Grand Central Terminal
Random Pictures Thread
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Waaaaaay cool! One of my most favorite photos of all time is the sunlight streaming thru those upper Windows thru a foggy\Smokey big room!
In case you were wondering where all the people are, found them in the Poconos.
@Brink- one of my favorite “Beaux-Arts” style architecture in NYC! I love the old black and white photographs just like you show there and @Mike Hill the feeling you mentioned how the light pervades the windows into the terminal is very picturesque. About 25 plus years ago, my design college class had the privilege of having a private tour inside the vaulted ceilings and was able to have a walk through to see it’s inner guts (takes you way back in time in the very early 1900’s) this was just a little pass the the time when they restored/renovated the “Celestial Mural” ceiling and added the fiber optic system in the mid 1990’s (changed to LED c. 2010). The original ceiling was originally painted back in 1913 in “Cerulean Blue”. If you look really close you would see the outlines of 8’ x 4’ sheet section grid of restoration boards (throughout the entire ceiling)- they did not restore the original mural scene, but basically laminated sheets of restoration boards and painted a newer or shall we say a version of the old one. My memory serves me correctly the height A.F.F. to the apex of the ceiling curvature is about 75 feet.
Anyhow, going to add an interior and exterior photo’s to supplement the cool photo’s that Brink provided. This actually is more than a terminal as there are retail shops, cafe’s, booths, restaurants in the sub-ground floor outside of the offices. The outside photo is crosstown shot of 42nd Street looking east and you can see the Chrysler Building in the background. But my favorite orientation of the Grand Central Terminal is from the Park Avenue side as it has the most dynamic approach if you road a vehicle that ramps into the building- it was shown in the movie “I am Legend” and if you go far back in the 80’s, it had the “Pan Am” logo (it is now MetLife)- great contrast of post Industrial Architecture meets modern Architecture.
Anyhow, going to add an interior and exterior photo’s to supplement the cool photo’s that Brink provided. This actually is more than a terminal as there are retail shops, cafe’s, booths, restaurants in the sub-ground floor outside of the offices. The outside photo is crosstown shot of 42nd Street looking east and you can see the Chrysler Building in the background. But my favorite orientation of the Grand Central Terminal is from the Park Avenue side as it has the most dynamic approach if you road a vehicle that ramps into the building- it was shown in the movie “I am Legend” and if you go far back in the 80’s, it had the “Pan Am” logo (it is now MetLife)- great contrast of post Industrial Architecture meets modern Architecture.
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oh oh - looks like sumones gots water problems!
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That picture just blows me away!
The red team has a numbers advantage.
Nope no advantage for the red team - the 10 refs (Dehumidifiers) kept both teams in check
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What happened?
Woke up Thursday morning with water pouring from the ceiling in the master bedroom and from the study which is across the house from the MB. Flooded the study, half bath, utility, family room, MB closet and MB. Merry Christmas to me!!
OH, apparently rodents chewed into my PEX piping
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Ouch! Sorta feel your pain. Came into the office the past Monday and the urinal had been overflowing all weekend. Apparently the flush valve stuck when someone who shall remain nameless flushed it just before he left on Friday (Coulda been the cleaning people, but not going to shift blame - don't think they showed up that weekend). Luckily it only got one carpeted office and flowed into the warehouse and out under the overhead door. Kinda glad now that our slab ain't all that flat and level!!
Could have posted this in how's your weather treating you thread. Sparrow hiding in the bushes trying to stay warm.
Earlier today I was trying to picture 4 feet of snow in your driveway.
It's been too windy and cold to walk out there. I'll take some pictures tomorrow. Right now it doesn't seem like we got the amounts they were talking about but it is tough to tell with the wind blowing.
Here's a picture of the Christmas lights in the bushes.
Here's a picture of the Christmas lights in the bushes.
Sparrows are tough, resilient little birds.
