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Perpendiculator: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 6:33pm.
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1938. Pender County, North Carolina. "Sloop Point at Hampstead. House over 200 years old. Now occupied by Miss Nellis McMillan." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.
Vernacular Vertigo
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 12:55am.
What a stunning example of vernacular architecture. Amazingly it still stands today.
No fence on table saw.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 12:42am.
Nobody had a protractor. Boom! Innovation.
Tilt.
Submitted by RachelInga on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:54pm.
Someone didn't have a mitre saw. I like it!
This place pioneered
Submitted by Emil Blatz on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:55pm.
the "build ugly" movement. And in a lot of places they succeeded wildly.
Gulp!
Submitted by Kait on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 12:26pm.
That railing would not help at all to keep you from tumbling over the side.
Choir of angles
Submitted by Michael Silver on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 11:00am.
It's great to see unusual architecture, at least compared to modern times, but it still looks incongruent.
Darn, I forgot to bring my miter box
Submitted by bobstothfang on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:30am.
This was built on the day the carpenter forgot to bring his miter box.
Thanks Shorpy for my giving me a new word today, "spondles." I guess I need to go back to carpentry 101.
I can't seem to find spondles in an online dictionary or on Wikipedia though.
[Try "spindles." - Dave]
Sloop Point Plantation
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 5:42am.
What a find!
Submitted by Oklahoma Kid on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:15am.
A rare example of M.C. Escher's short career in carpentry.
Slippery slope
Submitted by Mattie on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 10:42pm.
It looks like they took a porch railing and cut it to fit the stairs. Makes me dizzy just looking at it. The fractured newel post doesn't encourage sliding down the banister, does it?
Timeless
Submitted by Anonymous Arkie on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 9:11pm.
I have seen a similar railing design in Art Deco buildings; wonderful and really simple. Almost perfect!
You almost don't need to caption this.
Submitted by LadyCelia on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 8:39pm.
Her style is so distinctive.
WTF?!
Submitted by Downer on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 8:18pm.
Is that linoleum over the old floor boards? Say that ain't so.
So which is structurally better?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 7:47pm.
You can go dizzy looking at the railing. However, which way is more structurally sound - this or the way we normally have it?
Would the spondles lossen up easier this way since there is less resistance? Just curious.
[We all know what curiosity about lossened spondles leads to. -Dave]
Boy is that ugly ...
Submitted by LocktownDog on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 7:20pm.
... but it sure looks a lot easier to build.
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