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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
Arizona is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest and California to the west. It also shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest. It is the 6th-largest and the 14th-most-populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix, which is the most populous state capital in the United States.
Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of Alta California and Nuevo México in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848, where the area became part of the territory of New Mexico. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase.
Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with extremely hot summers and mild winters. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees; the Colorado Plateau; mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains); as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls. There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Sunrise, and Tucson. In addition to the internationally known Grand Canyon National Park, which is one of the world's seven natural wonders, there are several national forests, national parks, and national monuments.
Arizona is home to a diverse population. About one-quarter of the state is made up of Indian reservations that serve as the home of 27 federally recognized Native American tribes, including the Navajo Nation, the largest in the state and the country, with more than 300,000 citizens. Since the 1980s, the proportion of Hispanics has grown significantly owing to migration from Mexico and Central America. A substantial portion of the population are followers of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Arizona's population and economy have grown dramatically since the 1950s because of inward migration, and the state is now a major hub of the Sun Belt. Cities such as Phoenix and Tucson have developed large, sprawling suburban areas. Many large companies, such as PetSmart and Circle K, have headquarters in the state, and Arizona is home to major universities, including the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University. The state is known for a history of conservative politicians such as Barry Goldwater and John McCain, though it has become a swing state in recent years.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page,_Arizona
Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 7,247.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon
Glen Canyon is a natural canyon carved by a 169.6-mile (272.9 km) length of the Colorado River, mostly in southeastern and south-central Utah, in the United States. Glen Canyon starts where Narrow Canyon ends, at the confluence of the Colorado River and the Dirty Devil River. A small part of the lower end of Glen Canyon extends into northern Arizona and terminates at Lee's Ferry, near the Vermilion Cliffs. Like the Grand Canyon farther downstream, Glen Canyon is part of the immense system of canyons carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries.
In 1963, a reservoir, Lake Powell, was created by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam, in the Arizona portion of Glen Canyon near the brand new town of Page, inundating much of Glen Canyon under water hundreds of feet in depth. Contrary to popular belief, Lake Powell was not the result of negotiations over the controversial damming of the Green River within Dinosaur National Monument at Echo Park; the Echo Park Dam proposal was abandoned due to nationwide citizen pressure on Congress to do so. The Glen Canyon Dam remains a central issue for modern environmentalist movements. Beginning in the late 1990s, the Sierra Club and other organizations renewed the call to dismantle the dam and drain Lake Powell in Lower Glen Canyon. Today, Glen Canyon and Lake Powell are managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Source: www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/crsp/gc/
Glen Canyon Dam is the second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, second only to Hoover Dam which stands at 726 feet. The 25.16 million acre-feet of water storage capacity in Lake Powell, created by Glen Canyon Dam, serves as a ‘bank account’ of water that is drawn on in times of drought. This stored water has made it possible to successfully weather extended dry periods by sustaining the needs of cities, industries, and agriculture throughout the West.
Hydroelectric power produced by the dam’s eight generators helps meet the electrical needs of the West’s rapidly growing population. With a total capacity of 1,320 megawatts, Glen Canyon Powerplant produces around five billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric power annually which is distributed by the Western Area Power Administration to Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Nebraska. In addition, revenues from production of hydropower help fund many important environmental programs associated with Glen and Grand canyons.
The designation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in 1972, underscores the value and importance of the recreation benefits associated with Lake Powell and the Colorado River downstream of the dam. The recreation area is managed by the National Park Service.
Glen Canyon Dam is the key water storage unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, one of the most complex and extensive river resource developments in the world. Without it, development of the Upper Colorado River Basin states’ portion of the Colorado River would not have been possible.
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the usual christmas family time with fun and games. here they are playing 'heads up' an android application guessing game
Shot at Didcot in 2014, but processed to look like a 1950's shot, when T9 30120 was a regular loco on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line.
This is an area south of Great Falls where the Missouri River winds through a canyon. Incredible beautiful...wish I would of had time to photograph the canyon but we were late for Christmas dinner at my parents. So a few quick shots is all I got...and not the shots I wanted either! lol...but it's all good! There will be other times...family was my goal this trip. Lots of good fishing and rafting through this area...a real treat for me!! :) The rock formations are so cool over this way too...:)
un mar bravo, de espuma blanca, es la reina cuando se enfada,sentirlo da panico su fuerza te hace temblar...
Description: Recreation Grounds, Donaghadee, Co. Down.
Date: 16th May 1958
Catalogue reference: D4069/11/8
D7017 951111 Toddington GWR
Keeping up with the preservation theme, other railways visited have been the Gloucester & Warwickshire, where in 1995 they were visited by one the DTG Hymeks.
D7017 has been one of the more elusive loco's on preservation scene rarely straying from their base in Somerset.
But in November 1995 they allowed it to visit the GWR at Toddington and it is seen arriving at Toddington with a service from the south.
The GWR is one of those railways that I have seldom visited and on one occasion I refused to enter on being charged to enter their "Car Boot" sale just to get at the trains. I've never been back since!
Baishawan Beach
New Taipei City, Taiwan
台灣 新北市
© Alton Thompson 唐博敦
2008.08.04
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Manchester City Council Recreation Department TNA 496, a Leyland Titan PD2/40 built 1958 with a Burlingham body stands in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester behind Manchester City Council Recreation Department TNA 500, a Leyland Titan PD2/40 built 1958 with a Burlingham body. Tuesday 15th December 1981
Note, TNA 496 was originally owned and operated by Manchester Corporation as number 3496, Manchester Corporation Transport becoming Manchester City Transport in 1965. Manchester City Transport’s operations were transferred to the Central division of the Selnec Passenger Transport Executive on 1st November 1969. The Selnec Passenger Transport Executive’s operations were transferred to the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive on 1st April 1974 due to local government reorganisation. TNA 496 was withdrawn from service in October 1975 and purchased in 1976 by Manchester City Council for use by the recreation department as a mobile works unit, the seating being altered from H37/28R. It was sold for preservation by circa late 1982/early 1983
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August 22
Time to move on again, leave Cody and head for the mountains again. We sleep until nearly eight, having finally killed the jet lag. We have breakfast, then a shower and pack. We have a case of dirty laundy, so we decide to seek out a laundramat, which is where I am writing this, as our dirty washing is cleaned.
You see a different America here, but again everyone is friendly, and its no real chore. Later we have an hour’s drive to Lovell, and from there a mountain road will take us to our cabin in the woods. Everyone was friendly though, and wanted to know where we were from, something to do with the accents I suppose. But in 45 minutes, we have two loads washed and dried, and I have filled the car up too, so we were good to go.
But Cody to Lovell was just an hour’s run, so we were hoping for something to do once we got there, maybe some lunch.
The road ran flat through farming country, beside a canal and ralway line in pretty much a dead straight line. Passed through a couple of small towns, didn’t stop, and where the land rose, there were derricks, pumping oil to the surface as they have done for over a hundred years.
We came to Lovel, not in a the “high country” at all, just 3500 feet above sea level, and pretty much stretched out along the main road through town, some run down motels, a cinema that seemed to be closed, but is only open now at weekends, but is a handsme art deco pile.
I hear the whistle of a train, so we race through a residential neighbourhoos to a level crossing, just in time to see two huge locomotives haul three wagons past. A bit over the top with the horsepower there.
We cruise the town looking for a place to eat; we looked at a place called The Branding Iron, but seemed that all parking was taken, so we go to a place called the food court. There are three franchies in there, all run by the same people. So we have subs and soda, and sit down to watch the locals have their lunch. Three smartly dressed young men in shirts and ties from the local church; two workers from Pepsico, stopping by to sample their company’s wares, and various other locals; farmers, mechanics and ladies who luch. Even there.
After eating we drive north into the Bigh Horn Valley park, thing. Through more countryside which then gave way to rolling bleak hills, where it seemed oil was being extracted from sand, big machinery was breaking the land up, and what they were going stained the ground black.
I stop us off at a bend in the river, hoping that this was the famous horseshoe bend, biut it wasn’t. The river was slow and lazy, and the valley sides shallow here anyway. But the air was rich in butterflies and dragonflies, so we spend a good half hour chasing the buggers round.
Back in the car and up the valley, where we see a family of deers or goats feeding at the side of the road, they stay long enough for Jools and I to get shots before they wander off back into the boondocks from whence they came.
Even further up there is a road to the Devil’s Overlook, or something similar. So we go down not expecting much. Nut what we find is a mini, not so mini, Grand Canyon, with an overlook of a sharp bend in the river, hundreds of feet below, and on each side, the canyon walls rise vertically hundreds of feet. We can look down on vultures as they glide by us, maybe them thinking we were not that close to dying, yet.
In three sides of the car park, the ground dropped away to the valley below, and at one point, and Tony would love this, I could see the ground below the cliff through a gap in the rocks, making ot trees the size of moss maybe 500 feet below.
We meet a group of three gentlement, two from UK, so we talk for a good twenty minutes about the eclipse, Yellowstone and Lovell. There are here for three weeks or more, and had just driven up from Houston, Texas to be here in time for the ec;ipse. What a road trip that must have been to do in two days.
We were hot and bothered; the car told us it was 32 degrees outside. We had changed the settings from F to C. But we were thirsty, and so went back down to Lovell to a store to buy supplies and something cool to drink. We get two quarts of orange juice, some beers and cider, so are set for the trip to the lodge and cabins.
To be honest, I just booked the cabins, and that was way back in October, so did not know what to expect. We had tried GSV to see what the area was like, but seemed that down in the valley and up in the hills they liked to name roads with numbers. So instead of looking at Forest Road 13, we were looking at Road 13, which lead to a farm our something.
We followed the intstuctions from the lodge, though more rolling farmalnd, but all the times the hills in the distance were getting nearer. THe road had a warning sign, severe grades ahead. Serious stuff.
The road passed over a causeway of a lake at the foothills of the hills. I mean, I say hills, thurns out they were 5,000 feet above the plain, and anywhere else would be called mountains. Anyway, for 5 miles the road ran in a dead straight line, but above we could see a line in the hills, showing where, we guessed, the road went up. And up.
After a bend to the left, the road began to climb; twising and turning, but climbing at an alarming gradients, going roand hairpin bends, and leaving the plain in a pastel coloured haze far below.
Near the top, trees begen to grow; firs and other evergreen trees. The road had reached the top, and turned away from the cliffs. Through brightly coloured meadows until there was a sign to the lodge, one mile down a rough track through a forest.
Halfway down we came across a doe deer, ears erect and wide eyed, but we passed her by, turning sharp leftdown the final few hundred yards to the lodge. We park up and go in reception and are shown round; this is free, this is free, that is included, there is an honesty bar for beer, and your cabin is the last on the left.
We go down to the cabin, a neat wooden affair, insdie two bunk beds, a fridge, microwave, toilet and shower And we would have no neighbours, and a view onto an alpine meadow and trees leading to a rounded summit. In the wildflowers nearby, I could see a host of butterflies. Without waiting, I grabbed my camera and went hunting.
More blues, more frililleries, more Clouded Yellows and Coppers. Lovely, and all willing to bask, or most were anyway.
Dinner was at half six, all included. Baked chicken and pasta with salad. It is without dount, the healthiest meal we have had since landing in America, and very welcome. We have a bottle of Asti too, seems right to celebrate our wonderful holiday.
Needless to say, a long day in the high temperatures down on the plain, and a bottle of fizz meant we were sleepy heads by half eight, but did stay awake until after dark to see the Milky Way high over the cabin, but photographing it wl have to wait for tomorrow.
Portland, Oregon
United States Department of the Interior
Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service
National Register of Historic Places
Inventory—Nomination Form
Received: June 30, 1980.
Entered: August 21, 1980
Name
Historic: Gilbert Building (preferred)
and/or common: Taylor Hotel
The Gilbert Building was originally designed as an office building but was converted to a hotel when the office market dropped in about 1916. The Romanesque Revival building was built in 1893, under the direction of architects Whidden and Lewis, it is assumed. Due to the superb detailing of the exterior, the building is in very good and original condition from the second floor up including the roof. The first floor exterior has not been changed except for the storefront. The main hotel entrance has been covered with stucco, and the original is believed to be intact underneath. The unaltered South entrance provides an indication of the original
first floor treatment.
The building is located on the northwest corner of 3rd and Taylor in downtown Portland, Oregon on lot 4, block 51 of Portland Addition county of Multnomah. The site is 100 feet along Taylor and 50 feet along S.W. Third. The building occupies the entire lot in a 'transitional' neighborhood. A large mixed-use four block development was planned that would have destroyed the building, but it was canceled.
It is within a half block of the Georgia Pacific Corporation Headquarters Building to the west and a number of large new office buildings are within the immediate neighborhood. The basement extends out to the curb line along 3rd and Taylor Streets. The ground floor plan occupies the entire site but floors two, three and four are set back 10 feet along the north property line except the eastern 31 feet to allow for light and ventilation to the upper floors.
The stair tower also extends into that ten foot space. An attic is created by large beamed trusses that span north to south at 14 foot centers, except at the east and west ends, which are hipped. The foundation walls are constructed of large stone masonry and brick piers. The exterior wall construction is load bearing light yellow brick. The floor structure is wood joists on wood beams carried on cast iron columns. The floor finish is clear fir planks. The roof is supported on the aforementioned trusses with wood rafters and planking and Is either turned metal or copper.
The well-proportioned and balanced south and east elevations are composed of arched recessed openings which originally began at street level. The vertical emphasis continues uninterrupted through the fourth floor and is terminated at the window heads. The basic functional differences between outer and interior walls are emphasized by the treatment of the archivolts leading to the interior wall plane. The use of beveled brick allows the spectator to visualize the depth from any angle. Further evidence of the excellent brick detailing appears in the spandrel panels. A billeted rectangle of headers surrounds a smaller rectangle of headers placed at 45° angles. The windows set into these recessed openings are one-over-one sliding sash in simple wooden frames which rest on sloping terra cotta sills.
The 'lightness' which the recessed openings lend to each elevation is balanced and contained by the heavy, brick-quoined corners and by the projecting, corbeled parapet. The thickness and strength of three feet thick wall is not compromised by the deeply inset single sash windows at each corner of the elevations. The parapet is composed of a corbel table of brick arches over terra cotta supports which rest on a terra cotta ledge. The arches are of different heights and frame a recessed brick blind arcade. A sloping, shallow raking cornice is elaborately modeled in terra cotta. This is topped with a scroll-accented terra cotta coping which is topped by terra cotta acroteria.
An elaborate terra cotta emblem stating the building name - Gilbert - and the year of erection - 1893 - graces the east facade just below the parapet and between the two large arches. There have been no additions, alternations or changes to the exterior except the ground floor storefront since its construction.
The interior lobby appears to be original with the exception of some oak wood trim which has been painted. The elevator has been removed but the iron grille work is intact, as is the encaustic tile floor and marble wainscoting. Of particular interest is the skylighted curving stairway that leads through the entire height of the building. It projects in apsidal form from the northwest corner of the building and is reminiscent of a similar treatment in Burnham and Roots' Rookery Building interior court stairway (1885-88).
Although lack of adequate original documentation makes an accurate assessment of the interior configuration nearly impossible, the significance of the Gilbert Building is undiminished. If the building survives, plans call for the restoration of the original first floor exterior and interior configurations.
The Gilbert Building is significant on two counts: one, it presents an excellent example of the combination of decorative and functional brick into a cohesive entity; and two, in its use of architectural vocabulary, it mirrored the development of the contemporary Chicago School of Architecture. Originally designed in 1893 as an office building, the Romanesque Revival-style structure was converted into a hotel in 1916 by Ralph and Isaac Jacobs, pioneer brothers who founded and operated the Oregon City Manufacturing Co., and the Oregon City Woolen Mills. It still serves that purpose today.
The era of the well-crafted and detailed brick bearing wall building was short in Portland. Preceded by buildings with cast iron facades and followed by the terra cotta-era steel-frame buildings, few examples remain of the type represented so well by the Gilbert Building. Once the steel frame became prominent brick bearing walls were no longer needed and the massive brick feeling disappeared. It is thought that the building was designed by architects Whidden and Lewis, who were responsible for the design of the Renaissance-Revival Portland City Hall in 1894. Marion Dean Ross, architectural historian and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art History at the University of Oregon, examined the detailing, comparing it to the Concord Building (1891) by Whidden and Lewis and stated that "it seems very likely that they were responsible for this structure." However, Portland restoration architect George McMath disputes the attribution, stating that the building did not appear in the definitive building list for the firm.
Ralph and Isaac Jacobs were Polish immigrants who settled in Oregon City around 1850. Isaac arrived first and was operating a general store when Ralph traveled from Poland to San Francisco in 1850. After sailing north to join his brother, Ralph became part owner of the Oregon City Woolen Mills in 1864, serving as vice president and president of the company before moving to Portland in 1873. He operated a clothing business for twenty years and became a director of the Commercial National Bank. The family signified wealth and influence in the early growth years in Portland.
The family surname Jacobs was changed to its Yiddish or German Hebrew translation, Gilbert, by Isaac Jacob's sons along with all the family holdings. The sophistication and progressive quality of the Gilbert Buildings design reflects the self-confidence of this family.
Professor Ross comments: The building is architecturally very interesting. It seems almost ten years ahead of its date. In general it may be related to development of the Chicago School of architecture but it is by no means derivative. In fact, it is one of the more original designs to be built in Portland in the 1890's. I well remember when I first saw the building some thirty years ago that I could hardly believe that it was dated in the 1890s. I thought a date after 1900 more likely. This structure is certainly an advanced work for its period.
The current owners, the Amato Brothers Enterprises, have owned the building along with their father before them for fifty-five years. It is with their support that the building will soon be restored to its original character including the ground floor storefront.