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The Garage

Today, let’s talk about the garage. You might have forgotten that you have one. Now is a good time to go look at what is in there, and what a grand creation is waiting to be made out of it.

Some of the great studio photos taken of me in the last year were done by Ray Kachatorian in his Burbank home’s garage studio next to a swimming pool he built the previous spring for his wife and kids.

 

Photo studio in the garage.

 

The garage can be used for many things, now that you’ve got me talking about it.

Such as: a garage sale, a small restaurant or local café, a painting studio, a gallery, a greenhouse, air hockey, ping-pong, a handy guest room, a secret poetry club, writing that novel you always wanted to do, starting a band, a surveillance project on the neighbors, repairing bicycles, raising puppies, a hair or makeup salon, a gym, a sound studio, a home office … the possibilities are endless.

 

A recording studio in the garage

 

A garage sale is always a good idea.

 

A home gym in the garage

 

A painting studio in the garage

 

A home office

 

A guest room or rental income space

 

A man cave

 

Some Fortune 500 companies started out in a garage

The garage is an easily overlooked place, but some of the biggest companies in the world started in a garage. Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Hewlett-Packard and even Disney.

 

Walt Disney

 

Apple

 

Google

 

Amazon

Hewlett-Packard

 

Garage rock

Many bands have started in a garage. Some are forgotten, but were essential and fun at the time, while others moved on to perform at stadiums. Nirvana, Soul Asylum, The Kinks, Buddy Holly, The Who, The Ramones, Creedence Clearwater revival and many other bands started out in a garage.

 

 

Small business start-up in the garage

There are also the businesses inspired by garages, such as a restaurant designed to look like a garage.

A restaurant made to look like a garage.

 

Hotel de Goudfazant in Amsterdam

 

A garage in Fremantle, Australia is simply used … for cars. © Thorsten Overgaard.

 

More to come ...

I hope you enjoyed today's Story Behind That Picture. As always feel free to email me with ideas, questions, suggestion.

 

 

 

 

 

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