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Central is a heritage-listed railway station located in the centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station is the largest and busiest railway station in Australia and serves as a major transport interchange for NSW TrainLink inter-city rail services, Sydney Trains commuter rail services, Sydney light rail services, bus services, and private coach transport services. The station is also known as Sydney Terminal (Platforms 1 to 12). The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. It recorded 85.4 million passenger movements in 2018 and serves over 250,000 people daily.
Central station occupies a large city block separating Haymarket, Surry Hills and the central business district, bounded by Railway Square and Pitt Street in the west, Eddy Avenue in the north, Elizabeth Street in the east and the Devonshire Street Tunnel in the south. Parts of the station and marshalling yards extend as far south as Cleveland Street, and are located on the site of the former Devonshire Street Cemetery.
History:
There have been three terminal stations in Sydney.
First Sydney terminal:
The railway arrived in New South Wales in 1831. Proposals began in the 1840s for a railway linking Sydney and Parramatta, with an eastern terminus close to the Sydney city centre.
Although the Sydney Railway Company first applied to the government for four blocks of land between Hay and Cleveland streets in 1849, the Surveyor General favoured Grose Farm, now the grounds of the University of Sydney. It was further from the city and less costly to develop. The company finally exchanged land in the first, second and third blocks, between Hay and Devonshire Streets, for an increased area of eight hectares (twenty acres) in the fourth block, the Government Paddocks, between Devonshire and Cleveland Streets. Hence, the site of the first Sydney railway terminus was located here from 1855.
The original Sydney station was opened on 26 September 1855 in an area known as Cleveland Fields. It was a temporary timber and corrugated iron building, constructed rapidly in late August to early September 1855, in time for the opening of the line to Parramatta for passenger trainshis station (one wooden platform in a corrugated iron shed), called "Sydney Terminal", had Devonshire Street as its northern boundary. It was frequently but unofficially called "Redfern Station", while at that time, the present Redfern Station was officially called "Eveleigh". Although called "Redfern Station", the first and second Sydney Terminals were never actually located in Redfern, being to the north of Cleveland Street, which is Redfern's northern boundary.
The first and second station buildings were both in the form of a shed which covered the main line. A photograph of the exterior of the first station taken in 1871 shows vertical boarding, windows with a hood and a corrugated iron roof, with a roof vent. Internally, the stud framing and timber truss roof members were exposed. The offices and public facilities were contained in the adjacent lean-to, which faced George Street.
Devonshire Street Cemetery work and construction of third Sydney terminal:
When the third station was built in 1906, it moved one block north, closer to the city. It fronted Garden Road, which was realigned to form Eddy Avenue. If Belmore Park is included, all the land now occupied by the railway at Central and Redfern coincides with the company's original selection of four blocks between Hay and Cleveland Streets. The present station was officially opened on 4 August 1906 and opening for passengers on 5 August 1906.
During Governor Macquarie's term, the future site of the Sydney Terminal was beyond the limits of settlement, which were marked by the tollhouse located at the end of George Street and at the entrance to Railway Square.
Central station was designed by the government architect, Walter Liberty Vernon. The new station was built on a site previously occupied by the Devonshire Street Cemetery, South Sydney Morgue, the Convent of the Good Samaritan, the Sydney Female Refuge, police barracks and superintendent's residence (on Pitt Street), Christ Church Parsonage, the Benevolent Asylum (fronting Railway Square), a steam train depot (at the corner of Pitt Street with Garden Road), as well as some residential properties on Railway Place. The convent, female refuge and police barracks were all original part of "Carters Barracks", built in 1819 to house convict gangs working as carters on the brick fields. The adjacent field which is today Belmore Park was known as the "police paddock", after the police barracks.
The remains exhumed from the cemetery were re-interred at several other Sydney cemeteries including Rookwood and Waverley cemeteries. Bodies were moved to Botany by steam tram motors and flat cars.
Terminus redesign:
E. O'Sullivan, the Minister for Works, in 1901, established the [Central] Station Advisory Board, comprising railway experts to "investigate the question of the design and arrangements of the station". The members included Walter Liberty Vernon, both of the chief engineers of the New South Wales railway (for railway construction and existing lines respectively), and the chief engineers of the Queensland and Victorian railways. The committee also considered a suitable design for the new Flinders Street station in Melbourne. The design for the Sydney Terminus was to be a collaboration between the architect and the railway engineers. The layout was largely determined by the planning requirements of the railway engineers, to which an appropriate architectural style was overlaid. However, the initial scheme did not contain the required accommodation and an enlargement of the building was approved by the minister. The cost estimate was now £610,000. The board were to fulfil the wishes of the minister that "the building should be a monumental work of stateliness and beauty"
12/17/12 - The EAPrep Tiger Ambassadors & Soundwaves Choir visited the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center for seniors to facilitate Holiday activities.
a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976.[6] It was designed by architect John C. Portman Jr.. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors that included a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The building is managed by Aimbridge Hospitality (IHR), and is valued at $200 million.
The hotel and its architect John Portman have been the subject of several documentaries and academic analyses.[7][8]
Fredric Jameson discusses the hotel in his 1984 essay, "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," and in his 1991 book by the same name.[9][10] He writes that
the Bonaventura aspires to being a total space, a complete world, a kind of miniature city (and I would want to add that to this new total space corresponds a new collective practice, a new mode in which individuals move and congregate, something like the practice of a new and historically original kind of hyper-crowd).[11]
In his book Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989), Edward Soja describes the hotel as
a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles.[12]
The hotel is a 33-story building, with no floors numbered "7" or "13"; the top floor is therefore numbered "35". The four elevator banks (each containing three cars for a total of 12) are named by colors and symbols: Red Circle (the only one that goes to "35"; the other three only go to "32"), Yellow Diamond, Green Square, and Blue Triangle. The color-coded system of directions was a later addition, as visitors found the space confusing and hard to navigate.[13]
Several bronze plaques commemorate elevator scenes from three major films:
In the Line of Fire,[14][15] September 1993, "Green Square" elevator
True Lies,[15] September 1993, "Red Circle" and "Yellow Diamond" elevators
Forget Paris,[15] November 1994, "Yellow Diamond" elevator
It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years, including Interstellar,[16] Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as part of the city of New Chicago), Wonder Woman,[17] Blue Thunder, It's a Living,[18] Starsky & Hutch, L.A. Law, The A-Team, Breathless, Matlock, This Is Spinal Tap, Nick of Time,[19] Rain Man,[19][20] Ruthless People,[19] Logan's Run,[19] My Fellow Americans,[19] Midnight Madness, Moonlighting (TV series), Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Heaven Can Wait, Xanadu, The New Dragnet, Time After Time, Moby Dick,[21] Zoolander,[22] Lethal Weapon 2,[19] The Fantastic Journey[23][24] and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA, Epicenter and San Andreas. The front of the hotel was also featured in the British children’s television series Tots Tv ‘American Adventure’ special where Tilly, Tom and Tiny went to explore a different country and were observing tall buildings and went onto the roof of the hotel to observe the view of Los Angeles.[25] You can see it under construction in the 1975 film The Wilderness Family (released a year before the hotel opened). In cartoon form, the building can be seen in the first shot of Jem in the episode "The Beginning", and in the anime Steins;Gate. In November 1979, the ABC soap opera General Hospital videotaped some on location scenes there dealing with Luke Spencer, played by Anthony Geary who was hired to assassinate Senator Mitch Williams. In 1999, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy used the building as the administration building of the space colony Terra Venture, with Red Ranger Leo falling from the building after a battle with main villain Trakeena.
In 2002, the hotel was the location for a Fear Factor stunt which involved crossing a bridge of plexiglass discs on cables suspended on the lobby's fifth floor.[26] The television series It's a Living was set in a restaurant atop the Bonaventure. The hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie "Dancing on the Ceiling" music video. The building made appearances in the 1991 Kylie Minogue music video Step Back in Time, the 1985 Survivor music video "The Search Is Over", the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II (in the "Aftermath" multiplayer map) and in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V with the name "Arcadius Business Center" (having three towers instead of four towers and featuring glass elevator animations).
The hotel was also used as a setting for R&B singer Usher's music video for the 2002 hit single, "U Don't Have to Call". A pivotal scene in the season four (2005) episode "Another Mister Sloane" of the espionage drama Alias took place in the Bonaventure Hotel as well, while it was also featured in season one (2017), episode five of another espionage drama, Counterpart. In 2021, Rihanna's "Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3" was filmed entirely on location at the hotel.[27][28] The hotel also hosted the first task for the final leg of The Amazing Race 33, which aired in 2022.[26]
ATLANTA, GA - November 21, 2012
The 3rd Annual The Stuffing event took over the Center Stage Music Complex (Vinyl, The Loft, Center Stage Theatre) with 13 bands: Bad Books, Harrison Hudson, Death on Two Wheels, Gobotron, Ponderosa, All Get Out, Hardy T. Morris and the Outfit, Kevin Devine, Royal Thunder, GROUPLOVE, o'brother, Cage The Elephant, Manchester Orchestra.
© Danielle Boise
Lamont James & the Vitrolites, Feb. 22nd, 2012, Toronto's Legendary Horseshoe Tavern - captured by the incredibly talented Derek Lang!
ATLANTA, GA - November 21, 2012
The 3rd Annual The Stuffing event took over the Center Stage Music Complex (Vinyl, The Loft, Center Stage Theatre) with 13 bands: Bad Books, Harrison Hudson, Death on Two Wheels, Gobotron, Ponderosa, All Get Out, Hardy T. Morris and the Outfit, Kevin Devine, Royal Thunder, GROUPLOVE, o'brother, Cage The Elephant, Manchester Orchestra.
© Danielle Boise
The Circle Presents: How to Buy Art!
Thursday, April 5, 2012
6 – 8:30 p.m.
Villa Rosa Room
Wondering how to go beyond the mass-produced art offerings at home stores and express your own style through original art? Hear experts talk informally about making those first purchases that speak to you personally.
Featuring Tom Rassieur, John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Leslie Cohan, former New York gallery owner and consultant.
Complimentary beer and wine will be served. Admission $15; free for members of The Circle.
Want to join The Circle? Click here www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=57
Sunday night, Georgia had an unexpected visitor...up to 6 inches of snow. So far we've had three snow days in a row, tomorrow will be our fourth.
Basically my last three days can be summed up as so:
Alana, David, Hot chocolate, popcorn, peanut butter bars, movies, secret backyard hideouts, sleepovers, sledding, falling on my butt really hard, and lots of ICE!
Yeah.
ITASCA, IL - NOVEMBER 12: The Chicago Dental Society hosted its Installation of 2024 Officers and Directors on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at the Westin Chicago Northwest Hotel in Itasca, Illinois. This year’s event also honored 41, 50-Year members.
(Photo credit: Randy Belice for the Chicago Dental Society)
SUFFOLK DOWNS - June 30, 2019 - Race 12
STAKES John Kirby S. - Thoroughbred
FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS REGISTERED MASSACHUSETTS BREDS. Weight: 124 lbs. Non-winners of $30,000 in 2018-2019 allowed 3 lbs. Non-winners of $21,000 since Jan 1. allowed 5 lbs (Maiden, claiming, and starter races not considered in estimating allowances). (S)
One Mile On The Dirt Track Record: (Back Bay Brave - 1:35.20 - July 12, 1986)
Purse: $50,000 Guaranteed
Weather:Cloudy Track:Fast
Off at: 12:29 Start: Good for all
3 - Successful Saint (Baez, Jose)
4 - Shamrock's Rule (Perez, Luis)
2 - Sydney's Magic (Gomez, Oscar)
Soldiers assigned to the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), trained the SPDHG on memorial affairs, Apr. 8-12. The police officers, who traveled nearly 3,000 miles, learned the details of flag folding, casket carrying and the duties of a firing party during the five-days of instruction on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va.
ITASCA, IL - NOVEMBER 12: The Chicago Dental Society hosted its Installation of 2024 Officers and Directors on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at the Westin Chicago Northwest Hotel in Itasca, Illinois. This year’s event also honored 41, 50-Year members.
(Photo credit: Randy Belice for the Chicago Dental Society)
ATLANTA, GA - November 21, 2012
The 3rd Annual The Stuffing event took over the Center Stage Music Complex (Vinyl, The Loft, Center Stage Theatre) with 13 bands: Bad Books, Harrison Hudson, Death on Two Wheels, Gobotron, Ponderosa, All Get Out, Hardy T. Morris and the Outfit, Kevin Devine, Royal Thunder, GROUPLOVE, o'brother, Cage The Elephant, Manchester Orchestra.
© Danielle Boise
The 2009 Lenexa Freedom Run was held Friday, July 4th in Historic Old Town Lenexa.
The 5K winners were Clifton Campbell of Laporte, CO with a time of 15:43 and
Kristen Gillespie of Shawnee Mission, KS with a time of 18:12.
The 10K winners were Bret Imgrund of Shawnee Mission, KS with a time of 31:42 and Laura Eakin of Commerce City, CO with a time of 39:15.
SUFFOLK DOWNS - August 5, 2018 - Race 12
STAKES John Kirby S. - Thoroughbred
FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS REGISTERED MASSACHUSETTS BREDS. Weight: 124 lbs. Non-winners of $45,000 in 2017-2018 allowed 3 lbs. Non-winners of $21,000 since Jan 1. allowed 5 lbs (Maiden, claiming, and starter races not considered in estimating allowances.) Starters to be named through the entry box by usual time of closing. Trophy to wining owner. If this race is not divided it will be limited to 12 starters. If race overfills preference will be based on earnings in 2017-2018. (S)
One Mile On The Dirt Track Record: (Back Bay Brave - 1:35.20 - July 12, 1986)
Purse: $50,000 Guaranteed
Weather:Clear Track:Fast
Off at: 12:30 Start: Good for all
3 - Saint Anna (Perez, Luis)
5 - Yogi Got Milk (Gomez, Oscar)
4 - Lou Tass (Hernandez Sanchez, Andy)
12/17/12 - The EAPrep Tiger Ambassadors & Soundwaves Choir visited the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center for seniors to facilitate Holiday activities.
As I went for a walk in the woods today, I started to notice the traces we humans leave behind in nature. Combined this is a little documentation of the traces I found.
Eater Day Itinerary:
930am. Il Buco Alimantaire. Greetings, Chat, and Yankee Swap.
1130am. Bus to Secret Location.
12pm. Lunch at Le Bernardin, with Kitchen Tour from Eric Ripert.
130pm. Bus to Secret Location.
2pm. Cocktail Class at Booker & Dax with Dave Arnold and Special Guest David Chang.
2:45pm. Bus to Secret Location.
3:15pm. Bowling in Williamsburg at The Gutter.
5:30pm. Bus to Eater Awards at the Bowery Hotel.
On Monday, December 12, the American Red Cross and Louisville Professional Firefighters Union Local 345 hosted the 25th annual Holiday Party for kids affected by fires. More than 100 children attended the party for crafts, face-painting and a visit with Santa. A huge thanks to the Firefighters Union for their generous donation which goes toward purchasing toys for the children.
Photo by Sam Gish
On Monday, December 12, the American Red Cross and Louisville Professional Firefighters Union Local 345 hosted the 25th annual Holiday Party for kids affected by fires. More than 100 children attended the party for crafts, face-painting and a visit with Santa. A huge thanks to the Firefighters Union for their generous donation which goes toward purchasing toys for the children.
Photo by Joe Proctor
Earning nickname Honey, the beastie is the twenty-seventh sighted along Alabama Street. As we greeted, and I snapped portraits, No. 11, Cal (joewilcox.com/2018/02/12/the-cats-of-university-heights-cal/), looked down from an open window.
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