#Basements

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Geographic distribution of full/partial basements in new single-family homes started in 2015

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Flooded church basement. Taken by JAn Dudík on 24 September 2012

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Dammon's basement

Bonus his landlord's basement too! (Just blast the wall)

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Underbellies aren't usually catalogued, but here's the basement of Escanaba Steam Laundry at 707 Ludington Street, Escanaba, Michigan.

The building went up circa 1901, according to the National Register of Historic Places. Still an operational business today, Escanaba Steam Laundry had the town's first phone number.

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"The Ghost and Molly McGee" employs archives stereotypes with basement archive [Part 1]

Entering the archives which is…behind a heavy steel door, of course

Recently, I was watching one of my favorite animated series, The Ghost and Molly McGee. When I saw the two protagonists, Molly McGee and Scratch, go to the local library to learn the truth behind a town legend, it seemed like standard fare in animated series. Usually, the story goes like this: characters to go a library or archives to learn about something, they find the answers somehow, and ta-da, problem resolves itself. This episode appeared to follow that same pattern, reminding me a little of The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Iconoclast," which Sam Cross analyzed on her blog. However, I was intrigued when I saw Libby, Molly's friend, hilariously dressed in a trench coat, tells Molly and Scratch that "you have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes. You need to visit...the archives." Warning that there will be some spoilers for this episode ("Monumental Disaster") discussed in this post so I can analyze it here.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Nov. 18, 2021.

My concern grew when it was clear that in the episode, the archives clearly has a lot of mystique around it. For one, it is only accessible when Libby pulled out a book of a shelf aptly named Secret Levers 4 Secret Doors, causing a huge metal door to open. In the archives itself, it is portrayed as spooky, dusty, and dirty, with cobwebs on the ground, even with eerie music playing. This portrayal is not unique, although some shows have archives above-ground, not in a "dank dungeon of a basement surrounded by cobwebs and dust. For example, in an episode of Phineas & Ferb, another Disney show, Heinz Doofenshmirtz travels to the secret vault, in the basement of city hall, filled with documents, lit by torches, and having cobweb, to find the deed he is looking for. In Amphibia, also a Disney series, Anne Boonchuy and the Plantars travel to the town archives, happens to also be underground and is described by one character as "dustier than Dusty's dustbin."

Like the basement archives in Phineas & Ferb and Amphibia, no archivist is seen and archives almost seem abandoned. On the other hand, the archives appears to be well-organized, despite some papers strewn on the ground, almost like the basement newspaper archives in a few episodes of Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, one of the first series I wrote about on this blog in August of last year. It is implied that some people may care for the archives as Libby mentions, earlier in the episode, that the archives is sponsored by the Brighton Women's Historical Society which believes history should be "no mystery."

Despite these negatives, Molly does get the information she looking for, with Libby dramatically opening a box which has the "answers" she seeks. Molly pulls out a book entitled The True History of Brighton. Libby plays a vinyl recording of the book being read/sung. As a result, Molly, is like Lisa Simpson in the previously mentioned episode of The Simpsons, realizing that the town legend is wrong, with the heroine of the town being Sally Tugbottom, rather than her brother, Ezekiel "Tug" Tugbottom. Molly then recognizes that Tug, who the legend is centered around, wrote the history (almost akin to Buddy Buddwick in Steven Universe) which everyone accepts. As a result, she vows to right this injustice. Ultimately, she is successful, as Tug's attempts to cause destruction cause him to destroy a statue made in his honor.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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Literally, the only realistic thing about punks in The Return of the Living Dead is how fast they went up and down basement stairs.

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Modern Basement Denver An illustration of a large, minimalist underground basement with a gray carpeted floor, white walls, and no fireplace

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Which Region Dominates? 75 Essential Comparisons of American and European Homes

Introduction Real estate discussions are often saturated with debates about location, price, and size, but what often slips under the radar are the subtle yet significant variations in architectural design, construction practices, and inherent features that differentiate homes across the globe. This article sets out on an ambitious journey, dissecting and comparing the unique attributes of…

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Finished basement - before and after.jpg

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i'll let phie-san say it:

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that is eerily close to my dads basement, but this video's basement lacks the one wall that is just sloping bedrock

Why do we all have the same cellar

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Bureaucracy, the archives and...more in "Phineas and Ferb"

Doofenshmirtz declares that by the time the agents reach him in the archives, he will be ruler of the Tri-State Area

In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Where's Pinky?," Heinz Doofenshmirtz realizes he can steal an old deed to the Tri-State Area from the archives, in the basement of the Tri-State Capitol building. In this post I'll look at how archives are portrayed this episode, using what I have written about on this blog in the past.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Aug. 11, 2021.

First, a summary. Building off what I have mentioned so far, Doofenshmirtz tells the two agents trying to stop him that he will get away with it because they will have to go through bureaucracy first. A bureaucrat stops the agents, and Doofenshmirtz travels to the "secret vault." He gets thrown into the archives, which is filled with documents and lit by torches, which, of course, has cobwebs. He finds the deed. The agents knock the deed out of his hand, knocking papers to the ground, and he can't figure out which paper it is. It seems like he will get away with it at the last second and Agent P knocks him over the head with a computer. Later, Don, a sort of tour guide, grabs the deed and declares he is the ruler of the tri-state area. That's it.

There are many stereotypes associated with this archives. For one, it is in a basement, dusty, and poorly lit, how archives are generally portrayed in popular culture. Secondly, no archivist is present. Thirdly, it doesn't seem to have much in the way of organization, as it is almost set up like a library. Therein, in some sense it is confused a bit with a library. Finally, it isn't even called an archives or a hall of records, but just a... "secret vault," on the same level as a gift shop.

However, there is something interesting that is noteworthy here. I liked how the agents can't get to Doofenshmirtz because they are hemmed by bureaucracy, having to get a specific number in order to get down to the archives. On the other hand, the security at the building where the archives is located really isn't that great. Doofenshmirtz is able to get to an elevator (albeit he is invisible) and get down to the archives by going on an elevator and pressing a button. Shouldn't he need to present an ID or something? That seems like a lapse in security to me.

Archives as shown in the episode, sadly stereotypical in many ways

I wish archives had been portrayed better in this episode, but sadly they were not. So my feelings about this whole episode are ambivalent, as I'm not sure if its better or worse than the archives shown in an episode of Amphibia or the one in Regular Show, with the latter a little better because a person who is at least in some sense an archivist is shown. In this case, as I noted before, archivists never appear.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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if you see this post you are obligated to reblog and tell me something good that happened to you this year