We were bicycling in Kenton County, Kentucky today and ran across this unique structure. I'm not sure if you would call it a barn door or a door barn. Expand the pictures to get the full effect.
Imagine your designated driver dropping you off there after one too many Brew Pops!! A case of how to drive a drunk out of his mind!
My Dad grew during the depression in Coney Island NY. His Dad built their house from old door slabs that he removed from other projects. My Dad told me the entire exterior was 2" solid wood doors, it was built like a tank. He also remembers when it was bulldozed down, he said they had one heck of a time pushing it over. The NYC power plant now stands where my Dad grew up, whenever we go there we look at the smoke stacks and that is where his house was located. It was built right on the beach, it was a little community, and they needed the water front location for the power plant so they bought everyone out somewhere around 1930.
Coney Island today... At one time the inlet at the left connected to the one at the right making it an island. When they built the Belt Parkway in the 1940s they filled in the channel rather than condemn homes. If you start at the end of the left inlet, Coney Island Creek, you can follow the roads that cover the channel until it ends at Sheepshead Bay. Coney is the Dutch word for rabbits, When first discovered it was covered with rabbits. The channel kept the predators off the island and the rabbits flourished. As the city (Brooklyn) expanded and got more expensive, those that needed a cheaper place to live moved to Coney Island. Some founded small towns, others bought property in the wilderness and built house, and others just squatted on vacant land. For a long time the beaches were the playground of NYC's upper middle class, think the Hamptons of today. As NYC grew it became the common man's respite from the summer's heat. Once the subway was extended to the Island it became every man's playground, for a nickle you could spend a day on an ocean beach. The amusement parks used to stretch along the right side, the ocean beach, from the tall housing complex in the middle to the long jetty on the lower right. They included Steeplechase, Luna Park and many others. Between the wars, when the harbor was pretty polluted, many "Bath Houses" opened. Washington Baths, Silver's baths, etc. Those that did not want to be with the crowds on the beaches and scrape tar balls off their feet, could rent a locker there, use the pools, saunas, showers, & sun decks. Many of the old amusement parks & baths closed in the late 50s and 60s. The skeletons of the attractions rusted for years. All this vacant land in the city became the start of the housing projects you see today. They city was growing and needed more homes, Coney Island had vacant land and a subway that connected it to the rest of the city. At the bottom of the island is Seagate, a private gated community that has not changed much in the last 70 years or more.
years ago I got solid oak doors from a hospital and built work benches and tables out of them. smooth, flat and heavy!
