In a message dated Wed, 4 Sep 2002 1:59:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

> Anyone here familiar with a new-wave preservation group in favor of preserving 1950's Permastone as a "historic"
> material?

I suppose that if it had been installed as new material in the 1950's on a new building, why not?  I do remember seeing a 50's permastone car dealership here in fabuolous Summit getting schmeared over with untextured stucco a couple of years back, and thinking it was a shame.

For that matter, who's to say our heirs and assigns won't be trying to conserve Dryvit 50 years from now, as an example of a formerly new (and presumably superseded and therefore exotic) technology?

Thank God we'll be dead by then.  Otherwise we'd be vomiting an awful lot.

Ralph

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