Anita:
        Thanks. I know of the SCA and had some contact with the
roadsideamerica page. I was hoping that people might know of examples
in their region (or experience) which were truly "folk" in nature.
It is a real typology problem - what is public-commerical and what
is idiosyncratic to start with. The Watts Towers, I think, are different
from the standard commerical-business devices that are fairly common.
But they do also blend together.

                                        Bob Schuyler


At 10:19 AM 7/21/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Bob,
>
>Take a look at the web site, Roadside America
>(http://www.roadsideamerica.com) and you can find LOTS of these sorts of
>sites. I think the Society for Commercial Archaeology also has a website.
>
>At 01:23 PM 7/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>Above Ground Archaeology Question
>>
>>Do you know of examples of elements of individually produced material
>>culture that starts out on an idiosyncratic (or "folk") level and
>>then successfully transfers to a cultural-social level?
>
>
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