Mid-century enthusiasts

[rp2813]

@ Davey

The story goes that the song "Little Boxes" was indeed inspired by a development in Daly City, adjacent to San Francisco and  home of the Westlake district.  Driving on I-280 south of San Francisco there are some rather large boxes on a hillside that all look just the same, but I'm fairly certain they aren't the ones responsible for the song.

 

I've attached a link to wikipedia's corroboration.

[this post was last edited: 12/22/2012-15:51]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes

 

[applianceguy47]

"... little boxes, on a hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky, ..."

I think that was referring to Levittown style, and, if we were listening and aware, was an early warning of what would come, if left uncontested.

The Gobbler- I know they were doing some roof repairs there this summer. It, and the now demolished Hotel, were 60s art, for sure.
I remember going to the hotel in 1998 and the entire hotel was reserved for a uni-sex nudist party. Some of the rooms literally had early 70s shag carpeting ON THE WALLS. Other than that it was concrete block, single story structure. I respect the attitude of doing something unique like these projects.

I think all that is left of the hotel are a couple of large satelite dishes perched on the hillside, rusting away, receiving signals for the concrete gods. That whole interchange there is aweful with that concrete strip mall across the freeway, and the huge menards store to the East of where the hotel was, and where a large hill ONCE was. They moved the entire hill and used the dirt to build a visual birm at the landfill, not far away. ehhHHHHh.