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Trilobis 65 Floating Home

I've been sort of playfully browsing over experimental architectural and building technology lately.  Stumble! has been an invaluable resource in this respect, as it hands me an odd little building form every fifty or so clicks (in addition to many other sorts of references to world urban and architectural websites).  Stumble's latest gift to me has been this gem.  Click here to see the Tribolis 65 Floating Home. 

White City Amusement Park

I want to thank Anna for posting the link to this postcard of White City Amusement Park.  Here's what I know about the park (which is precious little considering that I spent a large part of my childhood playing in it's remains).

It was on the site now occupied by Parkside Elementary School, bordered by Confederate Avenue, Mercer Street and Eloise Court.  My elderly parents still live a half block from the old lot.

The city councilman named Chosewood (I can't recall his first name) was the manager of the park.  My mother still refers to the house on Waldo at the corner of Confederate Avenue which abuts the school grounds as the "Chosewood House".

In 1914-1915 White City Amusement Park was the site of union meetings leading to a strike at Fulton Bag cotton mill in Cabbagetown (this is documented in Cliff Kuhn's book about the strike).

If any other readers have further information I'd love to post followups.

The link to the postcard is p11319.jpg (JPEG Image, 348x225 pixels).

Opacity web site

My guess is that the web site Opacity was inspired by the marvelous Fabulous Ruins of Detroit site.  It's a collection of shots of abandoned ruins of human artifact.  Since I grew up playing in the ruins of an early 20th Century amusement park (the remnants White City in the Grant Park neighborhood of Atlanta, which still had a vine choked hedge maze and a manmade lake turned manmade swamp as late as the early 1960s, despite the fact the park was already closed down by my mother's childhood in the early 1920s) the shots of Rocky Point Amusement Park were particularly interesting to me.

Click here for the Opacity web site.

Houses of the Future

In the interest of getting into the habit of blogging again I'm going to post a few links to odds and ends I've found while browsing the web.  This link was delivered to me by Stumble presumably based on my expressed interest in architecture.  I wonder if cardboard lends itself to traditional neighborhood form.

See the cardboard house article at Houses of the Future.