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Date: | Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:45:27 EDT |
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1. Even modern buildings have fire escapes and exterior standpipes.
2. Aggressively marked bike lanes - is there even one "Yield to Cyclist"
sign in New York? I saw scores in Portland.
3. Sidewalk embossed inscription: "Mike's Concrete, 1993" (no credit taken
for gum deposits).
4 Skiing the top of Mount Hood - like climbing a ladder and coming out on
top of the roof of the world.
5. Pietro Belluschi's 1932 Portland Art Museum - exterior so-so, but
interior an elegant collision of classical training and modern attitudes. A
delicate version of Italian fascist architecture.
6. Yamhill (hometown of Beverly Cleary) - depressed, really depressed.
The sign on the biggest structure in town said it all: "Building for Sale -
All or Part".
7. Timberline Lodge, on Mount Hood - a complete design (1937, U. S.
Forest Service + artists), fully worked out, with hand wrought metalwork
(right down to the room locks), paintings, tapestries and carved wooden
friezes, and European-style timbering. A thinking person's Mohonk Mountain
House.
8. Air views were terrific, but road atlases are poor for such uses - is
there an "aerial atlas" of the US specifically for air passengers?
Sign me, Lewis N. Clark
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