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'People who think about the music that came out of here would think that this place was huge. Think it was this huge recording studio where we had all these people ... but everyone was crammed in here ... and we were making music, we were jamming.''It' is the converted garage of a small frame house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan. Detroit being the home of the automobile, it's only appropriate that this story should revolve around a garage. This is the Motor City, and the house, christened Hitsville USA, is the birthplace of Motown Records. The garage at the rear is Studio A, one of the most revered recording studios in history.It was in this room that Barrett Strong, on Motown's first national hit, declared 'Money (That's What I Want)', where Smokey Robinson cried his 'Tears of a Clown', the Four Tops promised 'Reach Out, I'll Be There', Martha Reeves and the Vandellas sent a call out around the world, asking 'are you ready for a brand new beat?' and Diana Ross and the Supremes demanded 'Stop! In the Name of Love'. It was within these four walls that little Stevie Wonder recorded his first songs and, later, as the Sixties faded, Marvin Gaye asked 'What's Going On?'.Between 1961 and 1971, Motown had a staggering 110 Top 10 hits in the US, more than half of which were million-sellers, and most of them were recorded in this converted garage, barely big enough to house a Lincoln Continental.Motown is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary - the label was founded by Berry Gordy Jr as Tamla Records on 12 January 1959, then incorporated as the Motown Record Corporation in 1960. Downstairs in Hitsville is the reception area, the control room and Studio A. Upstairs was originally the living quarters for Gordy and his family, before Motown's success allowed them to move out into a home of their own. The building remains much as it was in its heyday. Smokey, now 68 and based in LA and Las Vegas, hasn't been back for a couple of years himself. 'This is a very spiritual room for me,' he explains. 'There's a lot of energy. So many things happened in here ...'Does it really feel like 50 years, I ask.'No, it doesn't, it doesn't seem like 50 years. 50 years have gone by in an instant; like that,' says Smokey, clicking his fingers. 'It just seems like yesterday that this stuff was going on. When Berry Gordy first came and saw this house and envisaged this garage being a studio.''It seems like yesterday,' he says again, rubbing his eye, 'it seems impossible. I always relate it to when I was a kid - I would be watching television and I would see Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis and those guys and they would say "Oh man, we've been doing this for 20 years" and I'd think, "God, how can someone have been doing something for 20 years?" But I see now, because 50 years have gone by like that.' He clicks his fingers again. 'Just overnight, you know ... 50 years ... God, that's half a century.'That half a century covers an extraordinary tale of love and loss - the remarkable dream of one man and the creation of a label that produced an unrivalled succession of hits, and the desperate decline of the city that was once at the heart of the American dream.It was 1913 when Henry Ford pioneered the use of a moving assembly line for mass production at his factory in the Highland Park district, then on the northern fringes of the city, and by the 1920s Detroit had already been christened the Motor City. The promise of employment in the car plants meant that Detroit overtook Chicago as the favoured destination for black families migrating from the south, and the city's population swelled to over two million, making it the fourth biggest city in America. By the 1950s, 80% of the world's cars were built in America, and most of those in Detroit. The city was the manufacturing centre of the America, and thus the world.Born in 1929 in Detroit - his parents had migrated north from Georgia - by the mid-Fifties Berry Gordy Jr, the seventh of eight children, was still searching for his way in life. Having dropped out of high school, he attempted to make it as a professional boxer before being drafted for the war in Korea. Back in Detroit, in 1953, he married Thelma Gorman and decided to pursue a career in music. In a rare interview in 1984 - the 78-year-old isn't giving any to coincide with Motown's 50th anniversary, although he has been working on a documentary which should surface next year - Gordy told the Los Angeles Times how seeing an advert for a battle of the bands when he was in a Detroit gym gave him a wake-up call - he noticed the stark juxtaposition of 'young fighters who were 23 but looked like 50, all scarred and beat up... then I saw the musicians who were 50 and they looked 23'.After the failure of his first musical venture, the 3-D Record Mart store, Gordy was forced to find work on the Lincoln-Mercury production line of the Ford plant to support his family. Now writing songs, he was introduced to the R'n'B singer Jackie Wilson, a fellow ex-boxer, who recorded one of Gordy's compositions 'Reet Petite', then several more over the next couple of years. Gordy, however, became quickly disillusioned with the industry when he realised the labels in Chicago and New York that were distributing these songs were the ones making serious dollar. In the offices of Wilson's manager one day, Gordy met the Matadors, fronted by a 16-year-old with sparkling green eyes and light dark skin called William 'Smokey' Robinson. Gordy persuaded the group to change their name to the Miracles and on Robinson's 18th birthday, their first single 'Got a Job', written and produced by Gordy, was released on New York's End Records.Gordy began to dream of building his own label, an equivalent to Ford's assembly lines, a hit factory. It was Smokey who persuaded Gordy that he needed to stop leasing records, and go national himself. 'I recorded this record, the Miracles and me, called 'Way Over There' and it broke out really big here in Detroit and so we re-recorded it and put violins on it and I just told him: "We might as well take this record national. Nobody's paying us anyway so we might as well take the chance on doing it ourselves." So that's what we did.'Spurred on by Smokey, and his sisters Gwen and Anna Gordy, who had already started Anna Records with Billy Davis, Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and started the label in January 1959. 'On the very first day, when Berry decided to start Motown,' Smokey recalls, those green eyes sparkling, 'he sat down and said, "Hey, you guys, I wanted to tell you something: we are not going to make black music, we're going to make world music, we're going to make music for everybody. We're going to make great music, we're going to have some great stories, make some great beats" - and that's what we set out to do.'Though Gordy's ambition always stretched much further than Detroit city limits - the label called itself 'the sound of young America' - he still wanted its name to show its roots. 'Detroit was known as "The Motor City",' says Smokey. 'Berry wanted to name the label something that sounded familiar. First, he was going to call it 'Mocity' but he decided that 'town' was more homely, more family-sounding, so he called it 'Motown'.In his determination to build a hit factory, Gordy employed various songwriters. The best known were Holland-Dozier-Holland, aka Laurent Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland. Other notables included Norman Whitfield, William 'Mickey' Stevenson and Smokey himself, whom Gordy made vice president. The producers' mantra was 'KISS' - 'keep it simple, stupid.'Most of the records were also recorded with the same studio session musicians - a tight-knit group known as the Funk Brothers. The 2002 documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown claimed that in 14 years, they 'played on more No1 hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined'. Gordy now had the hit factory that he had dreamt of.He introduced weekly quality control meetings to ensure a consistent procession of hits. Smokey, sitting back in his chair in the Hitsville control room, explains: 'We had Monday morning meetings, they started at 9 o'clock, and at 9 o'clock and five seconds you were locked out. You had to be there at 9 o'clock in order to get your stuff heard. All the creative people were in those meetings, the writers, the producers. We would play our stuff for each other, critique each other's stuff and make suggestions on each other's stuff to make it better. We were very competitive but we still pulled for each other to be creatively strong. A lot of people have said to me, "Berry decided..." No, Berry did not decide any of that. Berry was in those meetings, but Berry was still producing and writing at that time and his stuff would get shot down just like anybody else's.' He laughs. 'It was very hard for Berry to get a record out."Several timeless tracks - including Marvin Gaye's 'Heard it Through the Grapevine - were initially rejected by Gordy. 'Absolutely,' confirms Smokey. 'Many of the tracks were sent back and re-worked, and re-worked, until they became the hits that they became.'The label was a strong and highly visible example of black empowerment when the civil rights movement was gathering pace. In her 1999 book, Dancing in the Street, Suzanne Smith points out that Gordy was 'extremely wary about affiliating his business with any organisation or movement that might negatively influence his company's commercial success'. What Gordy cared about was record sales. 'Nevertheless,' Smith adds, 'both Motown's music and its entrepreneurial acumen emerged from an urban black community that regularly asserted its "politics" through cultural and economic means.'In other words, the success of the black-owned Motown was a powerful statement in itself.Gordy may have been wary about Motown becoming overly politicised, but the label decided to release its first spoken-word recording in August 1963: a recording of Martin Luther King's speech at the Great March to Freedom in June that year. King declared the Detroit march 'the largest and greatest demonstration for freedom ever held in the United States', and his speech that day included an early version of his 'I Have a Dream' oration.The record was deliberately released on 28 August, the same day King appeared at the March on Washington, and Gordy spoke of how 'the Negro revolt of 1963 will take its place historically with the American Revolution' and how 'this album belongs in the home of every American and should be required listening for every American child, white or black'. 'There is no way that you could be a black person in the United States in the Sixties and not be affected,' says Smokey, when I ask him about the civil rights movement. 'Dr Martin Luther King came to visit us here at Motown. He was such a dynamic, incredible person. 'We all experienced it [racism]. We'd go to the South and we'd be shot at and run out of places and all kinds of stuff just for being black. But the music transcended all of that. We'd go to the South and at first, even though the white kids would have our music, the audiences would be separated: white people on one side, black people on the other side; white people upstairs, black people downstairs or vice-versa, no mingling or any of that. After the music became so popular a year or two later we'd go to the same places and the black and white kids would be together and they'd be dancing, having a good time, singing, holding hands and mingling and talking. The music bridged a lot of gaps.'In the early years, Motown was as much a family as a record label. Several of Gordy's own family worked within the company, and in the early days half the artists and groups were thrown together in one bus when they went on the road as the Motown Revue. Remarkably, three Motown secretaries at Motown - Janie Bradford, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross, went on to be stars.There were also several relationships within the label, including those between Smokey and Claudette Robinson, Marvin Gaye and Berry Gordy's sister, Anne. 'We still have it,' says Smokey. 'You've been around here today and you've seen the reaction when Kim Weston and I saw each other, or "Duke" Fakir of the Four Tops.' Weston and Fakir are also at Hitsville today. 'We just have that brother and sisterhood and it's always been that way,' continues Smokey. 'When people talk about the Motown family, people think, "That's mythical, they couldn't possibly have been like that," but it wasn't and it isn't mythical.''When we first got here we could feel the difference right away; we was family,' explains Fakir when I speak to him later. (the Four Tops had already recorded for Chess, Red Top, Riverside and Columbia before signing for Motown, but had yet to have a hit.) 'On another label you just went and in and did a session and you were out, you didn't meet other artists. But [at Motown] you were talking to the Supremes, the Temptations, the Miracles and you were having fun, and you felt like you were part of something. And you knew that they were on their way.'The Four Tops went on to be Motown's longest standing group, keeping the same line-up for more than four decades. Levi Stubbs died shortly after I met Fakir, who is now the only surviving member. The producer Norman Whitfield also died in the week I was in Detroit. Most of Motown's output still sounds fresh and vibrant today, but the Motor City itself hasn't aged quite as well. By the early Sixties, the city and its car industry were already in decline. The population drain from American inner cities which began after the Second World War was already more pronounced in Detroit than elsewhere. The city had suffered race riots in 1863 and 1943 but the 12th Street riot in 1967, which ignited after a raid on a speakeasy, grew into the biggest riot in modern American history, lasting five days and leaving 43 dead, with 7,200 arrests and 2,000 buildings burned down. This hastened the 'white flight', many of whom fled a lot further than the suburbs. Over the next two decades the population of Detroit halved to around 900,000, leaving swaths of the inner city derelict and desolate.As Detroit entered these desperate times, Gordy made the decision, in 1972, to uproot Motown to the sunshine of the West Coast, a devastating blow to Detroit's already crumbling civic pride. The reclusive Gordy had increasingly spent time in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and decided that Motown needed to branch out and become an entertainment company, and in order to do that it needed to be in LA.'I was the biggest protester about us moving,' stresses Smokey. 'I was born here in Detroit. Motown was born here in Detroit and I told Berry this. I explained all of this to him: "Berry, this is our roots, we started here" and he explained to me that he wanted to become a record complex. He said we could stay in Detroit and be a record company but LA is where entertainment is centralised. I bought him books on earthquakes and smog and everything you can think of, trying to get him not to move, but finally he said, "Look, you're vice-president of the company, get your family, come on out here because you've got to" and so I moved out there.'Not everyone followed. Several artists including the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Martha Reeves and the Funk Brothers either remained in Detroit or left Motown for other reasons. 'It left a hole in Detroit, absolutely,' says Fakir. 'People still don't understand why he left. I understand, because he was looking for bigger things and Hollywood is where everything happens. But I always felt you should leave at least the foundation of what you started here. Just like Ford. He didn't need to leave Detroit to be a global industry giant.'Detroit's fortunes remain tied to the automobile industry, and here in the rust belt that means the big three - Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. The three traditionally built big, brash gas-guzzlers, and failed to react as the price of oil escalated and buyers turned to cheaper and more fuel-economical foreign imports. Ford once employed more than 100,000 workers at the Dearborn plant; now it is a tenth of that.To drive around Detroit - and really, you need to drive - is to pass block after block of untended wasteland and forlorn shells of buildings, many of which have stood empty for decades, the halving of the city's population reducing the need for refurbishment or regeneration. Many rows of buildings look like the front teeth of an old bluesman - for every one still standing true, there's two missing and two askew. Some are victims of Devil's Night, the evening before Halloween, which, in Detroit, has traditionally been a night of mischief for youths but in the 70s and 80s developed into little less than mass arson as vacant buildings throughout the city were set on fire. It was not unknown for property owners who were unable to sell to use the date to torch their buildings in an attempt to claim on the insurance.If the landscape of a city is reflected in its music output, then it's no surprise that the black youths of the rust belt took diverging routes when they began to experiment with drum machines and samplers at the turn of the 80s. While neighbouring Chicago progressed down a more soulful, gospel-tinged route, based around old disco edits, which led to the invention of what we now know as acid house, the kids of the post-industrial wasteland of Detroit produced a harder-edged, almost dehumanised, spectral version of this new electronic music, which became techno.Today, even downtown Detroit seems quite deserted. Within two blocks of the beautifully ornate Fox Theatre and the neighbouring Comerica Park, home of Detroit Tigers, lie deserted buildings and wasteland. A couple of blocks further west is the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, where Diana Ross and the Supremes grew up. As I drive through the projects, two men are overloading a truck with baths, having liberated them from the derelict buildings.Arriving in almost any city in the world, it's usually possible to establish some reference points and begin to work out the city in your own head within a couple of days. In Detroit, despite the fact that much of the city is based on the grid system favoured by American cities, that's not the case. It's a city designed for three million inhabitants but now with less than a million and the social geography and layout don't seem to make sense.Driving up Woodward Avenue, one of the main arteries leading northwards from downtown, a flickering sign outside the Little Rock Baptist Church meekly suggests 'Give thanks ... it could be worse'. A short distance away, another derelict building turns out to be a disused police station. Every door and window is missing and stepping inside, I find charge books and reams of mug shots from the mid-Nineties lying in the rubble.The queen of Motown is Martha Reeves. If one image sums up Motown, it's that of Martha and the Vandellas filmed on the production line at Ford, miming to 'Dancing in the Street' from the back of a Mustang. Reeves is now a city councillor, and we meet in her office at City Hall, looking out over the Detroit river towards Canada. By coincidence, today is the final day in office of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned after admitting two charges of obstruction of justice that followed on from a wild party involving strippers at his official residence, Manoogian Mansion, in 2002. Tamara Greene, a 27-year-old exotic dancer who allegedly performed at the party, was later murdered in a drive-by shooting. Kilpatrick was sentenced to 120 days in prison last month. Reeves's office is a crammed space, papers overflowing from her desk. The walls are adorned with certificates and pictures of herself with Bruce Springsteen, who invited her on stage to sing 'Dancing in the Street' when he played Detroit.When Motown left Detroit, Reeves signed with the label MCA and moved to the West Coast. But after 14 years away, she decided that 'Detroit is where I want to be'. She exudes civic pride and is keen to cement Motown's legacy. After winning a council seat in 2005 she successfully campaigned to have West Grand Boulevard changed to Berry Gordy Jr Boulevard and is now planning to have statues of Motown greats erected downtown .'The city struggled because it was deserted,' she admits, before adding bullishly: 'But Detroit is on the rebound. We're working diligently to get the city moving again and I see it happening.'Much is made by those who argue that Detroit is bouncing back, of the arrival of three vast casinos. One night I get a taxi to Motor City Casino - 'built to the beat of Detroit' - and it's a bit of a shock. Unlike every other place I have visited in town, the casino is busy, with people of all ages and races. I see more people in half an hour than I have seen in the previous half week. Again it strikes me how dysfunctional Detroit is. 'There's some really fascinating people in this city,' techno pioneer Derrick May said in 2005, 'but you'll never meet them. Because nobody walks and nobody talks.'After leaving Reeves, I meet Gloria Jones at the Foxtown Grille. Jones was coined the 'queen of northern soul' after her 1965 classic 'Tainted Love', later covered by Soft Cell. She joined Motown in 1968 as a singer and songwriter, penning songs for Gladys Knight, the Four Tops and the Jackson Five. She was a backing singer for T. Rex and had a son, Rolan, with Marc Bolan. She was driving the car on the day of Bolan's fatal crash. 'At Motown, we were writing 10 songs a day, and good songs,' she recalls, 'because we had all these fantastic artists to write for. Mr Gordy stressed to us to write a standard and we were so young, we were like, "What's a standard?" and he said, "A song that someone like Frank Sinatra would cover 50 years later," which was such fantastic advice. Which is why I'm still getting royalties from songs I wrote 30 years ago.'Many of the Motown artists are still performing, in Detroit's clubs, cabarets and casinos. One night I go to Baker's Keyboard Lounge, near 8 Mile Road, which proclaims to be the 'world's oldest jazz club'. It's a no-frills room with a low ceiling, waitresses serving soul food to the small booths that face a low stage. In its 74-year history the club has played host to many an American jazz great, from Louis Armstrong to Chick Corea. Tonight the stage is occupied by Dennis Coffey, who played on the Temptations' 1968 hit 'Cloud 9', one of Norman Whitfield's first psychedelic soul tracks. After the show he tells me how the other Funk Brothers were gobsmacked when he first played his signature wah-wah guitar in the recording sessions. Later in the week, I drive out to the suburbs to meet Joe Billingslea from the Contours, at the home of fellow band member Charles 'Chuck' Davis. The Contours signed to Motown in 1960 and scored a hit with the Berry Gordy-penned 'Do You Love Me?', which later featured in Dirty Dancing, before leaving Motown over a disagreement about money. Billingslea was then on the production line at Chrysler for four years, before joining the police. He got the Contours back together in 1971 and has been performing ever since. 'I remember Stevie Wonder running around the studio,' he says. 'He'd be running and then stop right before hitting a wall. I said, "That guy can see, who you fooling?" Stevie has always been a nice guy, but, to me, the icon of Motown is Smokey Robinson. He is still the same guy I met back in '59. Smokey's just a nice guy.'Billingslea isn't the type to say a bad word against anyone, but he's clearly still devastated by the events of 2004, when group member Sylvester Potts left overnight, with their manager, and started an alternative version of the Contours. 'It took a lot of work from us because they had all the contacts. We basically didn't work for three years. What made me angry is they told lies. If you don't want to sing with me that's fine, but don't go and tell lies. One lie was that I was deceased, the other lie was I had pulled a gun and disbanded the group.''My friend ... Joe Billingslea ...' says Chuck, his voice faltering and a tear rolling down his face, 'if you saw his face when he found out that there was another group, you would understand how I feel. There's been a lot of hurt over the last few years.'While we are there, a phone call confirms a court appearance to decide who has the rights to use the name of the Contours. Joe and Chuck agree to arrange an impromptu performance for us at 1pm the following day. When we arrive, the band are sat around the basement studio, joking and passing round a huge packet of barbecue-flavoured crisps and drinking lemonade from plastic cups. They run through a few songs including 'Do You Love Me?'. It's touching to see five guys in their twilight years going through their paces in this suburban basement, trying not to bump into each other. There can't be many people of their age, or any age, who are still dancing the mash potato.Despite the bullish statements of Martha Reeves, Detroit's plight has worsened. The credit crunch has bitten GM and Ford, with car sales plunging and warnings that even the biggest automobile firms could face bankruptcy. The situation could hardly be bleaker for what is left of Detroit's car industry. 'I can't think of a worse scenario short of a war in America,' declared veteran industry analyst John Casesa. 'But maybe that would be better because we would need tanks from Detroit.'I stop off at the Henry J Ford museum. Built on a scale only Americans understand, its exhibits include the Lincoln that President Kennedy was shot in, built by Ford here in Dearborn. I find myself drawn to the part of the museum that depicts the late 1950s, that golden age of automobile design and the American dream. All the imagery suggests that Detroit and Michigan must have felt like the centre of the world, a place of endless possibilities. The comparison with modern, post-industrial ghost town Detroit could not be more stark. The words of Marvin Gaye - originally Motown's fourth-choice drummer, who became one of its greatest stars - come to mind. 'Detroit turned out to be heaven,' said Gaye, 'but it also turned out to be hell.' ? For full details of Motown's anniversary releases see motown50.com10 classics picked by Motown writer Janie Bradford1. The Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Loving Levi Stubbs is spellbinding.2. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It OnThere's raw sexuality in every word.3. The Temptations - My GirlSimply a classic. 4. The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?The beat + the nasal voice of Diana Ross = winner.5. The Miracles - Who's Lovin' YouAn underrated gut-bucket blues with Smokey on lead. Can you imagine Smokey singing the blues?6. Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit HurtsWow!!!7. Stevie Wonder - For Once In My LifeStevie put this great lyric into its place in history. 8. The Marvelettes - ForeverWanda Young's emotional lead is matchless.9. The Originals - Baby I'm For RealThe blending of perfect voices on a perfect song.10. Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)This one has that raw edge over the many versionsof the song that followed.? Janie Bradford's songwriting credits include 'Money' and 'Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby'Motown recordsUrban musicguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Luke Bainbridge visits Detroit on the 50th anniversary of Motown {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - 'This was it,' says Smokey Robinson, with his arms open and a shrug that suggests he still finds it slightly unbelievable himself. 'People who think about the music that came out of here would think that this place was huge. Think it was this huge recording studio where we had all these people ... but everyone was crammed in here ... and we were making music, we were jamming.''It' is the converted garage of a small frame house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan. Detroit being the home of the automobile, it's only appropriate that this story should revolve around a garage. This is the Motor City, and the house, christened Hitsville USA, is the birthplace of Motown Records. The garage at the rear is Studio A, one of the most revered recording studios in history.It was in this room that Barrett Strong, on Motown's first national hit, declared 'Money (That's What I Want)', where Smokey Robinson cried his 'Tears of a Clown', the Four Tops promised 'Reach Out, I'll Be There', Martha Reeves and the Vandellas sent a call out around the world, asking 'are you ready for a brand new beat?' and Diana Ross and the Supremes demanded 'Stop! In the Name of Love'. It was within these four walls that little Stevie Wonder recorded his first songs and, later, as the Sixties faded, Marvin Gaye asked 'What's Going On?'.Between 1961 and 1971, Motown had a staggering 110 Top 10 hits in the US, more than half of which were million-sellers, and most of them were recorded in this converted garage, barely big enough to house a Lincoln Continental.Motown is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary - the label was founded by Berry Gordy Jr as Tamla Records on 12 January 1959, then incorporated as the Motown Record Corporation in 1960. Downstairs in Hitsville is the reception area, the control room and Studio A. Upstairs was originally the living quarters for Gordy and his family, before Motown's success allowed them to move out into a home of their own. The building remains much as it was in its heyday. Smokey, now 68 and based in LA and Las Vegas, hasn't been back for a couple of years himself. 'This is a very spiritual room for me,' he explains. 'There's a lot of energy. So many things happened in here ...'Does it really feel like 50 years, I ask.'No, it doesn't, it doesn't seem like 50 years. 50 years have gone by in an instant; like that,' says Smokey, clicking his fingers. 'It just seems like yesterday that this stuff was going on. When Berry Gordy first came and saw this house and envisaged this garage being a studio.''It seems like yesterday,' he says again, rubbing his eye, 'it seems impossible. I always relate it to when I was a kid - I would be watching television and I would see Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis and those guys and they would say "Oh man, we've been doing this for 20 years" and I'd think, "God, how can someone have been doing something for 20 years?" But I see now, because 50 years have gone by like that.' He clicks his fingers again. 'Just overnight, you know ... 50 years ... God, that's half a century.'That half a century covers an extraordinary tale of love and loss - the remarkable dream of one man and the creation of a label that produced an unrivalled succession of hits, and the desperate decline of the city that was once at the heart of the American dream.It was 1913 when Henry Ford pioneered the use of a moving assembly line for mass production at his factory in the Highland Park district, then on the northern fringes of the city, and by the 1920s Detroit had already been christened the Motor City. The promise of employment in the car plants meant that Detroit overtook Chicago as the favoured destination for black families migrating from the south, and the city's population swelled to over two million, making it the fourth biggest city in America. By the 1950s, 80% of the world's cars were built in America, and most of those in Detroit. The city was the manufacturing centre of the America, and thus the world.Born in 1929 in Detroit - his parents had migrated north from Georgia - by the mid-Fifties Berry Gordy Jr, the seventh of eight children, was still searching for his way in life. Having dropped out of high school, he attempted to make it as a professional boxer before being drafted for the war in Korea. Back in Detroit, in 1953, he married Thelma Gorman and decided to pursue a career in music. In a rare interview in 1984 - the 78-year-old isn't giving any to coincide with Motown's 50th anniversary, although he has been working on a documentary which should surface next year - Gordy told the Los Angeles Times how seeing an advert for a battle of the bands when he was in a Detroit gym gave him a wake-up call - he noticed the stark juxtaposition of 'young fighters who were 23 but looked like 50, all scarred and beat up... then I saw the musicians who were 50 and they looked 23'.After the failure of his first musical venture, the 3-D Record Mart store, Gordy was forced to find work on the Lincoln-Mercury production line of the Ford plant to support his family. Now writing songs, he was introduced to the R'n'B singer Jackie Wilson, a fellow ex-boxer, who recorded one of Gordy's compositions 'Reet Petite', then several more over the next couple of years. Gordy, however, became quickly disillusioned with the industry when he realised the labels in Chicago and New York that were distributing these songs were the ones making serious dollar. In the offices of Wilson's manager one day, Gordy met the Matadors, fronted by a 16-year-old with sparkling green eyes and light dark skin called William 'Smokey' Robinson. Gordy persuaded the group to change their name to the Miracles and on Robinson's 18th birthday, their first single 'Got a Job', written and produced by Gordy, was released on New York's End Records.Gordy began to dream of building his own label, an equivalent to Ford's assembly lines, a hit factory. It was Smokey who persuaded Gordy that he needed to stop leasing records, and go national himself. 'I recorded this record, the Miracles and me, called 'Way Over There' and it broke out really big here in Detroit and so we re-recorded it and put violins on it and I just told him: "We might as well take this record national. Nobody's paying us anyway so we might as well take the chance on doing it ourselves." So that's what we did.'Spurred on by Smokey, and his sisters Gwen and Anna Gordy, who had already started Anna Records with Billy Davis, Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and started the label in January 1959. 'On the very first day, when Berry decided to start Motown,' Smokey recalls, those green eyes sparkling, 'he sat down and said, "Hey, you guys, I wanted to tell you something: we are not going to make black music, we're going to make world music, we're going to make music for everybody. We're going to make great music, we're going to have some great stories, make some great beats" - and that's what we set out to do.'Though Gordy's ambition always stretched much further than Detroit city limits - the label called itself 'the sound of young America' - he still wanted its name to show its roots. 'Detroit was known as "The Motor City",' says Smokey. 'Berry wanted to name the label something that sounded familiar. First, he was going to call it 'Mocity' but he decided that 'town' was more homely, more family-sounding, so he called it 'Motown'.In his determination to build a hit factory, Gordy employed various songwriters. The best known were Holland-Dozier-Holland, aka Laurent Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland. Other notables included Norman Whitfield, William 'Mickey' Stevenson and Smokey himself, whom Gordy made vice president. The producers' mantra was 'KISS' - 'keep it simple, stupid.'Most of the records were also recorded with the same studio session musicians - a tight-knit group known as the Funk Brothers. The 2002 documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown claimed that in 14 years, they 'played on more No1 hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined'. Gordy now had the hit factory that he had dreamt of.He introduced weekly quality control meetings to ensure a consistent procession of hits. Smokey, sitting back in his chair in the Hitsville control room, explains: 'We had Monday morning meetings, they started at 9 o'clock, and at 9 o'clock and five seconds you were locked out. You had to be there at 9 o'clock in order to get your stuff heard. All the creative people were in those meetings, the writers, the producers. We would play our stuff for each other, critique each other's stuff and make suggestions on each other's stuff to make it better. We were very competitive but we still pulled for each other to be creatively strong. A lot of people have said to me, "Berry decided..." No, Berry did not decide any of that. Berry was in those meetings, but Berry was still producing and writing at that time and his stuff would get shot down just like anybody else's.' He laughs. 'It was very hard for Berry to get a record out."Several timeless tracks - including Marvin Gaye's 'Heard it Through the Grapevine - were initially rejected by Gordy. 'Absolutely,' confirms Smokey. 'Many of the tracks were sent back and re-worked, and re-worked, until they became the hits that they became.'The label was a strong and highly visible example of black empowerment when the civil rights movement was gathering pace. In her 1999 book, Dancing in the Street, Suzanne Smith points out that Gordy was 'extremely wary about affiliating his business with any organisation or movement that might negatively influence his company's commercial success'. What Gordy cared about was record sales. 'Nevertheless,' Smith adds, 'both Motown's music and its entrepreneurial acumen emerged from an urban black community that regularly asserted its "politics" through cultural and economic means.'In other words, the success of the black-owned Motown was a powerful statement in itself.Gordy may have been wary about Motown becoming overly politicised, but the label decided to release its first spoken-word recording in August 1963: a recording of Martin Luther King's speech at the Great March to Freedom in June that year. King declared the Detroit march 'the largest and greatest demonstration for freedom ever held in the United States', and his speech that day included an early version of his 'I Have a Dream' oration.The record was deliberately released on 28 August, the same day King appeared at the March on Washington, and Gordy spoke of how 'the Negro revolt of 1963 will take its place historically with the American Revolution' and how 'this album belongs in the home of every American and should be required listening for every American child, white or black'. 'There is no way that you could be a black person in the United States in the Sixties and not be affected,' says Smokey, when I ask him about the civil rights movement. 'Dr Martin Luther King came to visit us here at Motown. He was such a dynamic, incredible person. 'We all experienced it [racism]. We'd go to the South and we'd be shot at and run out of places and all kinds of stuff just for being black. But the music transcended all of that. We'd go to the South and at first, even though the white kids would have our music, the audiences would be separated: white people on one side, black people on the other side; white people upstairs, black people downstairs or vice-versa, no mingling or any of that. After the music became so popular a year or two later we'd go to the same places and the black and white kids would be together and they'd be dancing, having a good time, singing, holding hands and mingling and talking. The music bridged a lot of gaps.'In the early years, Motown was as much a family as a record label. Several of Gordy's own family worked within the company, and in the early days half the artists and groups were thrown together in one bus when they went on the road as the Motown Revue. Remarkably, three Motown secretaries at Motown - Janie Bradford, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross, went on to be stars.There were also several relationships within the label, including those between Smokey and Claudette Robinson, Marvin Gaye and Berry Gordy's sister, Anne. 'We still have it,' says Smokey. 'You've been around here today and you've seen the reaction when Kim Weston and I saw each other, or "Duke" Fakir of the Four Tops.' Weston and Fakir are also at Hitsville today. 'We just have that brother and sisterhood and it's always been that way,' continues Smokey. 'When people talk about the Motown family, people think, "That's mythical, they couldn't possibly have been like that," but it wasn't and it isn't mythical.''When we first got here we could feel the difference right away; we was family,' explains Fakir when I speak to him later. (the Four Tops had already recorded for Chess, Red Top, Riverside and Columbia before signing for Motown, but had yet to have a hit.) 'On another label you just went and in and did a session and you were out, you didn't meet other artists. But [at Motown] you were talking to the Supremes, the Temptations, the Miracles and you were having fun, and you felt like you were part of something. And you knew that they were on their way.'The Four Tops went on to be Motown's longest standing group, keeping the same line-up for more than four decades. Levi Stubbs died shortly after I met Fakir, who is now the only surviving member. The producer Norman Whitfield also died in the week I was in Detroit. Most of Motown's output still sounds fresh and vibrant today, but the Motor City itself hasn't aged quite as well. By the early Sixties, the city and its car industry were already in decline. The population drain from American inner cities which began after the Second World War was already more pronounced in Detroit than elsewhere. The city had suffered race riots in 1863 and 1943 but the 12th Street riot in 1967, which ignited after a raid on a speakeasy, grew into the biggest riot in modern American history, lasting five days and leaving 43 dead, with 7,200 arrests and 2,000 buildings burned down. This hastened the 'white flight', many of whom fled a lot further than the suburbs. Over the next two decades the population of Detroit halved to around 900,000, leaving swaths of the inner city derelict and desolate.As Detroit entered these desperate times, Gordy made the decision, in 1972, to uproot Motown to the sunshine of the West Coast, a devastating blow to Detroit's already crumbling civic pride. The reclusive Gordy had increasingly spent time in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and decided that Motown needed to branch out and become an entertainment company, and in order to do that it needed to be in LA.'I was the biggest protester about us moving,' stresses Smokey. 'I was born here in Detroit. Motown was born here in Detroit and I told Berry this. I explained all of this to him: "Berry, this is our roots, we started here" and he explained to me that he wanted to become a record complex. He said we could stay in Detroit and be a record company but LA is where entertainment is centralised. I bought him books on earthquakes and smog and everything you can think of, trying to get him not to move, but finally he said, "Look, you're vice-president of the company, get your family, come on out here because you've got to" and so I moved out there.'Not everyone followed. Several artists including the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Martha Reeves and the Funk Brothers either remained in Detroit or left Motown for other reasons. 'It left a hole in Detroit, absolutely,' says Fakir. 'People still don't understand why he left. I understand, because he was looking for bigger things and Hollywood is where everything happens. But I always felt you should leave at least the foundation of what you started here. Just like Ford. He didn't need to leave Detroit to be a global industry giant.'Detroit's fortunes remain tied to the automobile industry, and here in the rust belt that means the big three - Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. The three traditionally built big, brash gas-guzzlers, and failed to react as the price of oil escalated and buyers turned to cheaper and more fuel-economical foreign imports. Ford once employed more than 100,000 workers at the Dearborn plant; now it is a tenth of that.To drive around Detroit - and really, you need to drive - is to pass block after block of untended wasteland and forlorn shells of buildings, many of which have stood empty for decades, the halving of the city's population reducing the need for refurbishment or regeneration. Many rows of buildings look like the front teeth of an old bluesman - for every one still standing true, there's two missing and two askew. Some are victims of Devil's Night, the evening before Halloween, which, in Detroit, has traditionally been a night of mischief for youths but in the 70s and 80s developed into little less than mass arson as vacant buildings throughout the city were set on fire. It was not unknown for property owners who were unable to sell to use the date to torch their buildings in an attempt to claim on the insurance.If the landscape of a city is reflected in its music output, then it's no surprise that the black youths of the rust belt took diverging routes when they began to experiment with drum machines and samplers at the turn of the 80s. While neighbouring Chicago progressed down a more soulful, gospel-tinged route, based around old disco edits, which led to the invention of what we now know as acid house, the kids of the post-industrial wasteland of Detroit produced a harder-edged, almost dehumanised, spectral version of this new electronic music, which became techno.Today, even downtown Detroit seems quite deserted. Within two blocks of the beautifully ornate Fox Theatre and the neighbouring Comerica Park, home of Detroit Tigers, lie deserted buildings and wasteland. A couple of blocks further west is the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, where Diana Ross and the Supremes grew up. As I drive through the projects, two men are overloading a truck with baths, having liberated them from the derelict buildings.Arriving in almost any city in the world, it's usually possible to establish some reference points and begin to work out the city in your own head within a couple of days. In Detroit, despite the fact that much of the city is based on the grid system favoured by American cities, that's not the case. It's a city designed for three million inhabitants but now with less than a million and the social geography and layout don't seem to make sense.Driving up Woodward Avenue, one of the main arteries leading northwards from downtown, a flickering sign outside the Little Rock Baptist Church meekly suggests 'Give thanks ... it could be worse'. A short distance away, another derelict building turns out to be a disused police station. Every door and window is missing and stepping inside, I find charge books and reams of mug shots from the mid-Nineties lying in the rubble.The queen of Motown is Martha Reeves. If one image sums up Motown, it's that of Martha and the Vandellas filmed on the production line at Ford, miming to 'Dancing in the Street' from the back of a Mustang. Reeves is now a city councillor, and we meet in her office at City Hall, looking out over the Detroit river towards Canada. By coincidence, today is the final day in office of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned after admitting two charges of obstruction of justice that followed on from a wild party involving strippers at his official residence, Manoogian Mansion, in 2002. Tamara Greene, a 27-year-old exotic dancer who allegedly performed at the party, was later murdered in a drive-by shooting. Kilpatrick was sentenced to 120 days in prison last month. Reeves's office is a crammed space, papers overflowing from her desk. The walls are adorned with certificates and pictures of herself with Bruce Springsteen, who invited her on stage to sing 'Dancing in the Street' when he played Detroit.When Motown left Detroit, Reeves signed with the label MCA and moved to the West Coast. But after 14 years away, she decided that 'Detroit is where I want to be'. She exudes civic pride and is keen to cement Motown's legacy. After winning a council seat in 2005 she successfully campaigned to have West Grand Boulevard changed to Berry Gordy Jr Boulevard and is now planning to have statues of Motown greats erected downtown .'The city struggled because it was deserted,' she admits, before adding bullishly: 'But Detroit is on the rebound. We're working diligently to get the city moving again and I see it happening.'Much is made by those who argue that Detroit is bouncing back, of the arrival of three vast casinos. One night I get a taxi to Motor City Casino - 'built to the beat of Detroit' - and it's a bit of a shock. Unlike every other place I have visited in town, the casino is busy, with people of all ages and races. I see more people in half an hour than I have seen in the previous half week. Again it strikes me how dysfunctional Detroit is. 'There's some really fascinating people in this city,' techno pioneer Derrick May said in 2005, 'but you'll never meet them. Because nobody walks and nobody talks.'After leaving Reeves, I meet Gloria Jones at the Foxtown Grille. Jones was coined the 'queen of northern soul' after her 1965 classic 'Tainted Love', later covered by Soft Cell. She joined Motown in 1968 as a singer and songwriter, penning songs for Gladys Knight, the Four Tops and the Jackson Five. She was a backing singer for T. Rex and had a son, Rolan, with Marc Bolan. She was driving the car on the day of Bolan's fatal crash. 'At Motown, we were writing 10 songs a day, and good songs,' she recalls, 'because we had all these fantastic artists to write for. Mr Gordy stressed to us to write a standard and we were so young, we were like, "What's a standard?" and he said, "A song that someone like Frank Sinatra would cover 50 years later," which was such fantastic advice. Which is why I'm still getting royalties from songs I wrote 30 years ago.'Many of the Motown artists are still performing, in Detroit's clubs, cabarets and casinos. One night I go to Baker's Keyboard Lounge, near 8 Mile Road, which proclaims to be the 'world's oldest jazz club'. It's a no-frills room with a low ceiling, waitresses serving soul food to the small booths that face a low stage. In its 74-year history the club has played host to many an American jazz great, from Louis Armstrong to Chick Corea. Tonight the stage is occupied by Dennis Coffey, who played on the Temptations' 1968 hit 'Cloud 9', one of Norman Whitfield's first psychedelic soul tracks. After the show he tells me how the other Funk Brothers were gobsmacked when he first played his signature wah-wah guitar in the recording sessions. Later in the week, I drive out to the suburbs to meet Joe Billingslea from the Contours, at the home of fellow band member Charles 'Chuck' Davis. The Contours signed to Motown in 1960 and scored a hit with the Berry Gordy-penned 'Do You Love Me?', which later featured in Dirty Dancing, before leaving Motown over a disagreement about money. Billingslea was then on the production line at Chrysler for four years, before joining the police. He got the Contours back together in 1971 and has been performing ever since. 'I remember Stevie Wonder running around the studio,' he says. 'He'd be running and then stop right before hitting a wall. I said, "That guy can see, who you fooling?" Stevie has always been a nice guy, but, to me, the icon of Motown is Smokey Robinson. He is still the same guy I met back in '59. Smokey's just a nice guy.'Billingslea isn't the type to say a bad word against anyone, but he's clearly still devastated by the events of 2004, when group member Sylvester Potts left overnight, with their manager, and started an alternative version of the Contours. 'It took a lot of work from us because they had all the contacts. We basically didn't work for three years. What made me angry is they told lies. If you don't want to sing with me that's fine, but don't go and tell lies. One lie was that I was deceased, the other lie was I had pulled a gun and disbanded the group.''My friend ... Joe Billingslea ...' says Chuck, his voice faltering and a tear rolling down his face, 'if you saw his face when he found out that there was another group, you would understand how I feel. There's been a lot of hurt over the last few years.'While we are there, a phone call confirms a court appearance to decide who has the rights to use the name of the Contours. Joe and Chuck agree to arrange an impromptu performance for us at 1pm the following day. When we arrive, the band are sat around the basement studio, joking and passing round a huge packet of barbecue-flavoured crisps and drinking lemonade from plastic cups. They run through a few songs including 'Do You Love Me?'. It's touching to see five guys in their twilight years going through their paces in this suburban basement, trying not to bump into each other. There can't be many people of their age, or any age, who are still dancing the mash potato.Despite the bullish statements of Martha Reeves, Detroit's plight has worsened. The credit crunch has bitten GM and Ford, with car sales plunging and warnings that even the biggest automobile firms could face bankruptcy. The situation could hardly be bleaker for what is left of Detroit's car industry. 'I can't think of a worse scenario short of a war in America,' declared veteran industry analyst John Casesa. 'But maybe that would be better because we would need tanks from Detroit.'I stop off at the Henry J Ford museum. Built on a scale only Americans understand, its exhibits include the Lincoln that President Kennedy was shot in, built by Ford here in Dearborn. I find myself drawn to the part of the museum that depicts the late 1950s, that golden age of automobile design and the American dream. All the imagery suggests that Detroit and Michigan must have felt like the centre of the world, a place of endless possibilities. The comparison with modern, post-industrial ghost town Detroit could not be more stark. The words of Marvin Gaye - originally Motown's fourth-choice drummer, who became one of its greatest stars - come to mind. 'Detroit turned out to be heaven,' said Gaye, 'but it also turned out to be hell.' ? For full details of Motown's anniversary releases see motown50.com10 classics picked by Motown writer Janie Bradford1. The Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Loving Levi Stubbs is spellbinding.2. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It OnThere's raw sexuality in every word.3. The Temptations - My GirlSimply a classic. 4. The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?The beat + the nasal voice of Diana Ross = winner.5. The Miracles - Who's Lovin' YouAn underrated gut-bucket blues with Smokey on lead. Can you imagine Smokey singing the blues?6. Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit HurtsWow!!!7. Stevie Wonder - For Once In My LifeStevie put this great lyric into its place in history. 8. The Marvelettes - ForeverWanda Young's emotional lead is matchless.9. The Originals - Baby I'm For RealThe blending of perfect voices on a perfect song.10. Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)This one has that raw edge over the many versionsof the song that followed.? Janie Bradford's songwriting credits include 'Money' and 'Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby'Motown recordsUrban musicguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {NEWS > BREAKING NEWS} - The 20th Century's Industrious Designer http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/the-20th-century-s-industrious-designer-2008119005.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/the-20th-century-s-industrious-designer-2008119005.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT : Photo: Courtesy Library of CongressIndustrial designer Raymond Loewy was a giant in his field. He produced innovative designs in every area from fashion to locomotives. If you admire the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco, you've probably admired a Loewy design. You like logos? Then, you like Loewy. That's enough from us. Take a look for yourself. Left: Loewy poses in a mocked-up designer's office with modern décor, around 1934. At his side is a model of his 1932 Hupmobile, one of the first streamlined automobiles.: Sketch: Courtesy Library of CongressLoewy made this preliminary sketch for the Cornell-Liberty Safety Car, designed for the Cornell Aeronautical Research Laboratory and the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company, in 1956.: Rendering: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed the 1961 Avanti for Studebaker.: Photo: Library of CongressLoewy designed this car for Jaguar ? or maybe a Mr. Bruce Wayne of Gotham City. : Rendering: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy approached the Pennsylvania Railroad in the early 1930s and told railway execs he wanted to design locomotives. Loewy's T-1 steam engine was the Pennsy's last before switching to diesel. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy poses with an early model of his GG1 electric locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1935. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design President John F. Kennedy thought the Air Force's paint scheme for the Boeing 707 Air Force One was too royal: He wanted a look that was appropriate for a president, not a king. On the advice of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House contacted Loewy, who redesigned the exterior livery and the interior cabins. : Sketch: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy played around with 18 design ideas for a new Standard Oil Company logo. Loewy OK'd a version only slightly different from the eventual, final version (next slide). : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design Loewy designed or redesigned well-known logos for scores of corporations. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy modernized the traditional Coke bottle, as well as designed its new larger sizes and "no deposit, no return" bottles and cans. His countertop dispenser for restaurants and soda fountains is an icon of postwar Americana. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy simplified the old Lucky Strike cigarette logo and changed the dark green pack to white. The underlying reasons for the change were the American Tobacco Company's desire to attract more women to the brand with a brighter package, and also that the green ink gave off an odor. However, with the United States entering World War II, the company marketed the move as patriotism, claiming it was made to conserve the metals used make green ink. Advertisements trumpeted the slogan, "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war," and millions of packs were distributed to GIs. American Tobacco didn't forget its plan to market to women, as this ad in Ladies Home Journal makes evident. : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design With a hemline that low, you would guess this outfit has to be prewar or postwar, because the fashion industry conserved fabric with high hemlines during World War II. As a matter of fact, this Loewy modern black ensemble with matching accessories appeared in Vogue in 1939. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy created this quasi-futuristic jukebox for United Music Corp. in 1958. You might have selected from a mixed-bag playlist of 45s like these 1958 hits: "Don't" — Elvis Presley "Great Balls of Fire" — Jerry Lee Lewis "Johnny B. Goode" — Chuck Berry "Good Golly Miss Molly" — Little Richard "La Bamba" — Ritchie Valens "Fever" — Peggy Lee "Poor Little Fool" — Ricky Nelson "Rebel Rouser" — Duane Eddy "All the Way" — Frank Sinatra "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" — The Four Preps "A Wonderful Time Up There" — Pat Boone "Tequila" — The Champs "Catch a Falling Star" — Perry Como "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" — Laurie London "Twilight Time" — The Platters "Witch Doctor" — David Seville "All I Have to Do Is Dream" — The Everly Brothers "Purple People Eater" — Sheb Wooley "Yakety Yak" — The Coasters "Splish Splash" — Bobby Darin "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Blu)" — Dominico Modugno "Rockin Robin" — Bobby Day "Tom Dooley" — The Kingston Trio "To Know Him Is to Love Him" — Teddy Bears "The Chipmunk Song" — The Chipmunks/David Seville "Jingle Bell Rock" — Bobby Helms : Photo: Courtesy Hagley Museum and Library Loewy also created this 1950s Charcoal line china for Rosenthal. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed this classic bedroom set for Mengel Furniture. : Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner/Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy looks over a model of Imperial House in 1959, a planned apartment complex for Manhattan's Upper East Side. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy created this prototype store for a bakery chain in New York in 1937. The white porcelain-covered steel siding and semicircular window endings gives it an air of "Radio Deco.": Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Earth was not room enough for Loewy: He created this model for the living quarters of the NASA Skylab space station. : Study: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy's 1970 study for a NASA space station appears influenced by sets from the 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, though it is a much smaller module. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy sifts through his designs for NASA. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Raymond Loewy and his daughter Laurence enjoy a moment in 1982. Laurence was a prize-winning journalist who later headed the Raymond Loewy Foundation and served as CEO of Loewy Design. She died Oct 15, 2008, at age 55. David Hagerman, the COO of Loewy Design says, "Laurence hoped RaymondLoewy.org would help introduce a new generation of design enthusiasts to her father." Wired.Com The 20th Century's Industrious Designer {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - : Photo: Courtesy Library of CongressIndustrial designer Raymond Loewy was a giant in his field. He produced innovative designs in every area from fashion to locomotives. If you admire the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco, you've probably admired a Loewy design. You like logos? Then, you like Loewy. That's enough from us. Take a look for yourself. Left: Loewy poses in a mocked-up designer's office with modern décor, around 1934. At his side is a model of his 1932 Hupmobile, one of the first streamlined automobiles.: Sketch: Courtesy Library of CongressLoewy made this preliminary sketch for the Cornell-Liberty Safety Car, designed for the Cornell Aeronautical Research Laboratory and the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company, in 1956.: Rendering: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed the 1961 Avanti for Studebaker.: Photo: Library of CongressLoewy designed this car for Jaguar ? or maybe a Mr. Bruce Wayne of Gotham City. : Rendering: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy approached the Pennsylvania Railroad in the early 1930s and told railway execs he wanted to design locomotives. Loewy's T-1 steam engine was the Pennsy's last before switching to diesel. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy poses with an early model of his GG1 electric locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1935. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design President John F. Kennedy thought the Air Force's paint scheme for the Boeing 707 Air Force One was too royal: He wanted a look that was appropriate for a president, not a king. On the advice of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House contacted Loewy, who redesigned the exterior livery and the interior cabins. : Sketch: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy played around with 18 design ideas for a new Standard Oil Company logo. Loewy OK'd a version only slightly different from the eventual, final version (next slide). : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design Loewy designed or redesigned well-known logos for scores of corporations. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy modernized the traditional Coke bottle, as well as designed its new larger sizes and "no deposit, no return" bottles and cans. His countertop dispenser for restaurants and soda fountains is an icon of postwar Americana. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy simplified the old Lucky Strike cigarette logo and changed the dark green pack to white. The underlying reasons for the change were the American Tobacco Company's desire to attract more women to the brand with a brighter package, and also that the green ink gave off an odor. However, with the United States entering World War II, the company marketed the move as patriotism, claiming it was made to conserve the metals used make green ink. Advertisements trumpeted the slogan, "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war," and millions of packs were distributed to GIs. American Tobacco didn't forget its plan to market to women, as this ad in Ladies Home Journal makes evident. : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design With a hemline that low, you would guess this outfit has to be prewar or postwar, because the fashion industry conserved fabric with high hemlines during World War II. As a matter of fact, this Loewy modern black ensemble with matching accessories appeared in Vogue in 1939. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy created this quasi-futuristic jukebox for United Music Corp. in 1958. You might have selected from a mixed-bag playlist of 45s like these 1958 hits: "Don't" — Elvis Presley "Great Balls of Fire" — Jerry Lee Lewis "Johnny B. Goode" — Chuck Berry "Good Golly Miss Molly" — Little Richard "La Bamba" — Ritchie Valens "Fever" — Peggy Lee "Poor Little Fool" — Ricky Nelson "Rebel Rouser" — Duane Eddy "All the Way" — Frank Sinatra "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" — The Four Preps "A Wonderful Time Up There" — Pat Boone "Tequila" — The Champs "Catch a Falling Star" — Perry Como "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" — Laurie London "Twilight Time" — The Platters "Witch Doctor" — David Seville "All I Have to Do Is Dream" — The Everly Brothers "Purple People Eater" — Sheb Wooley "Yakety Yak" — The Coasters "Splish Splash" — Bobby Darin "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Blu)" — Dominico Modugno "Rockin Robin" — Bobby Day "Tom Dooley" — The Kingston Trio "To Know Him Is to Love Him" — Teddy Bears "The Chipmunk Song" — The Chipmunks/David Seville "Jingle Bell Rock" — Bobby Helms : Photo: Courtesy Hagley Museum and Library Loewy also created this 1950s Charcoal line china for Rosenthal. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed this classic bedroom set for Mengel Furniture. : Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner/Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy looks over a model of Imperial House in 1959, a planned apartment complex for Manhattan's Upper East Side. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy created this prototype store for a bakery chain in New York in 1937. The white porcelain-covered steel siding and semicircular window endings gives it an air of "Radio Deco.": Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Earth was not room enough for Loewy: He created this model for the living quarters of the NASA Skylab space station. : Study: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy's 1970 study for a NASA space station appears influenced by sets from the 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, though it is a much smaller module. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy sifts through his designs for NASA. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Raymond Loewy and his daughter Laurence enjoy a moment in 1982. Laurence was a prize-winning journalist who later headed the Raymond Loewy Foundation and served as CEO of Loewy Design. She died Oct 15, 2008, at age 55. David Hagerman, the COO of Loewy Design says, "Laurence hoped RaymondLoewy.org would help introduce a new generation of design enthusiasts to her father."
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Category: News > Breaking News

]]> News > Breaking News {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - IT Crowd third season starts on Friday! http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/it-crowd-third-season-starts-on-friday-20081182716.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/it-crowd-third-season-starts-on-friday-20081182716.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:28:04 GMT Hurrah! This Friday marks the return of The IT Crowd, my favorite sitcom/nerd media EVAR, back for a triumphant third season! Although Reynholm jumped out of a high window in the last series, his playboy son Douglas (Matt Berry) shows every sign of carrying on the family name (plundering the pension fund, putting flakes of gold in the drinking water, etc) and more or less takes over tonight's very funny opening episode. That leaves our IT-department trio of geeky Moss, lazy Roy and uptight Jen slightly overshadowed. But the sweet scene where Moss and Roy try some role-play to help Moss deal with park bullies just about makes up for it. The IT Crowd (Thanks, Alan!)... Boingboing.Net IT Crowd third season starts on Friday! {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Hurrah! This Friday marks the return of The IT Crowd, my favorite sitcom/nerd media EVAR, back for a triumphant third season! Although Reynholm jumped out of a high window in the last series, his playboy son Douglas (Matt Berry) shows every sign of carrying on the family name (plundering the pension fund, putting flakes of gold in the drinking water, etc) and more or less takes over tonight's very funny opening episode. That leaves our IT-department trio of geeky Moss, lazy Roy and uptight Jen slightly overshadowed. But the sweet scene where Moss and Roy try some role-play to help Moss deal with park bullies just about makes up for it. The IT Crowd (Thanks, Alan!)...
IT Crowd third season starts on Friday! - Boing Boing {...}
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Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS, CANOE, WIFI, SLEEPS 6 (russian river) $145 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-direct-river-amp-beach-access-20081158218.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-direct-river-amp-beach-access-20081158218.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:43:10 GMT THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND. DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS. THIS PROPERTY REST ON MOSTHER'S BEACH IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN EACH DIRECTION. SLEEPS UP TO 6. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. WE TAKE LAST MINUTE BOOKINGS. EMAIL AND ALSO CALL US AT 707-887-8688. LOCATED IN SONOMA COUNTY, THIRTY MINUTES TO THE COAST AT JENNER AND BODEGA BAY, MINUTES TO GUERNEVILLE, SEBASTOPOL, OCCIDENTAL. WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES TO HEALDSBURG AND ANOTHER TEN TO ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. SONOMA COUNTY ABOUNDS WITH ALL SORTS OF ACTIVITIES, FROM BIKE & MOTORCYCLING RIDING TO ROCK CLIMBING,THE KAYAK, THE CANOE, AND WINE TASTING IN EACH DIRECTION. WE ARE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE RUSSIAN RIVER FROM WESTSIDE ROAD, LEADING DIRECTLY TO SOME OF THE BEST WINE TASTING IN THE RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY. THIS MODERN CABIN IS LOCATED WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO THE LOCAL BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP, THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. WITHIN A TWO MILE RIDE TO THE KORBEL CELLARS, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB THAT IS WELL KNOWN BY THE LOCALS, AND STEEL HEAD BEACH AND BURKE'S CANOE. CATHEDRAL CEILINGS WITH KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR AND PERGO WOOD FLOORS ADORE THIS CABIN WITH A QUEEN SIZE MASTER BEDROOM, DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS, MARBLED HEADBOARD, NIGHTSTANDS AND CHERRY WOOD ETHAN ALLEN ACCENTS. FOUR ADDITIONAL BUILT IN BUNK BEDS FOR THE ADDITIONAL QUESTS. FULL FURNISHED KITCHENETTE, JENN AIRE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ AND A EXTRA LARGE GRILL. EXTRA REFRIGERATION. CENTRAL HEAT & AIR CONDITION. THE OUTDOORS ARE COMPLETELY FENCED WITH MATURE FRUIT TREES, OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, WILD FLOWERS AND JAPANESE TREES. THIS TRI LEVEL LOCATION IS ACCESSIBLE BY ALL AGE GROUPS. THE OUTDOORS HAVE A SUNNY DECK WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS AND A FIREPIT BOTH IN THE FRONT AND ALSO IN THE BOTTOM LANDING. OUTDOOR TABLE AND CHAIRS. SOFTTUB FOR FOUR THAT IS SITUATED IN A NATURAL CIRCLE OF OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, SOFT NIGHT TIME LIGHTING. CALL US AND ALSO EMAIL US FOR CURRENT AVAILABILITY. HOLIDAY TIME AVAILABLE. WE ARE OPEN YEAR AROUND. IT IS NEVER TO EARLY OR TO LATE TO CALL. 707-887-8688. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS, CANOE, WIFI, SLEEPS 6 (russian river) $145 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND. DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS. THIS PROPERTY REST ON MOSTHER'S BEACH IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN EACH DIRECTION. SLEEPS UP TO 6. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. WE TAKE LAST MINUTE BOOKINGS. EMAIL AND ALSO CALL US AT 707-887-8688. LOCATED IN SONOMA COUNTY, THIRTY MINUTES TO THE COAST AT JENNER AND BODEGA BAY, MINUTES TO GUERNEVILLE, SEBASTOPOL, OCCIDENTAL. WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES TO HEALDSBURG AND ANOTHER TEN TO ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. SONOMA COUNTY ABOUNDS WITH ALL SORTS OF ACTIVITIES, FROM BIKE & MOTORCYCLING RIDING TO ROCK CLIMBING,THE KAYAK, THE CANOE, AND WINE TASTING IN EACH DIRECTION. WE ARE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE RUSSIAN RIVER FROM WESTSIDE ROAD, LEADING DIRECTLY TO SOME OF THE BEST WINE TASTING IN THE RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY. THIS MODERN CABIN IS LOCATED WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO THE LOCAL BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP, THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. WITHIN A TWO MILE RIDE TO THE KORBEL CELLARS, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB THAT IS WELL KNOWN BY THE LOCALS, AND STEEL HEAD BEACH AND BURKE'S CANOE. CATHEDRAL CEILINGS WITH KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR AND PERGO WOOD FLOORS ADORE THIS CABIN WITH A QUEEN SIZE MASTER BEDROOM, DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS, MARBLED HEADBOARD, NIGHTSTANDS AND CHERRY WOOD ETHAN ALLEN ACCENTS. FOUR ADDITIONAL BUILT IN BUNK BEDS FOR THE ADDITIONAL QUESTS. FULL FURNISHED KITCHENETTE, JENN AIRE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ AND A EXTRA LARGE GRILL. EXTRA REFRIGERATION. CENTRAL HEAT & AIR CONDITION. THE OUTDOORS ARE COMPLETELY FENCED WITH MATURE FRUIT TREES, OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, WILD FLOWERS AND JAPANESE TREES. THIS TRI LEVEL LOCATION IS ACCESSIBLE BY ALL AGE GROUPS. THE OUTDOORS HAVE A SUNNY DECK WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS AND A FIREPIT BOTH IN THE FRONT AND ALSO IN THE BOTTOM LANDING. OUTDOOR TABLE AND CHAIRS. SOFTTUB FOR FOUR THAT IS SITUATED IN A NATURAL CIRCLE OF OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, SOFT NIGHT TIME LIGHTING. CALL US AND ALSO EMAIL US FOR CURRENT AVAILABILITY. HOLIDAY TIME AVAILABLE. WE ARE OPEN YEAR AROUND. IT IS NEVER TO EARLY OR TO LATE TO CALL. 707-887-8688.
RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS, CANOE, WIFI, SLEEPS 6 {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - Berry House - real bed in private room for $50/night (Mountain View) $50 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/berry-house-real-bed-in-private-room-for-50-night-20081152323.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/berry-house-real-bed-in-private-room-for-50-night-20081152323.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:57:24 GMT 15x20 room with privacy. Manicured front yard with flowers and a tree swing. Close to Stanford, NASA, Google, Intel, Cisco, Symantec, VeriSign, EBay and Mountain View's restaurant district. The house has three people living in it now (Neal, Jeremy and Laurin). Please see description, pictures, and availability here. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Berry House - real bed in private room for $50/night (Mountain View) $50 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - 15x20 room with privacy. Manicured front yard with flowers and a tree swing. Close to Stanford, NASA, Google, Intel, Cisco, Symantec, VeriSign, EBay and Mountain View's restaurant district. The house has three people living in it now (Neal, Jeremy and Laurin). Please see description, pictures, and availability here.
Berry House - real bed in private room for $50/night {...}
Published: November 18, 2008, 4:57 am - Indexed: November 18, 2008, 10:06 am - Page Size: 4KB
Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACC., CANOE, WIFI, SLEEPS 6 (russian river) $145 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-direct-river-amp-beach-acc-canoe-20081163219.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-direct-river-amp-beach-acc-canoe-20081163219.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:22:29 GMT THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED. SLEEPS UP TO SIX. THIS UNIQUE PROPERTY HAS RIVER ACCESS AT OUR BACK GATE. GREAT LOCATION FOR KAYAK AND CANOE LAUNCHING. THIS TRI-LEVEL PROPERTY IS ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL AGE GROUPS. CENTRALLY LOCATED IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN EACH DIRECTION. LEATHER LIVING ROOM FURNITURE, MARBLED STYLE QUEEN SIZE BED WITH NIGHT STANDS AND ACCENTED WITH CHERRY WOOD EATHAN ALLEN PIECES IN THE ROMANTIC FURNISHED MASTER BEDROOM. DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS. BUILT IN BUNK BEDS THAT SLEEP A ADDITIONAL FOUR. FULLY FURNISHED KITCHEN WITH ALL OF YOUR COOKING ESSENTIALS, BBQ AREA WITH A JENN-AIRE STAINLESS STEEL PROPANE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ. CAMPFIRES PERMITTED WITH TWO FIRE PITS WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS. KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR WITH PERGO FLOORS THROUGHOUT. KNOTTY ALDER INTERIOR DOORS. CATHERDRAL CEILINGS. CENTRAL HEAT. WITHIN TEN MINUTES TO SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN DIRECTION (SEBASTOPOL, GUERNEVILLE, OCCIDENTAL, JENNER AND THE SONOMA COAST AT BODEGA BAY. WITHIN MINUTES FROM THE SCHULTZ AIRPORT. TWO MILES FROM THE KORBEL WINERY, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB (WELL KNOWN FOR NIGHTLY DINNER SPECIALS), THE FARMHOUSE RESTAURANT AND BURKE'S CANOE. WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP AND THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. THIRTY MINUTES FROM HEALDSBURG, THE ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. BOOK EARLY FOR THE FALL AND WINTER. HOLIDAY AVAILABILITY. CONTACT US AT BOOKINGS@RUSSIANRIVERVACATIONHOME.COM OR PHONE US AT 707-887-8688. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACC., CANOE, WIFI, SLEEPS 6 (russian river) $145 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED. SLEEPS UP TO SIX. THIS UNIQUE PROPERTY HAS RIVER ACCESS AT OUR BACK GATE. GREAT LOCATION FOR KAYAK AND CANOE LAUNCHING. THIS TRI-LEVEL PROPERTY IS ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL AGE GROUPS. CENTRALLY LOCATED IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN EACH DIRECTION. LEATHER LIVING ROOM FURNITURE, MARBLED STYLE QUEEN SIZE BED WITH NIGHT STANDS AND ACCENTED WITH CHERRY WOOD EATHAN ALLEN PIECES IN THE ROMANTIC FURNISHED MASTER BEDROOM. DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS. BUILT IN BUNK BEDS THAT SLEEP A ADDITIONAL FOUR. FULLY FURNISHED KITCHEN WITH ALL OF YOUR COOKING ESSENTIALS, BBQ AREA WITH A JENN-AIRE STAINLESS STEEL PROPANE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ. CAMPFIRES PERMITTED WITH TWO FIRE PITS WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS. KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR WITH PERGO FLOORS THROUGHOUT. KNOTTY ALDER INTERIOR DOORS. CATHERDRAL CEILINGS. CENTRAL HEAT. WITHIN TEN MINUTES TO SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN DIRECTION (SEBASTOPOL, GUERNEVILLE, OCCIDENTAL, JENNER AND THE SONOMA COAST AT BODEGA BAY. WITHIN MINUTES FROM THE SCHULTZ AIRPORT. TWO MILES FROM THE KORBEL WINERY, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB (WELL KNOWN FOR NIGHTLY DINNER SPECIALS), THE FARMHOUSE RESTAURANT AND BURKE'S CANOE. WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP AND THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. THIRTY MINUTES FROM HEALDSBURG, THE ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. BOOK EARLY FOR THE FALL AND WINTER. HOLIDAY AVAILABILITY. CONTACT US AT BOOKINGS@RUSSIANRIVERVACATIONHOME.COM OR PHONE US AT 707-887-8688.
RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACC., CANOE, WIFI, SLEEPS 6 {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - 1100 Sq. Ft. Mission Bay 2 Bd/2 Ba 2-Level Modern Condo w/Parking (SOMA / south beach) $3950 2bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/1100-sq-ft-mission-bay-2-bd-2-ba-2-level-modern-condo-20081166021.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/1100-sq-ft-mission-bay-2-bd-2-ba-2-level-modern-condo-20081166021.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:45:06 GMT CLICK ON LINK BELOW FOR PICS:Condo/Loft Pics TOTAL MOVE-IN = FIRST MONTH'S RENT + $3950. MONTHLY RENT = $3950. FULLY FURNISHED UNIT ONE YEAR LEASE PREFERRED BUT WILL DISCUSS SHORTER TERM RENTAL VARIOUS STARTING DATES: DEC 1 or DEC 15, 2008 or JAN 1, 2009. WATER AND GARBAGE INCLUDED. PARKING (UNDERGROUND) INCLUDED FOR ONE CAR CLEANING SERVICES = $70 PER MONTH - SERVICE IS NECESSARY AND PAID BY RENTER ALL OTHER UTILITIES (PG&E, CABLE/TV, PHONE/INTERNET) ARE PAID BY RENTER - APPROX. AVG COST = $140 PER MONTH EMAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION The Location San Francisco’s newest live/work lofts community sits at the convergence of some of the City’s greatest neighborhoods - South of Market, full of cultural attractions and great entertainment; Mission Bay with its thriving new businesses and urban parks; South Beach and the sparkling waterfront; Potrero Hill, a great mix of unique shopping and excellent eateries; and the Mission with its unique meld of cultures, ethnic restaurants and exotic entertainment. Mission Bay is San Francisco’s last waterfront property. It has been carefully designed to blend seamlessly with its neighbors and resemble the parts of the City you like best. From the wide sidewalks, shops and restaurants of King Street to acres of open space, Mission Bay has the variety and quality that you have been looking for: • All major transportation at your doorstep including easy 5-minute access to Hwy 80, 280, and 101 as well as Muni metro and bus stations all within 2 blocks. • Walking distance to AT&T Park • Walking distance to Safeway, Trader Joes, Borders, Starbucks, and Whole Foods (one on 4th Street and one on Potrero) • Walking distance to some of the City’s finest restaurants such as Fringale, Coco 500, Bacar, Momo’s, and Lulu just to name a few • Minutes to South Beach Marina, SOMA, Downtown, and the Ferry Terminal’s Shopping District and Farmers Market. Bluxome Street is your new home in the center of it all. The Building Discover a unique environment for a San Francisco home - enchanting outdoor spaces that give each home an inviting outdoor retreat. The homes surround a central landscaped courtyard with shimmering bamboo, wooden decks, a signature fountain and a soaring sculpture that create rare spaces for neighbors to enjoy. A translucent glass-enclosed elevator ascends from the garage to the 3 open-air floor galleries giving more space for enjoying and viewing the courtyard. The Loft Fully upgraded top floor loft features 2 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms in the heart of Mission Bay. This loft has a grand, two-story living room with 15-foot walls of glass, towering 20 foot ceilings and showers of natural light. Gourmet kitchen was completely renovated and features stainless steel appliances, maple cabinetry, stainless backsplash and black granite countertops. Downstairs renovated bathroom features shower stall, tile, maple cabinetry and limestone countertops. The mezannine bedroom has a small walk-in closet and another full bathroom with tub over shower. The main area of the loft is centrally heated and the second bedroom has its own heater. Washer/Dryer is in the unit and included. Upgrades include Brazilian cherry floors, a bar area with black granite countertop, recess lighting in the kitchen, window treatments, custom-built his & hers dressers with retractable night tables, additional bathroom cabinetry, and upgraded carpet. A private spacious deck on the mezzanine and 1 car enclosed parking on the basement completes this urban loft. The Loft is furnished with a modern yet discrete dining set and coordinated sofas in the living area where the 32" TV is located. The bedrooms are furnished each with a queen size bed, nightstands, dressers, lamps, and bookcase among other things. Services around Bluxome Street Stores: Walgreen’s, pharmacy and basic groceries, 2 blocks away (4th and Townsend) Safeway, supermarket, 3 blocks away (4th and King) Whole Foods, supermarket, 3 blocks away (4th and Harrison) Trader Joe’s, supermarket, 3 blocks away (8th and Brannan) Starbucks, coffee shop, 3.5 blocks away (King and 4th) Starbucks, coffee shop, 2 blocks away (4th and Brannan) Panera, fresh bread, 3 blocks away (King and 4th) Border’s, bookstore, (3rd and King) K & L, Wine store and tasting room, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Bed, Bath and Beyond, 3 blocks away (8th and Brannan) Nordstrom Rack, 3 blocks away (8th and Brannan) REI, outdoors sports equipment, 2 blocks away (7th and Brannan) Banks: Wells Fargo, 2 blocks away (4th and Brannan) Bank of America, 2 blocks away (Brannan and 4th) Wells Fargo, 3 blocks away (King and 4th) Washington Mutual, 3.5 blocks away, (King and 4th) Services: Dry Cleaner’s, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Dry Cleaner’s, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 4th) UPS store, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Post office –USPS-, 2 blocks away (Brannan and 4th) SF Public Library -Mission Bay branch-, 4 blocks away (4th and Berry) Super Cuts, hair salon, 3.5 blocks away (King and 4th) Mademoiselle Nails, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 8th) Mizu Spa, 3 blocks away (king and 4th) Restaurants: Coco 500, American fusion and bar, (Brannan and 4th) Fringale, French cuisine (4th and Brannan) Bacar, northern California cuisine, bar, jazz lounge (Brannan btwn 3rd and 4th) Zuppa, rustic Italian (4th and Brannan) Brickhouse, sandwiches and salads, (Brannan and 3rd) Holy Grill, American cuisine, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 8th) Safron 685, Mediterranean food, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 8th) Panera, sandwiches and salads Nama, sushi, 3.5 blocks away, (King and 4th) Amici’s, pizza, (King and 3rd) Acme, steak house, (King and 3rd) Pete’s Tavern, sports bar, (King and 2nd) Momo’s, Bar and Grill, (King and 2nd) Tres Agaves, Mexican bistro and tequila bar, 4 blocks away (Townsend and 2nd) Bars: Gallery Lounge, bar and gallery, (Brannan and 4th) District , wine bar, (3rd and Townsend) O’Neill’s, Irish pub, (3rd and King) Mars Bar, full bar with outside patio, (corner of 7th and Brannan) South, wine bar + food, (On Townsend between 4th and 5th St) Transportation: Caltrain, Peninsula -Silicon Valley- commute (express service –baby bullet- during rush hour) Muni line 10 to Financial District, Embarcadero, Fisherman’s Wharf Muni, 3rd Street line to the Embarcadero, Ferry building Muni line 30 to Union Square, Chinatown, North Beach, Marina Muni line 45 to Union Square, Chinatown, North beach, Union St. Highway ramps: I-80 (Bay Bridge) to East Bay: Emeryville, Berkeley, Oakland; ramp 2 blocks away (4th and Bryant) I-280 South to Peninsula: San Mateo, San Jose, Santa Clara; ramp 1 block away (6th and Brannan) I-101 South to Peninsula: SF Airport, San Mateo, San Jose, Santa Clara; use I-280 ramp (6th and Brannan) and then take I-101 exit I-101 North to Marin County: Sausalito, Napa, Sonoma; ramp 5 blocks away (7th and Harrison) Sports facilities: SF Tennis Club and Gym, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Gold’s Gym, (Brannan and Division) 24hr Fitness (2nd and Harrison) Others: AT&T Baseball Park -SF Giants-, (3rd and King) Mission Creek park (jogging path) UCSF Mission Bay campus Hands On Bay Area, volunteering organization, 1 block away (Bluxome and 4th) In the vicinity (1.3 miles radius towards Market St.): AMC Metreon with Imax, movie theaters (4th and Mission) Century movie theaters (Mission and 4th) Westfield mall (Mission and 4th) SF MOMA, museum of modern art (3rd and Howard) Moscone Center, exhibition and convention center, (Folsom and 4th) Yerba Buena Gardens, free summer concerts –including SF Symphony-, (3rd and Folsom) Cal Academy of Sciences, aquarium, (5th and Howard) Union Square -Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Saks 5th Avenue- (Geary and Powell) Sfbay.Craigslist.Org 1100 Sq. Ft. Mission Bay 2 Bd/2 Ba 2-Level Modern Condo w/Parking (SOMA / south beach) $3950 2bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - CLICK ON LINK BELOW FOR PICS:Condo/Loft Pics TOTAL MOVE-IN = FIRST MONTH'S RENT + $3950. MONTHLY RENT = $3950. FULLY FURNISHED UNIT ONE YEAR LEASE PREFERRED BUT WILL DISCUSS SHORTER TERM RENTAL VARIOUS STARTING DATES: DEC 1 or DEC 15, 2008 or JAN 1, 2009. WATER AND GARBAGE INCLUDED. PARKING (UNDERGROUND) INCLUDED FOR ONE CAR CLEANING SERVICES = $70 PER MONTH - SERVICE IS NECESSARY AND PAID BY RENTER ALL OTHER UTILITIES (PG&E, CABLE/TV, PHONE/INTERNET) ARE PAID BY RENTER - APPROX. AVG COST = $140 PER MONTH EMAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION The Location San Francisco’s newest live/work lofts community sits at the convergence of some of the City’s greatest neighborhoods - South of Market, full of cultural attractions and great entertainment; Mission Bay with its thriving new businesses and urban parks; South Beach and the sparkling waterfront; Potrero Hill, a great mix of unique shopping and excellent eateries; and the Mission with its unique meld of cultures, ethnic restaurants and exotic entertainment. Mission Bay is San Francisco’s last waterfront property. It has been carefully designed to blend seamlessly with its neighbors and resemble the parts of the City you like best. From the wide sidewalks, shops and restaurants of King Street to acres of open space, Mission Bay has the variety and quality that you have been looking for: • All major transportation at your doorstep including easy 5-minute access to Hwy 80, 280, and 101 as well as Muni metro and bus stations all within 2 blocks. • Walking distance to AT&T Park • Walking distance to Safeway, Trader Joes, Borders, Starbucks, and Whole Foods (one on 4th Street and one on Potrero) • Walking distance to some of the City’s finest restaurants such as Fringale, Coco 500, Bacar, Momo’s, and Lulu just to name a few • Minutes to South Beach Marina, SOMA, Downtown, and the Ferry Terminal’s Shopping District and Farmers Market. Bluxome Street is your new home in the center of it all. The Building Discover a unique environment for a San Francisco home - enchanting outdoor spaces that give each home an inviting outdoor retreat. The homes surround a central landscaped courtyard with shimmering bamboo, wooden decks, a signature fountain and a soaring sculpture that create rare spaces for neighbors to enjoy. A translucent glass-enclosed elevator ascends from the garage to the 3 open-air floor galleries giving more space for enjoying and viewing the courtyard. The Loft Fully upgraded top floor loft features 2 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms in the heart of Mission Bay. This loft has a grand, two-story living room with 15-foot walls of glass, towering 20 foot ceilings and showers of natural light. Gourmet kitchen was completely renovated and features stainless steel appliances, maple cabinetry, stainless backsplash and black granite countertops. Downstairs renovated bathroom features shower stall, tile, maple cabinetry and limestone countertops. The mezannine bedroom has a small walk-in closet and another full bathroom with tub over shower. The main area of the loft is centrally heated and the second bedroom has its own heater. Washer/Dryer is in the unit and included. Upgrades include Brazilian cherry floors, a bar area with black granite countertop, recess lighting in the kitchen, window treatments, custom-built his & hers dressers with retractable night tables, additional bathroom cabinetry, and upgraded carpet. A private spacious deck on the mezzanine and 1 car enclosed parking on the basement completes this urban loft. The Loft is furnished with a modern yet discrete dining set and coordinated sofas in the living area where the 32" TV is located. The bedrooms are furnished each with a queen size bed, nightstands, dressers, lamps, and bookcase among other things. Services around Bluxome Street Stores: Walgreen’s, pharmacy and basic groceries, 2 blocks away (4th and Townsend) Safeway, supermarket, 3 blocks away (4th and King) Whole Foods, supermarket, 3 blocks away (4th and Harrison) Trader Joe’s, supermarket, 3 blocks away (8th and Brannan) Starbucks, coffee shop, 3.5 blocks away (King and 4th) Starbucks, coffee shop, 2 blocks away (4th and Brannan) Panera, fresh bread, 3 blocks away (King and 4th) Border’s, bookstore, (3rd and King) K & L, Wine store and tasting room, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Bed, Bath and Beyond, 3 blocks away (8th and Brannan) Nordstrom Rack, 3 blocks away (8th and Brannan) REI, outdoors sports equipment, 2 blocks away (7th and Brannan) Banks: Wells Fargo, 2 blocks away (4th and Brannan) Bank of America, 2 blocks away (Brannan and 4th) Wells Fargo, 3 blocks away (King and 4th) Washington Mutual, 3.5 blocks away, (King and 4th) Services: Dry Cleaner’s, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Dry Cleaner’s, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 4th) UPS store, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Post office –USPS-, 2 blocks away (Brannan and 4th) SF Public Library -Mission Bay branch-, 4 blocks away (4th and Berry) Super Cuts, hair salon, 3.5 blocks away (King and 4th) Mademoiselle Nails, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 8th) Mizu Spa, 3 blocks away (king and 4th) Restaurants: Coco 500, American fusion and bar, (Brannan and 4th) Fringale, French cuisine (4th and Brannan) Bacar, northern California cuisine, bar, jazz lounge (Brannan btwn 3rd and 4th) Zuppa, rustic Italian (4th and Brannan) Brickhouse, sandwiches and salads, (Brannan and 3rd) Holy Grill, American cuisine, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 8th) Safron 685, Mediterranean food, 2.5 blocks away (Townsend and 8th) Panera, sandwiches and salads Nama, sushi, 3.5 blocks away, (King and 4th) Amici’s, pizza, (King and 3rd) Acme, steak house, (King and 3rd) Pete’s Tavern, sports bar, (King and 2nd) Momo’s, Bar and Grill, (King and 2nd) Tres Agaves, Mexican bistro and tequila bar, 4 blocks away (Townsend and 2nd) Bars: Gallery Lounge, bar and gallery, (Brannan and 4th) District , wine bar, (3rd and Townsend) O’Neill’s, Irish pub, (3rd and King) Mars Bar, full bar with outside patio, (corner of 7th and Brannan) South, wine bar + food, (On Townsend between 4th and 5th St) Transportation: Caltrain, Peninsula -Silicon Valley- commute (express service –baby bullet- during rush hour) Muni line 10 to Financial District, Embarcadero, Fisherman’s Wharf Muni, 3rd Street line to the Embarcadero, Ferry building Muni line 30 to Union Square, Chinatown, North Beach, Marina Muni line 45 to Union Square, Chinatown, North beach, Union St. Highway ramps: I-80 (Bay Bridge) to East Bay: Emeryville, Berkeley, Oakland; ramp 2 blocks away (4th and Bryant) I-280 South to Peninsula: San Mateo, San Jose, Santa Clara; ramp 1 block away (6th and Brannan) I-101 South to Peninsula: SF Airport, San Mateo, San Jose, Santa Clara; use I-280 ramp (6th and Brannan) and then take I-101 exit I-101 North to Marin County: Sausalito, Napa, Sonoma; ramp 5 blocks away (7th and Harrison) Sports facilities: SF Tennis Club and Gym, 1 block away (4th and Bluxome) Gold’s Gym, (Brannan and Division) 24hr Fitness (2nd and Harrison) Others: AT&T Baseball Park -SF Giants-, (3rd and King) Mission Creek park (jogging path) UCSF Mission Bay campus Hands On Bay Area, volunteering organization, 1 block away (Bluxome and 4th) In the vicinity (1.3 miles radius towards Market St.): AMC Metreon with Imax, movie theaters (4th and Mission) Century movie theaters (Mission and 4th) Westfield mall (Mission and 4th) SF MOMA, museum of modern art (3rd and Howard) Moscone Center, exhibition and convention center, (Folsom and 4th) Yerba Buena Gardens, free summer concerts –including SF Symphony-, (3rd and Folsom) Cal Academy of Sciences, aquarium, (5th and Howard) Union Square -Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Saks 5th Avenue- (Geary and Powell)
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, AVAIL TONIGHT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS, CANOE, (russian river) $145 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-avail-tonight-direct-river-20081165122.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-avail-tonight-direct-river-20081165122.htm Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:53:47 GMT THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND. DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS. THIS PROPERTY REST ON MOSTHER'S BEACH IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN EACH DIRECTION. SLEEPS UP TO 6. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. WE TAKE LAST MINUTE BOOKINGS. EMAIL AND ALSO CALL US AT 707-887-8688. LOCATED IN SONOMA COUNTY, THIRTY MINUTES TO THE COAST AT JENNER AND BODEGA BAY, MINUTES TO GUERNEVILLE, SEBASTOPOL, OCCIDENTAL. WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES TO HEALDSBURG AND ANOTHER TEN TO ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. SONOMA COUNTY ABOUNDS WITH ALL SORTS OF ACTIVITIES, FROM BIKE & MOTORCYCLING RIDING TO ROCK CLIMBING,THE KAYAK, THE CANOE, AND WINE TASTING IN EACH DIRECTION. WE ARE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE RUSSIAN RIVER FROM WESTSIDE ROAD, LEADING DIRECTLY TO SOME OF THE BEST WINE TASTING IN THE RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY. THIS MODERN CABIN IS LOCATED WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO THE LOCAL BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP, THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. WITHIN A TWO MILE RIDE TO THE KORBEL CELLARS, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB THAT IS WELL KNOWN BY THE LOCALS, AND STEEL HEAD BEACH AND BURKE'S CANOE. CATHEDRAL CEILINGS WITH KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR AND PERGO WOOD FLOORS ADORE THIS CABIN WITH A QUEEN SIZE MASTER BEDROOM, DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS, MARBLED HEADBOARD, NIGHTSTANDS AND CHERRY WOOD ETHAN ALLEN ACCENTS. FOUR ADDITIONAL BUILT IN BUNK BEDS FOR THE ADDITIONAL QUESTS. FULL FURNISHED KITCHENETTE, JENN AIRE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ AND A EXTRA LARGE GRILL. EXTRA REFRIGERATION. CENTRAL HEAT & AIR CONDITION. THE OUTDOORS ARE COMPLETELY FENCED WITH MATURE FRUIT TREES, OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, WILD FLOWERS AND JAPANESE TREES. THIS TRI LEVEL LOCATION IS ACCESSIBLE BY ALL AGE GROUPS. THE OUTDOORS HAVE A SUNNY DECK WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS AND A FIREPIT BOTH IN THE FRONT AND ALSO IN THE BOTTOM LANDING. OUTDOOR TABLE AND CHAIRS. SOFTTUB FOR FOUR THAT IS SITUATED IN A NATURAL CIRCLE OF OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, SOFT NIGHT TIME LIGHTING. CALL US AND ALSO EMAIL US FOR CURRENT AVAILABILITY. HOLIDAY TIME AVAILABLE. WE ARE OPEN YEAR AROUND. IT IS NEVER TO EARLY OR TO LATE TO CALL. 707-887-8688. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, AVAIL TONIGHT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS, CANOE, (russian river) $145 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND. DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS. THIS PROPERTY REST ON MOSTHER'S BEACH IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS IN EACH DIRECTION. SLEEPS UP TO 6. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. WE TAKE LAST MINUTE BOOKINGS. EMAIL AND ALSO CALL US AT 707-887-8688. LOCATED IN SONOMA COUNTY, THIRTY MINUTES TO THE COAST AT JENNER AND BODEGA BAY, MINUTES TO GUERNEVILLE, SEBASTOPOL, OCCIDENTAL. WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES TO HEALDSBURG AND ANOTHER TEN TO ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. SONOMA COUNTY ABOUNDS WITH ALL SORTS OF ACTIVITIES, FROM BIKE & MOTORCYCLING RIDING TO ROCK CLIMBING,THE KAYAK, THE CANOE, AND WINE TASTING IN EACH DIRECTION. WE ARE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE RUSSIAN RIVER FROM WESTSIDE ROAD, LEADING DIRECTLY TO SOME OF THE BEST WINE TASTING IN THE RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY. THIS MODERN CABIN IS LOCATED WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO THE LOCAL BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP, THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. WITHIN A TWO MILE RIDE TO THE KORBEL CELLARS, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB THAT IS WELL KNOWN BY THE LOCALS, AND STEEL HEAD BEACH AND BURKE'S CANOE. CATHEDRAL CEILINGS WITH KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR AND PERGO WOOD FLOORS ADORE THIS CABIN WITH A QUEEN SIZE MASTER BEDROOM, DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS, MARBLED HEADBOARD, NIGHTSTANDS AND CHERRY WOOD ETHAN ALLEN ACCENTS. FOUR ADDITIONAL BUILT IN BUNK BEDS FOR THE ADDITIONAL QUESTS. FULL FURNISHED KITCHENETTE, JENN AIRE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ AND A EXTRA LARGE GRILL. EXTRA REFRIGERATION. CENTRAL HEAT & AIR CONDITION. THE OUTDOORS ARE COMPLETELY FENCED WITH MATURE FRUIT TREES, OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, WILD FLOWERS AND JAPANESE TREES. THIS TRI LEVEL LOCATION IS ACCESSIBLE BY ALL AGE GROUPS. THE OUTDOORS HAVE A SUNNY DECK WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS AND A FIREPIT BOTH IN THE FRONT AND ALSO IN THE BOTTOM LANDING. OUTDOOR TABLE AND CHAIRS. SOFTTUB FOR FOUR THAT IS SITUATED IN A NATURAL CIRCLE OF OLD GROWTH REDWOOD TREES, SOFT NIGHT TIME LIGHTING. CALL US AND ALSO EMAIL US FOR CURRENT AVAILABILITY. HOLIDAY TIME AVAILABLE. WE ARE OPEN YEAR AROUND. IT IS NEVER TO EARLY OR TO LATE TO CALL. 707-887-8688.
RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, AVAIL TONIGHT, DIRECT RIVER & BEACH ACCESS, CANOE, {...}
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER ACCESS, AVAIL HOLIDAYS, SLEEPS 6 (russian river) $145 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-direct-river-access-avail-holidays-20081149218.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/russian-riverfront-direct-river-access-avail-holidays-20081149218.htm Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:16:11 GMT THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED. SLEEPS UP TO SIX. THIS UNIQUE PROPERTY HAS RIVER ACCESS AT OUR BACK GATE. GREAT LOCATION FOR KAYAK AND CANOE LAUNCHING. THIS TRI-LEVEL PROPERTY IS ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL AGE GROUPS. CENTRALLY LOCATED IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS. LEATHER LIVING ROOM FURNITURE, HAND CARVED QUEEN SIZE BED IN THE ROMANTIC FURNISHED MASTER BEDROOM, DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS. BUILT IN BUNK BEDS THAT SLEEP A ADDITIONAL FOUR. FULLY FURNISHED KITCHEN WITH ALL OF YOUR COOKING ESSENTIALS, BBQ AREA WITH A JENN-AIRE STAINLESS STEEL PROPANE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ. CAMPFIRES PERMITTED WITH TWO FIRE PITS WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS. KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR WITH PERGO FLOORS THROUGHOUT. KNOTTY ALDER INTERIOR DOORS. CATHERDRAL CEILINGS. CENTRAL HEAT. WITHIN TEN MINUTES TO SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS AND THE SCHULTZ AIRPORT. TWO MILES FROM THE KORBEL WINERY, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB (WELL KNOWN FOR NIGHTLY DINNER SPECIALS), THE FARMHOUSE RESTAURANT AND BURKE'S CANOE. WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP AND THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. THIRTY MINUTES FROM HEALDSBURG, THE ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. BOOK EARLY FOR THE FALL AND WINTER. HOLIDAY AVAILABILITY. CONTACT US AT BOOKINGS@RUSSIANRIVERVACATIONHOME.COM OR PHONE US AT 707-887-8688. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER ACCESS, AVAIL HOLIDAYS, SLEEPS 6 (russian river) $145 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - THIS RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT LOCATION IS PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED. SLEEPS UP TO SIX. THIS UNIQUE PROPERTY HAS RIVER ACCESS AT OUR BACK GATE. GREAT LOCATION FOR KAYAK AND CANOE LAUNCHING. THIS TRI-LEVEL PROPERTY IS ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL AGE GROUPS. CENTRALLY LOCATED IN THE HUB OF SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS. LEATHER LIVING ROOM FURNITURE, HAND CARVED QUEEN SIZE BED IN THE ROMANTIC FURNISHED MASTER BEDROOM, DOWN COMFORTERS, TOP QUALITY LINENS. BUILT IN BUNK BEDS THAT SLEEP A ADDITIONAL FOUR. FULLY FURNISHED KITCHEN WITH ALL OF YOUR COOKING ESSENTIALS, BBQ AREA WITH A JENN-AIRE STAINLESS STEEL PROPANE BBQ, CHARCOAL BBQ. CAMPFIRES PERMITTED WITH TWO FIRE PITS WITH ZERO DEGREE LOUNGE CHAIRS. KNOTTY PINE INTERIOR WITH PERGO FLOORS THROUGHOUT. KNOTTY ALDER INTERIOR DOORS. CATHERDRAL CEILINGS. CENTRAL HEAT. WITHIN TEN MINUTES TO SURROUNDING TOURIST TOWNS AND THE SCHULTZ AIRPORT. TWO MILES FROM THE KORBEL WINERY, THE RUSSIAN RIVER PUB (WELL KNOWN FOR NIGHTLY DINNER SPECIALS), THE FARMHOUSE RESTAURANT AND BURKE'S CANOE. WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO BERRY'S MARKET, THE ESPRESSO SHOP AND THE HACIENDA BRIDGE. THIRTY MINUTES FROM HEALDSBURG, THE ALEXANDER VALLEY AND THE RIVER ROCK CASINO. PETS WELCOME. NO PET OR SECURITY DEPOSITS. VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED. BOOK EARLY FOR THE FALL AND WINTER. HOLIDAY AVAILABILITY. CONTACT US AT BOOKINGS@RUSSIANRIVERVACATIONHOME.COM OR PHONE US AT 707-887-8688.
RUSSIAN RIVERFRONT, DIRECT RIVER ACCESS, AVAIL HOLIDAYS, SLEEPS 6 {...}
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - La Selva Beach House Available Year Round (santa cruz) $375 5bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/la-selva-beach-house-available-year-round-santa-20081111911.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional