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We love love this old ad for Schlitz beer--from 1945.  It says alot about the times--and how supplies for the fighting men  came first during WWII.

Now here’s an interesting piece of architecture, an old opera house from Kingston, NY http://www.fohk.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/S-Oprah.gif 

Greenleaf makes a number of small village kits—the parts are a light weight wood—and instead of putting them together, a friend has used them to create her own modified patterns for cardboard houses. They have three kits available; they are also the right size for under the tree or for an HO train layout:

http://shop.greenleafdollhouses.com/All-Wood-Miniature-Greenleaf-Town-Dollhouse-Kit.html#

http://shop.greenleafdollhouses.com/All-Wood-Miniature-Pine-Mountain-Village-Dollhouse-Kit.html

http://shop.greenleafdollhouses.com/All-Wood-Miniature-Greenleaf-Village-Dollhouse-Kit.html

Not long ago we featured a link to mid century putz house patterns at Retro Renovation; here’s a link to some that Lee made; click on the link, scroll down the page http://www.cardboardchristmas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=300

Dasher’s Diner—you have to read about and see this one; super cool—and begging to be putz-ified http://www.toyconnect.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-marx-ameritrains-dashers-diner.html