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as opposed to the Old Canal...I lie not....lol
And yeah, the sun finally decided to show its face, but it was still bitterly cold
decorations on a windowdoor, only visible with passing tram!
No photoshop, only with the light of tram for one second!
"The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here."
- Michael Dolan
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This shot was taken in Jaffa (Yafo) - the ancient 3,000-year-old adjoining city that lies to Tel Aviv southwest. The current Old City of Jaffa was built during the Ottoman Empire and its stone houses and narrow alleyways, the seaside promenade and walls of the old city have unique picturesque atmosphere.
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Ok, so there is no lady in the window, but I swear to god she was there as I was trying to pretend I was getting a shot of the street vendor. The ladies of the Red Light District of Amsterdam do not like their photos taken, not that I blame them, I cannot tell you how many curtains were whippedclosed as we walked by...it is not like my camera is easily hidden.
There is one section of the Red Light district that encloses a circular church...the ladies windows look out upon the church..and there we passed by a couple of guys who had gotten a lady to open her door..what did I hear the guys say as we walked by... "We need only a minute or so" I could not help but think...only a minute? but then perhaps that is welcome news.
Anyhoo...needed a break from all the canal shots I have taken and posted...decided to post these for the fun of it
The brainchild of Lt. Commander J.W. Hobbs of Toronto, it was opened on 7 October 1930, and at 97.8 metres (321 ft) (22 floors) it was the tallest skyscraper in the city until 1939.
The Marine Building in downtown Vancouver is one of the world’s most exquisite examples of art deco architecture. When it opened in 1930, it had the distinction of being the tallest building in the British Empire.
According to the architects, McCarter & Nairne, the building was intended to evoke "some great crag rising from the sea, clinging with sea flora and fauna, tinted in sea-green, touched with gold.”
The building cost $2.3 million to build – $1.1 million over budget—but due to the Great Depression it was sold to the Guinness family of Ireland for only $900,000. The 2016 property assessment is $90 million.
By 1931, only a year after the building opened, its owners were willing to sell it to the city for its new city hall for about the same as, and maybe even a little less than it had cost them to build. But that deal fell through.
By 1933, the owners knew they were licked. They sold the building to British Pacific Building Co. (owned by the Guinness brewing people) for $900,000. Stimson had taken a million-dollar bath.
There was an observation deck, but during the depression in the 1930s the 25-cent admission price proved unaffordable for most. Currently, there are no public galleries in the building.
A.J.T. Taylor, who was managing director of British Pacific, moved into the building's penthouse with his wife and had a tiny elevator built to connect it with the 18th floor. They had a lavish apartment looking over the city but Mrs. Taylor eventually decided she didn't like heights, so they moved out.
The Marine Building penthouse is the stuff of legend, a masterpiece outfitted in the latest 1930s decor. It had a 17-foot-high ceiling in the living room, a spiral staircase leading to two bedrooms on the mezzanine level, a marble fireplace, wood-panelled walls, teak floors and elaborately tiled bathrooms.
There are all sorts of stories attached to the penthouse. One is that Taylor never actually lived in it because his wife didn't like living so high in the sky. The Taylors did in fact live in a house in West Vancouver, but Don Luxton (Vancouver Heritage buff) says the real reason Mrs. Taylor didn't want to live there was because as an office building the Marine Building shut down at night, leaving the Taylors marooned 300 feet above the city.
"They shut the elevators down at night," he says. "They couldn't get down unless they walked down."
Another story is that Taylor once took a pony up to the penthouse terrace to entertain his kids. Atkin says this is true, but it's been spun into another yarn that is a little more far-fetched.
"There is a tourism publication that says businessmen in downtown Vancouver used to meet up there for horse races, and that they had a horse-racing track on the roof," says Atkin. "Which is probably one of the dumbest things I've ever read."
Taylor moved to New York at the start of the Second World War, and in 1941 the penthouse was rented to a Mrs. Mary Fisher. Not much is known about her, but local theatre legend Norman Young recalls that her son had some wicked "Shaughnessy bathtub parties" at the penthouse in the early 1940s.
"They were social parties in the '40s," explains Young with a laugh. "Everybody would get drunk at the party and you'd cram into the bathtub as many people as you could, and then move on to the next bathroom. It was a way of mixing singles.
"But it could only take place in the mansions in Shaughnessy [because they had several bathrooms]. I think [the penthouse] had three bathrooms, but they weren't enough for a good party."
The Fishers moved out in 1944 and the penthouse was converted to an office by the Spencer department store family in 1947. It's now occupied by Sun Gold Mining company.
It seems appropriate that the longest-lasting of the building's tenants was the architectural firm that designed it: McCarter and Nairne. They moved in as soon as space was available and moved out in February of 1980, a tenancy just five months short of 50 years.
Inside the massive brass-doored elevators the walls are inlaid with 12 varieties of local hardwoods. All over the walls and polished brass doors are depictions of sea snails, skate, crabs, turtles, carp, scallops, seaweed and sea horses, as well as the transportation means of the era. The floor presents the zodiac signs. The exterior is studded with flora and fauna, tinted in sea-green and touched with gold.
During a renovation from 1982-1989 to update the electrical, mechanical and air-conditioning systems, the "battleship linoleum" (imported from Scotland) in the lobby was replaced with marble. The former Merchant Exchange was also gutted, and is now a restaurant called Tractor Foods. This building was also the management centre for Oneworld, of one of the three largest airline alliances in the world, from its founding in May 2000 until it was relocated to New York City in June 2011.
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THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
HURRICANES & I
Hurricanes & I
Were lovers
And I built my house
On a little island beckoning them,
Alone, a world away
And -
the wind
screamed with joy
waters surged to hug my walls
I embraced the breaking beams
howled through the shattering windows
till the whole roof groaned & flew straight up
and her final wave took me.
Calm, then
Floating lost amid the splinters
Under the white sun
In water to the world’s rim
Trying to do it again
If I can
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THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
I dont know if i will ever get to see a more beautiful balcony, it is part of a newly built Haveli opposite olden goldie Patwon ki haveli in Jaisalmer city. The tradition to create "Delicate Corners" has been continued to this day by the natives of Jaisalmer the past hundreds of years.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.
THE PORT TO THE SLAVE SHIPS FOR 20 MILLION PEOPLE. (300 YEARS AGO) MANY FOR THE NEW WORLD. . GOREE ISLAND WAS THE PORT WHERE 20,000,000 SLAVES LEFT AFRICA FOR THE NEW WORLD. WORLD HERITAGE SITE (UNESCO). GOREE ISLAND, SENAGAL.