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Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox
Using our diagrams, the top US cities by buildings above 300 feet in 1940:
New York - 186
Chicago - 41
Philadelphia - 19
San Francisco - 15
Detroit - 14
Pittsburgh - 11
Dallas - 6
Houston - 6
Kansas City - 5
Any city not listed was under 5. LA had 3, Baltimore 4, Cleveland 2.
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thanks for that refresher.
NYC - the unquestioned #1
Chicago - the unquestioned #2
#3? - take your pick between philly, SF, Detroit, and Pittsburgh.
i personally would slot detoit in at #3 because its pre-war top 5 of the penobscot, guardian, book, fisher, and stott towers is pretty much unbeatable anywhere outside of NYC/chicago, IMO.
i mean, each of those 5 towers are skyscraper masterpieces, any one of them would likely be the pre-war show-stopper in most other skylines.
but if someone is more partial to one of those other 3 cities, i wouldn't argue about it with them; the #3 pre-war skyline is not clear-cut like the first two.
cleveland is an interesting one in that it built, by far, the tallest pre-war skyscraper anywhere on the planet outside of NYC, but then had an extremely limited supporting cast around it at the time, at least relative to its peers like detroit and pittsburgh.