A building on my 'to build' list..........

Dave,  Another wedge shaped building.  Duffy's Tavern in Utica, ILL.   John

Dave, That's a great find! And it looks easy to copy and build with available parts. I'm thinking DPM or Ameritowne. 

  They are called "corner buildings" most often.

     Detroit has a sandstone/tan one downtown that I always loved. I think it was a party store the last time I saw it. My friends would get mad as I often stopped in my tracks to stare, no matter the foot destination, or traffic situation . I think we have about three left in the city total now.

That is a beauty.  It has instant eye appeal.  The colors, the brick detail, the shape and the big Brewhouse sign.  Very attractive, interesting building.

Dave:

I am building one myself - the tricky part is the acute (>45 degrees) angles on the wall edges one needs to cut because of the odd shape to the building. Best to practice the cuts on waste styrene first. Just google "cutting acute angles on the tablesaw".

Also with that many windows it would be easier to build the walls 'cookie cutter' style rather then try to cut out all the window spaces on a solid sheet and make them line up properly.

Joe

"ORIGINALLY POSTED BY": MODEL STRUCTURES

Where is this Joe?

Adriatic posted:

"ORIGINALLY POSTED BY": MODEL STRUCTURES

Where is this Joe?

204 East New York Street Indianapolis IN

AMCDave posted:

I just got back from a Hudson CAR show in Chattanooga Tn......next to the train station was a VERY cool building I MUST copy for my layout.......

NOT my photo....from the net....I never could get a good pic......building is about a door wide and is wedge shaped. Overall it's small...perfect for a layout. Such a unusual structure......gotta build it!!!! 

Next to the station......my pic

I was in that building when the LCCA convention was in town. It has a great craft beer and eatery in it !!

Model Structures posted:

Adriatic posted:

Where is this Joe?

204 East New York Street Indianapolis IN

Ah, the east bound one way street South of westbound ...Michigan(?) . I remember it.

A looong 500 story, but short version is: We were looking for a hospital entrance to help a stranger from Chicago who got beat with a bat, by folks we had met ten minutes sooner, on the night before the race. Sensing a bad vibe, we left (more like snuck off). We saw this victim guy for the first time after the race, and his leaving the hospital. Broke, ride gone, head bandaged, and begging at the Checker Burger, but wearing a $1500 watch! I had to ask WTF as I handed him a burger and someone went for a drink, and over a burger, found our stories meshed too well. It could have been one of us, easy. He needed to get his other belongings so we could drop him off in S.Chicago (Aurora), on our way back to Detroit; and so "lost" we looped the hospital area a few times, since none of us was from town. He got his goodies and we all went home. He sprung for gas and an Italian dinner once at the house. Saw him at the race again about three years later.

Lovely town for the most part, but a crazy place that time of year.

A great story, Adriatic.

From here, the US looks like a very scary place. 

Nice to hear the other side.

Cheers

MaxSouthOz posted:

A great story, Adriatic.

From here, the US looks like a very scary place. 

Nice to hear the other side.

Cheers

  Bad news sells better than good. We are very critical of ourselves too.

A hi-jack to help regain Indy's and 'Merica's good names......

      Sure there are some bad folk, but lots of good too. "Small town America" still exists, even in the big cities. Use Google earth street-side view and look up that Indy address above. Just look around between there and "Speedway Indiana" ( a main street or two north, then west a bit (The track area is it's own little city actually, Speedway city).  IMO, Indy & Speedway have a small town feel, and yet aren't small.

    The Aussies I've met are usually surprised by how tame things seem once here."The beer is weak, but the food is great" and "Oh my god, how many rules do you "free" guys have?" Well, that came up a few times .

    That bad Indy 500 incident could have happened anywhere in the world. With that many people*(400,000+), you know someone will drink too much alcohol and want to fight too.

   Young territorial locals being stupid is a worldwide, time honored, tradition .  These guys were just real idjits. I've actually seen more people hospitalized from falling drunk off high places there while watching the race, than total fights I ever saw there.

   The Indy 500 is a massive gathering of people that has to be seen to be understood. Still the largest sporting event I think.

*The track alone will have about 400,000 people go there in the A.M., in just a couple hours(half drunk or hungover), and leave even faster when it's over. Some arrive a week early and wait. The unofficial slogan there is "s**t happens", because with that many visiting folk around, it will.

  It's so big, the night before, the party surrounds the huge track for miles. It was an unreal party, year after year...people everywhere. Even camping in the divided roads center median. That was only one year out of a dozen, one man out of millions. Normally you could pass out, be rolled on your stomach, and out of the way , and likely still have your wallet when you wake up for the race.

  I don't drink, but I sure laugh at those that do at times. Great fun when they get a plastic keg stuck on their head going for a last drip of beer, and while in a rainy mud-fest Took him ten minutes of "slip and slide" & falling in mud, before he got it off  I wouldn't have let him him drown in it, but he got no help either not from me anyhow But he did get help from his pal , who right after, was making fun of him and positioned the keg above his own head, and the "mud monster" pushed it down for ten more minutes, I was treated to more "drunk in the mud" slapstick hilarity, that would have made Charlie Chaplin jealous ....then there was the year two guys(and only 2), had a whole F-150 pickup truck, filled with beer and some dry ice, and they drank it all in 3.5 days ......  I've heard it's "only comparable to Mardi Gras, or the Kentucky Derby in the scope of greatest  number of happy drunks ever assembled".

   I bet your "critters" freak me out way more, and I'll gladly handle tarantulas, rattle snakes, bats, etc.. .

   My female Aussie cousin is more "redneck country" than some folk here are (that would pridefully consider themselves so ), and well...ghetto, is ghetto, no matter what country, still good & bad, just more desperation.

    It's a big place. Decide what to see, and come visit us  Or Canada at least; "just to test the water"  "America-lite" isn't far off from being right.

I'd love to.  I play bass in a Bluegrass band, so I'm already halfway there.