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davefyvie Oct 23, 2008 4:09 PM

http://www.soundstagedirect.com/medi...el_foxtrot.jpg

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!

andydie Nov 11, 2008 5:02 PM

my MC pics from my visit
 
hiya guys, thought I add my Marina City Pictures here too from my visit 2nd October Week:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1426.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1427.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1428.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1429.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1430.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1435.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1511.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1570.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1843.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1845.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1846.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1849.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1864.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1870.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_1875.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_2143.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_2146.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_2152.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_2158.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_2159.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_2162.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...p/100_2167.jpg

Enjoy:yes:

MolsonExport Nov 11, 2008 5:22 PM

thanks Steely Dan, for the inside shots.

ethereal_reality Nov 13, 2008 5:52 PM

^^^ Great shots andydie.

ethereal_reality Nov 13, 2008 5:57 PM

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/6...pmarinaxg2.jpg

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.

Jibba Nov 13, 2008 7:10 PM

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.

ethereal_reality Nov 13, 2008 10:38 PM

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6...ynight2fb0.jpg

Jibba, here's a pic of the 'thermometer' in action.

ethereal_reality Nov 13, 2008 11:03 PM

...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

Steely Dan Nov 13, 2008 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 3910433)
...seems there were two antennae on the east tower.

as per your images, the antennas were on the west tower, not the east.

the steel base plates where the antennas attached to the structure can still be seen on the roof of the west tower.

ethereal_reality Nov 13, 2008 11:21 PM

oops...I meant west. sorry

ethereal_reality Nov 13, 2008 11:23 PM

This is cool as well.

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/903...inacityoa0.jpg

Tallest apartments in the world.

ethereal_reality Nov 13, 2008 11:33 PM

I'm curious steely dan, did the second antenna come much later,
...or were they basically constructed at the same time?

Steely Dan Nov 14, 2008 5:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 3910504)
I'm curious steely dan, did the second antenna come much later,
...or were they basically constructed at the same time?

i don't know. i was born in '76, so that was all before my time.

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

Alliance Nov 14, 2008 6:01 PM

I love the "The best ideas are more exciting in concrete: tag.

Awesome!

george Nov 24, 2008 2:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steely Dan (Post 3728377)

Sweet crib, keep us posted on the party!

Jibba Nov 24, 2008 6:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 3910479)
This is cool as well.

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/903...inacityoa0.jpg

Tallest apartments in the world.

Who knew that that revolutionary material that produced one of the best works of Modern architecture would be the bane of that neighborhoods present day. Marina is worth all of the other concrete crap twice over, IMO.

Jibba Nov 25, 2008 7:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 3910397)
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6...ynight2fb0.jpg

Jibba, here's a pic of the 'thermometer' in action.

Somehow I missed this. Thanks for posting it. So freaking cool.

harryc Nov 25, 2008 11:41 AM

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 ?

staff Nov 25, 2008 1:38 PM

Probably the only buildings in which I can forgive a 20 story parking garage at the base.
Love 'em.

i_am_hydrogen Nov 25, 2008 3:30 PM

^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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