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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ats all thisbusiness about regional types anyway ? Tommyrot 1 Suppose that some of our architecture of this day and generationmight last for several hundreds of years (which it most certainly willnot). What a curious estimate of our present civilization an archeolo-gist of the future would make if he might study some of the currentsteals and makeshifts. These people, he would say, were either verylazy or in an awful hurry. They seem to have remembered some thingsand copied them—approximately. They seem sometimes to have copied—approximately—things that other people remembered. They musthave lived standardized lives according to some standardized, mediocresystem. There is an uninteresting sameness in all that they did, over atremendous area. They seem to have never thought—never analyzed.They must have been machine-mad. Is this dear America of ours just rushing along at break-neck speedand never stopping to think? Heaven preserve us—is that what she isdoing? FEBRUARY, 1927 79
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GATE ENTRANCE. APARTMENT COURT. SEASIDE. OREGON UNIQUE APARTMENT COURT 5 E A SIDt .OHEGON By DoscoE A.Johnson rr-iHE TIDES is an apartment court located directly on the shoreI line of a sheltered bay at Seaside, Oregon. Nearby are three excel-lent golf courses, one being but three blocks distant. Clams areplentiful directly in front of the apartments; sea fishing can be had fromnearby fishing rocks, and bathing, horseback riding and the usual beachamusements are close at hand. The concrete beach Promenade of Seaside leads directly to the maingateway of The Tides. This gateway is composed of two rock pierssurmounted with cupola-like enclosures, and protecting clusters oforange colored beacon lights which are under time clock control. Wroughtiron gates complete the gateway. A concrete sea wall extends across the front of the property and arock wall surrounds the grounds. It is intere.sting to note that the.serock walls were laid up in clay mud and to a template which was movedalong as t

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