In a message dated 97-11-14 22:08:50 EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

> I'm not a big FLW fan, and I don't know about his toilets, but I do know
>  that Cloquet, Minnesota (near Duluth), claims the only gas station
>  designed by him.  I have photos of it someplace.  A pretty strange gas
>  station especially by today's standards; I think it has a couple of
>  spires.  It was well preserved when I last saw it, but who knows what
>  they've done since then.

The question of FLW toilets was both curiosity and G&E research. I suppose
the gas station has amenities, unless it is ultra-modern. Also, the PL thread
on making copies, first photos, then full-scale renditions of buildings,
inspired me to wonder about rugs, which are sort of like maps. If FLW made
sacred sand paintings would we be irreligious to copy them?

Are you allowed to pump your own gas in Minnesota? In NY you pump your own
gas, in NJ it is against the law to pump your own gas. Gas is less expensive
in NJ. Despite that fact that I always get lost when I go looking for
historic properties in NJ, a place full of "jug handles" in the road system,
it is nice to have a few minutes, on the return trip, to wonder where the
pump attendant has gone to.

There is an FLW designed house on Staten Island (near the lighthouse and the
Tibetan Museum on a hill in the middle of the island), which, other than a
model of Falling Water and the Guggenheim, and two neckties I got for
behaving myself at work (possibly sedated that month), are my only exposure
to FLW. I can't say I am a fan of very much of anything. I find FLW as
curious as Keith Haring, Joseph and Patti Smith. Odd artifacts. I would enjoy
visiting them, but only if the tour bus stops close by. I much prefer Gaudi
and dream of going to Barcelona on a junket. This is why I always respond to
e-mail with the word "junket" in it.

][<en Follett