Post something just for the heck of it

[Rubber Rat]

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[Rickrock]

Something I posted in another thread a few days ago got me remembering a family story from many years ago.

In the days when people didn't always lock their doors, maybe the 1920's, 30's or 40's, my grandparents went away for an afternoon. Some relatives came to visit them and found them not at home. They decided to play a prank and they rearranged their furniture so when my grandparents came home they were surprised that the furniture wasn't as they had left it and they knew that someone had been there.

 

[Kyanimal]

^ That reminds me of the local banker in the little village we lived in in the late 50's. Every week day, Carl's pink DeSoto was parked on Main Street, with his keys dangling from the trunk lock. No one ever took his car. Maybe because it WAS a pink DeSoto ...

 

[hurl3y]

I was at my mother's to help with the virus because she has cancer. I drank shots of vodka because I was bored after three weeks at her home and she kicked me out. So much for helping the elders. And btw I'm not homeless or poor, no need to judge me.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Rickrock]

^ That reminds me of the local banker in the little village we lived in in the late 50's. Every week day, Carl's pink DeSoto was parked on Main Street, with his keys dangling from the trunk lock. No one ever took his car. Maybe because it WAS a pink DeSoto ...

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That is such a beautiful car. I wonder if they will ever make them that beautiful again.

 

[belamyi]

María José, no me parece que sea elitismo en absoluto: si fuera así, la propiedad seguiría siendo suya, y mantenida en las mismas condiciones que se perciben en las fotos del enlace.

La bisnieta lo ha dejado muy claro: la finca era suya, y podían hacer lo que quisieran con ella, una vez acabada la época que podía permitir construirla y, sobre todo, mantenerla, con los recursos obtenidos de la manera que muy acertadamente señalas.

Nosotros podemos apreciar un valor estético, pero las familias que dependen de patrimonios heredados para seguir manteniendo un cierto estatus, no tienen más remedio que malvender y dejar que el capitalismo destruya lo que "respetó" el comunismo.

En cualquier caso, el pabellón de los Heusch era esplendoroso más por contraste con la Barcelona que lo rodeaba, que por lo que le pudiera venir del estilo ecléctico, neoclasicizante en el exterior, y churrigerizante en el interior, de un Bona i Puig muy lejos de ser un Ange-Jacques Gabriel, y unos interiores que, por lo que se ve, tampoco eran precisamente ni Verberckt, ni Gasparini.

Piensa, por último, que para haber podido acabar siendo hoy un "equipamiento de barrio", esos interiores habrían tenido que modificarse o, al menos, "emparedarse" (como en ciertos salones del Palau de la Generalitat), y la conservación, como suele suceder, habría sido más fachadismo que mantiene el cascarón arquitectónico, y vacía toda la "historia" y el "esplendor" (una vez descontado algún buen tapiz flamenco o bargueño "de recuerdo" para los herederos) que hoy resulta incompatible con las necesidades de la nueva "clase media", sea NyN, sea el lumpenariado moderno.

Solo hay que ver las fotos para comprobar que esos interiores ya estaban, hace cincuenta años, lejos de ofrecer la riqueza de contenidos del recuperado Mas Ravetllat-Pla. El "patrimonio" de familias venidas a menos, cuando ha tenido la dudosa fortuna de haber sido preservado, tiene un valor más arqueológico que artístico: algún alma cándida puede pensar que los muebles y porcelanas de un palau Moxó se malvendieron y alguien se llevó unos buenos chollos, pero quien tenga lo que suelen llamar buen ojo para el arte, es consciente de qué se pierde con ello y qué no.

 

[belamyi]

 

[PalacePaul]

I have so much fun fooling youtube every time
When I get adds, I never skip them.
When I get "try premium for free", I never click.
When I get "try youtube music", I never click.
I often search for completely different stuff.
The adds they show me are completely irrelevant to me, which means their guesses are all wrong!

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[Thad1527]

2020 is a unique Leap Year. February has 29 days, March has 300 days, and April has 5 years.

 

[belamyi]

Be the reason someone smirks today.

 

[belamyi]

.. ..

 

[frankfrank]

2020 is a unique Leap Year. February has 29 days, March has 300 days, and April has 5 years.

Who's April, and when was her fifth birthday?

 

[Cormac135]

The great escape!

 

[harleyguykl]

 

[Alistair]