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Too much Euro-traditional. Need more modern.

Not Zurich, Geneva, or Munich. Or Mumbai, either!

Nein, nicht Frankfurt. Please, sir, may I have some more?

I can see why you would guess Scandinavia, but it is neither Copenhagen nor Stockholm.

You know the rules. If you know the answer, post a cryptic message and/or PM me. If not, guess wildly until someone blurts it out. No fair mining the photo info for clues. For those who care, proper captions and attribution will be forthcoming after the successful identification of the city. If I get around to it.

OK. I'll do one but it probably won't be until tonight or tomorrow.

Hey, where's SchwinnChopper? He's usually all over this.

Sarah, don't get your knickers in a twist!

I don't remember there being a solvent like that when I did mine. I would have been tempted if there was. I would add the caution to have several pairs of gloves handy and to mask your walls or baseboards really well. You don't want it eating your cabinets.

Yeah, ours weren't any too level, either. I have seen lots of concrete floors in the last few AIA/RDA kind of "modern house" tours. I've only seen one in the kitchen of an older house, and it was painted.

Many people like concrete floors. I'm not 100% sure I would want them in the kitchen because pretty much anything you drop will break. Having said that, in 1995 or so we replaced our original vinyl flooring with vinyl tile. Getting the old adhesive off was very, very difficult. We had to scrape it with a special scraper. We tried to use a rental electric one but it was almost too hard for me to handle, and I'm a fairly big guy. There was no way my wife could use it. And that was just to get it smooth enough to lay new tile, I can't imagine trying to get it to "exposed finish quality." In a lot of houses, if there will be vinyl or carpet over the slab, the builders are quite willing to write on the concrete slab with magic markers for various things (sink goes here, etc.) Just to add more fun to the mix, we looked into vinyl installers. None of them would remove old vinyl because the pre-1985 stuff has asbestos. Ours was newer than that but they still weren't interested. Good luck!

I rarely disagree with Red, and I don't want to poke the "climate-change" issue with a stick, but I'm not sure I'd gamble on those. I have seen hard freezes in the last ten years or so, and a spectacular hard freeze/ice storm around Christmas in (I think) the late 80s. I thought last spring was unseasonably cool and it's sure cooler now than any late August/early September I remember. I'm thinking if we're barely on the cusp by a few degrees or so based on microclimates, I wouldn't risk it. I have a big palm tree in my patio area, but it's protected on three sides by the house and garage.

It confused me at first but I figured it out.

There weren't that many, really, and it's one of the last survivors. It lasted long enough to be cool again. Beyond that, not so much beyond being fairly distinctive on a small scale.

Oooo, that's really good! I didn't catch that at first.

I think you could make a case for it still being a college campus. It's not Boston, nor anywhere on the east coast. This is a city that people are always surprised by. It's often under-rated.

The lesson I'm taking from this is that when grabbing images from photo-hosting sites such as flickr for the purposes of illustration, it's polite even if not always strictly required to give attribution. I have certainly been guilty of not doing this in the past. A lot. I appreciate the reminder and will try to do better. (except maybe in the international Guessing Game thread! )

Correct, and there was a Taqueria La Jaliciense a few blocks south of it on Montrose. Wonder if that's what NenaE is thinking of. Not sure if it's still there. I went a few times; it was distinguished by very low prices. Also by _widely_ varying opinions on the quality of its food. Some considered it a hazard, some considered it really great. (I guess those aren't mutually exclusive.)

Stuck in the middle of a park? Like this? "The façade will be saved and then relocated to Eastwood Park, where it will remain a part of the streetscape on Harrisburg, as it has been since 1935." Agreed. Facade-ectomies are to preservation as instant coffee is to coffee.

Good point. Are you sure you aren't me? Where did you go? Goodwood? And $40 or $50 for a live performance is hard for me to justify, too. Twenty-five bucks should be plenty. And three figures for any sporting event not called "World Series," "NBA Finals," or "Super Bowl?" No, just no. I understand, and sorta agree, but again I come back to: is the content really worth it? Do you have time to watch enough stuff? Knowing that you (and others) have invested significant dollars in gear kinda makes the question even more pertinent. Just to be clear, I'm not a tech Luddite, I'm not an old fogey. I'm not anti-TV. I live in a small, cheap house in a suburb. I have one child, a teenager, in public high school. When I am at home, there is cooking, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, yard work, home maintenance, and car maintenance to do. Not all of them every day, but certainly most of them every week. And we're not neat freaks or gourmet cooks, either. Our child has homework every night and extra-curricular activities. I bring up the question because, very occasionally, my wife and I discuss getting cable for certain sports or cultural programming. I don't think our life is unusual, and the price versus value both in terms of content and time available to watch always comes out ridiculous for us. Not just iffy, but not even close to making sense. For the sake of staying on topic, substitute "dish-based premium programming" for "cable." We go weeks at a time without turning the TV on, and no one seems to miss it. The tiny little bits of leisure time which appear in the day from time to time are quickly dealt with by reading, knitting, or a little web surfing. There's not nearly enough to follow a series or watch an entire movie. And I understand the "you pay for what you care about" argument. I drive a more expensive car than some, because I have a long commute and I really want something nice. (of course I've had it for ten years and I do as much maintenance on it myself as I can.) I spend at least an hour most days in my car, though. I don't really have that kind of time for TV viewing,

I don't mean to be rude, but do you really feel that television is worth over a thousand dollars a year? Especially without HBO and Showtime? I mean, seriously, is it really important enough to you to drop that kind of coin? Once in a while I'll hear about something on cable that looks interesting, but the desire quickly passes.

The listing photos are beautiful! What a view with all those windows. So sad to hear it's neglected and probably a goner. Jason, I'm sorry to complain, but I called Brazos Bookstore for a copy of your Jenkins book last spring when it came out, and gave them my CC number (I was a little surprised they asked for it at that time.) Haven't heard a word from them for several months. Can you shed any light on that?

Yes. I grew up with it. Very impressive. Once in a while they'd have a giant flare (probably a hundred-foot flame) which would light up the sky almost like daylight.

Yeah, I'll give it a Googie thumbs up. Roofs that sweep down to the ground can be a Goog-ish feature.