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An old 5 rupee note from the Central Bank of Ceylon (Sri-Lanka)
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Yes let's meet autumn as our mid-autumn festival is coming! Things do converge mysteriously with or without you knowing or seeing, finding the connections is no big achievement but brings small pleasures to our lives.
I was in Seoul 2 weeks ago meeting Mr. Nam who's company Appree just launched "Leaf-it" and already shipped to Japan's Marcs International for distribution. The leaf post-it comes in 8 different types, each with various sizes and colors of leaves. I hope they are coming to our stores soon.
Two days ago I received a Mackinaw Autumn package from Field Notes, another hint of autumn coming, in colors I'm so very in love with. I regret that I missed their summer collection (Butcher Orange, Butcher Blue, Grass Stain Green). Hmmm.... so Tradio Nature just came to me, Leaf-it and Mackinaw Autumn are both on my desk now, they are all here to set something in motion, the welcoming of our 3,000 years old tradition, mid-autumn festival.
Tasty moon cakes await us, beautiful lanterns hanging all over the places, family gathering dinner and Chiu Chau tea ceremony at home..... such a pleasant anticipation. I particularly like what the shops do on Queen's Road West, about 5-6 stores normally selling incense for worship now hang hundreds of lanterns so beautifully which lighten up the streets. I was there with family on Sunday night, people were there lingering in such warm atmosphere. Tomorrow we will definitely go the park with our lanterns.
PS. My son told me something funny this evening: "God has no time to talk to us, because he has to make up some homework for us, so God is very difficult and we have to thank Him". Where did he get the ideas?
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Here are photos and notes on my first day at the D23 Expo 2017. I got to the Convention Center about 5:45 am, and go to the end of the outside showfloor line at about 6 am. I went through metal detectors, and was directed to a square area outlined by tape. It was overcast and about 75 degrees. There were many thousands of people ahead of me. There were also the overnighters down in Hall E, who got to go into the show floor ahead of us in the outside line. The sun broke through the clouds at about 8:30, so it started getting a lot warmer. They outside lines started moving at about 9 am towards the main entrance.
I got in at about 9:30, and made a beeline to the Disney Store. Unfortunately, the standby line was closed at that point, and they gave me a Store Pass for 3 pm. They said the line could be opened up at any time, so I could come back later to see if they had opened it up again.
I went to the D23 Design Challenge display, and took a few photos. At that time the first place winner wasn't displayed. I finally saw it when I left, and they had also rearranged the display.
I then went to the Disney Music Emporium, because of the many newly released picture vinyl record discs. I was interested in the Disneyland attraction discs. But when I got there, I also decided to get the Moana picture disc. I also got a holographic vinyl of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Shining a light on the vinyl while it spins on a turntable makes a holographic image of the Millennium Falcon float above one disc, and an X-Wing Fighter in another.
Then I went to the Disney Store (at about 11 am), and was pleasantly surprised that they had opened up the standby line. The Store Pass line (for the 11 am time slot) had also started to be filled. I got in there I gathered up my goodies. I also took pictures of various merchandise, especially limited edition or Designer merchandise. However, a mishap with my bank card that I couldn't resolve forced me to leave with just the Designer Lithographs, which I paid for with cash. Fortunately I fixed the issue after I got home, and was okay for the next day.
There is enough for everyone. I laugh when I hear kids say, "I liked that song first and now she likes it.....GOSH!"
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Hilton New York Hotel & Towers (formerly The New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center)
1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
As part of the lobby renovation a sculpture was added in 1989. The bronze work by Sophia Vari is titled "Là-haut, rien ne bouge" translated means - The above, nothing moves -. A description of Vari's work from her bio states: "Her forms become tangled, gather themselves, soar skywards, kink, unfold in extension, merge in ease..."
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*The Zeckendorf Hotel - A big hole in the ground!*
William "Big Bill" Zeckendorf - an earlier model of Donald Trump - announced in 1959 that he was going to build on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue the "Greatest Hotel Ever Built". To be called The Zeckendorf, the hotel would have 2,000 rooms in a 48 story tower, multiple banquet rooms and would cost $66 million and open in 1961. After Zeckendorf bought out saloon-keeper Toots Shor restaurant lease for $1.5 million (the lease at 51 West 51st Street had 9 years to run) and obtaining a bank loan to buy the land for $16.5 million he proceeded with demolition and excavation - creating a hole in the ground 35 feet deep and half a block long at 51st and 6th Avenue.
Lacking further financing the hole soon was nicknamed Zekendorf's Folly by columnist Walter Winchell. Zeckendorf had to abandon the hotel development and sold the land to the Uris brothers in 1961. Percy and Harold Uris partnered with the Rockefeller Group and erected the 43-story Sperry Rand Building on the site at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. The Sperry Rand building opened in 1962, its design somewhat complimentary to the Rockefeller Center.
*Laurance S. Rockefeller, Conrad N. Hilton and Percy and Harold Uris*
The Uris family did have some earlier hotel development experience. Harris Uris and his son Percy Uris developed the 1,000 room 24-story Dixie Hotel in 1930. They lost the hotel during the Great Depression. Today the Dixie Hotel is known as the Carter Hotel - yes that one - also known as the world's dirtiest hotel.
The Uris Brothers, Percy and Harold, were able to get a second venture started with the Rockefeller Group while working on the Sperry Rand Building. The Uris’s took Zeckendorf's hotel idea and moved it two blocks north to Sixth Avenue between West 53rd and West 54th Street. Plans filed with city in October 1960 for a $38 million 42-story hotel to be built by Rockefeller Center, Inc. and Uris Building Corporation. The original ownership entity was known as 1335 Sixth Corporation.
A partnership was formed in 1961 - the Rock-Hil-Uris Corporation, 50% owned by the Uris Brothers and 25% each by the Rockefeller Group and the Hilton Hotel Corporation - its purpose to build and operate the New York Hilton Hotel at Rockefeller Center. Permanent financing was arranged with the New York Life Insurance Company.
*The architects*
The initial 2,000 room Hilton design was by Morris Lapidus and was a 38-storey curving slab. Lapidus was removed from the project when it was determined he was working on the nearby Americana Hotel which also had the gently curved building theme.
The project was given to William B. Tabler along with Harrison & Abramovitz. The revised hotel design was a 45 story metal and blue glass tower (some called it New York's first blue skyscraper) with 2,200 outside rooms sitting on a five story masonry base. He created angled window bays for each room that allowed for the unusual placement of ducts used for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning to run outside the main structure. The tower ends were clad in limestone. Tabler took note of the Waldorf Astoria's motor court and included a 350-stall garage and convenient drive-in, drive-out for motorists. It would allow guests to be able to check in at the motorist's lobby - eliminating the need to go to the front desk. The hotel's main ballroom (25,000 sq ft) was to seat 4,200 for dinner and more than 5,000 for meetings. A freight lift was designed to carry automobiles, trucks and boats from the hotel's loading dock to the hotel's exhibit space.
William B. Tabler was involved with the design of over 400 hotels. He designed the 12-story Washington Hilton which opened in 1965 and the 1,200 room San Francisco Hilton in 1964. One of his last projects was the 376-room New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, which opened in 1998.
*Grand Opening - June 26, 1963*
The hotel opened on June 26, 1963. The hosts at the grand opening were Mr. Percy Uris, chairman, Rock-Hil-Uris Corporation; Mr. Conrad N. Hilton, president, Hilton Hotels Corporation; & Mr. Laurance S. Rockefeller, chairman, Rockefeller Center, Inc. also present was Joseph P. Binns, the president and ceo of Rock-Hil-Uris Corporation and the managing director of the New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center. Binns had previously served as general manager of the Palmer House, and evp and general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York from 1949-1961. Eugene Voit, previously the manager of the Savoy Hilton, moved over to the New York Hilton as manager.
According to the Architectural Record the final cost of the 2,165 room hotel, excluding land, was $52 million plus, representing a room construction cost of $24,000.
When the hotel opened in 1963 it brought the number of Hilton Hotels in New York City to four. The other three were the Waldorf Astoria, The Savoy Hilton (demolished in 1965 to make way for the General Motors building) and the Statler Hilton (now the Hotel Pennsylvania).
At opening the hotel lobby floor was a pink marble. Sculptural works within the hotel included Philip Pavia's sculpture group "Ides of March" in the Sixth Ave. driveway (no longer there) and James Metcalf's cast-iron sculpture in the lobby (no longer there).
At opening the New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center had five fine restaurants extending the length of the 52nd Street side of the hotel. Someone coined the side street "Rue des Gourmets" for the five cuisines available - American, French, Spanish, Italian and Oriental.
The restaurants were:
*The Old Bourbon House - was a plush red and gold room of the Gay 90's. It actually opened with the house rule of "men only" after 3pm on Monday thru Thursdays.
*The Valencia - an authentic Spanish restaurant offered casual entertainment and serious Spanish cuisine.
*Place Lautrec - a French style cafe.
*The Seven Hills Restaurant was designed with Rene Bouche murals who brought Rome's famous hills to the interior of the Italian themed dining room.
*The Gold Horn had a cocktail lounge and dining room with the colors of the fabled city Byzantium.
At opening the hotel had a Silversonic Dishwashing Machine - which reportedly could wash, polish and shine 30,000 pieces of silver per day. The opening room count was 2,153.
In the early 80's the Hilton's restaurants were known as Hurlingham's (a polo theme and later called Grill 53), Sybils (promoted as New York’s most beautiful backgammon, dining and disco club – dancing till 4AM), Mirage Lounge, Kismet Lounge and the International Promenade served afternoon tea.
Just three years after opening the hotel underwent a $50,000 face lift to remove dirt caught on the 5 story concrete facade fronting Sixth Avenue. According to the NY Times fly ash from smokestacks and dust from nearby construction projects came to rest on the hotel's main facade causing unsightly streaks of grime. To cover-up the dirt, cement panels were installed on the 200 foot by 40 foot high facade over the main entrance. The NY Times quoted Herbert Helprin, an assistant vice president of Uris Building Corporation "...with the dirt in New York we needed a new facade. Even marble or granite would probably stain. Look at the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year that Rockefeller Center spends on its limestone."
*More recently*
An advertisement for the New York Hilton New Year’s Eve on December 31, 1980 offered guests for $95 each a beef filet dinner and a bottle of California champagne per couple at Sybils or Hurlinghams. Sybils had a disk jockey and Hurlingham's entertainment was the Music Man Quartet.
In November 1974 The Prudential Insurance Co. of America acquired Uris Building Corp's 50% interest in three Hiltons including the New York Hilton for $38.5 million. Uris was owned by National Kinney (the parking and building services company).
In September 1996 a Hilton Hotels Corp press release announced that it was purchasing substantially all of Prudential's ownership interest in the 2,041-room New York Hilton & Towers, 1,143-room Washington Hilton & Towers, 543-room Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., and 432-room Rye Town Hilton near New York City. Hilton placed the cost at $267 million. The transaction involved Prudential's interests held on behalf of its giant PRISA (Property Investment Separate Account) pension fund. PRISA, in 1996, was a $1.9 billion equity real estate portfolio managed by Prudential on behalf of 80 pension funds.
In April 1999 Arthur A. Surin, SVP/managing director of the Hilton New York announced a $100 million renovation. The Master Plan project created a new sleek metal and stone facade, with strategic lighting, and a redesigned porte cochere. New dining venues and lobby level bars replaced existing outlets - Etrusca, an authentic Tuscan restaurant and the New York Marketplace with an authentic Japanese Breakfast Buffet, wood-fired pizza ovens and a display kitchen. The new Bridges Bar, designed in honor of Manhattan's seven famous bridges, and the Lobby Lounge. The new Spa and Fitness Center, located on the fifth floor, has saunas, steam rooms, treatment rooms, wet therapy facilities, state-of-the-art cardiovascular and free weight equipment. Brennan Beer Gorman/Architects provided design services for the project with Interior design by Hirsch Bedner Associates.
As part of the renovation a lobby sculpture was added. The bronze work by Sophia Vari is titled "Là-haut, rien ne bouge" translated means - The above, nothing moves -. A description of Vari's work from her bio states: "Her forms become tangled, gather themselves, soar skywards, kink, unfold in extension, merge in ease..."
In March 2000 Peter Kretschmann was named general manager of the 2,085-room Hilton New York & Towers, succeeding Arthur Surin, who retired after 32 years with the company. Kretschmann most recently served as general manager of the Hilton Pasadena. A 21-year Hilton veteran, Kretschmann was general manager of the Hilton Beverly Hills, from 1994 to 1998; the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1994; and the Hilton Miami Airport, from 1987 to 1991. He reported to Hilmar Rosenast, senior vice president, Hilton Hotels Corp., and executive vice president-select hotels.
In 2002 Hilton Hotel Corporation made a move toward time shares in New York City with the conversion of two floors of its flagship hotel, the Hilton New York into 78 time-share units known as the Hilton Club. Buyers bought points redeemable for time in a unit, the minimum timeshare purchase was $20,000. Its success spawned the West 57th Street by Hilton Club, a 28-story ground-up time share vacation club property with 161 studios and one-bedroom suites in New York City.
In July 2007 The Blackstone Group bought Hilton Hotels for $26 billion, or $47.50 a share. Somewhere in that $26 billion is the value belonging to the Hilton New York.
In April 2010 Mark Lauer was appointed General Manager of the 1,980-room Hilton New York. He succeeded Conrad Wangeman, who was recently named Area Vice President, Operations – Northeast for Hilton Worldwide. Lauer had a nine-year tenure at the Waldorf=Astoria, where he served as Hotel Manager for six years and Director of Marketing for three years.
All text and photos by Dick Johnson
February 2012
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monsieur! crossing ze street is so dangerouse!
So it's less than 24 hours until the KOTO sponsored bike ride.
An eighty kilometre bicycle ride through the still green lakes and hills of Vietnam, to raise money for a worthy cause: the education and training of street children of Ha Noi, by an aussie charity here.
I'm all hyped up. Pumped, as Arnie says. I'm ready to kill myself doing this.
And kill myself doing this is extremely likely.Did I mention that I'm not really outdoorsy?That despite my action man exploits underwater, back on dry land, I remain the world's biggest seven stone weakling?Did I mention that I haven't ridden a bicycle in fifteen years?Did I mention that I haven't done any physical exercise at all since rowing with the british dragonboat team in Singapore four weeks ago?I did mention that just those two hours left me crippled for two days, didn't I?Did I point out what eighty kilometres is in imperial measurements? It's FIFTY MILES. When I wrote to everyone in my address book asking for sponsorship, I didn't realise this. To a Brit, every metrical measurement appears tiny. I assumed this would be something simple, like a foot or so. 80 metres. 80 centimetres. Perhaps 80 millimetres. You know, something possible?I ever mention to you that even in the gym in days of yore, the stationary bike machines were the one thing I couldn't cope with? That my thigh muscles are such flaccid dead fish of a human sinew that they usually appeared to split at the seams after just 75 repetitions of pressing down an unweighted wheel to get nowhere?Many of my good sponsors have communicated an earnest hope that I have been in training since I foolishly agreed to murder myself by two wheeled means. This is not so. My training regime has been a peculiar one. It involves food poisoning, a full week laid prone in bed, running to the toilet every hour, and eating one bowl of rice and boiled broccoli a day. I look skinnier, yeah, but fitter? Think 'The Pianist'.Have I mentioned that Ha Noi's road traffic doesn't follow any rules whatsoever? That simply crossing a road intact was a Vietnamese challenge set by one reader, here?The streets are infested with speeding mopeds, ridden to be seen, not to get from A to B, and therefore populated with the type of motorist whose mirrors are angled to check their hair is straight rather than to stay alive.The rules of the road are: the bigger the vehicle, the faster you have to move out of the way. Horns are a deafening everpresent scrum. A horn beeping replaces the indicator lights, replaces the use of brakes, alerts people to the oncoming road accident, and tells everyone that you're rich enough to have a moped. Horns beep day and night in an orchestral cacophony. Horns beeping will not save me from harm.Did I tell you that the reason I never cycled in London was because I'm not roadworthy. I was the only kid in my primary school class who didn't pass the Cycling Proficiency Test.Did I tell you that the last time I cycled anywhere, I had to ask a friend to cycle just in front of me, so I could steal the signals from her without looking behind me? Because if I look over my shoulder, I wobble ten feet to the left, then fall off the bike?That I've never yet managed to stay on the bike on a mild incline?That I have a serious problem navigating Ha Noi's streets, and have only once managed to leave my hotel without getting lost within six paces?That one of the KOTO bike rides central problems is that people with an actual sense of direction get lost year after year?Are you feeling quite how bloody foolish this bike ride will be for me yet?Nevertheless I will do this.
I will do this because KOTO is a really really worthwhile cause. I will do this because I promised my friends if they sponsored me, I would photograph my agony and embarrassment.
I will do this because having read this promise, my sodding bloody over-generous friends committed more than $800USD in just 48 hours, if I kill myself on Saturday.
Every mile I ride, every muscle I tear, every ragged gasp I breathe, every pained tear I shed, every tendon I split will be recorded for their delectation.
And it will kill me.
"if you're not willing to be changed by a place, there's no point in going."
If you're willing to add to the sum raised by my death, and are titillated by the thought that KOTO will sell you pictures of it, please leave your email and your sponsorship promises in the comments below.
Roll call of esteemed sponsors:
Russell Braterman, Germany, Eroica from Frogstar World, NZ, Looby from Gay Nazi Sex Vicar ..., UK, Francesca from End Message, UK, Vikki Tomlinson, UK, Martin from Web Frog, UK, Tess from Bored and Broke, Northern Ireland, Duch, UK, my mum and dad, UK, Margret Smith, Spain, Ruth Gilburt, UK, jatb, UK, Will of Moving Forward, Mexico, Tim Worstall, UK, Karen from Secret Walk, Phillippines, Robin Brzakalik, UK, my sister, UK, Paul from Noxturne, USA, Paula Newark, UK, Fishboy from Effing the Ineffable, Australia, Pete Connolly, UK, Yidaho from kitchensunk, UK, Bloom from Tales from the Chalkface, UK, Madeleine Minson, Sweden, Emma from Etcher: A Print Maker's Diary, UK, my mum's boss at work, UK, Terry of More Coffee, Less Dukkha, UK, Mike of Troubled Diva, UK, Nicole Hammond, UK.
Killers, all of them.
I had totally forgotten to tell you that my super cute sticky notes set is now available exclusively at Anthropologie.
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A love note found within a copy of "The Female Eunuch" I bought at a thrift store. The note looks to be over a decade old, and possibly up to three decades old.
Petit cahier de notes que je traine avec moi lorsque je fais de la photo argentique.
Little notebook that I carry with me when I'm shooting film.
Stewardship Committee mtg notes for church. We cover important church issues, like the need for cinnamon rolls and pens.
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