DIY run amok? "Phonehenge West" ordered torn down

[ktarasenko (Kate Tarasenko)]

From a story in the LA Times (with some pretty awesome photos):

A retired phone service technician, [Alan] Fahey spent almost three decades constructing the 20,000-square-foot labyrinth of interconnected buildings, stopping only when Los Angeles County code enforcement officials forced him to in 2008. The creation, which includes a 70-foot tower, is a hodgepodge of reddish buildings — some built of telephone poles — connected by bridges and ramps.

More details here from a Denver Post/AP story, including this:

Among the 13 structures is a replica of a 16th century Viking house that he built for one of his daughters and a mobile home remodeled to look like an antique railroad car.
The centerpiece is a 70-foot tower with stained-glass windows and stunning views of the San Gabriel Mountains.

[lkage (Larry Kage, CMI)]

Leave the guy alone…

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-06/62204617.jpg

PTL

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-05/61982861.jpg

On the other hand, he does look like he’s having too much fun…

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-05/61888738.jpg

[ccurrins (Christopher Currins, CMI)]

@ktarasenko

From a story in the LA Times (with some pretty awesome photos):

More details here from a Denver Post/AP story, including this:

Pretty cool…thanks for sharing Kate.

Slide show Photography

[kluuk (Kathleen Luuk)]

Instantly brought to mind the winchester house http://winchestermysteryhouse.com/thehouse.cfm

Must be something in that California air.