The Washington times., 1923-10-20
Realty
Flying Photographers.
Lyon Village.
Moving the Mountain.
Take Some!
BY ROBERT LESLIE BEI4LEMl
Real Estate Editor.

Real Estate Editor.
. A SIDE from the very real and
quite apparent value of the
Photographic development of aerial
service in photographic work-and
the mapnakers are month by
month calling more and more upon
this latest commercial develop
ment of what was once a war.
time necessity-the flying photo
graphers are daily proving their
. worth in quite another branch of
endeavor, the shooting" of sub
divisions for advertising purposes.
Gone are the days of wildly
drawn and highly colored pros
pectuses conta aiming so-cailsd
bird 's-eYe views" of suburban
property and subdivision develop
ments. The new era has intro.
Vefacious method, that OF actual
aerial views that show the ground
under discussion as it actually
appears, both as to its toposraphi-
cal qualifications and its true re-
lation to centers OF population.
IN California, and especially Los
Angeles, flying photographers
have been called into the service
of the realtor in eVer-increasinE
numbers. The innumerable sub
divisions that cluster about the
City of Angels cannot be shown
to more clear advantage than
through the medium of air pic
lures. Some are retouched; some
bear the marks of the artists pen;
some are as is; but all are based
on the aerial views made from
whizZing sky-riders. Any Sunday
real estate section of the Los An
geles Examiner. for example, will
convince you of this.
QUITE recently several prorni.
nent Washington subdividers
took up the idea. 1t is practically
impossible to credit any one indi-
vidual with having had the first
airplane picture made in Washing
ton, with the data at hand. Will
liam Sc Phillips was one of the
first to publish such a view
In q newspaper advertisement; his
North Cleveland Park project was
shown in gratifying detail in such
q manner. Ruby Lee Minar, who
is developing Lee Heights, vir.
ginia. along intensive lines, was
another to blaze the new aerial
trail. And now. in this section Of
the paper you now hold in your
hand, you will find still another
snapshot from the clouds-this
time of Lyon Village, the new ViF-
ginia operation to be placed upon
the market by Lyon and Fitch.
+ YON & FITCH, by the way,
were responsible for the tire
mendous success Of Lyon Park, a
Subdivision no better located than
their new project. From all ac-
counts. Lyon Village will offer
many attractions. hold forth num-
berless advantages. It is a worthy
successor to its predecessor and
favofably comparable to other
projects of its class and type.
IRON Chicago comes word Of a
Il truly remarkable feat of build
ing engineering. A seven-story
building hanpened to be directly
on q line with proposed develop
ment of the Illinois Central Rail.
road. Rather than tear it down,
plans were made to move the build
ing out of the way Of the railways
extension. Without delving into
tiFesome technicalities nor quoting
meaningless rows of figures. it is
sufficient to say that the trick was
turned without so much as
cracked window in the entire struc-
turei
One wonders no more at the me-
chanica1 genius which permitted
such an operation than at the
sheer audacity Of the puny men
who first conceived the idea. A
case of picking up the mountain
and carting it out Of Mohammed's
path!
THIS newspaper has recently re-
printed several thousand copies