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Memories

I used to have a hundred of these things. Now, maybe a handful squirreled away somewhere and nothing to play them on.

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We’re Screwed

We realized the other day that since we live in a community property state, if anything happens to either one of us, the surviving spouse would become responsible for the deceased’s debts. That’s not a big deal for Ben as I don’t have that much of a debt burden, but Ben’s student loans would bury me – literally…and then they still wouldn’t get paid!

We were thinking of moving after I retire, but since I’m not sure either of us would want to deal with winters in the blue northeast, that basically leaves Colorado or Oregon out west.

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Vintage Audio Pr0n

I lusted after at least 4 of these back in the day.

Most of them were totally out of reach financially… and two of them especially still are!

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Cylinder Homes by Guy Dessauges, 1966

From Vintage Everyday:

An alternative mode of high rise living, these futuristic homes were dreamed up by the Swiss architect and artist Guy Dessauges in the mid-1960s. The eccentric creator was obsessed with the idea of designing completely cylindrical buildings, inspired by the semi-circular forms of ancient cave dwellings and Roman vaulting.

He was also focusing on a new use of materials, structural and social connectivity of the new modes of design. He had just produced a new system of construction, which is made of polyester, laminated textile of glass and polyurethane foam. It was not needed to invent a new hardware or software for this type of construction, they were already there and he just improved a new type of living.

Dessauges spent most of the sixties compiling drawings and scale models of structures such as this—a playful, prefabricated “tube housing tower.” Sadly, none of these imaginings ever came to life, and by the end of the decade financial necessity forced Dessauges to turn his attention to more practical endeavors.

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