Bubble Houses
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Neff's Bubble House
In 1942, the Southwest Cotton Company hired him to build a desert colony of bubbles in Litchfield Park, Arizona. Neff also got a contract to build a bubble house dormitory for Loyola University in Los Angeles. In 1944, the Pacific Linen Supply Company hired Neff to design the largest airform ever built. Eventually, everyone in America moved out of their bubbles and they were all demolished. All of them except for one, which happens to be in Pasadena, about 10 miles from my apartment.
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