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BACK ISSUES – WINTER 2009/2010

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Winter 2009/2010
VOLUME 8 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: Built it/Razed It III: Modernism in Connecticut

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Mad for Moderns
The Bright Lights of the Berlin Turnpike
Connecticut Says “Lights, Camera, Action!”
  The Metal House with Mettle

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On the cover: Left to right: Bowen House, photo: Robert Gregson; Olympia Diner, photo: Robert Gregson; Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, © RKO Radio Pictures; a Lustron House, photo: Robert Gregson

CONTENTS
pg 9
Hog River Journal: Modernism & The Austin House
By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 10
Letters, etc.
pg 12
Modernism in Connecticut
Our most Modern architecture.
Photographs and text by Robert Gregson
pg 18 Connecticut’s Star Turn in Film
The state sets the scene in movies old and new. By Jeanine Basinger
pg 24 A Hip Road Trip
Berlin’s “Gasoline Alley” still thrills.
By Mary M. Donohue
pg 30 The Modernism of Theodate Pope
Mining the past, an architect breaks with tradition.
By James F. O’Gorman
pg 36 Lustron: Metal Homes for the Atomic Age
Sleek and stylish, prefab Lustron houses called Connecticut home.
By Stacey Vairo
pg 42
 Shoebox Archives: Modern in Manchester
By Mary Dunne
pg 44 The Answer Is Risom!
By Mary Dunne
pg 46 Philip Johnson in His Own Words
By Elizabeth Normen
pg 47 Soapbox: City Seeks Reunion in Alternative I-84 By Tom Condon
pg 48 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
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