[TheForge] [OT] bobcat

[peter fels]

Hey, they are the apartment buildings of the future..if they last that long.

On Feb 25, 2011, at 5:32 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> 
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>>> 
>>> 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
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