Our own vintage town

[Diamondback]

I am sure they make white walls with that rating. Roadsters have them on them all the time.
You need chrome bumpers. Make up some new badges and trim---either stainless steel or chrome. You choose.

Would just dispensing with the silver paint and chroming the entire bottom-half work? Sorry, trim's gone for good due to drag-penalties, and I'm even thinking about plugging the door-handles for the same reason...

Darhling and Cricket, you're not that far off--most of the staff on the college paper I worked on were girls; IIRC the final year the only guys were me, the photographer and the managing-editor (and in the latter case, his days were numbered from me alone, never mind his plotting against the boss...)

 

[jamespowers]

Would just dispensing with the silver paint and chroming the entire bottom-half work? Sorry, trim's gone for good due to drag-penalties, and I'm even thinking about plugging the door-handles for the same reason...

Darhling and Cricket, you're not that far off--most of the staff on the college paper I worked on were girls; IIRC the final year the only guys were me, the photographer and the managing-editor (and in the latter case, his days were numbered from me alone, never mind his plotting against the boss...)

How about making the bottom half stainless steel like the Eldorado Biarritz?:

Except all the way across the bottom.
Or maybe liek the brougham with the stainless roof and lower panel:

 

[Klaus A]

I am fairly new here but took time to look over the thread. Funny that I have actually thought about how it would be nice if someone started ca. 1930s-50style town that was more or less self-sufficient. It would be great to actually see it become a reality and not just a mere fantasy!

 

[Cricket]

Oooh yes.. that would be perfect

 

[Cricket]

Cricket, we could both be reporters.. How about that, a female-run newspaper! We should get Eyemo as our photographer though!

This would be the only way to do it right.

 

[Diamondback]

Cricket, we could both be reporters.. How about that, a female-run newspaper! We should get Eyemo as our photographer though!

Like I said, been done before...

BTW, found some pre-existing entire towns up-for-sale that might work.

Monse, WA: http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/jan_2003/if_you.htm
Asking price in '03 $575,000

Bridgeville, CA: http://www.planetizen.com/node/25489
Asking price July '07 $1.5mil

Albert, TX: http://www.alberttexas.com/
Asking price June '07 $2.5mil, now listed at 1.975mil

The Grove, TX: http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostTowns/TheGroveTexas.htm
No asking price listed

Alternate tactic would be to look up some towns that have a lot of old buildings for sale, and just start an "FL Invasion", buying whatever properties we could and using that as a "beachhead".

Do we have any real-estate specialists here that might have any insights on strategic-planning? Perhaps we should look up Frank Moran in west PA, since this kinda gig's his specialty... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849343,00.html

 

[jamespowers]

Interesting. I missed that Bridgeville one. That would be a good site. Anyone got $1.3 million? Thats a decent area away from other nutty areas.

 

[Diamondback]

JP, I don't know if we have many (if any) single-millionaires let alone multi's around, think our best bet would be to form a corporation and invest in it to what we can afford. (How would we score my investment in research and legwork for "capital contribution"?)

Albert isn't too far from San Antonio, which holds a special appeal for me... so maybe our "FL Urban Redevelopment Corporation" would need Western, Central, and Eastern divisions.

 

[jamespowers]

JP, I don't know if we have many (if any) single-millionaires let alone multi's around, think our best bet would be to form a corporation and invest in it to what we can afford. (How would we score my investment in research and legwork for "capital contribution"?)

Albert isn't too far from San Antonio, which holds a special appeal for me... so maybe our "FL Urban Redevelopment Corporation" would need Western, Central, and Eastern divisions.

As far as I am concerned, either the Texas or California properties would be great acquisitions. The Texas one is far more developed though. I wonder what the real asking price for that one might be. The museum and saloon would be great. Rename it the Fedora Lounge and renovate it a bit to match our high standards. Of course we would need a decent bartender and that BYOB stuff would be out. There could be a walk in humidor and cigar lounge at the back.
Your capital contribution could be worked off in the Sheriff's office Roscoe.

 

[Diamondback]

Hey, what about my contribution as the "Brain in the Back Room" who initiated the Planning Phase before there even was one?

Bridgeville, your idea might work, but part of Albert's thing is its Old West attributes. I'd change the BYOB to MBYOB (as in, "May, but wouldn't have the same access as a paying customer")--hey, you gotta admit that's even more "vintage" than FL! Besides, open-carried sixguns have a certain interest to me... kind of a Heinlein thing, I guess.lol

 

[jamespowers]

Hey, what about my contribution as the "Brain in the Back Room" who initiated the Planning Phase before there even was one?

Bridgeville, your idea might work, but part of Albert's thing is its Old West attributes. I'd change the BYOB to MBYOB (as in, "May, but wouldn't have the same access as a paying customer")--hey, you gotta admit that's even more "vintage" than FL! Besides, open-carried sixguns have a certain interest to me... kind of a Heinlein thing, I guess.lol

Planning phase?! We haven't even obtained the site yet.
Open carry?! I am glad you are doing a stint as the Sheriff then and not me.
I see they also have carriages. You still need horsepower for them though. We want to be vintage not Amish.

 

[Diamondback]

JP, I'm talking "Corporate Planning", not "Property Planning".

It's not the guns, but the attitude behind 'em, remember? "An armed society is a polite society", remember? (Besides, as a matter of principle I'd really rather that everyone know who's packin'.)

Hey, be nice! I have relatives that live up near Amish Country... (Although I was thinking "different sites for different eras".)

 

[Fletch]

found some pre-existing entire towns up-for-sale that might work.

Heck, buy up a few hundred acres of Iowa corn and you could plat whatever kind of town you wanted.

We could use a municipality of some size on US 69 between Huxley and Ankeny. I suggest buying out the town of Alleman, which contains little else but the transmitter and tower for several Des Moines broadcasting stations.

I would propose the name Etherville, except that it is too close to Estherville, seat of Emmet County in the far north of the state.

 

[dhermann1]

Then people would have to decide if they should go to either ville.

 

[jamespowers]

Heck, buy up a few hundred acres of Iowa corn and you could plat whatever kind of town you wanted.

We could use a municipality of some size on US 69 between Huxley and Ankeny. I suggest buying out the town of Alleman, which contains little else but the transmitter and tower for several Des Moines broadcasting stations.

I would propose the name Etherville, except that it is too close to Estherville, seat of Emmet County in the far north of the state.

Iowa? Too much like Field of Dreams. We don't need a cliche town.

 

[jamespowers]

JP, I'm talking "Corporate Planning", not "Property Planning".

It's not the guns, but the attitude behind 'em, remember? "An armed society is a polite society", remember? (Besides, as a matter of principle I'd really rather that everyone know who's packin'.)

Hey, be nice! I have relatives that live up near Amish Country... (Although I was thinking "different sites for different eras".)

Well, you need to be in on the property planning.
I suppose the community will be pretty safe.
I think we need to see you in one of those Amish hats to prove it.

 

[Forgotten Man]

Wow James, you sure did blow the dust off this thread! HAHAHAHA!

Well, let's kick around the names again... I say we name the town "Perdition"!

 

[jamespowers]

Wow James, you sure did blow the dust off this thread! HAHAHAHA!

Well, let's kick around the names again... I say we name the town "Perdition"!

I thought we were happy with Willoughby. And no snow.

 

[Diamondback]

JP, forget it on the hat--I'm sure I would fare very poorly if I tried to live among them, but they generally aren't bad folks--as long as you remember to watch your step...lol (Besides, my scalp is reserved for my Field Marshal's cap, remember?)

We could probably find some abandoned towns in the South for cheap, too... except that humidity and I don't mix well at all.

Jericho has a certain ring to it, also... (riffing off both the TV series and Last Man Standing)

 

[jamespowers]

Jericho has a certain ring to it, also... (riffing off both the TV series and Last Man Standing)

The name has been used a long time ago with pretty bad results.