Re: hi from Idaho

On Jul 25, 1:24=A0pm, spop...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Steve Pope) wrote:
> Pat Kight =A0<kig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >Steve Pope wrote:
> >> Pat Kight =A0<kig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Whatever happened to just nailing a basketball backboard
> >> to the side of the garage roof?
> >It's a Victorian-era historic district. A lot of the houses don't have
> >garages, or if they do, they're old carriage houses tucked away behind
> >the house, down gravel drives that aren't good basketball surfaces. My
> >own garage is *under* my house, occupying half of the daylight
basement,
> >and my short driveway slopes sharply down to access it (no, you
probably
> >couldn't put a modern car in it. My Beetle wouldn't fit, even if it
> >didn't bottom out on the downward slope). Homeowners are also
> >discouraged from attaching non-historic elements to the structures.
>
> Thanks.
>
> So if there were a historic, Victorian-era basketball backboard nailed
> to the side of a structure, would you be prohibited from
> removing it?

And what, pray tell, would distinguish a Victorian-era basketball
backboard? It would be rather tattered for one thing, I imagine.

> (It is a Victorian era game, although probably late Victorian era...)

Hmm. Somehow that chronological tidbit doesn't go any futher to make
me think of the Victorian era and basketball as having to do with each
other.

Lane