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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1214)	12/30/2004 1:00:06 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1293

nteresting article. Last time I was down in Arizona, we tripped on out the southeast edge of Phoenix towards the Superstition Mountains through some new housing developments. Couldn't believe the way the houses were being built. They were all chipboard made to look like adobe -- like, flat-roofed with viga poles sticking out through the side, but it was all sort of fake and they had some kind of stucco stuff sprayed all over the outsides. Funniest part was that, usually on one of the outside walls, there would be a sort of huge embossed image of a saguaro or a saguaro with a guy in a sombrero snoozing against it. Yikes!! (o: Btw, one of the local towns up here once had a very active cement block factory -- they made what was once referred to as "artistic stone" blocks -- cement poured into a hand-operated block mould that had one side with a fake stone facing plate that pressed the image and texture of stone onto that side. They also made Doric and Corinthian concrete columns for front porches. Later on, they got into exposed aggregate blocks.. and took this much further than most other aggregate blocks which used just one or two kinds of crushed stone -- these guys brought in a white quartzy looking stone from a lead mine about 60 miles away, and a kind of dark grey-black looking stone from Quebec. They made blocks that were in various tonal ranges from light grey through to black. There are quite a lot of houses in this area that were made of these blocks -- kind of unusual. At one time, the company had about 5 or 6 masonry crews on the road building houses, and hired quite a lot of horse teams to haul blocks. ~croc