Comments by "David Brims" (@davidbrims5825) on "This House" channel.

  1. Walmart is like a nuclear bomb on small towns, all those little independent shops destroyed to be replaced by a giant bland warehouse, depressing.
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  2. James Mason, a fan of silent films, bought Buster Keaton’s house when he moved to Hollywood from England. After his million dollar divorce from his wife Pamela in the 1960s, she took him to the cleaners, he moved to a villa in Switzerland overlooking Lake Geneva, his neighbour was Charlie Chaplin.
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  3. ‘’ It’s easier to deceive people than convince them that they’ve been deceived.’’
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  4. There was a UK television programme about Selfridge starring Jeremy Piven.
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  5.  @sierrapeaks  ‘’ Better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.’’
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  6. It would be good if you did the most beautiful ship The Normandie, sad what happened to it.
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  7. They had small rooms because they had no central heating.
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  8. A piece of Hollywood trivia, actor Jack Larson who played Jimmy Olsen in the Superman TV show and partner of Montgomery Clift lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
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  9. Fascinating, it would be interesting if you now did the White Houses of the Confederacy !
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  10. There was a Sean Connery film ‘The Molly Maguires’ about this subject, how bosses mistreated their workers, paid them a pittance.
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  11. I’m guessing, demolished and replaced by a Walmart….🥴
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  12. The Collyer Brothers lived in Harlem, a very sad story…
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  13. Schweriner castle is another one I like.
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  14. Biltmore featured in the 1956 Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness film The Swan.
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  15. It’s very short sighted, these old buildings could’ve been adapted to hotels or museums or whatever, and millions of tourists from around the world would come and visit them, they don’t want to see the concrete boxes.
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  16. If I had the money I’d build a model village, like Portmeirion in Wales, designed by Clough William Ellis, it’s very like Portofino. It was featured in the 1960s cult TV show The Prisoner.
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  17. Americans don’t appreciate old buildings, Europeans do.
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  18. Fascinating, the only octagon house I can think of in the UK is a 1700s house A La Ronde in Devon.
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  19. Why a Spanish name ? I was expecting a hacienda style house.
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  20. I read some where that Chateau de Rastignac was the inspiration, Jefferson visited it, it is the spitting image of the White House.
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  21. What a philistine and hypocrite.
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  22. If a child was asked to draw a castle, it would probably look that, it’s a stereotype of a castle, it also featured in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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  23. It reminds me slightly of Peles Castle in Romania in its over the topness.
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  24. Before I even watched this I knew the end result, demolished, at least it was an accident, fire.
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  25. Another one of my favourites is La Mothe Chandeniers, a French chateau in a moat.
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  26. If Le Corbusier had his way he would’ve flattened Haussmann’s Paris and replaced it with skyscrapers, quite insane.
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  27.  @ThisHouse  Plan Voisin in 1925. The plan was thankfully rejected.
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  28. I think the reason why rooms were small in Victorian times, they were easier to heat.
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  29.  @Corleone_Napoleone  Sugar coating the pill.
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  30. A French inspired chateau to be replaced by a concrete glass box, just great !
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  31. Before I even watched the video I knew the end result, demolished.
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  32. Jacob Rothschild died in February, probably in Hell now.
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  33. Just looked up Bruce Price and he designed the landmark hotel chateau Frontenac in Quebec.
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  34. 322 Skull and Bones, says it all…
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  35. Quinlan Terry’s village Poundbury.
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  36. Why do Americans like demolishing their heritage ? In Europe how we demolish old buildings, we have wars !
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  37. One shouldn’t be surprised, just look at the Jeffrey Epstein client list…
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  38. A blight on the landscape.
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  39. Same, the back stories are fascinating.
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  40. Why did you bring race into it ? Shout out to the White architect who designed the building. So there !
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  41.  @LJB103  Yes, that one, made the Queen Mary look like a tugboat.
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  42. The Aesthetic City YouTube channel talks about architects building in the traditional way.
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  43. Sebastian Treese of Germany also builds in the traditional way.
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  44.  @basstrammel1322  made their fortune out of usury, you know what Jesus said about the money lenders…
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  45. Shout out to the White architect.
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