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The Gary Sheraton was the last place I ever explored with my friend Seth Thomas, aka "Dev". It was during a group meet and while the rest of the group decided to spend most of the day touring the usual spots, Seth and I opted to spend most of the day going floor by floor through the abandoned hotel. We joked to ourselves that we were doing so so that we would never have to return to this "boring" building. Less than a week later Seth was killed in an accident.
I have never returned to this building, wishing to maintain the memory of that last good day. And up til now, I have never looked at all but a few of the photos from that day. I haven't wanted to. While going through the bolt factory photos, most of which were either taken that same day, or a few weeks later after the memorial for Seth at City Methodist, I saw these pics and decided that now was a good enough time to finally do something with them. That day was, after all, a great day.
When we lived in Caracas, going to the beach meant going to the Macuto Sheraton, which had a wonderful stretch of oceanfront and several great pools.
Even though we had a beach house, occasionally we'd stay at the Macuto Sheraton. I loved seeing the beach at sunrise, after the evening's waves and tides had erased all signs of the previous day's activities.
My mother took this photo in 1966, the year after we moved away from Caracas.
We stopped over in Caracas in 1966 on our way to our new home in Bogotá, Colombia. I think we overnighted at the Macuto Sheraton for old time's sake.
On that visit, we went up the hill to Caracas and saw our former home, Quinta San José.
In the year since we'd left, the house had been extensively remodeled. It went from being a reasonably authentic, if somewhat run down, colonial hacienda to a mere facsimile of the original. So I doubt my mother took any photos of Quinta San José in 1966.
But I'm delighted she took this photo of the Macuto Sheraton. I don't know how the Macuto Sheraton fared in the awful floods and mudslides that hit Vargas state in 1999.
The Macuto Sheraton was still a going concern as of 1996, the date of a web page that's still hanging around on the Internet. Today, the Sheraton chain doesn't have a hotel in Macuto. If anyone knows whether the hotel still exists and whether it is operating under a different name, please let me know.
Scan from Ektachrome slide.My scan of an original non-digital image in my collection to which I own all rights.
A 'Sheraton' side table with three drawers, narra wood inlaid bone and turned reeded legs, Baliwag, Bulacan
19th century
85 x 137.5 x 62.5 cm (33 1/2 x 54 1/8 x 24 1/2 in)
Estimate PHP 200,000-220,000
Lot 115 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on 6 June 2015. See salcedoauctions.com/auctions/23/the-collectors-sale-fine-... for more details.
The Gary Sheraton was the last place I ever explored with my friend Seth Thomas, aka "Dev". It was during a group meet and while the rest of the group decided to spend most of the day touring the usual spots, Seth and I opted to spend most of the day going floor by floor through the abandoned hotel. We joked to ourselves that we were doing so so that we would never have to return to this "boring" building. Less than a week later Seth was killed in an accident.
I have never returned to this building, wishing to maintain the memory of that last good day. And up til now, I have never looked at all but a few of the photos from that day. I haven't wanted to. While going through the bolt factory photos, most of which were either taken that same day, or a few weeks later after the memorial for Seth at City Methodist, I saw these pics and decided that now was a good enough time to finally do something with them. That day was, after all, a great day.
The Gary Sheraton was the last place I ever explored with my friend Seth Thomas, aka "Dev". It was during a group meet and while the rest of the group decided to spend most of the day touring the usual spots, Seth and I opted to spend most of the day going floor by floor through the abandoned hotel. We joked to ourselves that we were doing so so that we would never have to return to this "boring" building. Less than a week later Seth was killed in an accident.
I have never returned to this building, wishing to maintain the memory of that last good day. And up til now, I have never looked at all but a few of the photos from that day. I haven't wanted to. While going through the bolt factory photos, most of which were either taken that same day, or a few weeks later after the memorial for Seth at City Methodist, I saw these pics and decided that now was a good enough time to finally do something with them. That day was, after all, a great day.
Various views from the 19th floor of our hotel on Hornby Street, Vancouver - convex mirror windows make for interesting reflections - must be a selfie in there somewhere
We got the Grand Poobah suite at the Sheraton in Red Deer - it's fascinating to see how the other 1% live! The rack rate is often around $2000, but over the holidays, we got if for under 10%. Our families are pretty far flung, and so we like to get away for Christmas. One thing we've learned is that many hotels which are "business" hotels and usually quite full and out of our price rage, are practically empty around the holidays. They often let rooms go at terrific rates and so we were able to enjoy a bit of lux at a fraction of the regular rate.
© Billy Wilson 2011
This escalator was inside of the Sheraton in the Financial District of Toronto.
The Toronto Project:
Hi Flickr, I have been busy finishing my degree, and now I'm done!! I have finally completed my bachelor's in biology and chemistry. I just returned from a trip to Toronto. I have taken a fascination with the city in many ways and I had a list of things to do and experience there. In my three full days of staying there and shooting I experienced a lot and took 4927 photos, I walked dozons of kilometers, and visited many interesting areas. Some of the highlights include; the PATH system, Hockey Hall of Fame, Union Station, all of the major financial building complexes, CN Tower, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Sunnybrook Park, Cabbagetown, Necropolis, Euclid Hall, Gooderham Houses, Queen's Park Legislative Buildings, All of the old colleges of the University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, Annex style houses, Yorkville Houses and firehall, Casa Loma, Spadina Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, Allen Gardens, Mackenzie House, St Michael's Church, Metropolitan United Church, Flatiron Building, St Lawrence Market, Toronto's first post office, St. Lawrence Hall, Sculpture Garden, St. James Church, Gooderham and Worts Distillary, Cherry Street Hotel, and Little Trinity Church and the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown.
This is just an image of a large series that I'm doing. The primary goal of this project is to document the diverse types of architecture that one can find in Toronto. Much of it has a British influence or American such as Richardsonian Romanesque when it comes to older buildings. But since Toronto is also a modern alpha global city and a global financial city it has a diverse and impressive amount of modern skyscrapers and post modern architecture. Its diversity is also shown in its people in that atleast 50% of the people living in Toronto weren't even born in Canada, making Toronto the world's most ethnically diverse city. It is extremely colourful and every corner has a new surprise. One can pass down the same street multiple times and stil find surprises like little shops you didn't even notice. I can't wait to return, but I need work in order to get down there again.
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The Gary Sheraton was the last place I ever explored with my friend Seth Thomas, aka "Dev". It was during a group meet and while the rest of the group decided to spend most of the day touring the usual spots, Seth and I opted to spend most of the day going floor by floor through the abandoned hotel. We joked to ourselves that we were doing so so that we would never have to return to this "boring" building. Less than a week later Seth was killed in an accident.
I have never returned to this building, wishing to maintain the memory of that last good day. And up til now, I have never looked at all but a few of the photos from that day. I haven't wanted to. While going through the bolt factory photos, most of which were either taken that same day, or a few weeks later after the memorial for Seth at City Methodist, I saw these pics and decided that now was a good enough time to finally do something with them. That day was, after all, a great day.
The Gary Sheraton was the last place I ever explored with my friend Seth Thomas, aka "Dev". It was during a group meet and while the rest of the group decided to spend most of the day touring the usual spots, Seth and I opted to spend most of the day going floor by floor through the abandoned hotel. We joked to ourselves that we were doing so so that we would never have to return to this "boring" building. Less than a week later Seth was killed in an accident.
I have never returned to this building, wishing to maintain the memory of that last good day. And up til now, I have never looked at all but a few of the photos from that day. I haven't wanted to. While going through the bolt factory photos, most of which were either taken that same day, or a few weeks later after the memorial for Seth at City Methodist, I saw these pics and decided that now was a good enough time to finally do something with them. That day was, after all, a great day.
Evening has fallen on the Baltic sea town of Sopot, Poland.
Without a tripod, this photo was possible with a power box, laptop bag and camera pouch!
The Gary Sheraton was the last place I ever explored with my friend Seth Thomas, aka "Dev". It was during a group meet and while the rest of the group decided to spend most of the day touring the usual spots, Seth and I opted to spend most of the day going floor by floor through the abandoned hotel. We joked to ourselves that we were doing so so that we would never have to return to this "boring" building. Less than a week later Seth was killed in an accident.
I have never returned to this building, wishing to maintain the memory of that last good day. And up til now, I have never looked at all but a few of the photos from that day. I haven't wanted to. While going through the bolt factory photos, most of which were either taken that same day, or a few weeks later after the memorial for Seth at City Methodist, I saw these pics and decided that now was a good enough time to finally do something with them. That day was, after all, a great day.
30/05/13. Dubai International Airport. An Airbus A330-200.
My airline collection: www.flickr.com/photos/hhhumber/collections/72157603062570...
Sheraton Ship Wreck, Hunstanton.
The Sheraton built 1907 as a trawler and later used as a radar ship was being taken to be used as a target ship when it broke its tow line in 1947
I was always at my happiest at the Macuto Sheraton, a fabulous resort hotel on the coast of Venezuela.
The Macuto Sheraton was convenient both to Caracas and our beach house.
I loved swimming in the hotel's pools, and I also delighted in going into the sea at the hotel's beach.
I remember peering into the dark and enticing bar La Sirena (The Mermaid). The hotel's gift shop featured, among other treasures, stuffed baby crocodiles (sad, I know) playing guitars. It also carried reproductions of Venezuelan precolumian artifacts made in the ceramics studio at our house.
Tragically, the hotel was severely damaged in the floods and landslides that devastated Vagas State in 1999. It never recovered and I understand it has been demolished.
My original scan of an original non-digital image.
A Sheraton altar table
Last Quarter, 19th century, Santo Domingo, Ilocos Sur
Narra with kamagong and lanite inlays
90 x 133 x 62.5 cm (35 x 52 x 25 in)
Santo Domingo in Ilocos Sur was famous not only for its sweet santol fruits and association with the the young Diego Silang, later to become a revolutionary leader, the town – due to its close proximity to the provincial capital, Vigan – has turned out rare pieces of furniture occasionally.
Famed English furniture maker Thomas Sheraton (b. 1751) inspired American cabinet maker Duncan Phyfe (b. 1768) to promote Neoclassicism in the United States, which eventually spilled over to the Philippines towards the mid-19th century. Evidences of these can be seen in this Sheraton-style altar table: the serpentine shape of the front of the mitered top that bows in the middle; the restrained use of inlays – in the broad Greek key pattern (similar to Chinese meandering) done in kamagong on the drawers, and in the bordered diamond pattern with dotted center that runs from the sides to the front using kamagong and lanite inlays; and the turned legs separated by turned rings that become the feet.
Local elements such as flower buds, inscribed six-petal flowers, and tongue-like pattern that can be found in many Ilocos pieces are also present here. Arched scrolls and C-scrolls define the shape of the side and front aprons. The middle drawer, with a replacement keyguard, has secret compartments at the back. This very rare piece, despite its substantial foreign influence, has kept a simplistic, elegant provincial appeal.
Estimate: PHP 320,000 - 350,000
Lot 184 of the Salcedo Auctions auction in November 2018. Please see www.salcedoauctions.com for more details.
The Gary Sheraton was the last place I ever explored with my friend Seth Thomas, aka "Dev". It was during a group meet and while the rest of the group decided to spend most of the day touring the usual spots, Seth and I opted to spend most of the day going floor by floor through the abandoned hotel. We joked to ourselves that we were doing so so that we would never have to return to this "boring" building. Less than a week later Seth was killed in an accident.
I have never returned to this building, wishing to maintain the memory of that last good day. And up til now, I have never looked at all but a few of the photos from that day. I haven't wanted to. While going through the bolt factory photos, most of which were either taken that same day, or a few weeks later after the memorial for Seth at City Methodist, I saw these pics and decided that now was a good enough time to finally do something with them. That day was, after all, a great day.