Flashback Monday: Children of the Cinderblocks

In this v. v. exciting photo from a 1960s magazine article about our favorite earth-toned community, we see Bob Simon (at right) discussing Lake Anne's brutalist statuary with sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca, the creator of many of the concrete monuments to mid-modern art that still adorn the oldest parts of Reston, as unattended, possibly feral children scale said art to heights that today would require four signed waivers, a harness-and-belay system, and helmets for everyone involved, including Simon and Fonseca. Sadly, this piece of statuary, which after extensive photographic analysis we believe was called "The Building," no longer exists. It's no serpent table, but it sure looked like a decent way to while away the time until the invention of cable TV and the Atari 2600, the end.