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Old Posted Jun 6, 2024, 4:00 AM
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Philadelphia needs to do something about the night lighting. Every other major city, even cities tinier than us (like Cleveland) coordinates their night lights every night to match each other and make a nice arrangement of lights. Philadelphia matches on some nights for a Phillies game or an Eagles game and on some other occasions, but we need them to match EVERY night imo. Also, if Comcast One can only change all those lights to one color at a time as we've seen so far, they honestly just might as well have not renovated the lights. What is the point in spending millions to redo lights just to have them be able to change to like 9 colors. That's literally 1980s technology. The new lights should be able to do animations and gradients and what not, similar to the Salesforce Tower in San Fran. Also, Liberty One needs to use their lights to the full potential. It has the capability of doing a rainbow animation and SHOULD be doing that all night, every night for Pride month, yet it just stays its basic color every night. I know I am ranting to probably no one who cares but it has always bothered me that the night lights in this city are taken so unseriously.

On a more positive note, I do have a contact at Comcast that says they are discussing renovating the Comcast Two light stick, so hopefully that will be renovated better and have more extensive lighting capabilities. Again sorry for ranting, rant over.
I agree with you, the biggest issue I notice is that Philly does have good lighting, but for some reason lack of maintenance, and/or high costs of the time caused the lighting to go out, there's tons of lighting on buildings that simply is not on, look at city hall half the lights are out, and have been out for a long time now.

Another example is the fact that IBX just recently turned on lighting thats been off for decades, who knows how many other buildings have lighting that's simply off.
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Old Posted Jun 6, 2024, 4:13 AM
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Yup, it's beautiful ain't it! I am also extremely glad IBX recieved it's corner lighting this year, they were last lit up in 2004.
Oh, and I forgot BNY Mellon!

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There was lights on top of the thick metal channels on the exterior of the Pyramid Club level, along with the external ceilings on the large overhangs being lit up. Not to mention those gigantic structures on top of the base on all four corners of the tower that look like huge lights...ARE huge lights! Whoever thought we wouldn't notice these lights disappearing, you better think again lol. I would really love to see Two Liberty's stubby spire lit up again


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Old Posted Jun 6, 2024, 4:28 AM
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^ Base corner lighting test during construction


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Mellon Bank Center AND Liberty Place also had smaller lights around the perimeter of the buildings
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Old Posted Jun 6, 2024, 1:22 PM
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By far, Mellon Bank Center is so well built. If you see it in person and the design, details, and exterior stone and glass material, hard to believe it was built in 1990 but looks 100% better than most new building designs.
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Old Posted Jun 6, 2024, 4:48 PM
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Philadelphia handled post modernism architecture so well, though only four skyscrapers fit that category. As you know One Liberty Place is my all time favorite, but I do appreciate the other towers nearly just as much. Mellon definitely has an influence on Roman architecture as well, and Bell Atlantic Tower definitely deserves more attention. But thanks for making it hidden Comcast...twice...
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Old Posted Jun 11, 2024, 12:12 PM
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Great shots Tony!! I'm noticing there's what looks like harness cords around the spire of One Liberty Place. I wonder what going on up there, I'll keep my eye out like always
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You can see one of them here on the south side, taken back in 1990
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It's amazing how that view is pretty much the same even today
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Perhaps I can recreate it (hopefully) this weekend
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Old Posted Jun 12, 2024, 4:32 AM
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Great shots Tony!! I'm noticing there's what looks like harness cords around the spire of One Liberty Place. I wonder what going on up there, I'll keep my eye out like always
Penn Centre, Philadelphia by Scott Winning, on Flickr
You can see one of them here on the south side, taken back in 1990
Interesting, Maybe radio upgrades? Also could be time to change the Red warning lights on top. Maybe new lighting? Does the spire light up on Lib 1?

Also They really need to update Lib 2 Lighting.
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Old Posted Jun 12, 2024, 6:38 AM
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Yes, there's lights at the base of the spire on the exterior. But the spire lighting is currently off for Lights Out Philly
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Off topic, but I used to see that naked family statue on a daily basis for many years... then it was removed one day (pre-covid), never to return. I wonder where that thing ended up?! IT was a weird statue, for sure.

Awesome photos, Tony!
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I as just looking on google maps and it looks like that statue was removed sometime between 2015 and 2016. No idea where it went either, I actually didn't hate it but I can see why some people found it odd.
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Off topic, but I used to see that naked family statue on a daily basis for many years... then it was removed one day (pre-covid), never to return. I wonder where that thing ended up?! IT was a weird statue, for sure.

Awesome photos, Tony!
Speaking of removed statues, the phallic looking monk carved into a cut down tree on 4th and Pine (Old Pine Church graveyard) has been removed
Anyone know why?
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Old Posted Jun 16, 2024, 12:36 PM
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Okay I forgot to recreate that shot...and I was a block away

One Liberty Place spire by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

But here's close ups of One LP's spire. I would LOVE for them to take off that broadcasting equipment to show the original look of the spire, but that's not possible. When One Liberty was built, it greatly interrupted frequencies coming from the Roxborough antenna farm. The first lower set of broadcasting equipment was installed in 1992, then the top set of equipment was installed in 2003

One Liberty Place spire by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

Bonus, a lovely video (and three more on my channel) if you want to watch. I'll be posting WAY more shortly

https://youtu.be/871SzFyDllE?si=6BCYg2qtfeECBDUw

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