Post A Picture of Anything Thread II

Yeah, paint can make such an impact!

 

Yeah I think 60s/70s is about right. My parent's house had it growing up and it was built in 68 or 69.

Wait, where is the front door usually placed in your country?

 

We usually have a hallway, even in tiny houses.

 

THIS would be a nice gift for Valentine's Day or, more importantly, my birthday next month! The scratch tickets are from NY, in case you wondered.

 

WTF?

 

We put similar wood paneling in the basement of our house in WI in 1974. Only difference is the face was elm which made it more attractive. Elm is a strongly figured wood and was locally available until Dutch Elm Disease killed all the American elms.

 

Not entirely true...

I still have American Elm trees, and active Dutch Elm disease. None of these trees get much more than ten to twenty years old, but they are still around. New ones sprout every year.

It only appears that all the trees were killed because cities cut them all down in the 70's whether they had the disease or not.

 

The same thing occurs with the American Chestnut tree.

They grow awhile before catching the blight

 

The same is true of American Chestnut. Even after all these years there are still sprouts growing up briefly...good luck on finding a pocket full of chestnuts tho. I was assigned as a timber manager on the Nicolet National Forest in WI in the late 1960’s and saw first hand the inexorable northward march of the elm disease and watched some of the finest American Elm stands in North America decimated is a few short years. American Elm has essentially vanished as a component of Northern Hardwood stands.