Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest

Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by tptacek on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:24AM (#32097211)

I live in Oak Park and haven't really heard of any of these money pits. Can you give me some links?

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by balsam on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:02PM (#32098650)

https://chicago.curbed.com/maps/oak-park-frank-lloyd-wright-...

Promises 25 places on the map.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by tptacek on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:16PM (#32098853)

There are obviously plenty of Wright buildings in Oak Park; we're famous for it. I'm wondering about the infamous money pits.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by balsam on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:46AM (#32105353)

Sorry. I thought it was well known since Veblen that that Mid-Western civilization was all about the blatant-not-blatant money pits.

Okay, here’s one about the latest in a long tradition of remodelling:

https://www.oakpark.com/2022/02/16/how-do-you-remodel-wright...

Alludes to longstanding issues with adapting prarie-inspired visuals to the local climate.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by tptacek on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:43PM (#32113128)

That's not what a "money pit" is. It's not a "money pit" when you decide to gut-renovate the place, nor when you flip it for $500k more than you bought it for.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by AlbertCory on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:35PM (#32098262)

I've been there & seen the houses.

newspapers.com is your resource for stuff that's not on The Google. Searching is much harder, though. You kinda need to know the dates things were published.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by reaperducer on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:29PM (#32098174)

No, because I read it in the dead tree editions of newspapers and magazines. But there's a thing called Google that might be of some use to you.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by tptacek on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:18PM (#32098870)

I did that before I asked, and found a Wright house 2 blocks from where I grew up (in Beverly, not Oak Park) that was a "money pit", because the previous owners had built an addition and plastered around the interior, and they decided to restore it and add period-appropriate window decorations. I didn't find any references to money pit Wright houses in Oak Park.

I'm the weirdo who actually reads our local newspapers, for what it's worth. Like I said, I actually live here.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by tedunangst on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:26PM (#32098999)

For those of us too stupid to guess the appropriate search terms to get relevant results, would you kindly offer up some hints?

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by balsam on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:55AM (#32105414)

Try searching with “remodelling”, “cold winters”, etc?

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