Duomo roof silhouette
ByDerek
Spent the week in sunny California – Anaheim area. One highlight of the trip was getting to visit the Queen Mary. Interestingly, the city of Long Beach owns the Queen Mary, and purchased it for $3.45 million – considerably more than it’s scrap value in 1967. It now leases it out to various entities, where…
Mary Kunz Goldman’s article about Alive Night came out today, and it was pretty good. BuffaloPundit ranked it an all new record-breaking low score of 1 on the mockability scale. I would have given it at least a 1.5 for poor fact checking (it’s broadwayfillmorealive.org and Paderewski Drive) but we can blame the editors for…
As I mentioned before – being on top of the Duomo is just amazing. Several of my favorite photographs from the trip come from this vista. We spent over an hour here, and if we had more time I would have spent longer. This is the type of stuff I love taking photos of. This…
In my last post on the Aquarama/Marine Star, I had lifted two still photos of the ship being scrapped from a YouTube video. Peter Hartung, creator of the video, was kind enough to send me the hi-res versions. All photos are courtesy of Mr. Selim San, Izmir (Turkey). Click on the thumbnail to see the…
Anyone know why there’s a big gaping hole in the Aud? It’s been like this for a week or so.
Back in December, I had the opportunity to travel to San Antonio, TX for work. While there I made it a point to see not only the Alamo and the Riverwalk, but an excellent example of adaptive reuse. Quarry Market is a beautiful new shopping center built on the former site of the Alamo Cement…