My illustration of the Monsanto House of the Future at ’50s Disneyland.

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I visited Denver’s Vance Kirkland Museum and saw this Art Deco radio that I just had to draw for fun.

It is specifically a 1937 Spartan 558 Sled Radio!

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By the way, the RRS Feed is now working, and take a peek at my other website, TheDenverEye.com.

Sinclair Gas Station drawing, based on the station still standing on South Broadway (as of this writing) in Denver, built sometime in the 1950s, I presume.

Sinclair made AM radios that looked like these pumps. Let me know if you have an extra one!

Variations on this gas station are peppered all over the Denver area. The all have that same roof over the pumps.

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Just got back from Sarasota, and I didn’t get any good pictures!

But I did get to tour a great place, The Cooney House by Sarasota School of Architecture architect Tim Siebert, designed 1967.

I woke up the following day and decided to try to draw this up from memory, while it was still fresh!

A very interesting house! Those are floor to ceiling doors, they must be 9 feet or so in height!

3D drawing of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Jacobs House, a Usonian design from 1937.

I was looking at some of the illustrations by SketchUp illustrator Jeff Thielemier, and thought I should try to draw a complicated Usonian home.

I draw very quickly. 3 hours last Friday, 1 hour Saturday, and a couple of more hours tonight.

I’ll probably add a few more details to the interior, then upload it to the 3D Warehouse.

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Drawing of White Spot on Alameda, in Denver.

This is now Davies’ Chuck Wagon II.

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This is an old White Spot location, circa early-1960s, now Davies’ Chuck Wagon II. (Pictures of Davies’ Chuck Wagon I can be found here.)

The White Spots were designed by Armet & Davis, the firm famous for their Los Angeles coffee shop architecture, a style referred to as Googie. (Though the Googie’s restaurant itself was designed by John Lautner)

This design is different than the other Denver White Spots, I guess I would call this a butterly roof with an additional fold.

I like the way they had the White Spot signposts penetrate the rooflines.

The interior has been refurbished over the years, but you can still appreciate the vaulted ceilings and flowing counters. I have also posted pictures of another former White Spot on my new site, the Denver Eye.

There was a time, not that long ago, when Capitol Hill in Denver had many ’50s/’60s apartment buildings with similar original color schemes such as this. Sadly, they have been all painted beige and neutralized.

This building, over in the same former University of Colorado hospital area as the previous two posts, still has it’s original coloring. I am going to take a wild shot in the dark and date this building from around 1965.

This building also features a wonderful inviting concrete sheel entranceway.

I have to wonder if this shell is the work of Denver engineer Milo Ketchum.

Just came back from watching this amazing documentary at the Denver Art Musuem as part of the Design Onscreen series of films.