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Architect: Unknown
Location: San Diego, CA (Bay Park)
Has been modified a bit (note the ugly vinyl windows), but still more or less intact. Inappropriate dormer windows and an ugly sign have also been added to the A-frame portion of the building so I shot it at an angle that hides them. I love that roofline.
Photo taken with my grandpa's Kodak Duaflex II camera and a roll of Kodacolor-X film that expired in December 1968 that I bought on Ebay. Film processed by Film Rescue International.
Camera: Kodak Duaflex II
Film: Kodacolor-X
Expired: Dec 1968
Exposure: Approximately 3 seconds using the "B" or "Bulb" shutter setting.
(20190327-Duaflex-KodacolorX-exp6812-h-8263.011f)
Here's Layla on one of her favorite obstacles, the A-Frame. She looks like she's having fun in this still photo, but I'll have to post the video of the run sometime ... sulky, sulky, sulky. She was practically walking for most of the run.
This was at the big Colorado Kennel Club show back in February -- the first time we've run FAST (the newest AKC agility game), the first time we've entered a 3-ring trial, and the first time we've run agility in a big coliseum with a huge audience. It so happened that the schedule was set up so that all 3 of our runs conflicted, so we ran jumpers, ran over to the FAST ring, waited a couple of dogs, did our FAST run, then went over to the standard ring, waited for several dogs, then did our standard run (this picture is from that last run).
Okay, on second thought Layla was probably pretty darn tired by this time.
To think that I'd contemplated entering Layla and Pip in obedience and rally, too (though obedience entries were so paltry that we'd probably have been done before we even got to do any of our agility runs ...)
Photo rights purchased from Ken Gee Photography
Photo from an early 1970s township publication showing the Marlton NJ Acme Market and some of the neighboring shopping center. On the other side of Acme was Sears Catalog Store. If you look closely at the entrance to the Acme, you can see the open doorway which had an air curtain so the door could be kept open.
Opening ads for this Acme in 1966...
United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, Colorado Springs.
Architect: Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
Completed: 1962
My wife, Sammy has a secluded place in our garden where she goes every morning for her quiet time and her cuppa coffee, and this is her view from that spot. Often, even when it rains, she'll put on her rain gear and settle back under the trees to enjoy the storm.
I built that A-frame cabin in the 1970s, and with two squabbling boys in our small house, it saved our sanity and allowed us to stay put and not have to move to a bigger house. It doesn't have any electricity or plumbing, but they ran an extension chord out there, and one or the other of them and sometimes both moved in, and our life, for the most part, became quiet and peaceful once again.
Photo by Sammy
The A FRAME pit head structure is the only surviving structure of the Barony colliery which once employed over 1,000 men and the only surviving example of this Germanic form of pit head gear in the country.
The letter A is the beginning of the alphabet.
Our Daily Challenge - BEGINNING
Back of postcard reads:
WORLD-FAMOUS SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
SCENE OF THE 1960
INTERNATIONAL WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
View in summer of one of the enormous "Warming Huts"
built to provide shelter for the throngs at the games and
for future "ski enthusiasts" in this new California State Park.
Color by John H. Atkinson, Jr.
Fritz Vibe Post Card Service, Sacramento, Calif.
This started out as the classic Burger Chef building. It was later converted to a more modern Burger Chef design, which was essentially this building without the pseudo A-frame. The A-frame was an add-on for the Whataburger conversion. Tulsa, OK
UPDATE: Severely damaged by tornado on August 6, 2017 and demolished on August 15, 2017. Aerial footage of the damaged building clearly showed that the A-frame was simply a decorative add-on. It gave the Burger Chef building a more traditional Whataburger appearance.
UPDATE, April 23, 2019: KOTV news reported that site preparation has started for construction of the replacement Whataburger building. The report also stated that Whataburger has confirmed that the new building's construction has started. A projected opening date has not yet been announced.
UPDATE: The replacement Whataburger opened on this site at 3:00 PM on July 29, 2019. At the time of opening, it became the largest Whataburger in Oklahoma.
The Ranch Restaurant was built in the 1950s by the same gentleman who built the neighboring Ranch Motel. We had a fantastic piece of blackberry pie on this visit:-)
Home of the Mountain Breakfast
Goleta
Citrus Heights
Pasadena
Lompoc
San Leandro
Pico Rivera
Yermo
Las Vegas
This A-frame cabin that I built in our back yard over 35 years ago saved us from ever having to buy a larger home, something we really didn't want to do because of the great location, just a little bit north of San Francisco. And it was just a fluke that it ever got built. A contractor friend of ours was leaving the area, and I learned that he had a pile of 14-foot lengths of 4x8 lumber that he had to get rid of, and, not having a clue what I would ever do with the stuff, I said I'd take them all. They sat in our yard for months until my wife Sammy showed me a magazine article on how to build a simple A-frame, something that should only take a weekend or two. Well, it took a year and a couple thousand dollars, but this was the result. Initially, it had a redwood deck that wrapped around two sides, but I had to slice off one side of the deck to make room for the expansion of our house 25 years later. If we didn't have this little cabin, with our growing sons pretty much in a constant state of war, we would have had to consider moving to larger quarters, but for years, even though it didn't have plumbing and electricity flowed through an extension chord from the house, this served as a third bedroom and allowed us to stay put. Once the boys became teenagers, the things that happened in this A-frame shall forever remain in this A-frame...
We live in what many consider to be the world's most perfect climate, and the area consists of many mini-climates, depending on their proximity to the ocean, mountains, valleys, etc. We're convinced that Corte Madera has the best of the best (we know it has...), and even if the wars had continued to rage, we never would have budged from this spot. Someday we'll leave, but it will be to our final resting place and nowhere else.
ODC, "In our backyard."
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For images and stories of this nature, I have put together a set called Our Life Story, depicting our life together over the past half century and containing over 240 images and descriptions which, for the most part, are in chronological order. Check it out and let me know what you think of it.
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Original "Medium" Trestle Bridge A-Frame
Original "Medium" Trestle Bridge A-Frame sitting on stilts (cross beams to be added to the third layer later)
New "Tall" Trestle Bridge A-Frame
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The "Tall" A-Frame is pretty radically different than the original design. While I wasn't able to get rid of the need for the 1x1 modified plate with clip lights, it does use a sort of "pier and post" design, where each layer of columns is sandwiched between horizontal beams. This means none of the angled columns are floating, which in the past has caused some problems in transit and when trying to add details around them (did not cause structural problems).
I'm torn between which to use. My wife and I both prefer the newer design - it looks really good. BUT. I do not think I'll be able to use the outer beams to connect the different A-Frames together, I'd only be able to use the inner beams (see prototype photos of the old bridge). The downside - it probably won't look as nice, the upside - fewer parts.
I plan to build a few more of the new A-frames to create a small span of bridge to help illustrate what it might look like.