Over at Shorty’s place
Check out those window’s at Shorty’s! It’s plywood! Let’s just go ahead and add this to the plywood collection that already includes Anton, Snyder, Plainview, and Snyder again.
And if you want to know more about plywood, or nearly any other building material, I’d recommend that you read The Walls Around Us, by David Owen. It’s really not as boring as it sounds. (You can learn about plywood on pages 59-64, a page count which may weaken my not-as-boring-as-it-sounds argument.)
Tahoka, Texas
photographed 10.6.2013
Posted on January 21, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, plywood, tahoka, tahoka texas, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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I love plywood. I respect plywood. I once built a coffee table using only plywood and 2x4s, some nails and stain. Built it in 1971 and it’s still in use today (I think). I don’t recommend it for windows, though. Light transmission is very poor.
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We once built an upholstered ottoman (in 1978) that was made from plywood, cheap velveteen fabric, and roughly 678,943 nails. It’s probably still in use somewhere, thought thankfully not in my house!
Good point re. plywood for windows. I like sunlight, so plywood windows would be a bad choice for me.
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I spent my childhood summers, the indoor portions, surrounded by varnished plywood. The kind without a single lenticular knot repair. On the walls, ceilings and doors. In all rooms. Gave me a real soft spot for the stuff.
Since then I have spent many summers in large field tents with, you guessed it, plywood floors, which fixed the lack of same in my childhood. We made lots of plywood and 2×4 furniture in those camps – all you really need is a chainsaw and a few nails. Not a few hundred thousand as that would have capsized the supply vessels.
Never had plywood windows, though by coincidence there are some in my post today.
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Plywood without knots is rare today – the architect here at my house (who seemed confused when I asked) said that kind of plywood is called Class A Finish Grade, and that is it very expensive. So your childhood summers were spent in luxurious surroundings!
Coincidence? I think not. (My fingers wanted to make a bad pun, and actually typed “I think knot.” but I wasn’t going to let them get away with it.)
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There are glimpses of the insides of these cabins here: http://wp.me/p1R4lY-4wG
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Oh, yes: I remember these. And how Lamp was spying on the Grilles.
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