Posted on 04/23/2005 3:40:54 AM PDT by Pharmboy
I used to be dismissive of the towers until I started working in the WTC in 2000. I quickly grew to love them --all the energy in the WTC, the lunchtime concerts in the summer -- and especially the beautiful Windows on the World and The Greatest Bar On Earth. I took every visitor I had there, and it was always breathtaking.
A Duesenberg would look great parked next to your Chrysler...
Classic. Love all that curved steel.
I love being in tall buildings, inside or protected somehow. Climbing up New York's tall bridges takes the same type of workmen which have no problem at great heights. I am glad he is able to produce his bridge photos 'way up there'.
I was on top the World Trade Center a few years prior to 9-11 and recall saying to a friend as we looked toward Queens 7 Brooklyn 'those #@*&=^%'s failed the first time. when will they try again', never even contemplating the horrific method.
To this day I have a real hard time even viewing photos of the Twin Towers thinking about the victims above the points of impact.
Nothing in northeastern NJ is considered "rural" anymore. You have to go out west into Sussex for that. Bergen/Passaic very densely populated, and Morris is sort of a transition into Sussex.
I know what you mean about the Towers. I grew up largely in Queens, NY and while they were being built I recall people saying how ugly they looked. Even when they were finished it took some getting used to the "ugly boxes." But they were OUR ugly boxes. I didn't work inside them, but I have been to the observation deck several times. After getting married I moved to NJ so I came into the WTC each day going to and coming from work. They got to be a part of me.
I will be back later & catch up on the NY Public Library, the Woolworth Building plus the others.
The most remarkable photo of the Chrysler Building to me has always been the photo of Margaret Bourke-White, the famous photographer, out on one of the gargoyles!
http://www.cultframe.com/dynamic/image.asp?img=..//img/upload/mostra-bourkewhite-chrysler-gr.JPG%20&didascalia=+Margaret+Bourke%2DWhite+sul+Chrysler+Building%3Cbr%3ETIMEPIX%2F%A9Contrasto
Don't forget the one of King Kong at the top of the ESB with the Chrysler in the background (can't find it right now.)
You're better than Google. Wonderful reminders of a more stylish time.
Ah, the Duesenberg SSJ roadsters. The silver one once belonged to Gary Cooper, and the red and silver one was used (but not owned) by Clark Gable.
With my cap, goggles, long coat and white, filmy scarf flying in the warm sirocco wind, I'll take it for a winding ride along the cliffs of the Cote 'd Azur.
You can drive the purple Rolls Royce Silver Cloud and we'll meet tonight at the roulette table in Monte Carlo.
Leni
> ...the Woolworth Building
The "first skyscraper."
When I was in college I used to drive an elderly gentleman from Connecticut into Manhattan where he still put in a few hours a week at his law office in the Woolworth Bldg. He was a volunteer fireman in NYC in the 1890s and remembered cattle in Central Park.
What year is this one? I saw the exact same model Chrysler in Watertown, Mass. about a week ago.
If you see this in the lot, stop by my table and say hello.
Actually, my Roller is a Silver Ghost. Notice the LHD? Made in Springfield, USA.
I think I'm going to have the vapours. Pass the smelling salts.......and sherry.
Leni
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