Esoteric Survey

Robert Maxwell, David Stewart and some Scandi-smalls. La Gardo Tackett for Architectural Pottery Alexander Girard fabric Pottery Shack yard stick. Pottery Shack was located on Coast Highway in South Laguna. It was established in 1936 with a truckload of Bauer factory seconds. In addition to production California dinnerware like Metlox, Vernon, Red Wing and Harker; they held pottery and glass blowing demonstrations. The work from the demonstrations was then sold in the shop.  If you've done much ceramic shopping in California, you have no doubt turned a few pots over to find "Pottery Shack" and a last name inscribed into the bottom. Some of them are decent and some not so much. Singleton is a name often seen, who turns out to be Rita. Lyman is another, but Taylor is the only one I could find a little information on.  Here's Jack Taylor at his Pottery Shack wheel in 1963. He moved to Laguna Beach in 1945. Trained as a  painter, he had never thrown a pot before moving to

I found myself at the Domes of Casa Grande again. This is an update to my  2015 visit  when my friend Kristen wrote a guest post about the domes.   Just as an overview, InnerConn Technology, a circuit board manufacturer from Mountain View, California planned to move their manufacturing facilities 10 miles south of Casa Grande, Arizona. The company created a subsidiary called Dome Industrial & Homebuilders Inc. They planned to build the dome project in three phases, the first was the office, then then manufacturing plant and housing would come next. Unfortunately, they never moved beyond a short-lived office phase. The domes have sit vacant since 1982.  The domes during construction in 1982. Source: Arizona Daily Star Source:  Casa Grande Dispatch Source: Casa Grande Dispatch

 

  Malcolm Leland for Architectural Pottery, La Gardo Tackett, Design Line, Dansk, Timo Sarpaneva.