| Show I Since People Must Have Houses Picture 1 Parade L Jp ir i 4 J 1 2 vi a i c sr A tit L NY old port in a storm is a philosophy adopted by desperate people who live in caves and abandoned shacks to keep out of the wind and andrain andrain rain But far more people live in strange houses because they enjoy it finding a delightful hobby in building homes out of ot abandoned wine casks soap boxes and miscellaneous material of doubtful origin As a test of ingenuity the designing of a peculiar house has few peers Clair Emig of Hellam Pa built his three-room three dovecot in a tree top surrounded by byan byan an array of ot brilliant colored lights and overlooking a placid little brook Its It's cool up among the tile whispering leaves on a summer night F Fa FU FAlbert a U Albert H Ii Libby a farmer living near Forestville N Y thought license plates made a good protective covering for his house and barn with the above result He purchased nine tons of them th m from rom two county license bureaus Here hes he's shown driving the final nail If you have some bottles kicking around the house you might follow Collow the example of William E Gaswell of Portsmouth N H whose 2138 champagne bottles produced the above home The containers were laid on oni their heir sides with the bottoms out each bottle being set in a bed of cement The result is a pleasing glass brick effect which gives the interior an unusual glow w ti tit t T J Z r tt 1 Elias F of Pigeon Cove Mass built a house ol ot cards that is of pressed paper In addition he decided to use pressed paper for formost formost most of the furnishings inside This This-is one cardboard house that didn't fall down What's more it defies wind rain and snow being but one of several thousand strange houses that spell home sweet home to Amer Amer- American ican hobbyists These were once wine casks now they're houses |
