The Frank Lloyd Wright home in Clifton celebrated its 50th birthday in 2006. At the event Abrom Dombar attended and told the group stories about his work at Taliesin. Copies of Abrom's autobiography were available for the members. Abrom told the story about how he was the one that went below and removed the concrete forms from Falling Water.

Many new members were signed up and parts of a new book on Frank Lloyd Wright were read by Abrom's daughter, April. Several other members of the Abrom Dombar family were there and shared stories about family life with a Taliesin fellow. Every summer the family would travel to Wright homes. Abrom was one of the first Wright fellows. He saw Mr. Wright speak at a realtor conference in Cincinnati and went to Taliesin to study. Later his brother, Ben, joined him. Abron and Ben Dombar worked for many years with Wright and returned to Cincinnati to practice architecture. Hundreds of homes in the area were designed by the brothers.

Photo by Thomas R. Schiff. 

The event was a big sucess today. Check back soon for more photos and a report.

Saturday, March 24
2 to 5 p.m.
Tour, remarks, refreshments and cf3 general meeting
American Sign Museum
215 Essex Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
www.signmuseum.org
ASM Founder and Curator Tod Swormstedt will speak on evolution of
signs in the 1950s. "The merging of the old world of neon with the new
modern material of plastic."
Since its opening in early 2004, the museum has been featured in
newspaper stories from coast to coast. Housed within the Essex Studios
building in Walnut Hills, the American Sign Museum features a timeline
history of the sign industry and "Signs on Main Street, " a life-size
sampling of vintage storefronts. There's also a "sign gallery" of
free-standing and hanging/projecting signs arranged by historic era.
We'll end with a short cf3 general business meeting.
This event carries an admission charge -- $10 per member or $15 for
two members. All proceeds will be split with ASM. Bring a non-member
friend to join at the door, respond to Janet Groeber,
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On January 20, 2006 members of CF3, Patrick Snadon and UC interior design and architecture students visited the Alfred Moore home in Indian Hill. The purpose of the visit was to document the home by interviewing Alfred Moore, taking photos and video taping the home. Alfred brought the original plans and presented them to UC.

The 20th Century Modern Show, http://www.20thcenturycincinnati.com, is held in February at the Sharonville Convention Center. In 2005 at the show the idea of CF3 was formed and some of the original members started meeting and forming the group. CF3 has had a booth in the following years and displayed many reference materials and books shared by the members. Bruce Metzger; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , 513-738-7256, P.O. Box 35, Shandon, OH  45063; is the show presenter and has been very helpful getting CF3 started. In 2008, we plan to have a display in the lobby area of the Sharonville Convention Center; 11355 Chester Rd, Cincinnati, 45246 - (513) 771-7744.

In 2007 there was a booth decorated as a modern furniture showroom. More to come later on the contributors to the display. Photo by Susan Rissover.