Stark glass and timber cubes and pretentious summer houses with carriage lights proliferate.
Much of the charm -- the whitewashing, the carriage lights and the ornate wrought iron -- was put in by James Amster, an interior decorator who created Peacock Alley, the restaurant at the Waldorf-Astoria.
He was born Budd Wilson Schulberg on 27 March 1914 in New York but grew up in Hollywood, surrounded by silent-film stars and all the accoutrements of the silver-spooned childhood, such as a fancy Lincoln town car complete with gold wicker and carriage lights.
This is the cause of the very bright, blue-white spark you sometimes see near the third rail, as well as flickering carriage lights.
There's already evidence of activity at the long-barren site: Two elegant new pump houses with red-brick facades, black tile roofs and carriage lights in the windows, sit along the entrance to the Laurel Park race track.
Business directories from the 1870's show the Keal factory -- "carriages, light wagons and phaetons a specialty," the company declared -- at several addresses around the square.
Richards and the 12 returning missionaries who accompanied him, traveling in carriages and light wagons pulled by horses and mules, pressed on to Utah to obtain assistance for the emigrants.
Since the new carriage was lighter than that of the M-10, the barrel was fitted with a massive double-baffle muzzle brake DT-3 to soften the shock of recoil.
The English Hackney is a light carriage horse, influenced by the Thoroughbred and capable of covering distances of 12 to 15 miles (19 to 24 km) per hour at the trot and canter.
As Leonard Lueras notes in "Surfing: The Ultimate Pleasure," the sport allowed for fashion statements; a visiting British sea captain, a cousin of Lord Byron, wrote that "to have a neat floatboard, well-kept, and dried, is to a Sandwich Islander what a tilbury or cabriolet, or whatever light carriage may be in fashion is to a young English man".
