The House on the Rock
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Ketchuplover | Saturday, December 15, 2001 - 09:09 pm   I visited this Wisconsin tourist attraction as a youth. Have any of you been there? What did you think of it? |
Whoami | Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 12:09 am   I'd never heard of it, so naturally I hit the Web and looked for info on it. Found their website. I didn't have time to browse through the whole site, but it sure sounds like an incredible place to me! The House On The Rock |
Urgrace | Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 01:30 am   This is a new one for me. I love unusual places! We are going to Wisconsin next year to the Oshkosh Fly In, so maybe we can take a side trip to see this house, that is if it is worth it. What do you say? |
Juju2bigdog | Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 08:50 am   I also remember visiting it as a child. Well, I must have been a fairly old child because my strongest memory of it is having to enter it through a stone passageway that was not quite tall enough to stand up in. I am guessing I would have been about 5'10" at the time, 14 or so. We lived in Illinois then and went camping in Wisconsin on vacations. |
Misslibra | Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 11:03 am   Nope never heard of it. whoami thanks for the link, I'll check it out. Juju, what did you think of it? |
Juju2bigdog | Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 03:31 pm   MsL, sorry, can't remember. You know how kids hate getting dragged to that stuff. Who wants to look at some stupid old building when you could be swimming in the lake? |
Ketchuplover | Sunday, December 16, 2001 - 05:03 pm   I tried |
Willi | Monday, December 17, 2001 - 09:13 am   I think it's a great idea to post attractions around the World that we might otherwise miss out on seeing. Great thread Ketchuplover. I'll add one: Devils Tower in Wyoming-The United State's First National Monument (this was news to me) http://www.newyoming.com/DevilsTower/ Anyone been here? What did you think? I'll admit that when I went I did a total "Chevy Chase" and nodded a few times in my husband's general direction & wanted to get back on the road. We were moving from Ohio to California & I was in a hurry. Next time we get to that part of the country, I'll stop & smell the roses or atleast chase the prairie dogs. |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, December 17, 2001 - 10:44 am   Oh! But I meant that if I am back in Wisconsin, I would love to go look at it again now that I have the mature intellect to appreciate things like that. Okay, here is one: Columbarium in San Francisco. Let me see if I have a little saga I wrote about it when we lived in San Francisco. San Francisco, August 14, 1998: Another cold day today, middle of August. We wore jackets and this time I remembered to take my earmuffs, got to use them too. After dropping the groceries off at home,we headed out and hopped a bus down Geary. Today was the day to visit the Columbarium, which I guess you'd have to say is a mausoleum, but probably like no other. It is an ornate round domed building that sits improbably on three acres at the end of a dead end residential street, tucked back behind busy, commercial Geary Street. It was built in 1898 and contains the urns of the wealthiest people of that day. Yet, it's not a spooky place. The inside has a four story atrium with interior balconies to the other floors. It is old, it is ornate, dignified, of another era. Just the architecture, both inside and out is fascinating. And it is still taking tenants. Right next to the hundred year old brass urns (behind glass) are modern day memorials with photographs and favorite mementos. A particularly San Francisco thing about it is that there are many niches memorializing two men. In some cases, there are two death dates, and in others just one with the other left open. Short lives these, the AIDS legacy. |
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