[TheForge] [OT] bobcat

[Bruce Freeman]

Yeah.  We need to update Malvina Reynolds' lyrics to encompass
mcmansions sprawled across 5-acre lots...

There's a white one,
And a puce one,
And and Italianate one,
And a Versailles one,
And they all have two-storey atria,
With huge cheap chandeliers.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Albin Drzewianowski <dski1045 at qis.net> wrote:
> "Little boxes on the hillside,
> Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
> Little boxes on the hillside,
> Little boxes all the same.
> There's a green one and a pink one
> And a blue one and a yellow one,
> And they're all made out of ticky tacky
> And they all look just the same."
>
>
> D-ski
> Westminster, MD
> The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
>> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Vida
>> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:52 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] [OT] bobcat
>>
>>
>>
>> peter fels wrote:
>> > I remember looking down on the valley when i was a kid,( including
>> > Van Nuys) from Mullhulland and seeing a carpet of orchards all across
>> > the valley.
>>
>> I remember those - it was all still there even in 1976.  In 97 I went to
>> visit my friends for Thanksgiving and Scott and I went to some state
>> park down that way.  We took the new interstate (forget the number) and
>> I was utterly dumbfounded at what I saw as we traveled south on that
>> road.  Not a grove to be seen anywhere.  Not one - and the red tile
>> roofs seemed to go on past the horizon.  I am not exaggerating when I
>> say that we must have driven past a couple of hundreds of thousands of
>> tightly clumped dwellings.  It was almost stupefying to behold.  The
>> sight actually made me very sad as I so clearly recalled the beautiful
>> groves there.  The sight was to my eyes appalling.
>>
>>  > Now it's paved and roofed over. Fabulous depth of
>> > topsoil..i like to imagine it's down under the asphalt, waiting for
>> > folks to go away.
>>
>>       Wishful thinking.  That was all graded off and sold.  Guaranteed.
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-- 
Bruce
NJ