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I dunno, from the detail of this picture it could just be a dry dock that he's scrapping or storing inland until global warming raises the sea level.
http://www.crandalldrydock.com/Crandall%…
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Sometimes the zillionaires have private fireworks displays at their houses on Lake Washington and are kind enough to let everyone around get a glimpse of them. And hear them! Boy howdy you can you can hear them!
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just think of the skilled craftsmen allen has employed building this retreat he uses 2 or 3 weekends a year, you ungrateful peons.
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@3: true dat. A skilled craftsmen friend worked on Ted Turner's "cabin" near Bozeman. The front screen door alone cost over $3000.
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It's not there on google maps satellite view, so must be kind of new. But from the same source it looks like behind the house he also has a sculpture of a giant tea-cup.
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Nice to see Mr. Allen enjoying the dense urban lifestyle that we are all supposed to be living. Nice apodment there on Sperry. Any LINK stations planned?
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Norwester had a reputation as a rich kids' playground back in the day. I found a pretty cool newsletter this camp put out with some good history. It's the Fall 2010 issue here: http://norwester.org/newsletters/

- The camp's original location was San Juan island, until they lost their lease there in 1945.
- The camp's going strong in its new location. After decades as a for-profit company, once the land got sold they converted to a nonprofit.
- The longhouse was built not by Kwakiutl tribal members, but by campers and staff in Kwakiutl style, in 1955. They've built another on their new property now.
- A group of campers' families bought the land in 1967 and sold it in 1980 to guy who sold it to Allen eighteen years later.

Losing the camp location must have been traumatic, both times it happened to Norwester. As an Orkila kid myself, I'm glad that my old YMCA camp is still going strong in its same location on Orcas, and still keeping its fees relatively low for parents poor as mine were. I donate a little every year to help make sure it stays that way: http://www.seattleymca.org/Locations/Ork…
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I'm an Orkila kid too (Ragger!). But I can tell you Nor'Wester's current location on Johns Island is just stunning. Much nicer than Sperry if you ask me.
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For me the shapes are more reminiscent of sculpture than some kind of functional object and the rusted metal is certainly Serra's hallmark. But (as much as can be told in a few dozen pixels) it seems to lacks a lot of the tension you usually see in his work.
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I would be surprized if the nameless bicyclist actually rode around Sperry Peninsula. Sometimes, I ride my bike to the beginning of the causeway that leads to Sperry Peninsula, and I've had security drive over to check me out. Next time, I'll take binoculars to check out the sculpture. Oh, and I would not say it was a "motley crew" that protested Allen's purchase of the property. I would say it was a motley crew that refused to allow Camp Norwester to remove the carvings and longhouse that they built.

Dale F
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Serra is a tool. Seems appropriate that a true asshole would park such an aggrendizing hunk of penis steel on a property no has access to.
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Maybe it a garage for his tank.

http://www.seattlepi.com/bayarea/article…
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