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":relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past."
I couldn't remember whether "retro" referred to actually old, or newer, but made to look old. Turns out it's both, so I have examples of both less than a block each direction from me. The above is my high school, which last year celebrated its 100th birthday - although these buildings are twenty years younger than that. Oddly, when I googled these buildings, the tower kept being referred to as the "clock tower" or the "bell tower." However, it didn't get clocks or "bells" until the late 70's when I attended there. And the"bells" are fake- just a faux bell visible through the upper windows and speakers that play the typical clock tune before striking the hour, or quarter hour (the bulges at the bottom of the lower windows). It only chimes during the day on weekdays.
This is the same distance away in the other direction. This is another house in my neighborhood where a smaller house was torn down to put in a much larger one - although the original house was a 50's clone of many others and was unmourned. This house is only about three years old, but it's sort of pseudo-Victorian. The front garden is actually fairly pretty in the springtime.
The front:
The back - I always thought it was a little odd that they stuck the showy little turret in the rear instead of the front:
(fiddled with Photoshop on this one - it's two exposures, one for the house and one for the the sky, combined - however, next time I won't move two step down the sidewalk in between them)
mylife_onceaday has optional "assignments," photographing something on a theme - the title in this case)":relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past."
I couldn't remember whether "retro" referred to actually old, or newer, but made to look old. Turns out it's both, so I have examples of both less than a block each direction from me. The above is my high school, which last year celebrated its 100th birthday - although these buildings are twenty years younger than that. Oddly, when I googled these buildings, the tower kept being referred to as the "clock tower" or the "bell tower." However, it didn't get clocks or "bells" until the late 70's when I attended there. And the"bells" are fake- just a faux bell visible through the upper windows and speakers that play the typical clock tune before striking the hour, or quarter hour (the bulges at the bottom of the lower windows). It only chimes during the day on weekdays.
This is the same distance away in the other direction. This is another house in my neighborhood where a smaller house was torn down to put in a much larger one - although the original house was a 50's clone of many others and was unmourned. This house is only about three years old, but it's sort of pseudo-Victorian. The front garden is actually fairly pretty in the springtime.
The front:
The back - I always thought it was a little odd that they stuck the showy little turret in the rear instead of the front:
(fiddled with Photoshop on this one - it's two exposures, one for the house and one for the the sky, combined - however, next time I won't move two step down the sidewalk in between them)
