Emmett Harder, the gold prospector, showed us the old kitchen where he and the Manson girls ate pancakes.
"I can't make my wife cook in the old kitchen and bring the food over to the main house, " he says.
Along with neighbours, he has moved to temporary accommodation while builders have been ripping out his old kitchen as well as the plaster from the downstairs walls.
We converted an old kitchen into a job training center, where the same men and women I fed on the street were given a chance to learn cooking skills.
When he opened the back door, he saw that the old kitchen house had turned into a windblown orange fireball, streamers of flame running toward him through the grass.
After the table was set, he went out into the yard, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw that the door to the old kitchen was wide open.
Right now an old-fashioned kitchen timer is ticking on the desk next to me as I type.
But it will not kill off the entrepreneurial spirit, even if it increasingly occurs in an old closet or at the kitchen table.
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Recently, I wanted to replace my old cooking range while remodeling my kitchen.
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Val Roberts, a tenant in Old Colwyn who has had her kitchen updated with bathroom and external improvements to follow, said the difference was "absolutely stunning".
Their third co-worker, 26-year-old Tidiane Rraba, emerges from the kitchen bearing a platter of homemade rillettes, which Ms. Keita and the Frenchman begin smearing on hunks of baguette.
The current facility is a leaking 120-year-old hut, without a toilet or functional kitchen.
No one who saw her as the oddball heroine of "Annie Hall" can forget her trilling "La de da, la de da, " chasing lobsters around a kitchen or singing "Seems Like Old Times" shakily, and endearingly.
Across Kansas City in Lenexa, real estate agent Charles Wilson stands in the kitchen of a two-year-old townhouse.
There was limited food in the apartment some muesli and other scraps in the kitchen, whose only adornment was an old radio.
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It was in that kitchen that my artistic four-year-old daughter learned to paint.
Dr Smith has bred about 3, 000 spiders in her kitchen in individual test tubes until they were three months old.
Andrews, who worked for the Duchess of York for nine years until 1997, beat 39-year-old Mr Cressman with a cricket bat and stabbed him with a kitchen knife on 17 September 2000.
Many older people live in homes that are 40 or more years old, abounding with narrow interior doorways, hard-to-reach kitchen cupboards and potentially hazardous bathroom fixtures.
During the recent redesign of their 1907 yellow-stucco home in Philadelphia, Katy Friedland, a 35-year-old mother of two boys, ages 5 and 2, felt a kitchen island was a must.
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So, when some of the old man's teeth needed pulling, he sat down at the kitchen table, knocked back a belt of whiskey, and yanked them out himself with a pair of electrician's pliers.
The kitchen area is decked out in bright red and white tiles, like an old-fashioned hospital.
It's undertakings such as making hollandaise the old-fashioned way, he said, that reintroduce us to the pleasures of the kitchen.
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It has its own theatrical touches, such as a performance space and a restaurant with the kitchen in the centre, and an airy open design with earthy elements such as old timber beams incorporated within the modern architecture.
So I bought an old fridge, and I used to take all the phages home and keep them safe in my kitchen.
"For me it's like my kitchen and living room rolled in one, " said Mr. Lawler, 47 years old, a Ben Benson's regular who works nearby in the financial services industry.
After a rough beginning a trip to Southeast Asia to get her creative juices flowing yielded little inspiration de Kwiatkowski woke up one evening around midnight and began tearing pages from old journals, love letters and vintage photographs, assembling them into large-scale collages on her kitchen counter.
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"They were very good on crockery, kitchen-ware, very good on paper goods, nice notebooks, " says 68-year-old Liz Haggard.
"We grow about 30 different varieties, some so old in fact that we don't know what variety they are, " she says, sitting at the kitchen table which doubles as the office.
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