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Understood. You don't have to pop the top should you desire to get any info from the drive. For about $20 from a place like TigerDirect or one of the others - you can get an adapter that the drive plugs into, and then has a USB cable out. I got one for all my old IDE drives, seeing as how my all SATA system won't even let me plug them into the Mobo. Short story - I got all the data off about a dozen historical IDE drives and was able to also wipe them before returning them for recycling. The device worked great and it's a nice thing to have in your bag of tricks.

Oh great, thanks for the tip!

(I figured there might be something like that, it's probably a common problem and I sure didn't like the idea of digging into the new system and unplugging things and plugging other things in etc, lol.)

Awesome!

Here is a French place for new Miami to replace The Left Bank restaurant...



I'll figure out some kind of French name for it.

I always liked the old movie palaces, here is the first but no the last for the new build: The Taj Cineplex...



I'm going to make a few changes, but that's essentially it.

Here is the very latest addition to the park, a Howard Johnson's...







I still need to put some kind of free-standing sign out front, I get tired of just sticking a 3-D sign on everything.

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Love the HoJo!

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Love the HoJo!

Thanks Sam, it went pretty smoothly until I got to the steeple part and had to fudge the roof a bit, but ended up covering it a little better than the screen depicts.

Since then I've been struggling to get a good design down pat for my baseball stadium hotel and finally got that squared away, here is the pool area...





I'll be putting up a post in the resorts forum with more screens.

Right before that build I re-did my Winchell's donut shop...



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Here are the latest additions to the Miami park...





I tried to style this more like the old-school Shakey's instead of the new pukey yellow paint jobs and logo they have nowadays, atmosphere is everything.


I went on Google Earth and looked on rooves and was surprised to see just how many do-dads and gizmos were on a Shakey's roof, way more than I put on theis one here.

I have since extended the ventilator a couple quarter blocks towards the side entrance sign and it looks just right.

That side of the park needed some shops and just filling in, here is "Pavillions" a place for fabulous fashions...





Notice it is placed right next to the stadium. This is an effort to keep other high-rise resorts from building there and infringing on the view, the stadium owns the easment.

And the ladies go absolutely nuts for the fashions, they can barely keep the place stocked!

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