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· @bnjd1837
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Some restaurants in Houston offered rooms, so hotels and restaurants were poorly distinguished in Reconstruction Houston.
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· @bnjd1837
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While residential lodging arrangements made privacy difficult, they promoted social life.

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· @bnjd1837
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In addition to provisioning prepared food and being conveniently located, in some sense, these were familial arrangements. Boarders dined family style, sometimes called "table d'hote," meaning eating the same meals at a common table:
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· @bnjd1837
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I am an independent researcher in Houston, TX studying residential lodging in the mid-19th c. From 1837 through the 1860s (and into part of the 1870s), the principal means of transportation was walking. Residential lodging was a large part of the transportation solution during the walking era.

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hesir · @hesir
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...I'm still working on this gubbins too. Between other stuff. Big - the idea, as I may or may not have mentioned before, is that there would be hundreds of these creatures all in a several miles long, creating a sprawling .... The buildings would all be linked with gimballed bridges and walkways, rope bridges etc...
Madness, really but that's the point, right?

#walkingcity #caravan #creaturedesign #creatureart #creatures

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frankiezafe · @frankiezafe
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#futari #godotengine #walkingcity #gamedev #mocap

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