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...illustrations include fine, haunting photos of a hungry Kansas farm family in front of their sod hut in the 1880s, and of young, self-consciously warlike Confederate soldiers posing in their first uniforms. There are paintings of a wagon train, a cancerous color photo of cars and advertising signs turning a Tucson street into the seventh circle of hell, and an oddly cheerful painting by a 19th century Chinese of George Washington ascending to heaven...
This concern for urban fabric led Weese to his first renovation job-Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Designed by Adler and Sullivan in the 1880s, it had become a U.S.O. club with bowling alleys and finally ended as a neglected shell. Its roof leaked; its 4,000 velvet-covered seats were rotting. Weese meticulously restored the stately interior with its soaring arches, curving balconies and richly ornamental plaster friezes. The work cost $2,000,000 and was finished in 1967. The result: a glowing, golden concert and opera hall with near perfect acoustics...
...nomenclatural possibilities seem irresistible: "Cattalo," after an 1880s progenitor; "bisontennial," to commemorate the nation's forthcoming 200th birthday; or perhaps "beefalo." Basolo is leaning, understandably, toward calling his breed "Basolo...
...this month sales to amateur and professional gold prospectors have increased 150%. "Literally thousands of people are coming through our office asking directions to the gold fields," says Will Summers, tourist director of California's Amador County. "Sometimes I think I'm back in the 1880s...
Route 16 winds slowly through South Dakota's Black Hills, meandering leisurely toward the Pine Ridge reservation and Wounded Knee. The road is the same one that Sitting Bull traveled on his way to Canada in the 1880s, and it goes through some of the most scenic land in the United States...