{"id":9686,"date":"2016-09-11T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2016-09-11T00:21:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T07:21:35","slug":"roofing-at-the-old-lair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/roofing-at-the-old-lair\/","title":{"rendered":"roofing at the old lair"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is just kind of neat, right? The previous lair was a building originally built in 1911, with a lot of expansion in 1924, and it has a lot of history. It was even a chocolate factory for a while, in the 1950s, and I’m not even making that up<\/em>. (Was it an evil<\/eM> chocolate factory? Sadly, this is not known.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, we’ve been replacing the roofs in sections, because it’s a large and strange building, and we’re doing the last part now. Also doing some other improvement work as part of the same project, but mostly, it’s a new roof.<\/p>\n

There’s a little mostly-decorative overhang on the front porch which is also singled. The big surprise<\/em> is that this little decorative part had never been stripped off before<\/em>. It was four layers deep back to the original, which means we now have a complete history of all the roofs this building ever had.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, the further down you go, the more damaged the shingles are, because – particularly bad in the day – they’d tar over the old layers, at least in sections. But some parts were still clean. Check this out:<\/p>\n


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That’s 1911, 1946 (almost definitely), 1963 (probably), and 1982, left to right. I like that modernist striped blue! That must’ve looked pretty damn swank in ’63. I’d love a photo of the whole roof done up that way – but yeah, good luck finding that<\/em>.<\/p>\n

1982 came out brighter than it was in real life, I don’t know why. It’s a dark grey, with no actual hint of blue in it. But the others are pretty good representations.<\/p>\n

I’m gonna save pieces and make a display frame of them, I think, like I want to do with the (huge!) Christmas Chocolates sale sign from the chocolate-factory era. That’ll be neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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