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Harold’s Restaurant – Mercer Island- Seattle, Washington
1954-
Featuring innovations in dining not formerly available in Seattle and catering to the carriage and expense account trade, this restaurant also shrewdly eyes nearby Sunset highway and provides a coffee shop for the faster moving tourist potential. The two part plan extends out into the parking area, likewise dual. The highway trade has proved profitable enough that the retail pastry counter shown in the plan has recently been converted into more coffee shop seating space.
Architecturally, the design follows the Northwest tradition, using materials and methods indigenous to the region. The regularly spaced beams are stained very dark with ceilings and walls of natural boards- cedar or fir. Certain interior walls are brick.
Gwinn’s Restaurant- Pasadena, California
Here’s some California Coffee Shop/ Drive in architecture, designed by Harold J. Bissner and Harold B. Zook.
Zook is son of architectR. Harold Zook . Here are some of his other projects: 1252 Inverness Drive, Pasadena, California and the Griffith Residence.
Here is another project by Harold J. Bissner. Volcano House.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Motor Hotel
Another gem from an early 1960s book on the design of restaurants, bars and motels, this time from architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Not many mentions of this project on the internet, and I can’t find any other pictures. The only additional information I was able to find is that it was designed for Bramlett Enterprises- Memphis, TN – in 1956.
Although designed as a stopover for motorists who have temporarily tired of the open road, this conception has none of the characteristics of motels anywhere. It seems destined to remain a project if only because it is so luxurious in some respects, so severe in others. The scheme is built around three separate elevator groups of three elevators each. A single cluster of elevators serves seven floors in addition to a terrace restaurant under the roof of each unit. the restaurant is interconnected by the bridges shown in the perspective. One elevator functions for two rooms per floor giving a grand total of fourteen rooms per elevator. The rooms attained by means of this generous outlay of mechanical equipment are small.
This building shares a principle in common with Wright’s other towers, the “interior” system of structure in which the floors are cantilevered from a steel and lightweight concrete core, tripod shaped for stability.
Hot Shoppes- Philadelphia, PA
Little Tavern pictures
I just won these. I’ll put high resolution scans up once I get them.
What I didn’t win. A veritable treasure trove of Little Tavern history. To whoever got these- congratulations!
Neon Sampler
From an old book on architectural lettering.
Drake Apparel- Pittsburgh area.
Olsen and Ebann Jewelers- Chicago, Ill
Lombard’s Restaurant – Pittsburgh area
Lenton- Toledo, Ohio
Teamster’s Joint Council- Portland, OR
Reed’s – Toledo, Ohio
Roxie Cinema- Pittsburgh, PA? I can’t find anything about the theater, about the film “Little Brimstone” or the actress “Jean Fox”. Nothing either for “And Moonlight Too” starring Lisa Swan and Robert Dickey. A mystery. Maybe it’s an architectural model for a theater which was never built? Difficult to tell from the picture.
State Madison Building – Jamestown, NY
Grand Rapids Grocery.
Trip to PEI
Giant Blueberry, Oxford, NS
Vacant welcome village across PEI bridge. Despite it being nice when we left Halifax, the roads took a turn for the worse.
Anne of Green Gables
View from our hotel
Downtown
Sir John A. MacDonald
Don’t drink and drive
Matt Mays – February 17, 2011
I’m a big fan of Matt Mays and all the talented folks in his band.
Anna and I saw guitarist Jay Smith at the Tribeca in December. He’s recently released a solo album, aptly titled, “Jay Smith”. You can listen to it on soundcloud or buy it on itunes. Really catchy pop-rock.
We saw the “Carletones” at the Carleton, consisting of Adam Baldwin, Jay Smith, Serge Sampson and Tim-Jim Baker.
The show was opened by Christina Martin and her band.
It was a start to a Gretsch guitar filled night.
The weather cooperated for this one- just above freezing, which made the whole night much more enjoyable. The huge crowd filled the grand parade (renamed Celebration Square for the Canada Games, presumably to confuse locals). We managed to show up early enough to get relatively close to the stage. The crowd seemed a bit younger than the other shows. More high school and first year students- more people showing up late and pushing their way to the front.
The band put on an excellent show. Mays knows how to work a crowd, and the guys in the band seemed to be having a great time.
Matt Mays and Adam Baldwin
Hey Rosetta!- February 16, 2011
Half the fun of this concert was watching all the people slip and slide as they tried to make their way across the steep hill we’d managed to find space to watch the show from. The band seemed pretty chilled as well.
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