Decorative Concrete Block Designs
September 14, 2010
Here’s a great example of the kind of email I get all the time from all around the country…. Mr. LeVine, My name is Robin. I am construction purchasing agent for a Paramount Pictures production […]
July 16, 2009
I met Chris and Marilyn at a recent event at the Morelli House. They had just bought a very run down house on Hastings in the Alta Rancho Historic District. Now they’re regulular readers of […]
June 17, 2009
It’s been a year since we ran the series that documented every single decorative concrete block pattern that I could find in Las Vegas. We’ve acquired thousands of new readers since then (welcome to you […]
April 11, 2009
Anyone know where he lives? I took him to the vet, and he’s chipped, but they NEVER registered the chip. I found him at the corner of Mohigan and Delaware in Paradise Palms on Saturday Afternoon. He’s […]
January 30, 2009
Marguerite Goswick, a regular reader from Florida sent me a mid century modern concrete block design that I’d never seen before. If you’re new to VeryVintageVegas, you might have as much fun as the rest […]
September 9, 2008
I’m astounded, but it seems I missed a couple of patterns back in our series of the 50 different patterns. I found this on a relatively obscure cul-de-sac in Paradise Palms. It’s not original to the […]
August 26, 2008
As you know, I’m obsessed with the decorative block sunscreens and walls,. The series that we did about them seems to have long tail search engine value. I gave you a teaser the other day about a […]
August 24, 2008
On my search for mid century modern homes in Los Angeles last week, I stumbled upon a couple of block designs that I’ve never seen in Las Vegas. This first one was in the Eichler […]
June 24, 2008
I recently discovered that there were names for the patterns that we’ve been discussing for the last 2 months. Some of them can still be obtained. Allied Building Materials, at 221 West Wyoming has 2 […]
June 23, 2008
In the lecture by Bill Krisel, that we published last week, he mentions shadow block and integrating accent design into the building itself. There’s many marvelous examples all over vintage vegas. “Buildings cast shadows” and they can’t […]