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IDEA: The Museum of Old Style Housing Street

At the moment none of us know what the introduction of Imagined housing will bring. But I'm pretty sure it is going to be great and I'm not worried for a second that it won't be. (ETA: When this was originally posted Test Houses had yet to appear.)

That said, there is the possibility that the forms of housing we now have access to, the homes we know and love (ok for some people "know and hate") will disappear, replaced with re-imagined upgrades. At a minimum, we are losing what we all know as a Quarter or street dedicated to houses.

With that in mind (and because I am an archivist at heart) I'd love to see an expansion of something that already exists, the model home. But in this case it would be a single street, maybe a seam street, in the style of the current yet soon-to-be-outdated housing streets, a Museum of Old Style Housing Street, containing an example of every style of dwelling available BEFORE the Great Housing Exodus (or whatever it will eventually be called.) Since housing streets will no longer exist as we know them, the street itself will be an excellent museum piece, a demonstration of form following function for those newer, younger Glitchen who are imagined after the Great Housing Exodus.

So one could enter the street and explore a brick for brick replica of the (soon-to-be-demolished?) apartment building that currently stands on Louise Pasture. 

Further down the street one might enter the smaller apartment buildings as currently seen in the Swamp regions, or a Bog house, or an Alakol mansion or a Treehouse, a Cave dwelling or any of the wide variety of homes first seen along the residential streets of Groddle Isle.

This living museum would offer a look back at the type of houses we inhabited before we were able to imagine homes of our own, but also provide us with both a historical foundation and an inspiration to feed our newly gained imaginabilities. And like current model homes, if people wanted to squat there or plant herbs or vegetables and get all communal-like, YES!

And depending on which vendors get phased out, perhaps retired vendors could be let out to pasture here, converted to selling souvenir items from the Museum.

Finally, I would love to see at least one grainy old-timey film (a la the Rook Museum) of Glitchen going about their daily business in their quaint olde-timey un-imagined homes.

I think something like this would be a fantastic place to visit, a reference to consult when looking for inspiration when considering the many possibilities for the hopefully wide range of new housing options soon to come.

Posted 10 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by girlthulhu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 I absolutely LOVE this idea! Great thinking!
    Posted 10 months ago by Scarlett Bearsdale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I could not agree more with this idea. Pure genius :)
    Posted 10 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Fun idea is fun.
    Posted 10 months ago by Jimothy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Excellent idea. It will also give us something to be nostalgic about, since SADLY we will no longer have neighbors on our street. :(
    Posted 10 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LOVE
    Posted 10 months ago by Rayray47 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yes!
    Posted 10 months ago by natsumi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm a fan of the model homes, and I'd be a fan of this.

    +1

    (Thanks for the link, OP!)
    Posted 10 months ago by English Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1x100. Love this idea, The Smarty Face.
    Posted 10 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love this idea!
    I've been taking pictures of the housing blocks to remember how it was "back in beta" before the Change. I'm sure that I will enjoy the Imagination housing too but will miss ducking into a quarter to explore. I always loved it when I found design variances... like, multilayered cave quarters in Muufo vs. the cave house arrangement in Aranna.
    Glad I'm not the only one feeling nostalgic about the houses.
    Posted 10 months ago by Ooola Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh please let this happen, it would be fantastic to go back to look at the old houses once in a while and get to explore the houses we never actually owned.
    Posted 10 months ago by Faereluth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by Varaeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by Vera Mars Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 (For Tii!)
    One for each area of housing.
    Posted 10 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is such a great idea!
    Posted 10 months ago by Knitomaton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +!

    (yes that's a ! not a 1, have to be glitchy instead of like other sites)
    Posted 10 months ago by BlackWolf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 !!
    Posted 10 months ago by Myrtle Goodbody Subscriber! | Permalink
  • one word.

    dioramas.
    Posted 10 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a lovely idea! And I hope when it is created that as a historical museum it will accurately show the correct name for Lowland Track!!
    Posted 10 months ago by Violet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • love this idea + many 1's !
    Posted 10 months ago by serenitycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a really cool idea :) I'd agree that it'd be extra cool if there was a street-archive for each type of house (or at least region), too.
    Posted 10 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a very cool idea. I think it would make a wonderful seam street to stumble into.
    Posted 10 months ago by Meridian Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love this idea. +1
    Posted 10 months ago by Ancale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love this great idea!
    Posted 10 months ago by WeavingTheWeb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by martian-b Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by razzmajazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would actually love to see more of this sort of thing all over. Jettimahd tower, the ministry of departments, the subway stations - in game these are great examples of places where things happen. A museum of old-style housing would be a great addition, and there could be several more things along these lines.
    Posted 10 months ago by Moehr Ossum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +101 I would LOVE to see this implemented.
    Posted 10 months ago by Fernstream Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love the notion,  in theory, but is this not unlike starting a Stalinist/Brutalist architecture society?
    Okay, you won me over with the beta-preservationalist idea.
    Still needed that one-liner though.
    Posted 10 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love the notion,  in theory, but is this not unlike starting a Stalinist/Brutalist architecture society?
    Okay, you won me over with the beta-preservationalist idea.
    Still needed that one-liner though.
    Posted 10 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Want it.
    Posted 10 months ago by Thursday Soleil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1!!
    Posted 10 months ago by Abby Cadabra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1, especially since many of the incoming Glitchen-of-New might stop and wonder what the early days (middle days, to be honest) were like. At least for me, I love to learn about my Glitchian heritage :)
    Posted 10 months ago by usterka Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What a truly imaginative suggestion!

    I like all of it, especially the ability to grow crops and herbs and squat.  
    Posted 10 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • **
    Posted 10 months ago by Ooola Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +!!  hehe.  this sounds like fun.
    Posted 10 months ago by Lelu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to this idea.
    Posted 10 months ago by Erak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +111
    Posted 10 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for me too. Great.
    Posted 10 months ago by jiva Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ooh, I'd love that! Particularly giving the vendors a new job, I really would miss them if the went forever.
    Posted 10 months ago by Pyrrhocorax Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +five bajillion
    Posted 10 months ago by SeerQueen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +Eleventy-billion! Awesome idea!!
    Posted 10 months ago by Dahlia DreadNaught Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 10 months ago by MX Ghostie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 I can work as a curator of the firebogs section ;)
    Posted 10 months ago by acreditando Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love this idea!!
    Posted 10 months ago by Ashbet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'll curate Groddle meadow section ;)? Lived in one of those houses since like two days after launch!
    Posted 10 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a good idea! We were planning some other museum-y stuff for things that will eventually be out of the game, and this would make a nice addition.
    Posted 10 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay! I will distract myself from the question of what other museum-y stuff, by adding the request to please, please put the museum of old style housing on Pants Place. :)
    Posted 10 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
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