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[sprig5]

Dear fflo:

Check out restoman's stove. Isn't it kinda like the one you had in the Gertrude Stein house in the 90s? That was such a neat house. I loved visiting you there. Here is a picture of the house long after you moved out, and some time after your landlord sold it, as it appeared in 2002 (you actually showed me this article before). Can you

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[fflo]

Dear sprig5I don't even have to look at his stove link to know, cuz I saw it clicking around from your pages the other day. It is indeed! Except it doesn't need magnets to keep the over door closed until it gets hot and they fail and it pops open anyway

[vjsmom]

I haven't been over that way in a year or 2, and I usually haven't strayed too far off of Druid Park Lake Dr, but the last time I was over that way, I seem to recall lots of scaffolding on buildings and stuff like that. We haven't been to the zoo in a while (which is usually when we be sorta near there) though.

That carriage house was gorgeous the way the guys had it all fixed up! I hope that neighborhood is coming back some--it had some potential, and the house itself was pretty darned interesting (for lack of the ability to think of a better word right this second).

[sprig5]

The house was interesting, and so much huger inside than it looks from the outside.

I was in love with Jake, the German Shepherd that the landlord left there to "guard" the property. In the mid-90s there was a fence in the front, where Jake would be--this apparently enabled someone to poison him at a point later--that's how he died. He was so friendly to me, even if we were separated by the fence. One night I remember putting mashed potatoes in my hair to make a "mohawk," and then I let him lick my head through the fence. Jake got the carriage house boys' dog Gage pregnant, and she had cute puppies. I fell in love with one of them, Goliath ("Golly"). To think, Golly would be 10 if he is still around.

Another question: fflo, when someone broke into that house and stole your videocamera, was the video of me mooning the camera still on it? I mean, I don't really care. And I'm sure you don't remember. But I wonder from time to time what the perp thought when he watched that. I guess it goes to show you. Never make an image that you

[restoman]

Wow! That house where Gertrude Stein lived is great!! I love Mansard style houses! I'd love to see a picture of it restored. I am amazed that it sold for $300K, apparently with much work still needing to be completed on it.

I would probably do much better in the restoration business if I lived in a place like Baltimore, or almost any city other than Syracuse.

And, thanks again for the publicity!!

[sprig5]

I'm going to make a pilgrimage to Baltimore one of these days (there is a Courbet exhibit I want to see at the Walters--http://www.thewalters.org/--gotta get myself up there), and I will snap some pics of the house. I think all the boarded up pics of the house are from 2001 or 2002. Interesting that the Wall Street Journal didn't bother to get a current picture of the house, after the partial restoration, in 2005. Maybe it wasn't in keeping with a wish to portray Baltimore in a certain way. (Not to brand WSJ as "conservative media" or anything, but I have heard others describe it as such.)

I haven't been to Syracuse, but I have been to Ithaca, NY, and I've been near Rochester. I know there are a lot of great old houses and beautiful areas around there. (My ex's family lived outside Ithaca.)