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The end is drawing near for a dark, shrouded ghost of a building overlooking Ground Zero.The Deutsche Bank tower, ravaged on 9/11 and long draped in protective netting, will be examined tomorrow by bidders on a contract to erect scaffolding prior to demolition.i never understood why 130 liberty st has to come down. it sustained damage but its clearly structurally sound. its just a matter of all that asbestos but they would have to face the same environmental challenges in the demo process as with a rehab. i think it had something to do with the owners winning out over the insurers in court? i still dont get it.
The last of six hotels that Frank Lloyd Wright designed is listed on eBay for $10 million.
The Park Inn Hotel, located in Mason City, Iowa, is not actually up for auction; rather, the city, its current owner, listed the three-story brick building on eBay to generate interest in and funding for its restoration.
The prairie style hotel opened in 1910 to enthusiastic reviews. With its French doors, cantilevered balconies, and central atrium where guests dined under a stained-glass skylight, the building was once one of the town's most elegant establishments. Its popularity eventually declined, however, and the hotel closed in 1972. Although the upper stories were converted into apartments and the ground floor was reserved for commercial space, the building continued to deteriorate.
"Ida Red," before "Maybelline"sharity via : Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else
We all know that the country tune Ida Red became Chuck Berry's Maybelline in 1955. But it had made previous stops along the way--for example, as the melody for Eddie Kirk and Cliffie Stone's 1951 Freight Train Breakdown. Is this gem of a performance Western Swing? Rockabilly? Country jazz? (Or a combination of the three?) To use the UFO-documentary cliche: you decide.
sellers description : "This is a very unusual 1 1/2 yards long photo of a construction site. The photo includes horse drawn wagons, the work crew, a crane and what appears to be a steam power source. ----- The photo isn't signed or dated but, It appears to be from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. The image measures 51 1/2" long x 7 1/2" high. The photo is in very good condition with 1 minor crease on the front and light soiling on the back where it was rolled up. ----- I'll ship in a tube."
not won - i dropped out at the selling price of $57.89 - this would have made a terrific piece for me (construction site subject matter and all) but panoramas are a well sought after genre and a real one like this with unique subject matter could have gone for a good deal more than i was willing to pay. they will keep the detail photos up for a very little while if you wanna check. boo hoo
music for the space brothers
Like many, I discovered Unarius through their wild psychedelic shows on public-access cable TV. Founded in 1954, Unarius is a UFO cult based in Southern California who not only believe in aliens ("the Space Brothers") that guide and protect us, but also in reincarnation - one founding Unarian wrote a book called "I, Bonaparte" chronicling his past life as Napoleon.via music for maniacs...
This has turned into Music Videos for Maniacs lately, hasn't it? But since the Unarians don't have any CDs available yet ("Coming Soon!" their website promises), let's watch the Unarius choir known as And The Angels Sing sing: "Starship Hope"
The Space Brothers were supposed to arrive in 1974. The date got pushed back to '75, '76, and 2001. The Space Brothers may be flakes, but Unarians still have starship hope.
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The Olsen Twin Towers.
Yes, they are tall, thin, and disorienting to behold, but that shouldn't stop Mary Kate and Ashley from erecting their own sister buildings that pay tribute to youth, fame, wealth, and the need to purge oneself of internal obstacles to self-fulfillment. Which tower is which? You'll know once you get better acquainted.
slow news day (stadium = zzzzz) / this post aint too damn funny either - thats it for a while with the parodies around here
DEFAULT SCHEME #1 - All plans, visions, proposals, schemes, ideas, concepts, intentions, surmises, hunches, impositions, and suggestions for the site will be shredded, and composted in situ (used for temporary fill). All future re-development schemes will require that all players throw half-a-million dollars each into the hole, i.e., before they are allowed to add their shredded documents. Disgraced politicians, bureaucrats, land speculators, and architects past their sell-by-dates will be dumped into the hole as well. On the one-hundredth anniversary of 9/11 (in 2101), the site will be flooded with sea-water by carving a huge channel through Battery Park City and the Real will be permitted to colonize the abyss. (GK)