Post #3684 by thejab on Fri, Jul 12, 2002 6:06 PM

I wish we had an equivalent group here in the Bay Area. There is less googie here but lots of modern still exists. I have been wanting to join and volunteer for such a group but I don't know of one. There is the Oakland Heritage Alliance but I haven't heard anything about their interests in saving post war architecture.

Did anyone know there is a house designed by Schindler in Point Richmond? I went to see it last weekend. It is right above the bay but it's hard to see from the street as it's a long way down a driveway. There are also all these "funky", hippie-era decorations on it (a rainbow wind sock, ecch!). However, there is an old tree carved into a tiki at the head of the drive! I'll return for a picture later because I didn't have a camera with me.

I also "discovered" lots of other modern houses and buildings that are in a book from the 1980s on Northern Cal. architecture that I picked up at a local flea market recently.