Must win lottery!!!!!
Jun. 2nd, 2010 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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I'd line the downstairs walls of the former chapel with bookshelves and lots of comfy chairs and tables, replace the main stained glass with panels of the Metal Gods, and bring in lots of movable panels or shoji screens so we could change the layout of the place for different needs. Since I've won the lottery here and am mad, I'd offer it to BASFA as a clubhouse and to any wandering fan as a place of refuge. Can you imagine the Thanksgiving Dinners That Couldn't Be Beat in this place! Can you imagine Halloween? (We'd fly the Transylvania flag from Rocky, of course.)
And it would go so well with the doublet I tried on at Baycon!
But what to call it? "Castle on the Park" is too New York (sorry to my NYC friends) for me. How about Caer Norton?
Want! Want! Want!
I'd line the downstairs walls of the former chapel with bookshelves and lots of comfy chairs and tables, replace the main stained glass with panels of the Metal Gods, and bring in lots of movable panels or shoji screens so we could change the layout of the place for different needs. Since I've won the lottery here and am mad, I'd offer it to BASFA as a clubhouse and to any wandering fan as a place of refuge. Can you imagine the Thanksgiving Dinners That Couldn't Be Beat in this place! Can you imagine Halloween? (We'd fly the Transylvania flag from Rocky, of course.)
And it would go so well with the doublet I tried on at Baycon!
But what to call it? "Castle on the Park" is too New York (sorry to my NYC friends) for me. How about Caer Norton?
Want! Want! Want!
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Date: 2 Jun 2010 22:57 (UTC)But inside, pretty nice!! And isn't $7.5 mil pretty cheap for in-city real estate in San Francisco? I can't imagine something that size being much less up even here in the Emerald City. Heck, with a modestly-sized lottery win you could afford to retrofit a MOAT.
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Date: 2 Jun 2010 23:36 (UTC)We have a vendor right around 14th street that was built around the remaining three walls of a church. The street facing wall is wood and corrugated steel, the rest masonry. Go back far enough, and the original nave frames for stained glass are still there (now equipped with dirty wired safety glass, but not what you expect in an electrical supply warehouse!)
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Date: 3 Jun 2010 16:42 (UTC)Form and function both be damned, I'm just impressed by any architectural style that can churn out red brick wedding cakes.
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Date: 2 Jun 2010 23:23 (UTC)However... they took out the pipe organ, so if I'd won the lottery and bought it, I'd need to have one installed. (Also more in the way of accessibility - a mini-elevator, and unobtrusive ramps - there's certainly enough space to do that. Oh, extra grab bars in the bathrooms, that sort of thing...)
'k, that's enough daydreaming... *wry*
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Date: 3 Jun 2010 03:05 (UTC)There's, a, li-i-ight... (Over at the Penguin Lord's place!)...
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