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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 06-10-2004, 05:34 PM:

Following on from the 'off topic' diversion in the 'upload your pictures' thread, herewith the above question. Mine was completed by 1640 - well, it's not really 'mine', since I only rent a flat/apartment in it - two years before the outbreak of the English Civil War. Can anyone go further back than that?

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-10-2004, 07:44 PM:

1902

here is what it looks like and as you can see we are trying to sell it (running out of room now where did I but those 10 VIC10's [Smile]

)

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-10-2004, 08:13 PM:

Nice lookin' house Gordie...but WTF has ORANGE walls? And DON'T tell me it was SWMBO's choice! JFC!

>>> Phil

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-10-2004, 08:24 PM:

1967 I think. Maybe 1963.[av=c] It was one of those years that didn't matter because I wasn't alive yet.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-10-2004, 09:11 PM:

Phil is correct SWMBO choose the colour scheme (in fact she is visable in the exterior picture the arch way into the kitchen and the organ are my contributions (as is the fountain fireplace and BBQ in the backyard)

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 06-11-2004, 01:06 AM:

My house is old.. mid 1950's.... Anything older than 1980 in SoCal seems to get torn down. There is little history here.. and places where the old homes are.. well.. I won't drive near those areas.

Gordon! I love that room! I love the colour, the lamps and sculptures! Very "modern" and cool! [thumbsup]

Danny

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-11-2004, 01:48 AM:

quote: Leo Enticknap
Following on from the 'off topic' diversion in the 'upload your pictures' thread, herewith the above question. Mine was completed by 1640 - well, it's not really 'mine', since I only rent a flat/apartment in it

Is that cheaper than renting an undersize spare/apartment over there?

Is that a Conn, Gordon? Do you have those speakers that were mounted firing upwards into dummy pipes?

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-11-2004, 05:42 AM:

Gordon's house was '02? I can beat that. Mine was '00!

(No wait, wrong century.)

Really though Gordon...orange???

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 06-11-2004, 06:40 AM:

1924. Wood frame. 974 square feet. Mine since 1986. Will add pic later.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 06-11-2004, 07:16 AM:

I don't know the date, but my building would have been built around the turn of the century (late 1800s/early 1900s).

Here is a pic of my street, taken in mid-March. My door is behind the Jeep just to the right of center in this shot. I'm on the top floor, although the original design was for houses (4 floors plus basement), rather than apartments. (The picture is in focus, but the scan isn't. I need a better scanner.)

Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 06-11-2004, 07:28 AM:

Leo,

I heard that you can't actually own land in England. It all belongs to the governement, and home owners actually just have long term leases on the land under their homes?

Is this true?

/Mitchell

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 06-11-2004, 07:34 AM:

No, anybody can own land, but some property is leasehold. it's less common than it used to be. Most of this land is not owned by the Government, but by various institutions.

Mitchell, I think I saw you in April, but I didn't realise it was you at the time. Were you standing near the back of the auditorium at the Lafayette in Suffern, after 'Amadeus'? If so, I was sitting just in front of you. I saw a face that looked familiar, but I couldn't place it at the time. Hope to see you again next year.

Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 06-11-2004, 07:53 AM:

Yep, that was me at the Lafayette Theatre. I didn't see you, or I would have said hello.

/Mitchell

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-11-2004, 08:56 AM:

Yes that is a Conn 642 one of the first all tubes jobs (getting in ruff shape can't find any schematics for it though) Originally it was owned by Kathlean Stokes who during the war was the organist for the "Happy Gang" on CBC radio and was also a noted Toronto Theatre Organist
No I don't have the pipes wish I did
Orange is cool it is actually quiet relaxing and the back yard is relatively quiet for being on a main street (The fountain masks most of the noises and the fireplace adds warmth) The dinning room light fixture I got at Home Depot as I had no plans of leaving the 1950 Sputnic lamp fixture we had there [Smile]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-11-2004, 10:38 AM:

Eh, I gotcha all beat. I live in the historic Roxy Theatre building, 1921! What better place for a film person? Owned and operated by showman and fellow Film-Techer, Richard Wolfe.

Roxy Theatre, Northampton, PA

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-11-2004, 12:53 PM:

My wife says I "live" in our Roxy, too. But we really do have a house, built in 1976 during a "building boom" here.

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 06-11-2004, 07:16 PM:

My first house in Denver was built in 1927.

My new house in Cloverdale was built in May 2003. I have lived there one year.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 06-11-2004, 08:14 PM:

Hmm..Ian's lawn is made of large non-square pixels.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-11-2004, 08:59 PM:

I HATE anyone with such a perfect-looking house ...and lawn!

>>> Phil

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-11-2004, 09:10 PM:

You've been there a year already?! It seems like you just moved in last week!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-11-2004, 10:50 PM:

Ian, your camera has AWESOME color! [av=v]

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 06-12-2004, 10:26 AM:

Phil, it's not perfect. It's a tract home in the suburbs. I'm not the worlds best decorator or house cleaner. I'm still waiting for the Queer Eye for the Strait Guy, Fab 5 to show up. But the sprinkler system works, I have a lawn mowing service so I should still have a lawn after I get back from India.

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 06-12-2004, 10:42 PM:

I can't get over that picture either...

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 06-13-2004, 10:11 AM:

Oops...

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 06-13-2004, 10:23 AM:

Scott, I know where you live!!! Although half the apartments in Boston look like that...

Gord, just for the record, I like the orange room!

Tim, I got you tied. My building ALSO built in 1921 was originally a movie house. It seats 1169 in the auditorium with a very large lobby/box office area and recreation/meeting rooms.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-13-2004, 11:54 AM:

Oh, cool! Didn't know you were in a theatre, too. We're the bomb.
[Smile]

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 06-13-2004, 03:19 PM:

Yes we are... who can beat that? Huh, huh? [Razz]

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 06-13-2004, 07:47 PM:

Theatre snobs--gotta love 'em... [Wink]

Me? I have a room in a totally nondescript tract house in the western 'burbs of LVNV, built during the US bicentennial. Move along citizens, there's nothing to see here.

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-14-2004, 01:29 AM:

quote:
Ian, your camera has AWESOME color!

It's not very realistic in tonal scale though, is it?

All sky looks as if shot with a polarizing filter, all green grass looks like easter egg grass. Blue's what's in common here, I'd say that camera does some gratuitous blue-pimping.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-14-2004, 01:50 AM:

Actually William, that's the way it is in GOD's country of California! Beautiful color! [beer]

BUT! I don't care how much Ian slams me, I hate ANYONE with such a perfect lawn. Weeds are my friends! At least 6 ft high with lot's o' dead scrub for the fire dept to fine me for! Yah! [Smile]

>>> Phil

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 06-14-2004, 04:49 AM:

quote: Mitchell Dvoskin
I heard that you can't actually own land in England. It all belongs to the governement, and home owners actually just have long term leases on the land under their homes?

As Stephen points out, that is the leasehold system; whereby you own the building or flat but not the land on which it is built. Most leasehold properties are in London or the other large cities, and leasehold is most common for flats/apartments. In this situation you pay an annual charge to the freehold owner - usually a management company - which maintains the communal parts of the building (lobbies, lifts/elevators, that sort of thing). Leasehold is a lot less common in rural areas.

This isn't the case with me - I simply rent the flat. The property price inflation of the last five years or so means that prices are so high that, like most of my generation, I've been priced out of the market and couldn't possibly afford to buy anywhere. It would take a crash on a similar scale to the one in the early '90s to change that. Given that personal debt is at record levels and the average property now costs almost six times the average income (they say that the maximum long-term sustainable level is around three times), that prospect is looking ever more likely, IMHO.

It looks like, between us, we've got a spread of buildings from 1640 to 2003!

Posted by Jeff Taylor (Member # 443) on 06-16-2004, 03:49 PM:

Sorry, no picture handy, but I built my present "year round" house in 1971 and NEVER expected to be there so long. Of course just about everyting's been re-dong since then, and we've added a pool, a film library, and a screening room. Also have a house at the beach that was built in 1867, 1950, oh well, it's an ongoing project.

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 06-23-2004, 12:22 AM:

1995. Starter home in a less than perfect subdivision of 151 homes. Many of which, much to my dismay, are rentals. I see now why people have a general dislike for renters... :rolleys:

This is prior to to the large pine being removed, as well as the shrubbery/plants near the front of the house. Now, if I'd just be able to find the time, money and motivation to finish the plant bed (for three sago palms and soem annuals/perennials), I'd be set!

Posted by Don Sneed (Member # 955) on 06-23-2004, 02:35 AM:

Being a cinema tech & live in hotels most of the year that would vary...but talking about my actual home, started building new in April 2003, finish & move into Decemeber 2003. Already made 6 payments, but only been home a total of two months, always installing proj. somewhere in the world.