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Old Posted May 11, 2010, 5:25 PM
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Cool pics of High Tower Drive, ethereal. Total Raymond Chandler territory.

And I've never seen that Fort Moore Hill Memorial waterfall actually working. I've walked by and driven by that thing many times. It'd be nice if they could clean it up and turn the waterfall on again.

It never occurred to me that the Pico House would have a courtyard either, but in a way, it makes sense that it would have one instead of interior hallways, owing that to Spanish colonial buildings.

Some time ago I read that hallways are actually a relatively recent thing (meaning within the last couple hundred years or so), particularly for common houses. I've been in a small, one-story, old Victorian house that had no hallways; to get to the back rooms, you actually have to go through other rooms. This is why canopy beds existed, it gave the person or persons (or people, hehe) in bed privacy by closing the curtains.
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