The book on buildings shaped like other things is Jim Heimann and Rip Georges, CALIFORNIA CRAZY (SFran, [1971]). Robt. Venturi named the genre "duck buildings" after the LI example. Others have called them mimetic or programmatic architecture. In our new museum on the impact of the auto we have a major exhibit on these buildings. (We call them giant object buildings to avoid regional referents and highbrow prose.) LA had about 80 of them at the peak of their popularity; most were built between 1925 and 1950. Care to guess how we conceived that exhibit? Matt Roth