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Wanna have some of your photos in order to put them in my new room! :)
So here is how it works..Choose one or two photos and write me a private message writing me the ones you chose, I'll do the same with yours and then we'll exchange them via mal.
Built in 1910, the Livestock Exchange Building was seen as a fortress of commerce for Kansas City and the western territory. With 475 offices, the building housed the Stockyards Company, telegraph offices, banks, restaurants, railroad and packing house representatives, and government agencies. It was the largest livestock exchange building in the world and one of the largest office buildings in Kansas City.
The stockyards had become an independent company in 1871 with 13.5 acres. Over time it grew to 207 acres and housed the current Livestock Exchange Building. In 1923 the Kansas City stockyards set a world record for a days’ receipts of cattle, 60,206 head. The handling capacity of the yards was 70,000 cattle, 50,000 hogs, 50,000 sheep, and 5,000 horses and mules.
By 1945 the Kansas City livestock market was an institution of national importance. But the up and coming feedlot operations and auction sales reduced cattle receipts in the stockyards. In 1984 the stockyards were sold to a group of investors to try to save the yards, and by 1991 the stockyards held its last auction.
The building received a $13 million renovation beginning in 1991 and then CEO and now owner of the Livestock Exchange Building, Bill Haw, had a vision for the area of low rise high value commercial buildings such as Gateway and Butler Manufacturing World Headquarters.
The Livestock Exchange Building has endured fire, flood and changing economies to once again become a thriving successful place to do business in this century.
Local Accession Number: 06_11_001246
Title: Butler Exchange
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title from item.; Part of series: Providence, R.I. The ""best"" series.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Commercial facilities; Butler Exchange Company
Collection: Stereographs
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Butler Exchange
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
Pictured, the interior of the Exchange at the U.S. Army Garrison in Heidelberg, Germany, early 1960s.
Throughout the end of World War II and the Cold War, exchanges operated throughout Germany to serve American forces.
In 2013, the exchange closed when the U.S. Army Europe shuttered the Heidelberg garrison.
Today, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service still operates major stores around Germany, such as Ramstein AB, Grafenwoehr and other major installations.
Pictured, the interior of the Exchange at the U.S. Army Garrison in Heidelberg, Germany, early 1960s.
Throughout the end of World War II and the Cold War, exchanges operated throughout Germany to serve American forces.
In 2013, the exchange closed when the U.S. Army Europe shuttered the Heidelberg garrison.
Today, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service still operates major stores around Germany, such as Ramstein AB, Grafenwoehr and other major installations.
Local Accession Number: 06_11_001383
Title: Exchange Place
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 11 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title from handwritten text on verso.; Part of series: Providence views.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Buildings; Cities & towns
Collection: Stereographs
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Rail r station
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
Inverness Telephone Exchange in Friars Lane. The shadow is that of the Old High Church of St Stephen
On Sunday, a whopper of an anniversary occurs at the Exchange: the 32nd anniversary of AAFES and Burger King joining together. After decades of operating cafeterias, snack bars, soda fountains and its own fast-food restaurants, AAFES entered the name-brand world by awarding Burger King Corp., a contract to build up to 185 BKs around the world. The first BK opened in Ansbach, Germany, on Aug. 3, 1984. Shown, the original restaurant in 1984
Fifty years and 17 days have gone by since I took this photograph of Bristol Omnibus Company 2471, MHW982, at Bristol's Marlborough Street bus and coach station. This Bristol L5G was new in 1950 as dual door 33-seat C2755 of the Bristol Joint Services (\city) fleet, but in common with a number of the city dual doorway Ls was exchaged for a single door 35-seat bus (in the case of C2755 in April 1953) so that the front power operated door could be used in connection with converting the bus to be one man operated. On joining the country fleet it was also renumbered. The one man conversion can be seen by the slanting cab side window, behind which was a cut away bulkhead and a manual Setright ticket machine. The bus was to last another two years before being withdrawn.
The Studio Poa Plume is french design company from Bordeaux. I follow them for, I have to admit, more than 10 years ! They will celebrate their 20th anniversay so, it is a long story... I love visiting studio, sharing experience and creative feeling with other designers... And when it is very nice guys (and girls) like this, time is too short...
Their studio is amazing, it is an old factory with its vintage walls and industrial lights. Seeing they are "only" 6 to work in it, they have enough space to put some nice old videos games and even a letterpress printer that sadly, can't print ! But it is a nice decoration object !
See full post at www.graphic-exchange.com/direct/poaplume.html
At Donetsk airport exchanging dollars to hryvnia. Exchange rate was 1:7.935 at the time. March 2nd 2011 (DSCN0042)
Pictured, the exchange soda fountain, Ansbach Depot, Germany, 1949.
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service operated a store and the soda fountain at the gigantic post-World War II Ansbach Army Depot. AAFES also used the depot as a major European warehouse.
Today, the Exchange operates a modern warehouse at the Germersheim Army Depot in Germany.
The Royal Exchange, Middlesbrough. The Middlesbrough. The Middlesbrough Exchange Company Limited was established by the Middlesbrough iromasters to encourage the development of trade. This stone head was built into the front wall of the Exchange Building during its construction in 1867/68 to the designs of J. C. Adams of Stockton on Tees. The building was designated Royal Exchange after Prince Arthur's visit in August, 1868. The building was used as offices by Dorman Long and then the British Steel Corporation from 1946 until 1977. The plaques and stone features were rescued during the demolition of the building in 1984/5 for the construction of the A66
The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on land bounded by St Ann's Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The Royal Exchange was heavily damaged in the Manchester Blitz and in the 1996 Manchester bombing. The current building is the last of several buildings on the site used for commodities exchange, primarily but not exclusively of cotton and textiles.
The cotton industry in Lancashire was served by the cotton importers and brokers based in Liverpool who supplied Manchester and surrounding towns with the raw material needed to spin yarns and produce finished textiles. The Liverpool Cotton Exchange traded in imported raw cotton. In the 18th century, the trade was part of the slave trade in which African slaves were transported to America where the cotton was grown and then exported to Liverpool where the raw cotton was sold. The raw cotton was processed in Manchester and the surrounding cotton towns and Manchester Royal Exchange traded in spun yarn and finished goods throughout the world including Africa. Manchester's first exchange opened in 1729 but closed by the end of the century. As the cotton industry boomed, the need for a new exchange was recognised.
Thomas Harrison designed the new exchange of 1809 at the junction of Market Street and Exchange Street. Harrison designed the exchange in the Classical style. It had two storeys above a basement and was constructed in Runcorn stone. The cost, £20,000, was paid for in advance by 400 members who bought £50 shares and paid £30 each to buy the site. The semi-circular north façade had fluted Doric columns. The exchange room where business was conducted covered 812 square yards. The ground floor also contained the members' library with more than 15,000 books. The basement housed a newsroom lit by a dome and plate-glass windows, its ceiling was supported by a circle of Ionic pillars spaced 15 feet (4.6 m) from the walls. The first-floor dining-room was accessed by a geometrical staircase. The exchange opened to celebrate the birthday of George III in 1809. It also contained other anterooms and offices.
As the cotton trade continued to expand, larger premises were required and its extension was completed in 1849. The Exchange was run by a committee of notable Manchester industrialists. From 1855 to 1860, the committee was chaired by Edmund Buckley.
The second exchange was replaced by a third designed by Mills & Murgatroyd, constructed between 1867 and 1874. It was extended and modified by Bradshaw Gass & Hope between 1914 and 1931 to form the largest trading hall in England.The trading hall had three domes and was double the size of the current hall. The colonnade parallel to Cross Street marked its centre. On trading days merchants and brokers struck deals which supported the jobs of tens of thousands of textile workers in Manchester and the surrounding towns. Manchester's cotton dealers and manufacturers trading from the Royal Exchange earned the city the name, Cottonopolis.
The exchange was seriously damaged during World War II when it took a direct hit from a bomb during a German air raid in the Manchester Blitz at Christmas in 1940. Its interior was rebuilt with a smaller trading area. The top stages of the clock tower, which had been destroyed, were replaced in a simpler form. Trading ceased in 1968, and the building was threatened with demolition.
The exchange has four storeys and two attic storeys built on a rectangular plan in Portland stone. It was designed in the Classical style. Its slate roof has three glazed domes and on the ground floor an arcade orientated east to west. It has a central atrium at first-floor level. The ground floor facade has channelled rusticated piers and the first, second and third floors have Corinthian columns with entablature and a modillioned cornice. The first attic storey has a balustraded parapet while the second attic storey has a mansard roof. At the north-west corner is a Baroque turret and there are domes over other corners. The west side has a massive round-headed entrance arch with wide steps up and the first and second floor windows have round-headed arches. The third floor and first attic storey have mullioned windows.
The building remained empty until 1973, when it was used to house a theatre company (69 Theatre Company); the company performed in a temporary theatre but there were plans for a permanent theatre whose cost was then estimated at £400,000. The Royal Exchange Theatre was founded in 1976 by five artistic directors: Michael Elliott, Caspar Wrede, Richard Negri, James Maxwell and Braham Murray. The theatre was opened by Laurence Olivier on 15 September 1976.In 1979, the artistic directorship was augmented by the appointment of Gregory Hersov.
The building was damaged on 15 June 1996 when an IRA bomb exploded in Corporation Street less than 50 yards away. The blast caused the dome to move, although the main structure was undamaged. That the adjacent St Ann's Church survived almost unscathed is probably due to the sheltering effect of the stone-built exchange. Repairs, which were undertaken by Birse Group, took over two years and cost £32 million, a sum provided by the National Lottery. While the exchange was rebuilt, the theatre company performed in Castlefield. The theatre was repaired and provided with a second performance space, the Studio, a bookshop, craft shop, restaurant, bars and rooms for corporate hospitality. The theatre's workshops, costume department and rehearsal rooms were moved to Swan Street. The refurbished theatre re-opened on 30 November 1998 by Prince Edward. The opening production, Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes was the play that should have opened the day the bomb was exploded.
In 1999 the Royal Exchange was awarded "Theatre of the Year" in the Barclays Theatre Awards, in recognition of its refurbishment and ambitious re-opening season.
In 2014 Sarah Frankcom was appointed the sole artistic director.
In January 2016, the Royal Exchange was awarded Regional Theatre of the Year by The Stage. In announcing the award, The Stage said: "This was the year that artistic director Sarah Frankcom really hit her stride at the Royal Exchange. The Manchester theatre in the round's output during 2015 delivered its best year in quite some time."
In January 2018, the Royal Exchange Young Company won the "School of the Year" award at The Stage Awards 2018.
On 28 March 2019, the Royal Exchange announced that Frankcom was stepping down as artistic director of the theatre to take up a new post as director of the prestigious drama school LAMDA. On 8 July 2019, the theatre announced the appointment of Bryony Shanahan and Roy Alexander Weise as joint artistic directors.
The theatre features a seven-sided steel and glass module that squats within the building's Great Hall. It is a pure theatre in the round in which the stage area is surrounded on all sides, and above, by seating. Its unique design conceived by Richard Negri of the Wimbledon School of Art is intended to create a vivid and immediate relationship between actors and audiences. As the floor of the exchange was unable to take the weight of the theatre and its audience, the module is suspended from the four columns carrying the hall's central dome. Only the stage area and ground-level seating rest on the floor. The 150-ton theatre structure opened in 1976 at a cost of £1 million amid some scepticism from Mancunians.]
The theatre can seat an audience of up to 800 on three levels, making it the largest theatre in the round in the world. There are 400 seats at ground level in a raked configuration, above which are two galleries, each with 150 seats set in two rows.]
The Studio is a 90-seat studio theatre with no fixed stage area and moveable seats, allowing for a variety of production styles (in the round, thrust etc.) Prior to 2020, the studio acted as host to a programme of visiting touring theatre companies, stand-up comedians and performances for young people.