Ever since man left his cave... he has wondered why. Think about it... what could be more perfect than a nice and cozy little cave? I'm sure if Thomas Kinkade knew anything about anything, he would have started painting caves years ago, and not just in caves. Anyways, some might say that housing has come a long way since then. In ancient Rome, multistory shanty tenements held individual cell like cloisters filled with people and rats, but strangely no cave paintings. Luckily Nero burned down the city so that he could build his Domus Aurelius and blame it on the Christians. Now Nero's house had style, who could live without a collosal golden statue of one's self to greet visitors, or an artificial lake in the backyard? Jealous of Nero's crib, Vespasian eventually tore it down like a sore loser, and now the only way to get to it is to go underground through the grottos. How fitting tha
t the greatest house ever built eventually became a dank, dark, dreary, cozy little cave. Our current housing market could definately learn from this... much as colonel Sanders did, and start building underground houses next door so that our chauffers can live in them.
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t the greatest house ever built eventually became a dank, dark, dreary, cozy little cave. Our current housing market could definately learn from this... much as colonel Sanders did, and start building underground houses next door so that our chauffers can live in them.
i would really like to see some them old time houses.....
ReplyDeleteLol I'd venture to say that this blog beats brittany...sorry britt, its funny!!!
ReplyDeleteI was beginning to wonder if I had dreamt the underground house that Dick lived in! Dick was Colonel Sanders Chauffeur, actually he was more than his chauffeur, he was a general 'Man Friday' and also used to administer his injections when he was ill. I visited Dick's house in 1980 when we visited the Colonel at his home for his 90th birthday. Trouble is I was only 20 and didn't think to take any photographs of the house, only photos of us and the Colonel exist. I remember being fascinated by it though. There was a central atrium letting light filter down and into all the rooms that surrounded it.
ReplyDeleteTell me, how did you come to know about this house? I have searched the internet and can find no mention of it or the address of the Colonel's last abode, for me to look on Google Earth. I think it was near to Louisville, possibly Shelbyville. All I can remember is that Dick picked us up from the airport and took us to the house that wasn't too far away. Neither was the Colonel's house very grand, by comparison Dick's home impressed me far more!