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One of the best Album covers of all time. One of the best albums of all time too. Jesus Etc, always enters my head when I see Marina City! |
thanks Steely Dan, for the inside shots.
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^^^ Great shots andydie.
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A pic from the 1960s with the WLS transmission tower atop Marina City. The transmission tower had red lights running vertically (obviously) acting as a giant thermometer. |
Good thing that was eventually taken down; kind of overwhelms the design just a bit. I didn't know about the thermometer function, though. Interesting little bit of whimsy that seems to be absent from just about everything today.
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Jibba, here's a pic of the 'thermometer' in action. |
...seems there were two antennae on the east tower.
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7618/186959dc9.jpg http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/7...ntennaesz1.jpg I don't know if the second one did any tricks. lol |
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the steel base plates where the antennas attached to the structure can still be seen on the roof of the west tower. |
oops...I meant west. sorry
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This is cool as well.
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I'm curious steely dan, did the second antenna come much later,
...or were they basically constructed at the same time? |
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by the way, Marina City Online has a very comprehensive history of the building, you may be able to find the answer to your antenna question there. while i was browsing that site, i found this super-awesome pic of King Richard the First on the roof of his newly constructed civic center (now daley center) surveying his domain with marina city in the background: http://www.marinacityonline.com/image/daleyroof.jpg source: http://www.marinacityonline.com/history/page19.htm |
I love the "The best ideas are more exciting in concrete: tag.
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A standard shot W IBM
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SS...0/P1120914.JPG I spend hours staring at Marina city while stuck in endless meetings, this is how it looks from the 21st floor of the ABA building ( the blue/green bldg in Steely's first indoor shot ). http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SS...0/P1150184.JPG http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SS...0/P1150185.JPG One way I keep awake is playing the game - which balcony is Steely's ? |
Probably the only buildings in which I can forgive a 20 story parking garage at the base.
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^And providing all of that parking space was essential to Marina City's original goal of convincing people to move to downtown Chicago, a radical proposition at the time.
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