One of the great innovations of Mid Century Modernism was the elimination of walls. Gone were the boxy separate walled off living rooms and dining rooms and kitchens. A single door to the back yard […]
I turned the corner last evening and almost wrecked the car. The original Historic Las Vegas High School has been re-painted to match it’s original 1930’s color scheme! Even I don’t drive around downtown often enough, […]
It’s bad enough when someone takes a picture like this last December for the short sale listing. It’s even worst when it gets re-listed as a bank owned repo […]
A piece of Las Vegas history will return to life when the city of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency reopens the doors to the newly rehabilitated, community-oriented Historic Fifth Street School on Sept. 22, 2008. The […]
Sunday October 5 will be the first Mid Century Modern Home Tour sponsored by the Atomic Age Alliance. There will be 5 homes open for visiting. Members of AAA will be on hand to point out […]
It’s been absolutely insane for the last 2 days in so many different ways. This is the first time that I actually blew off blogging for you all, and I’m wracked with guilt. But stand by…. […]
Becket Festival The 6th Annual Samuel Beckett Festival October 15th to November 15th Ernest Hemmings, the downtown Las Vegas playwrite (who also started the First Saturday Bicycle Bar Hop) told me the other night that the new venue […]
granted, it’s a 60,000 house in a not very good part of town, but since it’s merely a “cosmetic deficiency”….. The only thing worse than a bad picture is NO PICTURES AT […]
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 […]