Merry Christmas. But next year, I demand an in-depth analysis of Whoville, including walk score, snow removal strategies and the precise dimensions of that big roundabout used for the circular hand-holding singalongs.
Good observation. TV and movies and books always assumed bedrooms were upstairs. I never lived in a house like that!
TV and movies had another strange architectural standard. The front entrance was ALWAYS two or three steps above the living room, even in NYC apartments. No real house is built that way. This must have been needed for stagecraft or camera purposes?
One of my favorite parts of the Frosty cartoon was when they go down to the train station to buy a ticket to the north pole and the station agent figures it out. I know at one point every town had a railroad station that connected them to the country at large, and in guessing station agents who planned long distance trips were a feature of them. I'm guessing this was so on living memory in 1970 when the cartoon came out. Just a fun little winfow into the past. Not quite the same as what you're talking about here but I still think it's neat.
Merry Christmas. But next year, I demand an in-depth analysis of Whoville, including walk score, snow removal strategies and the precise dimensions of that big roundabout used for the circular hand-holding singalongs.
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Good observation. TV and movies and books always assumed bedrooms were upstairs. I never lived in a house like that!
TV and movies had another strange architectural standard. The front entrance was ALWAYS two or three steps above the living room, even in NYC apartments. No real house is built that way. This must have been needed for stagecraft or camera purposes?
Our house in California was exactly like that.
One of my favorite parts of the Frosty cartoon was when they go down to the train station to buy a ticket to the north pole and the station agent figures it out. I know at one point every town had a railroad station that connected them to the country at large, and in guessing station agents who planned long distance trips were a feature of them. I'm guessing this was so on living memory in 1970 when the cartoon came out. Just a fun little winfow into the past. Not quite the same as what you're talking about here but I still think it's neat.