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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
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Hilltop House: 1960
October 1960. Apple Valley, California. "Hilltop House. Newton T. Bass residence, living room. Francisco Artigas, architect." Besides the view, the focal point of this room seems to be a conference table colliding with an iceberg. From photos by Maynard L. Parker for Pictorial California and House Beautiful ("Look What's Happening to Showers!"). Source: Huntington Library. View full size.
I'll review this mid-cent as candy bar.
Gorgeous ceiling. Blah floor. Pretty damn good middle.
Eponymous Iceberg
The 'iceberg' is no miniature, it literally is the actual top of the hill referenced in the name of the house.
This is one cool pad.
Iceberg?
Are you sure that's an iceberg? It looks like it has miniature trees on it. I think it may be a diorama of the hilltop the house is on.
One Word
Hideous, just like all the other avant garde architecture from this era that's been posted on here lately. An age of "style" best forgotten.
[It had its charms. -Dave]
Ashtrays
Is it my imagination or do the ashtrays on the coffee table seem unusually LARGE?
I think this house is mainly for looking at
And not doing anything in!
Registers
I'm guessing the carpet has been recently put down as it appears the floor heat registers look to be missing.
Beam reach
Well, I just spent nearly an hour of my life exploring the internet's depiction of this house's piteous history, as I'm sure is being posted in various other replies as I type mine. So I just want to add one thing - the beams required to span that space are spectacular (and expensive)!
Holes in the floor, rocks in the living room
I suppose someone would find this cozy.
Beautiful living space
But there's no way to dust and polish that coffee table without getting on your knees.
Certainly seen better days
The house has been neglected for decades and is now more visited by vandals than the prospective property buyer.
Simple but beautiful furniture
Is this an Eames couch? I'm not really sure, but I do love it. The boulders are a nice touch. I'm sure they are from the build. Great house.
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