Swiss Family Treehouse Sprouts

It's the early part of 1962 and six tons of steel are rapidly 

becoming the Family Robinson's island homestead.

Had construction stopped right here it still would have 

been a very impressive work of minimalist modern art.

By summer things are filling out fast.  

Wood planks across scaffolding provide access for the 

crew attaching branches and red vinyl leaves by hand.

Artful rock formations are sculpted of concrete over a steel 

frame for the jungle riverbed at the tree's base.

While way up high, a sloping roof is fashioned of fireproofed 

palm thatch for the "Crow's Nest", treetop quarters of the 

three Robinson boys, Fritz, Ernst, and Francis.  

(Notice the telephone in the foreground, for 

emergency calls back to civilization.)