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- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
- Catenary Supports
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Grand Hotel: 1908
New York in 1908. "Hotel Astor, Times Square." Note the fancy roof garden. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Oculus windows
Found this pic on the LOC website, it appears to be the top floor banquet room. The round windows appear to be covered in this photo.
A Pretty Penny!
Just look at the size of the Budweiser sign to the right rear of the photo. Even for 1908, the cost to build and erect such a sign must have cost s pretty penny. Would love to see this sign at night all lit up.
Oculus Windows
Into what sort of interior space did that row of oculus ("eyeball") windows admit light and air? Perhaps a ballroom?
Note that some of the other buildings in the background have oculus windows, but these are single windows, not a long row.
Certainly a nice collection of brass-era automobiles on the street.
Interesting juxtaposition
United Cigars, just a few doors down from Churchill's.
I found my room!
But by the Summer of '65, it had no awning any more. Two years later, it had no walls, floor, or ceiling either.
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