1970: still in the same year we made a staircase on private site, which gave direct access, located upstream of the leased municipal land. A concrete staircase with floating balconies. A reinforced concrete structure with 157 steps in which we have processed 120,000 pounds concrete. | ||
< 1970: a beautiful stature was the beginning of our staircase. > With the willpower of pioneers we transported many buckets of concrete with a winch or partly manual to the top of the area. |
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1971: source newspaper LD. With the help of his wife Maria Louisa Thuijs-Driessen and children, the 48-year-old Arthur A. M. Thuijs contructed a starcase on the steep slope in the Plenkertstraat, Valkenburg, Holland. | ||
When the staircase was ready, we could also slowly moving our private living part and gave us a somewhat regular life, but nevertheless we were not finished working. < 1971: source newspaper LD. Valkenburg, Holland. Yet in that same year was the local newspaper printed, with big letters: A Private Initiative! Before the Dutch town was awake, there was a beautiful large fountain in the garden of Cosmorama Miniatura with a height of 3 meters and 5 meters high with water, by Mr. Arthur A. M. Thuijs up within one day. |
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> 1971: source newspaper LD. Valkenburg, Holland. Written with humor at the upper edge of the fountain, and it was certainly right with this artistic initiative: East West Thuijs Best. < 1972: but soon came a pond with fountain on the other side of our garden. This effect was also enriched with these two impressive, artistic waterworks. |
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< We did not completely say goodbye to our first orange folder. > 1969: our Dutch flyer with the new name: COSMORAMA MINIATURA. |