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AI6YR Ben

Conclusion: did my own stucco. Looked up a bunch of videos... got advice here. Was very careful about paper placement (optimizing as much as possible for overlap and making sure moisture would shed... hopefully!). Texture TBD, will paint to match. Mechanically, not that hard; the most difficult part is most certainly getting the paper overlapped right (and underneath the paper above) plus texture. I think I've got the texture close enough that someone wouldn't notice! #stucco #diy

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AI6YR Ben

DIY stucco, Part I. Paper applied around window. Tucked under existing paper on top and as far under the sides as possible, two layers. Lapped from top to shed water. Biggest issue is getting overlap on corners, not much clearance or space to tuck paper in there. #stucco

Chicken wire over black paper next to a white window frame
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Chuck Darwin

Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station – Goleta, California

NEARLY 90 YEARS AFTER IT was built, a #beautiful #little #abandoned #gas #station waits in Goleta, California, for its fate to be decided.

The Barnsdall-Rio Grande gas station was born of the sudden tremendous success of its namesake oil company and the influence of the civic leader #Pearl #Chase.

Chase was leading the efforts to rebuild the Santa Barbara area after the 1925 earthquake, and favored #Spanish #Colonial style architecture.

When the oil company hired the firm Morgan, Walls & Clements to build its flagship gas station near their oil fields on Highway 101, it followed Chase’s example. The building was small but impressive, with #white #stucco walls, red #mission #tiles on the roof, a molded border for the upper windows, a #domed #cupola on top, and blue and white #tile around the doors and windows on the first floor.

#William #Randolph #Hearst was known to stop there when traveling between Los Angeles and San Simeon.

The gas station survived a Japanese #submarine #attack on the California coast in 1942, but a few years later Highway 101 was rerouted, isolating the little gas station, and by the early 1950s it had closed.

Still #abandoned, its future is uncertain. Residents hope the building will be restored to its former beauty and made into a #museum.

atlasobscura.com/places/barnsd

Atlas ObscuraBarnsdall-Rio Grande Gas StationThis little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.
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