Posted in Misc, tagged bachelor pad, brooklyn, holiday party, media room, new year's day, park slope, photography, rumpus room, spanish sign, wine cellar on January 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Basement is used across different languages, but what happened to rumpus rooms? Were they all replaced by media rooms and wine cellars? To translate, here in New York, a media room is a bachelor pad, and a wine cellar is the space behind the stairs (if you have stairs) where a case of wine can be stowed along with assorted tools and winter boots.
Posted in Misc, tagged antiques, atlantic ave, brooklyn, coca cola, photography, rumpus room on September 2, 2009| Leave a Comment »
An antiques shop on Atlantic Avenue has this sign for sale. I like looking at it, at sidewalk level (because I like thinking about sitting at a drugstore fountain), but if you bought it, what you do with it? I think it’s for people who move to suburbia and have a rumpus room. Or basement bar, or TV lounge, or do product placement in their living room ….
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