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See Verbo.com/slash trust for details. Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is a special edition of Sunday Morning by Design. We're in the city of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. In this year, America celebrates its 250th birthday.
The Declaration of Independence was written and signed here in 1776.
So was the Constitution in 1787. Philadelphia boasts some of our nation's oldest homes. Betsy Ross lived here. And this is the oldest existing block of homes in all of these United States. 250 plus years of history and style.
emblematic of our never ending quest to live better. Which helps explain why we'll be spending the morning at this early 1900s home on Philadelphia's fabled mainline. Ardrossen. A mansion with roots in the Gilded Age. Back then this was state of the art.
a signpost of modern times, the very best money could buy. An All-American Quest, which Lee Cowan reminds us, continues to this very day. Good. The nuclear family used to be at the center of designing a dwelling. But that's been shifting.
That idea that you lived alone on your land. It's kind of a holdover from some, I don't know, European Colonial ideal. Today, many single-family lots can legally include more than just a single family. Sharing your castles ahead on Sunday morning. You can't pay a visit to Philly without sampling some of its culinary delights.
Susan Spencer this morning has an enviable and tasty task.
Some designs are timeless. Take the Philadelphia pretzel. If I had walked into this place 50 years ago, how would it be different? It really would have. Our recipe has never changed: flour, yeast, and water.
Flour, yeast, and water. That's it. That is it. From pretzels to hoagies to the Philadelphia cheesesteak. Designing Classic Philly Foods later on Sunday morning.
Also ahead on this Sunday morning by design. Seth Doan checks in from Finland, home of fashion and lifestyle brand Meramecco. Jim Axelrod tours Longwood Gardens. one of Philadelphia's most beloved natural treasures. Connor Knighton explores why the ancient mud and brick mixture known as adobe.
has become today's it building material. We will of course say farewell to the great Dolly Parton, and much more from Philadelphia. We'll be right back. Uh Philadelphia is known for all types and styles of homes. Few as memorable as this one, Ardrassen.
You might describe it as the embodiment of the Gilded Age, an era of opulence. Today, at a time when the quest for owning a home of your own is increasingly elusive. Lee Cowan shows us one solution almost anyone can find. right in your own back yard. Yeah.
This is insane. When the Almeida fire tore through the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon back in 2020, it took thousands of homes with it. The result wasn't just a moonscape. but a housing crisis on top of an already tight rental market. Artist and contractor Jacob Fry and his wife Elise.
Yeah. We're spared the flames. Yeah. but not the desire to help. They had to do something.
So they took out a loan to build two small rental units. in their own yard.
So this was never about. Getting extra income, or it was more about the community and like needing. You know, needing infill housing for people that had been displaced really was the main thing. Yeah, just They're called ADUs, accessory dwelling units, small, fully functional secondary homes. located on the same property as the main home, usually in the backyard.
They've been called granny flats, carriage houses, or mother-in-law suites. Start planning your ADU today. A wave of reforms have made it faster, cheaper, and in theory anyway, legally simpler to add these ADUs almost anywhere. Yeah. In California, at least three modest-sized units are now allowed on a single-family lot.
Now, they can't be used as short-term rentals, so no Airbnb. The law allows for only long-term tenants, and it's become a booming industry. It's had more impact than any other housing law in the last 10, 12 years. In what way?
Well, there are 82,000 building permits right now in California. Yeah. Dana Cuff, professor of architecture and urban design at UCLA, helped push the original legislation through. We met her in her ADU.
So, where we're sitting used to be your backyard. That's right. That's right. There was kind of a half-dead citrus tree, probably, right here. Tree house for our kids, and you know, we did lose something in building the house, but.
We gained a lot more. They rent their original home to mostly young tenants just starting out, and they live in the ADU. designed by her husband to fit like a Tetris piece onto their long skinny lock. Brawl has hit the wall now, so you can't keep going out.
So then, I mean, the beauty of that from an environmental and a housing and an urban perspective is that then you start building back in. It will come as no surprise when you're talking about building in backyards. There are plenty of not in my backyard critics. This is not Granny Flats. This is not helping people.
Some argue parking, sewer, garbage, the infrastructure design for single-family homes. It's being stretched too thin. But in the aftermath of those Oregon fires, the Fry's saw an opportunity. They say, you know, if you want to test your marriage, buy IKEA furniture, build an ADU. It worked out.
The Fry's marriage survived, and so did the rental income from the ADUs. In fact, the buildings have almost paid for themselves, even though they continue to rent them at well below market value. We want things to be affordable, you know, so that we can get people in that might not otherwise be able to get a decent situation with a decent landlord. Both the tenants that live here now are like young, newlyweds. Like they're in their early 20s and they both just got married.
If this hadn't been an option for you, where do you think you guys would have been? Probably still at our parents' houses. It's compact living to be sure, but if you've designed an ADU right, it can feel much bigger than it sounds. Make it laugh. Jared Weber, Katriana Bowser-Smith, and their one-year-old daughter, Miller, have been living in these 400 square feet happily.
for nearly three years now. We tried to look at other places just to even see what there is still on the market and there's nothing comparable to what we have.
So it's small, but it's enough. It's perfect.
So I don't feel cramped at all. I feel like I have a lot of space for one old lady. Down the coast in Los Angeles, 72-year-old Mona Field turned her garage into a two-bedroom ADU.
So, were you using your garage before? The garage was everybody and their brother's storage. Everywhere I look, I see green, so I like that. But she didn't build the ADU for tenants, she built it. For herself, I knew I did not want to stay, you know, aging in a big house by myself.
And there's Miss Ruth. The ADU was her retirement home. which allowed her to offer her house as affordable housing for her daughter. Raise your hand. Raise your hand if we're having fun.
And her family. Do you want to help baby? Nadine Levyfield, her husband, Charlie Marshak. And they're two small kids. What is that?
A microphone. But there was still a question, one asked by almost everyone in the 80-year space. Even though we had separate spaces, would we be able to cohabitate on the same property in a functional way? The answer, for them anyway. has been a resounding yes.
You know, we have regular standing dinners with my mom and the kids. My mom helps with childcare. We spend time together. We say, hey, do you want to join us for a stroller walk? Which is really a gift.
It's amazing. We're so grateful. Oh, there you are.
Well, now you're getting the fun part. It used to be a home in the suburbs with a white picket fence and two-car garage was all anyone would want. Yeah, but Today People need housing more than cars, and backyard barbecues might not need an entire backyard. It may not be for everyone, but these days every square foot matters. ADUs offer a different lifestyle.
For a different age, we have to start imagining new ways of living together.
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Ollie, feed the obsession. Throughout the morning, lucky Susan Spencer will be sampling some of Philly's finest foods, starting with its signature, sandwich. It's a filly world Wow. For more than a few Philadelphians, cheesesteak is a sacred cow. When you talk about Philadelphia cheesesteaks, you talk about it like it's some holy grail.
Yeah, it's. I hold it close to my heart. I tell people that if it wasn't for Pat Steaks and Philly cheesesteaks, Who's gonna come look at a bell with a crack in it? Uh I'll probably dive at one of these in my hand. Frankie Olivieri is the third generation owner of Philly's legendary Pat's King of Steaks.
To the non-Philadelphian, what exactly is a cheese steak? Thinly sliced ribeye on an Italian roll with onions. And a choice of cheese. Take note: the meat is thinly sliced. Sliced.
Never chopped. Because, I mean, God gave us teeth. Yeah. It's a steak sandwich. If you want to chop cheese, you go to New York.
God forbid. Exactly.
So for me, it's sacrilegious to chop the meat. But this is sliced. This is sliced. It's not chopped. Another key to designing the perfect Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich: brace yourself.
Big globs of old-fashioned cheese whiz. How many do you think you've eaten in your life? At least a half a million. Clearly, a Philadelphia cheesesteak is so much more than just a meal. You know that someone loves you.
when you're eating a Pat's cheesesteak, when you get down to the very end. and that little corner piece And it's all filled with onion juice and meat juice and cheese liz. And somebody hands that last bite to you. I'm about to pass out. That's the person you stay married to or you marry, find the justice of the peace and get married right there.
That's love. That's love. The last bite of the sandwich. is the best bite of the sandwich. What's old, very old, is new again.
Connor Knighton tells us all about the Renaissance of Adobe. Mateo and Laura Clark aren't just building their own house. They're making their own bricks. The Texas couple recently bought land in Taos, New Mexico, and have decided to construct their dream home out of the land itself. Mixing the excavated soil from their lot with sand and straw to create walls of adobe.
Yeah, I mean, we've had hands in every part, every corner. Yeah, I'll pick up a brick and I'll see a handprint of somebody, you know, that helped make a brick or maybe one of our own handprints. Yeah, there's been a lot of tactile and it's almost, you know, spiritual that people have embedded their fingerprints into the walls. Maximizing that hands-on connection while minimizing their environmental impact is what inspired the Clarks to build with Adobe. It's almost like an act of resistance for us, I think, to kind of rebel and go against the norm of what's expected, to be able to show others that that's possible and to have the resiliency to do it.
While Adobe might feel like an unconventional choice today, it was once commonplace, not just in the Southwest, but all over the world. But we haven't changed the way you make a mud brick for 10,000 years. We can see Egyptian writing. On the pyramids of people making adobes, and it's the same way we do it now. And it's the same word, Egyptian word atob.
Uh which is very similar to Adobe. Ronald Rael is an architecture professor at UC Berkeley and an Adobe evangelist. He grew up in a community of Adobe homes in Colorado's San Luis Valley, just north of the New Mexico border. I could probably say with a certain degree of confidence that my family has lived in Adobe houses for the last several thousand years, continuously. And so I also feel like I'm part of an enormous legacy.
that I feel a little bit of responsibility to continue in some way. The legacy of Adobe stretches from the mud brick skyscrapers of Yemen to the Taos Pueblo, churches and homes of what's now New Mexico. One could say it's pretty low tech, but you could also argue that it's very high tech. If you think about Inviting material scientists to come up with a building material that was low-cost, non-toxic, fire-resistant. A recyclable Probably spend millions of dollars trying to find what that material is, but humans have spent 10,000 years developing that material, a material that responds to every climactic zone on the planet.
Rail has been using advanced 3D printing technology to experiment with serpentine structures made of mud. The new 54,000 square foot building for the Georgia O'Keefe Museum, currently under construction in Santa Fe, is combining sun-baked adobe bricks with more modern steel beams and advanced humidity control systems. Adobe construction is labor-intensive, which means it isn't cheap. Unless you're like the clerks and are committed to doing all the work yourself. Adobe can potentially be more expensive than other materials.
Still, Ronald Royale believes our long history with Adobe provides something you just can't buy. A sense of belonging. Baked right into the bricks. When we enter into an Adobe building, people often say, wow, it feels really good in here. And they describe it as a feeling.
And I think that feeling. Is connected to our humanity. We feel right in an Adobe building in the same way a bird might feel right in a nest. It's a Philly world. Wow.
I'm Susan Spencer. Believe it or not, once upon a time, pretzel twisters had the second highest paying job in Philadelphia, right after tobacco workers. But pretzels are still on a roll. Have you ever known anybody in Philadelphia who did not like pretzels? I don't want to know them.
No, absolutely not. Erica Tonelli-Bonet, who runs Center City Pretzel, says that the twisty, crunchy, doughy treat is the essential Philly food. No disrespect to a certain savory sandwich. The city is so much more than just a cheesesteak. When you think about Philadelphia, I think the pretzel's the first thing that comes to mind.
The proof is in the production. She says she churns out tens of thousands of pretzels a week. What is it about the pretzel that appeals specifically to Philadelphia? It's just the convenience of it. I think for a city that is pretty much blue-collar, we're always on the go, it's simple.
You grab, you go, you eat, it's done. It does not require any utensils, napkins, it's not a mess.
So, this is what we're known for. This is a Philadelphia-style pretzel, which is a figure eight. How would you describe a perfectly designed Philadelphia pretzel. Thick. crusty.
Small hole in the center, perfect amount of salt, little bit of mustard. That's it. Customers come in two camps: those who like the crunchy ends and those who prefer the doughy middle. Can you tell anything about a person by which end of the pretzel they like? You're probably a softer person if you like the doughier one.
And if you like more crunch, you're probably a little bit harder. Either way, no one's arguing with the price. Single pretzel runs you 90 cents. Not much you can get for 90 cents. Not much you can get.
And you can feed a family for under $5.
So I have to get on pretzels.
So if somebody is. You're not recommending that. I'm not saying it's a balanced food group, but I'm saying it is a food group. And we need carbs for our brain. Not too far, all they got to where they want you.
It's a dead and high, and you dream about it, don't you? It's a Christmas Day at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville last night. They paid tribute to the great Dolly Partner. It's been a week of tributes to the woman who truly was an American original. For hours we turn once again to Lee Cowan.
DANGER Perhaps only Dolly Park. Could dress like a flag and still be taken seriously by a ship full of sailors. My name is on the flag only in a code of some kind? They just told me that to make me feel good.
Okay. She could also make them laugh. Let's give it up for Dollar! Miss Dollar Park! Tributes poured in from everywhere this past week.
Jane Fonda? called her the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. Taylor Swift Said she was true grace and true grit, all in one dazzling person. But on my dreams My favorite shirt. Everyone has a dolly story and her story was everyone's in return.
I got to be pretty famous pretty quick and I was very excited about that. Before I got that job though, I had no car, no phone, no nothing. I mean I've known the pain of that, the joy of that. In her nearly 70 years of entertaining, she managed to bridge just about every gap. A poll taken five months before her death.
Revealed 70% of Americans had a favorable view of Dolly Parton. That was the highest approval rating for any other luminary on the list. By far. Her warmth and wit, her unshakable honesty, And my tennis. And at Tennessee timber that flowed like whiskey.
About heartache and faith and fear. made Dolly Pardon a once-in-a-generation talent. She was fam. for the light country music or not. For service and devotion.
Think that I would deserve a bad promotion, Walter. 9 to 5 was one of some 3,000 psalms she composed over her lifetime. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. From country to gospel to bluecrest. Legend has it, she wrote, Jolene, and I will always love you.
Back to back. Yeah. It's all pretty remarkable. Especially given that Dolly Pardon couldn't even read sheep music. But for her, songs came from the heart, not the page.
Bitter sweet No. As she once told Dan Raj. People like me, especially songwriters, people that live, in order to be a writer, you're extremely sensitive. You have to leave yourself wide open, you know, to every feeling. But by doing that, you leave yourself very vulnerable to everything.
And everything I do, I feel to the nth degree. I can't eat just a little. I have to eat the whole thing. I can't feel just a little. I have to love all the way.
I have to, everything I do, I throw myself completely into it. Born in a one-room cabin in the hills of Tennessee, Dolly Rebecca Parton. was the fourth of twelve children. She says they were dirt poor and lived a country life you'd only understand. if you lived it yourself.
Just Because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb. Cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's dumb. I'm pretty sharp. I'm not educated, and I'm not that intelligent, but I'm smart. I'm country smart.
You know how they say somebody's street smart? I feel like I'm, you know, if I've got intelligence, it's just a country smart. She made my coat of many colors. Music, she says, was always around, especially at church, where she started singing at the age of six. from the Bible that she'd read.
About a coat of many colors. Joseph wore and then she sailed. My mom's people were all musical. And so we played and sang at every funeral, every wedding, every... shindig going on in town, everybody several of my family was, you know, in that.
For all her fame, she kept her private life extremely private. She was married only once to Carl Deane. who ran a road and driveway paving business. He passed away in twenty twenty five. at the age of eighty two.
As she told Tony to copal? They never did have any children together. Is that a regret? No, absolutely not. Was it at some point?
It wasn't meant to be, and I don't regret it. I never regretted it. I mean, that was a choice.
So you make your choices. You make your sacrifices. Fame was indeed a sacrifice. Inside this lonely room and cry forever. A dangerous one.
Join a dude. Oh shit. Yeah. I was so depressed over my weight and a lot of other things until I just finally thought, you know, either get off your fat ass and get on with your life. But out of that, I just had to sit down, take inventory, ask God to help me, lead me out of that.
And I thought, you know, this is the best thing. In a few months, I really made a comeback and I got my weight in order. I got my stuff in order and I really put the rest of my life together. That life was also full of charity. She quietly supported disaster relief efforts, medical research, and youth literacy programs.
Designed to help children dream more. Her Imagination Library has delivered one book a month to pre-K kids since 1995. amounting to millions and millions of free books to children all across the country. We didn't have books in the house. Mamma had the Bible and I love books at school and I would read everything I'd get my hands on.
She was as self-aware as they come. genuine to a fault. God made you pretty. Yeah, He did. But I helped him.
So God's willing to help them that's willing to help themselves.
Well, you want to talk about the help? Sure, I've had lots of work done. I'll have some more done when I need it. I always say if I see something sagging, dragging, and bagging, I'm going to nip it, tuck it, and suck it, whatever it needs to be done. Her beauty, she said, is a hillbilly version of it.
You got tiny little hairs and fuzzies all over you. There's so much static electricity in this room, I pick up everything but boys and money. But it translated into an on-screen character that made acting so attractive. and as much as I'd love for it to work, I know deep down in my heart it ain't never gonna be. she could have fled her Tennessee roots for Hollywood.
But she didn't.
So much so she created a theme park around her upbringing. It wasn't vanity, it was a testament to how far she'd come. An inspiration for those backing hollers. Dreaming of something big. Here you come again and looking better than.
Anybody has a right to And of all the songs she recorded. She left one behind. called My Place in History. It's locked in a time capsule that she asked not be opened. until her 100th birthday.
My name is Brian C. Her nephew said she wanted to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton. Because, after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, She finally deserves to be comfortable. and have some rest. Rest indeed.
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Because a great trip starts with peace of mind. And maybe a good playlist, but we've got the peace of mind part covered. Seth Doan is sending us a colorful postcard from Finland, headquarters of famed design house Marimaco. Spring comes late in Finland, but when the weather finally turns, some Finns head for community gardens. I think this is the biggest one.
But they all have little homes? Yeah, uh not all.
Some are only gardens. There are about 60 around the country where folks can tend to 6,000 privately leased plots. What are these little. blue flowers everywhere. It's called Cinewalker.
Some of the first flowers that we have. little signs of spring. Yeah. The gardens are inspiration for Maya Lo Ekri, who for the last two decades has been dreaming up designs for the Finnish fabric, homeware and fashion company Marimeco. I just draw Draw and draw and draw.
And afterwards I have a look what did what did I draw? Proof of her more successful designs sit in her cabinet. This is actually the. Sierra la portrait. Yeah.
Her illustrations also make it onto massive pieces of fabric. Marimeco prints about a million yards a year. This is one of L'Ocarie's designs based on the community garden. With names including seagull, stones, and bouquet, nature is a frequent, if abstract, influence for the company's bold graphic designs. What does maremeko mean?
Marimeko means Mary's dress, a girl's dress, essentially. Kind of the every woman? Exactly.
Sana Kaisa Niko started as a sales clerk.
Now she's a senior executive at the company's Helsinki headquarters, which is awash in patterns, whether on doorways, employees, or dishes in the cafeteria. Marameco got a boost in 1960 when one of its dresses was worn on this Sports Illustrated cover. Vassie, Jackie, Kennedy, on the cover of a magazine changed things. That was a jackpot. Yes, absolutely.
In the 1970s, Marameco's sheets and housewares were sold in the U.S. at stores including Crate and Barrel. More recently, they partnered with Target, Ikea, and Uniqlo. But for Finns, Marimeco has always been the brand. I think almost all Finns have something from Marimekko in their home.
Injecting a little color to dreary post-war Finland was the idea behind this company, founded 75 years ago by Army Ratia. Her husband owned a textile company, but their fabric designs were so bold, Finns did not know what to make of them.
So Armi then had an idea to create a fashion show to inspire people what to make out of the fabrics that they created.
So she starts having dresses sewn, has a fashion show, and it clicks? Yes, indeed. Immediately. feelings tend to be a bit more sort of introvert and kind of quiet and polite.
So it's this nice thing that sometimes the kind of loud side of your character may then come out come out through the garments. Exactly, or like a ballprint. Finnish fashion designer Erwin Latimer has never worked with Marameko, but, like everyone here, grew up with the brand. They've created this Marimaku universe, right? And we are kind of now all walking in that.
Some of the designs in this universe have endured for decades. This signature poppy pattern, Unico, has been printed since 1964. Designer Maya Loekuri finds inspiration from what's right around her, or just maybe from something deeper. Where does it come from? It's coming from the finished DNA.
From the finished DNA. It's deep inside you. It's a Philly war. I'm Susan Spencer. At Liberty Kitchen in Philadelphia, you will find 25 different kinds of hoagie, which raises the question.
What exactly is a hoagie? I'm an alien, I just landed on Earth. How would you describe a Philadelphia hoagie? We start with our sesame cedar roll. Then we do a little drizzle of our dressing.
Then we layer our three deli meats followed by our housemade hoagie relish. Then our onions, our tomato, our lettuce, and then we finish off with a little bit of oregano. Translation, it's a giant sandwich made to order Philadelphia style. And if you're executive chef Bo Niedhart, it's practically a basic food group. How many hoagies would you eat in a week?
Three, probably. Like safe to say. That's not great. At least three. I would say two and a half.
Are you telling the truth? I think. Legend has it that Philadelphians have been living on hoagies since World War I, when shipyard workers packed them for lunch. Have you ever had a hoagie for breakfast? Yes.
You're not ashamed of this. No! No! Today, the city devours tens of millions every year.
So, what are you going to make here today? All right, well, we're going to make our famous Kale Caesar. Needhart showed us how he designs the Kale Caesar cutlet hoagie. A Liberty kitchen concoction that went viral a few years back. I am here to tell you this was 100% worth the hype.
Fried onions, kale, dressing, chicken cutlet on a siever roll. This is one of those classic maneuvers where you take it, take your knife, you put it down in the center, boom, now you can eat it. There you go. Nope, just kidding. You wouldn't argue with the notion that Philadelphia has something of a love affair with the hoagie.
Oh, it's without a doubt. It is a lifestyle. It is Philadelphia. Hoagies are Philadelphia. I'm Jane Pauley.
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