YMCA completes extensive refurbishing program
The YMCA marks final phase of a 15 year remodeling effort on the North Street building with a redesigned auditorium. The project totals over a half million dollars and includes new lighting, lowered stage, updated sound system, and daylight friendly décor. Plans for Camp Merrill waterfront improvements are in early talks with Parks and Recreation.
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YMCA
North Street
Piucciuc
Golden Age Club
Walter D. Malins
The
Pontoosuc Lake
Camp Merril
Camp Merrill
Pittsfield
Y. Ucs
Asphalt Shingles Shape Modern Roofing Anew
A roofing magazine notes asphalt shingles, once mainly residential, now dominate commercial and institutional roofs. Architects embrace heavyweight shingles for bold color and dramatic effects on churches, offices, medical centers, and transit terminals, seeking warm, low maintenance results.
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Rooting
Patrick O Neals New York restaurant and home decor style
Actor Patrick O Neal and wife Cynthia Baxter decorate a New York restaurant and their Riverside Drive apartment with antique finds from demolitions. He favors old materials, genuine wood, and white enamel walls to evoke turn of the century elegance, avoiding plastics and synthetics.
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Patrick O'Neal
Pat
New York
Cynthia Baxter
Diane Lucas
Park Avenue
Hetty
Milton Greene
Prop
Jack
Riverside Drive
Magazine cites 25 ways to cut water usage
New York reports Factory Magazine McGraw Hill cites cooperation and minor equipment changes can cut plant water use by up to 20 percent. A six part program for long term conservation recommends a fulltime water study committee, tabulation of usage, metering, and eliminating water for heating and power tools. Immediate steps include patrol of air leaks, automatic valves, thermostatic controls, recirculation, and insulation of water lines.
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New York
Factory Magazine
McGraw-Hill
Factory
See All Hear Almost Apartment Tenants Demand Privacy
A recent survey of tenant attitudes found most residents feel they live in glass houses. The major complaint is lack of privacy along with inadequate soundproofing against loud neighbors and street noises. Many tenants labeled most rooms too small.
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Edward J. Farrell
Waatentat
Mr. Malins
Best
Evens
Allendale Shopping Center
Molleur
CARR
George French
George
Carr's
Berkshire Community College
University of Massachusetts
M. Raser
Carr Hardware
South Congregational Church
Carr Hardware CO
North St
Wittsfield
Tua
AVIOM
Ayrien
L. R. Sweatland
General
Peter Francese
General Contractor
Newell St
Arnold
East ST
Eee PT Eo
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Gusson Mfg. Co., Inc
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