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...Danish dining-room chandelier or the bedroom clocks, not the hair dryer or the electric blankets, not the can opener or the carving knife, not the toothbrush or the razor. Not even the electric-eye garage door. For dinner, the Robbinses had charcoal-broiled steaks grilled over a primitive backyard barbecue...
...happy. Vermont housewives with refrigerators full of thawing food calmly transferred everything to a more capacious freezer?the backyard. In the fireplaces of $40,000 suburban homes, paunchy businessmen crouched to kindle damp charcoal and concoct Boy Scout mulligan stew...
...have lost such pop overtones. Their darting shapes are abstract, fragmentary, peripheral visions of speed. The human figure is gone. Some of his titles, such as Pennon and Gyron, derive from heraldry. As to who the knights of the road are in a society that builds automobiles in the backyard and reveres them as wheeled victories, Laing lets his work speak for itself: viewers staring into the chrome will catch a glimmering reflection of themselves...
...rise of the community stable. Families can now keep a horse in style for $1,000 a year, far less than the cost of building and maintaining a private stable. In southern California, where the climate is always mild, many families simply keep a horse in their backyard. Children can now get riding lessons for almost nothing. The United States Pony Clubs, which were formed twelve years ago and now claim 7,000 members in 25 states, will give lessons in grooming and riding for $4 a year, thanks to old-guard horsemen who teach for free. All the members...
...architectural oddity, a trio of 100-ft.-tall latticework spires called the Watts Towers. Inlaid with 75,000 sea shells and countless bits of crockery, the tow ers were the lifetime hobby of an immigrant Italian tilesetter named Simon Rodia, who built them by hand in his backyard (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). Since 1963 the Towers have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board as a historic monument, and, in the eyes of younger West Coast artists, they have become a shrine. "No existing church stood for so much to us," says Walter Hopps, director of the Pasadena...