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le central
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golden
..same time and place where i got this..
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old courthouse
..a closeup of yesterday’s post..
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old courthouse
The Old Courthouse (officially called the Old St. Louis County Courthouse) was a combination federal and state courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri that was Missouri’s tallest habitable building from 1864 to 1894 and now is part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
..and here’s a short vid i got on black friday morning..
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empire
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st. louis union station
St. Louis Union Station, a National Historic Landmark, is a passenger train terminal in St. Louis, Missouri. Once the world’s largest and busiest train station, it was converted in the early 1980s into a luxury hotel, shopping center, and entertainment complex. Today, it is one of the city’s major tourist attractions and serves only local rail (Metro) transit passengers.
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arch
..been gone for a while.. this was what i’ve been up to..
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general hooker entrance
..uhh.. okay.. 😀
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chief’s ride
..old cars lined up in the wigwam motel..
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ludlow cafe
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alanreed
..you get beer with your mail in Alanreed, TX.. 🙂
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66 fr
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bixby lights
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CC visitor center
..the crystal cathedral’s visitor center..
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crystal cathedral
The Crystal Cathedral is a Protestant Christian Church in the city of Garden Grove, in Orange County, California, United States. The prominent architect Philip Johnson designed the main sanctuary building, which was constructed using over 10,000 rectangular panes of glass and its sanctuary seats 2,736 persons.[2] The rectangular panes of glass are not bolted to the structure; instead they are glued to it using a silicone-based glue. This and other measures are intended to allow the building to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.0.
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bal-boo-a house
..a decked out halloween-themed house in balboa island..
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breech
..it’s been a while..
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N17th
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ACC twist
..a colored take of my previous post..
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WLVV
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ACC
..convention centers usually are architecturally appealing, but one doesn’t usually get to go inside and see how it looks unless there was an event going on.. i just happened to see this while walking around during last weekend’s auto show..
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ã„らã£ã—ゃã„
..ã„らã£ã—ゃㄠ-> irasshai.. that’s japanese.. you say this when beckoning somebody in your house or a store.. somehow, i don’t feel very welcome here..
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baker beach
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M
..gotta slurp your ramen in style..
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zippin’ thru
..stalked the streets of Vegas yet again..
..while strolling around Balboa Park in San Diego, we saw this skater practicing his tricks so decided to shoot & watch him while he’s at it..
..odd name for a post, eh? well, the place where i shot this was (as i found out eventually) a nudist beach.. lolz..
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golden gate
..so many of you thought that my previous post was taken in SoCal.. but i got it after shooting this one i have here now.. somewhere in marin county.. 🙂
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El Camino
08252010 – oops.. looks like this is the El Camino Real Santa Barbara Mission
..i guess i could’ve waited for them to get out of the frame..
*apparently, i haven’t posted any image.. thanks ken! 😀
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century city
..that cluster of building is Century City..
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south-west pavilions
..i think this is gonna be ‘Getty week’..
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blue blinds
..still from the Getty..
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getty blues
..spent a day at the getty..
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tower of the americas
..taken at one of our stops in san antonio, tx.. the view from up there was awesome.. 🙂
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adobe
..adobe establishments in el paso, tx..
..went and saw a free light, pyro & water show at san diego..
*just read this guy’s impression of the show..
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the lord’s day
San Elizario Chapel, as known as La Capilla de San Elcear, was never a mission, but it functioned as a presidio chapel. It provided the religious needs of a presidio or an outpost of military personnel. The presidio was moved to the present site in 1789, to protect travelers and settlers along the Camino Real (Royal Highway) which ran from Mexico City through Juarez City, Mexico then called Paso del Norte to Santa Fe, NM. Its close proximity to the Ysleta and Socorro missions also provided protection for them.When Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821, the military presence at the presidio decreased. By 1848, the presidio had fallen into ruins. Rebuilding efforts began in 1853, with a small church. This proved inadequate and the present structure was completed in 1882. The exterior appearance has ever since changed very little.
Group of Four Trees, 1969-72ArtistJean DubuffetLocationThe Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza, off Pine Street, between Nassau and William Streets.DescriptionGroup of Four Trees is a black and white sculpture standing just in front of the black and white Chase Manhattan Bank building. The similarities between the sculpture and building, however, stop there. The building’s straight lines and evenly-spaced rows of windows stand in contrast to the irregular surfaces of Group of Four Trees. The forms of the trees are made up of a series of varying planes, all white, and connected together by thick black outlines. The trees’ canopies lean in different directions, and the heights of the four trees are all different, making the viewer’s eye move all around the sculpture, following the many lines that are present.(source)
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one chase plaza
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citycenter
..same place where i got this..
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42nd & 2dor
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parachute jump
The Parachute Jump is a defunct amusement ride in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, whose iconic open-frame steel structure remains a Brooklyn landmark. 262 feet (80 m) tall and weighing 170 tons (150 tonnes), it has been called the “Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn”. It was built for the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, and moved to its current site, then part of the Steeplechase Park amusement park, in 1941. It is the only portion of Steeplechase Park still standing today. The ride ceased operations in 1968. The ride was based on functional parachutes which were held open by metal rings throughout the ascent and descent. Twelve cantilevered steel arms sprout from the top of the tower, each of which supported a parachute attached to a lift rope and a set of surrounding guide cables. Riders were belted into a two-person canvas seat hanging below the closed chute, then hoisted to the top, where a release mechanism would drop them, the descent slowed only by the parachute. Shock absorbers at the bottom, consisting of pole-mounted springs, cushioned the landing. Each parachute required three cable operators, keeping labor expenses high.
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trinity totem
..a graveyard headstone (or sculpture?) for four people (Jesse Isaac Enoch, David Jacob Noah, ?, ?) that looks like a totem pole..
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big thunder
..doesn’t seem like something from Disneyland, right? 🙂