Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Golden Anniversary

An old best pal of my ex and I once lived in a FLW house in Wisconsin. I once knew which one, but now forget. Anyway, there was a 'pond' going into the house. (I've since had a client with another house like that, another story, another time.) Anyway, for Harvey, this great feature meant all sorts of animals came into the house at night. Do I remember muskrats being among them?

lol (have you seen the "I'm going to end everything I say with lol" thread)

Yes, I'm enjoying it, though I'm not very practiced at lolling.

It posted okay, now it's disappeared -- try again:

Oh, great, now they both posted! The hamster is drunk this morning.

Yee Gawd -- wild animal access to your home and I remember that Mr. Johnson (Johnson & Johnson) got dripped on his head at his first dinner party from a leak on a rainy night in his new FLW house, and I know you've all likely read this one before, but he calls FLW and complains, so Wright answers Mr. Lever, "Well, Herb, why don't you just move your chair."

No, I hadn't heard that one..

Now we don't have two photos..
It's ok.

I could see it by clicking on the little square at the same time I clicked control and chose open image in a new window. I've a mac. You can do something similar with a pc - I think you right click and then choose 'properties' and then open in a new window.

I did a copy and paste and the image came up on the original page, then when I clicked on the back button, it had returned here. There's some server gliche.

Too bad when they made "Lost Horizons," they weren't able to use the Wright Imperial hotel for the High Llama's temple. It would have worked better than that Beverly Hills modern house they came up with (looked like it was done by the same studio designers who eventually came up with the buildings in "The Fountainhead," since Wright refused to do the drawings or models).

That's one of the great shames of the 20th century, that they razed the Imperial.

It's strange when you see old pictures of FLW buildings that the buildings still look contemporary but they have those archaic cars (or horses and buggies in some of his older ones) in front of them

The best view of Falling Water is the entire "strata shot" that allows one to see the house in and along the horizontal strata of pre coal measures.

Somewhere in my old VHS collection I have the PBS hour special on Falling Water that included the restorations. I'm sure it has become available on DVD but will have to look. I also have the PBS biography which was narrated by his Great Grandaughter, Anne Baxter (yep-- Eve in "All About Eve.")