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The Hat Works is a museum in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, which opened in 2000. Before that, smaller displays of hatting equipment were exhibited in Stockport Museum and in the former Battersby hat factory.
The building, Wellington Mill, was built as an early fireproof cotton spinning mill in 1830–1831 before becoming a hat works in the 1890s. It is a Grade II listed building on the A6, Wellington Road South, between the town centre and Stockport railway station.
This award winning visitor attraction offers two floors of interactive exhibits taking you on a journey through the history of Stockport's once thriving hatting industry.
At Hat Works visitors can step back in time and experience the world of hatting from its humble beginnings in the cottage industry to the mass production of the early 19th century when hat manufacturing was a thriving industry with over 100 hat factories and businesses in the area.
Hat Works houses a recreated hatting factory floor with a collection of over 20 fully restored working Victorian style machines, rescued from former local hat factories. There's also a tremendous collection of over 400 hats of which some 250 can be seen in thematic displays in our hat gallery.
Barcelona Experiència
Project Entrance tunnel
· Project & production
· 12 mts half tunnel 80 m2. - 1.000 kgr
· Fireproof composites self-stand structure
Project 4D Cinema stands
· Project & production
· 30 mts Stand 150 m2. - 1.750 kgr
· Fireproof composites self-stand structure
· Car painting high durability
Project Antoni Gaudí Bronze Sculpture
· Lifesize sculpture
· Fireproof polyester resin
· Outdoors & heavy duty paint
· Stainless steel fixation system
· Paint fake bronze
"Built of fireproof, reinforced concrete. Faced with cherry-red pressed brick with Indiana limestone trimmings. Corner stone laid May 22, 1927. The building faces Slevin Street, is 167 feet long, has two wings 96 feet deep, and contains sixteen classrooms, a play room for boys, one for girls and lunch room in the basement."
Now functioning as apartments for senior citizens.
New -- Fireproof -- Modern -- Conveniently Located to all Sports and Social Activities -- All Room with Bath, Telephone -- Solarium -- Elevator -- Coffee Shop -- Open All Year
Daily Rate Schedule European Plan
Nov. 1 to Dec. 20 Double $4.00 -- 5.00 -- 6.00
Dec. 20 to Jan. 20 Double $8.00 -- 10.00 -- 12.00
Jan. 20 to Mar. 15 Double $12.00 -- 14.00 -- 16.00 -- 18.00
Each Additional Person $3.00
Direction: Isadore Shichtman
New York Office -- Plaza 7-8691
The Summer: Kutsher's Country Club Monticello, N. Y.
"C. T. Art-Colortone"
9B-H825
#60 SICL.com SEAT Leon Cup Racer
Dunlop Britcar 24hrs
Silverstone 2015
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Signage on The Fireproof Building, 1020 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio. For over 100 years the iconic Fireproof building has been a staple of the Short North Arts District. The building was constructed in 1909 and gave Fireproof Warehouse and Storage their first permanent home. At that time, the company stored heirlooms, furs, and other goods for the residents of Columbus. Horse-drawn carriages carried these items to and from the storage facility. Over the years, Fireproof was able to expand their capabilities, until 1974 when Edward James transformed Fireproof into Ohio’s first full-service off-site records management company. Today, file management has been moved offsite, and the building has been converted into luxury apartments that feature spacious and unique floor plans. It is now a unique mix of lofts, new-style studios, and one and two bedrooms.
Originally Bosler's Fireproof Garage. One of the first parking structures in Louisville, built in 1919. It has a basement and three levels of parking. There is a spiral ramp which forms a cylindrical mass at the rear of the building. No longer in use, it will most likely be demolished in the next few years...
Info from The Louisville Guide
119 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Shelly Building, formerly known as the Duncan Building, is a six-storey commercial brick building located in Vancouver's Victory Square area, on the edges of both downtown and historic Chinatown.
Heritage Value:
The Shelly Building is significant for its architecture, for its history of use and ownership, and for the vicissitudes it suffered because of its location. Designed in 1911 by the Vancouver architectural firm of H.L. Stevens and Co., the office building was touted as being 'first-class, modern and fireproof' when it first opened a year later, with retail stores on the ground floor. It has value as a good example of the Commercial Style, in which the most prominent characteristic is the grid-like organization of the window and wall surfaces. The elevations are divided into three sections: a base with large glass display windows, a mid-section containing most of the floors, and the attic, typically capped by a bold cornice. Decoration is concentrated on the base and attic. The exterior is relatively unchanged, and the interior features a number of valuable components.
The original owner and developer was Howard J. Duncan, about whom little is known. The building was not a financial success, particularly when office rentals slowed in the 1913 recession and at the outset of the First World War a year later. The location was perceived as being unfavourable, some distance east of the downtown core and close to Chinatown. Although anchored by the tall World Building across Pender Street, the 'new business area' of Pender Street could not withstand the competition from downtown office buildings. The failure of Duncan's investment has value for demonstrating this. The London & British North America Company Ltd., a real estate and financial firm, acquired the building in 1916, probably as the result of foreclosure. The firm is significant for representing the considerable investment capital that entered Vancouver from Great Britain at the time.
The building continued to struggle, the top two floors being converted to use by the Young Women Canada Association. It had a new lease on life in 1925, when it was purchased by Cora Marie Shelly. Her husband, William Curtis Shelly was an entrepreneur and philanthropist, credited for founding many businesses, including Home Oil, Pioneer Timber, Canada Grain Export, Nanaimo Sawmills, Canadian Bakeries, and Shelly Bakeries. He was a Vancouver City alderman and Park Board chairman, playing an important role in the development of the City's beaches. He also served as Minister of Finance in the Tolmie provincial government in the late 1920s and 1930s.
Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the Shelly Building include:
- The architectural features of the Pender Street elevation, including the ornamented terra cotta pilasters, spandrels, and frieze over the lower two floors; the plain brick wall above; the windows grouped in pairs, with stone sills; and the dentilled cornice.
- The original one-over-one wood sash windows on the office floors
- The original wood sash windows on the mezzanine floor, with pilasters
- The original transom lights at the tops of the shop windows on the ground floor
- The original wood sash windows and stone sills on the lane elevation
- Interior features, including marble panels, floors, and ornate cast plaster ceiling of the lobby; oak woodwork; brass hardware; open marble staircase with marble treads, risers and wainscoting; the cast and wrought iron balusters and newel posts on each floor
Homecoming monument, intersection of Clinton and Washington Streets, 1926. HOTEL JEFFERSON = FIREPROOF!
Historical photograph of Iowa City. For educational use.
It is claimed to be “fireproof flower technology “. Water proof to IP65 standard.. rugged to what drop height? “This way up!” WTF…
The inner box stated it had a 200 lumens tactical light, but the website PDF says 500 lumens!
The manual was useless too!
Window.
King's Stanley is situated approximately two miles west of Stroud in the County of Gloucestershire, UK
Stanley Mill. Built in 1812 for the manufacture of woollen cloth. The main building was one of the first in England of "fireproof" construction, with iron columns.
1812 Present buildings begun
1813 Feb. Sold to Harris and Maclean for £8,655. Reference to new erected dyehouses, wool-lofts, woolstores, workshops, clothrooms, counting houses, etc. Canal accounts show delivery of stone, bricks, timber, iron and slates. Timber and some stone came from the Forest of Dean. The iron work was made by Benjamin Gibbons of the Earl of Dudley’s Level New Furnaces. This plant built in 1802-3 continued to run until 1954.
1824 First reference to a steam engine at Stanley.
1834 Maclean, Stephens and Co made superfine cloth and kerseymere.
1834. At Stanley, a steam engine of 40 hp. (bought from Boulton and Watt 1824) and 5 water wheels on a fall of 16 feet, equal to 200hp. The supply of water in summer was so irregular it caused interruptions in the work several hours a day.
All machinery considered dangerous was fenced off as far as was practicable. Hours worked, 11 to 12 and in some departments 13. No children under 9 were employed and very few under 10. The youngest, up to 12 or 13, were employed as piecers working up to 101/2 to 11 hours. The older ones worked 11 to 12 hours.
Refractory or disorderly children were dismissed.
1839. At Stanley, a steam engine of 50 hp. and 5 water wheels, 1 of 30hp. and 4 of 25 hp.
c. 1839 Sold to Nathaniel Marling for £27,000.
1854 Weaving shed built in front of main building, probably replacing an earlier building on the site.
1867 High pressure condensing engine installed.
1868 80hp. Turbine added.
This is an old hotel that burned down in the 1920s I think. It was on top of College Hill, east on Paxinosa St. and overlooked the Delaware River in Forks Twp, just above the city of Easton, PA. The concrete pad is still there. There is another post card in this set that shows the stunning view in 1904. The original hotel that was built here was a big wooden Victorian that burned down in July 1905.
This English Renaissance townhouse at 57 East 55th Street was originally constructed in 1909 as the private residence of Martin Erdmann. Mr. Erdmann, an investment banker, built what he called the “most fireproof residence in Manhattan” to house his private art collection. Mr. Erdman maintained his residency here until 1937 before the building took on a number of various tenants. Each of these tenants, as part of their acquisition, inherited a lengthy deed from the original construction which restricted the building’s usage from any noisy or smelly activities such as stables, tanneries, blacksmith shops, or glue factories.
In 1956 the building was acquired by a private club for members of theater, the Friars, who opened their doors in November 1957. The Friars began in 1904 when a series of eleven press agents began to get together at a local restaurant known as Browne’s Chophouse. Back in those days it was not uncommon for people to pretend to maintain press credentials to mingle with celebrities or members of theater (a trait which many may argue still exists today). To differentiate amongst the legitimate versus imposters, an informal social club began to form where true industry folk began to gather and hang out together. This group eventually formalized and dubbed themselves the Friars (from the Latin term “frater” which translates into “brother”).
Since their formation the Friars has played host to a multitude of celebrities and in 1949 they began a tradition of honoring some of their member’s grand achievements by holding a dinner, or a “roast.” The first honoree of these roasts was Maurice Chevalier. Since then those who have been “roasted” include: Sammy Davis, Jr., George Burns, Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Don Rickles, Barbra Streisand, George Steinbrenner, Hugh Hefner, Bruce Willis,Chevy Chase, Billy Crystal, Donald Trump, Don King and Quentin Tarantino. Comedy Central used to air these between 1998 and 2002. After this time, the network began their own roasts which are not be confused with those hosted by the Friars Club.
When the Friars Club first opened it was created as a males-only member club. It wasn’t until 1988 that females were allowed. Liza Minnelli was the first female member of the organization and today women represent nearly one-fourth of the membership. In 1983, prior to the allowance of women, Phyllis Diller actually donned the costume of a man and successfully snuck in during the roast of Sid Caesar. When asked about the incident, Ms. Diller commented, “It was the funniest and dirtiest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”
Although the club has long maintained a level of exclusivity of theater professionals, in recent years membership may be as associated with the almighty dollar as it may be with professional entertainers. Current bylaws now allow for up to thirty percent of club members to not be associated with the theater. New members are required though to pay approximately $10,500 to join the club ($7500 for initiation and $3000 for annual dues). Although price discounts do exist for “younger” members, fees are still sufficiently high enough to maintain a high level of clientele. And for those who are able to swing the fees and are interested in getting in? Well, the Club does still require all potential members to undergo an interview process and you must be personally recommended by two existing members.
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Prompted by Jason Garber's My Desk photo, I decided to post mine.
Missing from the photo, Sony Vaio TX Series laptop. (Yes I use all my laptops)
"The historic Robert Mills Fireproof Building [is] located at 100 Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Native South Carolinian Robert Mills was the first professionally trained architect born in America, federal architect under President Andrew Jackson, and designer of many important buildings in Washington, D.C., including the Washington Monument. Mills designed the Fireproof Building in 1822 as a state office building with secure storage for local public records; it is the first fireproof structure in the nation built specifically to protect documents. The building is in the Palladian style with Doric porticoes facing north and south. Inside is a three-story, oval stairhall lit by a cupola with cantilevered stone stairs. The Fireproof Building was named a National Historic Landmark in 1973." --http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/?page_id=21
It occupies the northwest corner of Washington Square, a park, sometimes called Washington Park, at the corner of Meeting and Broad Streets. The building's north portico faces Chalmers Street.
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The Masonic Temple (1921) in Danville is located at 105 S. Union Street in the Danville Historic District [Virginia Department of Historic Resources ID 108-0111-065]. It is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Danville prospered for many years as a tobacco and textile center.
The building designed by West Virginia architect Fred F. Farris, cost $550,000 to build in 1921. It is fire-proof and was Danville’s first skyscraper; the styling is eclectic. It has two 10-story blocks of concrete and steel with a face of glazed, white architectural terra-cotta. The basic shape is in the form of a “U”. At the center of the “U” is a Tudor arched screen, a sculpted eagle crowning the entrance. Gothic ornamentation decorates the metal awning below the arch. Elaborate relief work follows the curved of the arch and is continued on both sides of the lobby entrance. The lobby ceiling had been dropped, hiding a barrel-vaulted skylight; but it will eventually be restored to its former state. Some nice relief work is above the doors to the elevators, the original ones installed at the time of construction.
At the base of the building are bays with Tudor arches containing various shops. A reason the building is so tall was to accommodate offices for various professionals—insurance companies, utilities, lawyers, doctors, dentists, etc. The styling of most floors is utilitarian, windows being 3 over 3; on the 9th floor the windows are taller and 6 over 6. Windows on the 10th level have Tudor arches between ornamented capitals
I was unable to tour the interior, which apparently has some spectacular rooms. I was fortunate enough to meet a member of the owner’s family, who provided some details on the structure. I was in Danville around 9 in the morning when these photos were taken; the lighting was not the best, but I wasn’t about to let the opportunity pass.
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Hotta Family's House, Sakura-shi(city) Chiba-ken(Prefecture), Japan
千葉県佐倉市(ちばけん さくらし) 旧堀田邸(きゅう ほった てい)
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began on January 2, 1870. The first work entailed the construction of two caissons, upon which the suspension towers would be built. The Brooklyn side's caisson was built at the Webb & Bell shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and was launched into the river on March 19, 1870. Compressed air was pumped into the caisson, and workers entered the space to dig the sediment, until the caisson sank to the bedrock. Once the caisson had reached the desired depth, it was to be filled in with brick piers and concrete. However, due to the unexpectedly high concentration of large boulders atop the riverbed, the Brooklyn caisson took several months to sink at the desired rate. Furthermore, in December 1870, the timber roof of the Brooklyn caisson caught fire, delaying construction further. The "Great Blowout", as the fire was called, delayed construction for several months, since the holes in the caisson had to be repaired. On March 6, 1871, the repairs were finished and the caisson had reached its final depth of 44.5 feet; it was filled with concrete five days later. Overall, about 264 individuals were estimated to have worked in the caisson every day, but because of high worker turnover, about 2,500 men in total were estimated to have worked in the caisson. Despite the high turnover rate, only a few workers were paralyzed. At its final depth, the caisson had an air pressure of 21 pounds per square inc.
The Manhattan side's caisson was the next structure to be built, and to ensure that it would not catch fire like its counterpart had, the Manhattan caisson was lined with fireproof plate iron. It was launched from Webb & Bell's shipyard on May 11, 1871, and maneuvered into place that September Due to the extreme underwater air pressure inside the much deeper Manhattan caisson, many workers became sick with decompression sickness during this work, despite the incorporation of airlocks. This condition was unknown at the time and was first called "caisson disease" by the project physician, Andrew Smith. Between January 25 and May 31, 1872, Smith treated 110 cases of decompression sickness, while three workers died from the disease. When iron probes underneath the Manhattan caisson found the bedrock to be even deeper than expected, Washington Roebling halted construction due to the increased risk of decompression sickness. After the Manhattan caisson reached a depth of 78.5 feet with an air pressure of 35 pounds per square inch, Washington deemed the sandy subsoil overlying the bedrock 30 feet beneath to be sufficiently firm, and subsequently infilled the caisson with concrete in July 1872.
Washington Roebling himself suffered a paralyzing injury as a result of caisson disease shortly after ground was broken for the Brooklyn tower foundation. Washington's debilitating condition left him unable to physically supervise the construction firsthand, so he designed the caissons and other equipment from his apartment. His wife, Emily Warren Roebling, provided written communications between her husband and the engineers on site. Emily understood higher mathematics, calculations of catenary curves, strengths of materials, bridge specifications, and intricacies of cable construction, and so she spent the next 11 years helping supervise the bridge's construction. After the caissons were completed, piers were constructed atop each caisson, upon which the masonry towers would be built. The construction of the towers themselves was a complex process that took four years. Since the masonry blocks were heavy, the builders lifted the blocks using a pulley system with a continuous 1.5-inch-diameter steel wire rope, operated by steam engines at ground level. The blocks were lifted via a timber track alongside each tower, then maneuvered into the proper position using a derrick atop the towers. The blocks sometimes vibrated the ropes due to their heaviness, but only once did a block actually fall down.
The suspension towers started construction in mid-1872, and by the time work was halted for the winter in late 1872, parts of each tower had already been constructed. By mid-1873, there was substantial progress on the towers' construction. The Brooklyn side's tower had reached a height of 164 feet above mean high water, while the Manhattan side's tower had reached 88 feet above. The arches of the Brooklyn tower were completed by August 1874. The tower as a whole was substantially finished by December 1874 with the erection of saddle plates for the main cables at the top of the tower. However, the ornamentation on the Brooklyn tower could not be completed until the Manhattan tower was finished. The last stone on the Brooklyn tower was raised in June 1875 and the Manhattan tower was completed in July 1876. The saddle plates atop both towers were also raised in July 1876.The work was dangerous: by 1876, three workers had died by falling from the towers, while nine other workers had been killed in other accidents.
While the towers were being constructed, in 1875, the project had depleted its original $5 million budget. Two bridge commissioners, one each from Brooklyn and Manhattan, petitioned New York state lawmakers to allot another $8 million for construction. Ultimately, the legislators passed a law authorizing the allotment, under the condition that the cities would buy the stock of Brooklyn Bridge's private stockholders. Work proceeded concurrently on the anchorages on each side. The Brooklyn anchorage broke ground in January 1873 and was subsequently substantially completed in August 1875. The Manhattan anchorage was built in less time, having started in May 1875, it was mostly completed in July 1876. The anchorages could not be fully completed until the main cables were spun, at which point another six feet would be added to the height of each 80-foot anchorage. The first temporary rope was stretched between the towers on August 15, 1876, using chrome steel provided by the Chrome Steel Company of Brooklyn. The wire was then stretched back across the river, and the two ends were spliced to form a "traveler", a lengthy loop of wire connecting the towers, which was driven by a 30 horsepower steam hoisting engine at ground level. The next step was to send an engineer across the traveler rope in a "boatswain's chair" slung from the wire. The bridge's master mechanic E.F. Farrington was selected for this task, and an estimated crowd of 10,000 people on both shores watched him cross. A second traveler rope was then stretched across the bridge, a task that was completed by August 30. The two traveler ropes would then be used to create a temporary footbridge for workers while cable spinning was ongoing. The temporary footbridge, located some 60 feet above the elevation of the future deck, was completed in February 1877.
By December 1876, a steel contract for the permanent cables still had not been awarded. There was disagreement over whether the bridge's cables should use the as-yet-untested Bessemer steel or the well-proven crucible steel. Until a permanent contract was awarded, the builders ordered 30 short tons of wire in the interim, 10 tons each from three companies, including Washington Roebling's own steel mill in Brooklyn. Ultimately it was decided to use 8 mm Birmingham gauge crucible steel, and a request for bids was distributed, to which eight companies responded. In January 1877, a contract for crucible steel was awarded to J. Lloyd Haigh, whom Roebling distrusted but who was associated with bridge trustee Abram Hewitt.
The spinning of the wires required the manufacture of large coils of wire, which were galvanized but not oiled when they left the factory. The coils were delivered to a yard near the Brooklyn anchorage where they were dipped in linseed oil, hoisted to the top of the anchorage, dried out and spliced into a single wire, and finally coated with red zinc for further galvanizing. There were thirty-two drums at the anchorage yard, eight for each of the four main cables, of which each drum had a capacity of 60,000 feet of wire. The first experimental wire for the main cables was stretched between the towers on May 29, 1877, and spinning began two weeks later. All four main cables were being strung by that July. During that time, the temporary footbridge was unofficially opened to the general public, who could receive visitor's passes; by August 1877 several thousand visitors from around the world had used the footbridge. The visitor passes ceased that September after a visitor had an epileptic seizure and nearly fell off.
As the wires were being spun, work also commenced on the demolition of buildings on either side of the river for the Brooklyn Bridge's approaches; this work was mostly complete by September 1877. The following month, initial contracts were awarded for the suspender wires, which would hang downward from the main cables and support the deck. By May 1878, the main cables were more than two-thirds complete. However, the following month, one of the wires slipped, killing two people and injuring three other. A subsequent investigation discovered that J. Lloyd Haigh had substituted inferior quality wire in the cables. Of eighty rings of wire that were tested, only five met standards, and it was estimated that Haigh had earned $300,000 from the deception. At this point, it was too late to replace the cables that had already been constructed. Roebling determined that the poorer wire would leave the bridge only four times as strong as necessary, rather than six to eight times as strong, so the inferior-quality wire was allowed to remain and 150 extra cables were added. The contract for the remaining wire was quietly awarded to the John A. Roebling's Sons company, and by October 5, 1878, the last of the main cables' wires went over the river.
Not everyone supported the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and there was substantial opposition from shipbuilders and merchants located upstream, who objected that the bridge would not provide sufficient clearance underneath for ships. In May 1876 these groups, led by Abraham Miller, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Ultimately, the Supreme Court decided in 1883 that the Brooklyn Bridge was in fact a lawful structure. After the suspender wires had been placed, workers began erecting steel crossbeams to support the roadway, as part of the bridge's overall superstructure. Construction started on the superstructure in March 1879, but as with the cables, the trustees initially disagreed on whether the steel superstructure should be made of Bessemer or crucible steel. Ultimately in July 1879, the trustees decided to award a contract for 5,000 short tons of steel to the Edgemoor Iron Works, based in Philadelphia, to be delivered by 1880. However, by February 1880 the steel deliveries had not started. That October, the bridge trustees questioned Edgemoor's president about the delay in steel deliveries. Despite Edgemoor's assurances that the contract would be fulfilled, the deliveries still had not been complete by November 1881. Brooklyn mayor Seth Low, who became part of the board of trustees in 1882, became the chairman of a committee tasked to investigate Edgemoor's failure to fulfill the contract. When questioned, Edgemoor's president stated that the delays were the fault of another contractor, the Cambria Iron Company, who was manufacturing the eyebars for the bridge trusses; at that point, the contract was supposed to be complete by October 1882.
Further complicating the situation, Washington Roebling had failed to appear at the trustees' meeting in June 1882, since he had fled to Newport, Rhode Island. After the news media discovered this, many of the newspapers called for Roebling to be fired as chief engineer, with the exception of the Daily State Gazette of Trenton, New Jersey, and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Some of the more longstanding trustees including Henry C. Murphy, James S. T. Stranahan, and William C. Kingsley were willing to vouch for Roebling, since construction progress on the Brooklyn Bridge was still ongoing. However, Roebling's behavior was considered suspect among the younger trustees who had joined the board more recently.
Construction on the bridge itself was noted in formal reports that Murphy presented each month to the mayors of New York and Brooklyn. By early 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was considered mostly completed and was projected to open that June. Contracts for bridge lighting were awarded by February 1883, and a toll scheme was approved that March.The New York and Brooklyn Bridge was opened for use on May 24, 1883. Thousands of people attended the opening ceremony, and many ships were present in the East River for the occasion. Officially, Emily Warren Roebling was the first to cross the bridge. The bridge opening was also attended by U.S. president Chester A. Arthur and New York mayor Franklin Edson, who crossed the bridge and shook hands with Brooklyn mayor Seth Low at the Brooklyn end. Though Washington Roebling was unable to attend the ceremony (and in fact rarely visited the site again), he held a celebratory banquet at his house on the day of the bridge opening. Further festivity included the performance of a band, gunfire from ships, and a fireworks display. On that first day, a total of 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 people crossed the span.
The bridge had cost US$15.5 million in 1883 dollars to build, of which Brooklyn paid two thirds. The bonds to fund the construction would not be paid off until 1956. An estimated 27 men died during its construction. Since the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the only one across the East River at that time, it was also called the East River Bridge. Until the construction of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, the Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world, 50% longer than any previously built. Less than a week after the Brooklyn Bridge opened, ferry crews reported a sharp drop in patronage, while the bridge's toll operators were processing over a hundred people a minute. However, cross-river ferries continued to operate until 1942.
At the time of opening, the Brooklyn Bridge was not yet complete; the proposed public transit across the bridge was still being tested, while the Brooklyn approach was being completed. On May 30, 1883, six days after the opening, a woman falling down a stairway at the Brooklyn approach caused a stampede, which resulted in at least twelve people being crushed and killed. Subsequent lawsuits failed to find negligence on the part of the Brooklyn Bridge Company. However, the company did install emergency phone boxes and additional railings, and the trustees approved a fireproofing plan for the bridge.Public transit service started with the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway, a cable car service, on September 25, 1883. On May 17, 1884, one of circus master P. T. Barnum's most famous attractions, the elephant Jumbo, led a parade of 21 elephants over the Brooklyn Bridge. This helped to lessen doubts about the bridge's stability while also promoting Barnum's circus.
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10 Large Air Conditioned, Fireproof Rooms, Connecting Units. Twin and Double Beds, Ceramic Tile Showers, Thermostat Heat in Rooms and Baths, Cable T.V.
On Hwy. U.S. 62 and State 23 East Side of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Zip 72632
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The Heavenly Shop, Inc., Rt. 1, Eureka Springs, Ark. 72632
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Postmarked September 24, 1985, at Dongola, Illinois; addressed to Jeff Munson at 3632 Lovers Lane in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
A fireproof glass wall separates the entry from the garage to allow the homeowner to see his Aston Martins.
Sleep in safety and comfort without extravagance, all modern steam heated fireproof cottages, open all year. All tile baths, We service your car while you sleep. Mail, phone and Western Union Service. Owned & operated by Mr. & Mrs. George C. Jordan. Phone 175.
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The card was mailed from Memphis, Tennessee to Mrs. M.H. Ferguson of Duncan, Oklahoma on September 18, 1942:
Hear is where we spent the night. We are having a grand time but it is raining all time hear. We were in rain all day yesterday. Love, Fran & Eva.
New, Modern, Fireproof, Brick Motel
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Mailed from Albany, Georgia to Miss Lucy Ritcher of Saginaw, Michigan on February 23, 1950:
Thursday Night -
The sun shone all day!! Nice trip though Alabama. So many flowers, camellias, azaleas, iris, hyacinth just masses - In this court for the night. On to Florida in the A.M.
Frances
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Muscovite is the most common mica, found in granites, pegmatites, gneisses, and schists, and as a contact metamorphic rock or as a secondary mineral resulting from the alteration of topaz, feldspar, kyanite, etc. In pegmatites, it is often found in immense sheets that are commercially valuable. Muscovite is in demand for the manufacture of fireproofing and insulating materials and to some extent as a lubricant.
The name of muscovite comes from Muscovy-glass, a name formerly used for the mineral because of its use in Russia for windows. It is anisotropic and has high birefringence. Its crystal system is monoclinic.
The British Geological Survey reports that as of 2005, Kodarma district in Jharkhand state in India had the largest deposits of mica in the world. China was the top producer of mica with almost a third of the global share, closely followed by the USA, South Korea and Canada. Large deposits of sheet Mica were mined in New England from the 19th Century to the 1960s. Large mines existed in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Mica is widely distributed and occurs in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary regimes. Large crystals of mica used for various applications are typically mined from granitic pegmatites.
Until the 19th century, large crystals of mica were quite rare and expensive as a result of the limited supply in Europe. However, their price dramatically dropped when large reserves were found and mined in Africa and South America during the early 1800s. The largest documented single crystal of mica (phlogopite) was found in Lacey mine, Ontario, Canada; it measured 10×4.3×4.3 m and weighed about 330 metric tons. Similar-sized crystals were also found in Karelia, Russia.
Scrap and flake mica is produced all over the world. Flake mica comes from several sources: the metamorphic rock called schist as a by-product of processing feldspar and kaolin resources, from placer deposits, and from pegmatites. Sheet mica is considerably less abundant than flake and scrap mica. Sheet mica is occasionally recovered from mining scrap and flake mica. The most important sources of sheet mica are pegmatite deposits.
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Fire-proof curtains. Down when there's work going on behind. The velvet curtains will be used for performances.
Completed in 1918 by the First National Bank of Danville, this 12-story "fireproof" building was built at a cost of $350,000, and remained the home of FNB until 1955. The bank occupied the first floor, mezzanine and lower level. Upper floors were occupied by the offices of doctros, dentists, lawyers, stock brokers, and loan companies.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000, Bresee Tower looks like a structure that is in bad need of repair. Vacant since 2005, in recent years barricades were placed on the south and east sides of the tower due to concern over falling debris. Today strapping and plywood is seen on the exterior to limit the potential of falling pieces of terra cotta.
Over the past two years, work has been completed to deal with the most hazardous aspects of the structure. While the future of this landmark remains uncertain, restoring and converting the property into some type of mixed use space is a possibility.
The City of Danville is the seat of Vermilion County, and is located in East Central Illinois near the Indiana border. The population of Danville was 33,027 as of the 2010 census.
More photographs of Danville can be found in my "Danville IL" set.
Description on front of card:
Hotel Manchester
John B. Minnich, Mgr.
Middletown, Ohio
Restaurant
Private dining rooms
Cocktail lounge
Coffee shop
All air conditioned
Description on back of card:
110 Rooms - Modern - Fireproof
Restaurant...Coffee Shop...Cocktail Lounge
Private Dining Rooms and 800 capacity
Banquet Hall...All Air Conditioned.
Estimated Date: 1930s-1945
Condition: Unused
Published by: Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" by Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois
Publisher Note:
Curt Teich emigrated to Chicago in 1895. He had worked as a lithographer in Lobenstein, Germany.
He founded the Curt Teich Company in 1898, concentrating on newspaper and magazine printing. He was an early publisher of postcards, but he didn't begin printing them himself until 1908.
According to MetroPostcard.com, "As his competition dwindled, his sales expanded and his American factories would eventually turn out more postcards than any other in the United States."
The company was best known for their wide range of advertising and postcards of North America. By the 1920s, it was producing so many postcards with borders that they became recognized as a type dubbed "White Border Cards," creating an "era."
Curt Teich started using offset presses in 1907, but it took a number of years before he had offset presses made to his satisfaction, and many more years for him to perfect the method.
His innovations in this printing technique directly led to the production of what we now call "linens" by the early 1930s.
The company aided the war effort during the second world war by also printing many military maps.
Curt Teich eventually turned management of the company over to his son, but he remained active in company operations throughout its history.
Curt Teich died in 1974 and the family business was sold to Regensteiner Publishers who continued to print postcards at the Chicago plant until 1978 when the rights to the company name and processes were sold to the Irish company, John Hinde Ltd. Their California subsidiary now prints postcards under the name John Hinde Curteich, Inc.
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El Paso, TX, est. 1873, pop. (2015) 679,000 • Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, est. 1659, pop. 1.4MM) • El Paso-Juárez Metropolitan Area, pop. 2.7 MM • Life on the Line, NY Times Magazine
• the 809-seat "fireproof" theater [early photo] is an early example of Moorish Revival architecture, which became popular in the U.S. in late 1920s • the 3-story structure is decorated with arabesque tracery & Islamic calligraphy • the engaged columns separating the windows are reminiscent of the medieval Alhambra palace complex, Granada, Spain —Texas Trost Society • Henry C. Trost Historical Organization
• owners Rodolfo & Manuel Cruz spent an astonishing $150K ($3.5MM in 2016 dollars) to construct the theatre, apparently all of it their own money • they had made their 1st fortune after gold & silver were discovered in 1903 near their hometown, Guazapares, Chihauhua, Mexico • they promptly engaged in silver mining, first at the Rio de Plata mine, then following up with the Cleopatra & Santa Barbara mines, selling the latter in 1906 for $350K (roughly $9MM in 2016 dollars) • after the Cruz brothers moved to El Paso, Rodolfo — before devoting himself to the Alhambra — established a real estate business, having had previous experience in Chihuahua Mexico, where he built of the c. 1909 Rodolfo Cruz Building
• the Alhambra was designed as a playhouse for live theater, vaudeville & silent films by Henry C. Trost (1860-1933), Trost & Trost, El Paso • it was equipped with a $45K evaporative cooling system • mothers could check their children with a nurse at the "baby's rest room," which had 8 small cots • the adjoining "women's rest room" offered telephones, desks, stationery, mirriors, etc.
• the Cruzes catered to the El Paso's Mexican refugee community, of which they were members, having arrived in 1911 • consisted largely of immigrants who had fled the Mexican Revolution • the theater also served English-speaking audiences & Mexicans who lived across the border in Ciudad Juárez (economy fares for border crossings were readily available)
• Rodolfo (b. 1876) actively managed the theater and signed performers; Manuel (b. 1883) kept the books • when vaudeville acts delivered disappointing box-office, Rodolfo substituted light opera with music performed by the Alhambra Orchestra, Prof. Ernesto Gonzalez conducting
• in 1917 Rodolfo — often seen motoring around town in his 2-tone gray & black Cartercar Roadster — reportedly sold his underperforming $150K theater for $200K to his lawyer, P.E. "Pete" Gardner, who later flipped it for a suspiciously low $70K • Gardner, allegedly a member of the Ku Klux Klan, ran for Mayor of El Paso in 1923 & lost to R.M. Dudley, who had made Gardner's Alhambra deals — not to mention his association with the KKK — campaign issues • after selling the theatre, Rodolfo Cruz resumed selling real estate
• Dudley Beats K.K.K. by 2,120 —El Paso Times, 25 Feb, 1923 • Ku Klux Klan Had a Short Life in El Paso —EPCC Libraries • Ku Klux Klan in El Paso Texas
• the theater reopened under new management as a straight moving picture house • in 1918 a pipe organ — then said to be the largest in the southwestern U.S. — was installed to accompany the exhibition of silent photoplays • the 2nd floor housed a "refreshment parlor/dance hall called Rest-A-Whyle, which replaced the original confectionery/tea room • renamed Palace Theatre, "Home of Paramount Pictures," 1920 • by the 1970s exhibited adult movies • façade restored, 1987 • since 1990 has mainly housed a series of nightclubs —Cinema Treasures
• National Register # 80004109, 1980
Scad Theatre, 216 East Broughton Street, Savannah, Georgia. The Weis Theater was built in the midst of the post-World War II construction boom. News reports described the facility as "completely fireproof construction." In addition, the theater held the distinction of having one of the largest movie screens in the South and was the first theater in the Southeast to be built with air conditioning adjustable to the needs of the audience. Owners Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Weis promised and delivered a "completely new and modern motion picture theater," constructed on the site of a bowling alley that had been damaged by fire. The Weis family theater dynasty also included the Savannah Theater, the Roxy Theater, the East Side Theater and the Bibb Theater in Macon.
On Feb. 14, 1946, the Weis Theater opened its doors with an 11 a.m. showing of Enchanted Forest starring Brenda Joyce and Edmund Lowe. The morning paper's description of the Weis read, "Not only has the management gone to lengths to acquire the most attractive decorations and appointments for the new theater, but will offer the best which can be procured in projection equipment and sound devices."
The theater seated 1,200 patrons and could accommodate both motion pictures and theatrical performances. The Art Moderne structure was designed by the Tucker and Howell Firm of Atlanta. Partners McKendree Tucker (1896-1972) and Albert Howell (1904-74) were the only Georgia architects representing the International Style in the 1932 exhibition curated by Philip Johnson and Henry Russell Hitchcock for the Museum of Modern Art. Tucker, who trained at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Howell, the son of Atlanta Constitution editor Clark Howell, developed a specialty in modern theater architecture in Georgia, designing at least eight other theaters besides the Weis. They also designed a number of Atlanta schools, and occasionally collaborated with sculptor Julian Harris. The War Production Board oversaw all construction during World War II, including that of the Weis Theater.
film fest, trustees theater exterior
The Weis remained a working theater, presenting live shows as well as films, until 1980, when the emergence of multi-screen suburban cinemas drew audiences away from downtown. It stood abandoned for years until it was acquired by the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1989 to serve the emerging performing arts department as well as provide a venue for the annual spring Fashion Show and for screening student films, videos and computer animations. The structure reopened as Trustees Theater May 9, 1998, with a performance by singer Tony Bennett.
The Trustees Theater now hosts a variety of performances, concerts and lectures for SCAD and the community. By restoring the theater to its former Art Moderne splendor and by attracting major performers, SCAD has contributed to the revival of the Savannah theater district.