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| | California Crazy | Vernacular Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Despite the title, it didn't start in California. |
 | | The author takes us back to the 18th Century, to several antecedents: a barn in the shape of a cow by Jean-Jacques Lequeu, a garden kiosk in the form of an elephant by Charles-François Ribart, and the Colossal Elephant of Coney Island designed in 1884 but, alas, never built. |
 | | The most charming, at least to this reader, is the Sad Doggie Diner on the cover [Fig. |
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