edit: Since I wrote this little post, these building fronts have featured prominently in an episode of “Sherlock Holmes,” the wonderful new series staring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. I was delighted to see them written in to the plot.
Picture: Murray Sanders / Daily Mail /Rex Features
Found at The Telegraph.
Obviously, the muggles would never notice…
The Old Wolf has… *obliviate!*
City portraits by Victor Enrich
Los Angeles: Odd Restaurants
The Zep Diner
Found at L.A. Taco
The Zep Diner was located at 515 W. Florence Avenue in Los Angeles near Figueroa. The Zep was open “all night” and was the “Home of the Hinden Burger”.
The Brown Derby
Operated from 1928 to 1980, originally conceived as an eye-catcher. More at Wikipedia.
The Encounter Restaurant
The Theme Building is synonymous with Los Angeles, and particularly LAX. It was opened in 1961, and after multiple renovations, one by Walt Disney Imagineering, continues to operate today.
Hody’s
In 1949, Sidney Hoedemaker founded Hody’s Restaurant Inc. (Hody – as in Hoedemaker). Hoedemaker’s restaurants were all about service, efficiency, cheerfulness and courtesy. One was always greeted with a smile. The Hody’s at 3553 La Brea (at Rodeo) featured expanded service, circular drive-in and a sign pylon rising from the roof was designed by Wayne McCallister.
This restaurant was not so odd, but I include it because it’s where my father met his third and final wife, to whom he was married for 20 years. She was a car-hop in the drive-in section; I remember eating there a number of times and it was fun to have the girls come around on roller skates with our orders.
Playing in the World Game 