I want these walls back
I want these walls back
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They're called glass brick or glass block, and you can still buy them, I just checked some local home improvement stores' websites, and they all had some in stock
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My 50s house still has a glass brick window facing the driveway. It's a great silhouette backdrop, if I leave the workbench light on.
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Very pretty.
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Why is this a shitpost? It's nostalgia
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Shitposts on Lemmy are basically just post whatever you want.
Sometimes it’s beans, sometimes it’s moth, sometimes it’s highly specific nostalgia. Also a lot of trans rights stuff (happy pride, btw).
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Those are my basement windows. Previous owners fucked me over if I want to let some air in my basement though.
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It's not set up to be a giant Scrabble board. Disappointing.
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You could defo play scrabble on it with one of those liquid chalk pens
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When I looked at it I just had the uncontrollable urge to play Tetris.
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Huh I've never seen a wall of these and I'm old enough to remember the 70's. Glass block was something you replaced your old basement windows with
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It must be a regional thing as we're probably about the same age. Growing up in CA, I frequently saw portions of walls made of these, especially in businesses and universities. One house by me had a cool turret staircase with alternating wall sections made of these glass bricks. There wasn't much privacy at night, although you could only make out vague shapes.
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Eastern Europe used them tons
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Hm I kinda always hated them.50-70s Austrian buildings used them a lot.
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Someone watching jam2go???
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jam2go appreciator spotted
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This was also my first thought when I saw the post. His other effects are also really cool.
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Yes, but only with a way to get some air in and out.
In my daughters student dormitory, the large corridor linking all the apartments on a level has such a glass wall. 100% closed, no way to air this out.
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I lived in a flat in London where the only window was filled with these glass bricks. I think I would have preferred a window.
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I'm likely replacing one of my picture windows with these for thermal reasons.
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I especially like this one
What a clever way to bring natural light indoors.
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And while we're at it, these yellow-lit interiors with brown tiles were pretty too.
I'm pretty sure the yellow and brown was just from all the indoor chain smoking
Yeah, they were probably completely transparent colorless glass 😂😩
I like this look. It has this aura of beautiful golden light about it. It has that aura without going the full gaudy gilded look like you would find in something the president built.
That golden light would look great on my water bed and lava lamp collection.
This looks horrible