March Radness has begun

only one team will win

everyone else will come close

and most people will end up crying

enjoy!

BEST was the best.  they were like the Best Buy of their time.  little did I know that at one point, they also had THE best buildings EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the architectural firm SITE created 9 unique buildings for BEST

Peeling Project, Richmond, Virginia, 1971

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Intermediate Facade Building, Houston, Texas, 1974

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Notch Showroom, Sacramento, California, 1977

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Tilt Showroom, Towson, Maryland, 1978

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Cutler Ridge Showroom, Miami, Florida, 1979

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Anti-Sign, Ashland, Virginia, 1979

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Hialeah Rainforest Showroom, Hialeah, Florida, 1979

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Forest Showroom, Richmond, Virginia, 1980

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Inside/Outside Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1984

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unknown location, Washington DC area

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sadly, none of those buildings look like that anymore, eggcept for the Forest Showroom one which is now a church!!!!!

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but SITE wasn’t the only firm to make BEST buildings

Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi - Langhorne, Pennsylvania, 1978

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sadly, these guys were never built!

Parking Lot Building by SITE, 1977

1977 — Anthony J. Lumsden

The Earth, the Temple, and the Goods (unbuilt), 1979 — Robert A.M. Stern

1979 — Charles W. Moore

1979 — Michael Graves

1979 — Allen Greenberg

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check out this short documentary on the BEST stores designed by SITE. directed and produced by Howard Silver

h/t Wandrlust | Arqueologia del Futuro | Cultural Ghosts | Super Rad Now

dude, Cheryl Tiegs is still hotter than yer mom, and even most younger ladies

even hotter than Sharon Stone – in 2009

 

TIEGS!!

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we’re still nuts for India [NSFW]

as she still tickles our ivories.  whatever that means

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we always ready to take time for Martine!!!

Ms McCutcheon still makes us want to mcTouchin ourselves

never 5get – those McSleep hotels that never were!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

In 1988, Quality Inns (now Choice Hotels) was planning to open a new chain of economy hotels under the name ‘McSleep’.  After McDonald’s demanded that Quality Inns not use the name because it infringed, the hotel company filed a suit in federal court seeking a declaratory judgment that ‘McSleep’ did not infringe. McDonald’s counterclaimed, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition. Eventually, McDonald’s prevailed. The court’s opinion noted that the prefix ‘Mc’ added to a generic word has acquired secondary meaning, so that in the eyes of the public it means McDonalds, and therefore the name ‘McSleep’ would infringe on McDonald’s trademarks [wiki]

not to be confused with McSleeping

Mark Marshall @morsnell‘s Goonies set photos!!!!!!!

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