July 25, 2008
When I travel, I don’t spend my time at the pool. I set out to find the oldest buildings, the hippest revitalized neighborhoods, the historic markers, the museums and the galleries. The culture is the SOUL of […]
July 15, 2008
This is the MLS picture (the only one) of the house we’ve been talking about at 704 Canosa. I’ll be holding an open house there TODAY from 2 to 5 if you’d like to get […]
July 11, 2008
One of my favorite organizations is “Friends Of Classic Las Vegas”. They’re all about the people who made Las Vegas. They sponsor panel discussions every month, but there’s also the business meeting side of it. […]
July 10, 2008
There’s something to be said for looking at bank owned foreclosures with true mid century modern “enthusiastsâ€. The advantage is several extra eyeballs to look for the little details that it’s so easy to miss. Sometimes the […]
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 […]
June 19, 2008
Yesterday, a client I’m shopping with asked me to explain Mid Century Modernism. We were looking at some of the Cinderella Ranches, because he absolutely has to have a garage. I was telling him that the Cinderella’s as […]
June 19, 2008
Well, we finally made it to the end of the “official” series. I know some of you are real happy about that. Personally, I’m going to miss doing them. These aren’t really blocks […]
June 18, 2008
I’ve really had fun showing these to you. This one, pattern #50 is really number 49 as I’ve said before. It’s deeply cut, and has has 2 different mini-patterns criss-crossing each other. I’m sure I’ve seen […]
June 17, 2008
This is as retro as you can get. A suspended square within a square. It’s been lots of fun showing you all the different block patterns that can be found in Vintage Las Vegas. […]