Welcome to Smallsville - a nice little town!

My Lego town was built up over several years mainly from birthday and Christmas gifts. While not as large as most others, it was very well suited to the amount of space that I had available in my bedroom to use. The layout consisted of about one half scratch built buildings and half commercial sets, including: a European vacation house set, a mail order vacation house, the Big Rig truck stop, the small freight delivery center, the Shell Parking Garage and Carwash, a mail order Bank, and the Emergency Clinic. I scratch built a variation of the Italian Bistro set (center of the picture - white and red with the palm tree), a few small flats (The white one on the left with blue roof and the all gray building right of the parking garage) as well as some shops - including a clothing store (several minfigs were senselessly decapitated, but all for a good cause and only in the name of progress!) a florist and a barber shop. I also made a blue brick version of the yellow commercial hamburger shop using my friend's instructions (it is to the left of the parking garage on the back street.). What I wouldn't have given to have had the actual set back then! The firetruck at the clinic was scratch built as were about half of the cars and the black and gray 4x4 truck in the foreground.

The town was built literally on a spare bedroom door from building our house (the outside wall is visible in the corner - it was a log house. Very cool to grow up in as a kid!) transformed into a work table. The main mast of the Caribbean Clipper set can be seen near the center of the pictures.   For a while I experimented with lighting in my buildings. I had found some hobby lights about half the size of a kernel of corn and placed them inside several buildings to make night scenes but none of the pictures ever turned out (I'm obviously no Ansel Adams!). You can see some of the wiring that leads up to one of my two European house sets on the far left of the picture.

Here is a picture that doesn't have a better place to go, but is too good to not put up here. It is from 1994, about the time that Lynda and I started really dating. She told me she was only interested in marrying me for my Legos.. well, it must have worked because now we've got a bigger collection now than we had then! (She'll probably wring my neck for putting this up, but it's worth it!)

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