poeschl on cars

As human civilization begins to envision the end of an era dominated by the internal combustion engine, we take a look back at the masterworks and follies of the Automotive Century, detour onto the meandering two-lanes to visit a few roadside attractions, and comment on the architectural and urban planning consequences of car culture.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Dog Tales: Recent Visitors at Watson's Bone Lounge

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A long time ago a philosophy professor began his classes with the question, "Did you see anything you liked today?"  It's proo...
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Monday, February 23, 2026

Roadside Attraction: Boulder Eats Exhibit at the Museum of Boulder

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Just because you've been living in a town for a good while doesn't mean you know its history all that well.  There are always storie...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Wild Animal Encounters Part 3: Reflections on Kindness and Risk

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A couple of weeks ago on an unseasonably warm Thursday morning, a trio of these mule deer showed up in my garden. They wandered off before I...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Film Review: "State of Siege" --- Past Becomes Prelude

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It's 1972, and Costa-Gavras, director of the political thriller "Z", has taken us to an unidentified Latin American country, w...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Book Review: Sports Cars by Charlotte & Peter Fiell--- What Collector Tastes Say About Society

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If you like old cars and you're looking for a distraction from the relentlessly bleak news about the world around us, you could do far w...
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Monday, December 15, 2025

Roadside Attraction: The Boulder Theater

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Walking north along Boulder's 14th Street from the Pearl Street pedestrian mall, it's hard to miss the Boulder Theater, a surviving ...
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Robert Poeschl
Was exposed to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright early, when my parents pointed out his work in Oak Park and Riverside, IL. Had a kind of awakening when taking my 4th year of a 5-year U of I archiectural program in France. My dad had pointed out that it would be a rare chance to experience a foreign culture without having someone shoot at me, which had been his experience in France in 1944. He was right...
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