This beauty is in the Seacliiff district. Its view is of the blue waters of the bay and ocean and the Marin Headlands. I always check it out when I drive from Marin County in to the ocean beach area. Just stunning.
You turn right just after crossing through the Golden Gate Bridge toll booths and head out towards the Palace of the Legion of Honor; this is on one of the streets on your right along that route.
Note: This is a nice way to enter the city, skirting along the ocean out to the Cliff House and Ocean Beach (and to Outerlands restaurant, Trouble Coffee, Mollusk Surf Shop, and Hook Fish).
The Santa Cruz maestro, in his mid-70s, is still turning out exquisite surfboards. This one is at the Haut shop on Swift Ave. in Santa Cruz.
Scanned from an old postcard
This website lists old houses for sale in various parts of the country: www.circaoldhouses.com
Scroll down under the “Magazine” tab for houses under $50,000, fixer-uppers, free houses, etc.
This one is in Sumner, Illinois, and is $25,000 (!) “Needs TLC.”
From Mari Lillestol
I stopped by Jay Nelson‘s house in San Francisco Wednesday on my way to Santa Cruz (to check out the sliding doors on his shop — for the sliding doors I’m about to build on my curved-roof shed), and this was parked out in front. The body is made of wood, and there’s a copper roof which lifts up.
The vehicle is a Subaru Brat (which, in Subaru-ese) stands for “Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter.” 4-wheel drive.
According to Autoweek:
“The BRAT came with one engine at launch, a 1.6-liter flat four mated to either a four-speed manual or three-speed automatic transmission. Two trim levels were offered, DL and GL. The GL had four headlights, the the DL had two. In 1981 displacement was raised to 1.8 liters while power grew from 67 hp to a whopping 73. In 1983 an optional turbo engine was offered with 93 angry Japanese ponies. Early models had a single-range transfer case; later models came with a dual-range unit. The strange Subaru Baja eventually came to continue the legacy, but only 30,000 were sold in the four years (2003-2006) it was produced.”
We are doing a new book, Hit the Road, Jack: Adventure Rigs, and Jay’s unique vehicles will be featured, along with those of Mike Basich and other creative builders.
Note: if you have anything to contribute, or know of cool road rigs, contact evan@shelterpub.com.
This is 10′ by 10′. Rafters made of four 1″ by 4″ by ⅜″ redwood bender board, 16′ long, bent, glued and clamped together. Roof sheathing is 1 × 6 redwood fence boards from Home Depot. Siding is ⅜″ rough-sawn exterior DF plywood. Eventually I’ll panel the inside with used fence boards. Flooring is used yellow pine T&G from Heritage Salvage in Petaluma. Windows (used) from Urban Ore in Berkeley.
Billy Cummings has done most of the work here, including cutting and fitting double-wall polycarbonate greenhouse glazing under the curved eaves.
Next step is to build a sliding door for one half of the end wall shown here so a bed can be rolled out onto the deck for nighttime star gazing. Jay Nelson built a sliding door for his shop that gave me the idea.
Note: A curved roof is infinitely more time-consuming (In many ways) as compared with, say, a shed roof or a gable roof. BUT the space underneath is wonderful and something I highly recommend for tiny homes. If you take the time to build a roof like this, it will give you a feeling of spaciousness and avoid the claustrophobia of small spaces. Curved roofs are the secret to the good feeling in Gypsy wagons (vardos).
Hey, I’m starting to get the hang of doing layout in WordPress — a lot more options than Blogger.
Bakeitzogie (The Yellow Coyote) – Chiricahua Apache
This is a phenomenal source on Native Americans, with hundreds of archival photos, most of which I have not seen before.
Native Americans
First People is a child friendly site about Native Americans and members of the First Nations. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, clipart, Native American Books, Posters, Seed Bead Earrings, Native American Jewelry, Possible Bags and more.
I’m going through my back photo folders from time to time, finding photos that I’ve forgotten about.
