And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
The City Investing Building, completed in 1908 in lower Manhattan, demolished in the 1960s.
Then there's this:https://www.google.com/search?vsrid=CIOO5eO20uO49AEQAhgBIiRkMmNlNmQyNS0zNjU4LTQyOGQtOWFmNi1mYzYyZjg5MWYxMWIygAEiAm5uKAlCcgoubGZlLWR1bW15OmQ1ZTMzOTc0LTIwNjktNGFiNy1iMTY2LTQxMGM4M2EyYTZkMxJACj4vYm5zL25uL2Jvcmcvbm4vYm5zL2xlbnMtZnJvbnRlbmQtYXBpL3Byb2QubGVucy1mcm9udGVuZC1hcGkvNVoECgJubjiZ78Lsv-yXAw&vsint=CAIqDAoCCAcSAggKGAEgATojChYNAAAAPxUAAAA_HQAAgD8lAACAPzABEOYEGK4GJQAAgD8&udm=26&lns_mode=un&source=lns.web.gsbubb&vsdim=614,814&gsessionid=KXq1nbzKqqDCm_6Xvd_G6rkGrLr0hqXpnZ_sw0GKrpOSoDhzh-NhzA&lsessionid=sS-HMUhSs1luIhHm_JHXm0We_q63n5o-GF71ftLXXZBdUqDXcmnZ6Q&lns_surface=26&authuser=0&lns_vfs=c&qsubts=1793732920281&biw=1280&bih=608&hl=en
Demolished because?
ReplyDeleteThe story about the demolition is covered in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/McQnM1QqjHU
ReplyDeleteThat, regardless of the "reasons", is/was a crying shame.
ReplyDeleteThen there's this:https://www.google.com/search?vsrid=CIOO5eO20uO49AEQAhgBIiRkMmNlNmQyNS0zNjU4LTQyOGQtOWFmNi1mYzYyZjg5MWYxMWIygAEiAm5uKAlCcgoubGZlLWR1bW15OmQ1ZTMzOTc0LTIwNjktNGFiNy1iMTY2LTQxMGM4M2EyYTZkMxJACj4vYm5zL25uL2Jvcmcvbm4vYm5zL2xlbnMtZnJvbnRlbmQtYXBpL3Byb2QubGVucy1mcm9udGVuZC1hcGkvNVoECgJubjiZ78Lsv-yXAw&vsint=CAIqDAoCCAcSAggKGAEgATojChYNAAAAPxUAAAA_HQAAgD8lAACAPzABEOYEGK4GJQAAgD8&udm=26&lns_mode=un&source=lns.web.gsbubb&vsdim=614,814&gsessionid=KXq1nbzKqqDCm_6Xvd_G6rkGrLr0hqXpnZ_sw0GKrpOSoDhzh-NhzA&lsessionid=sS-HMUhSs1luIhHm_JHXm0We_q63n5o-GF71ftLXXZBdUqDXcmnZ6Q&lns_surface=26&authuser=0&lns_vfs=c&qsubts=1793732920281&biw=1280&bih=608&hl=en
ReplyDeleteI hope someone saved those, and other architectural pieces.
ReplyDeleteIt's like a sin to me that art so nicely done is destroyed.
Architecture had class back then. Much more interesting looking at street scenes like this than the metal and glass of today.
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