MayDay
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“Looks like I picked the right day to come into the office”.
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Who cares about a “top ten” list when our skyline started each episode of an award winning show starring Betty White? 🤷🏻♂️
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@PlecoThank you so much, love seeing that! I remember when SSP started the diagrams and I think the few remaining renderings I created were from about 2002 😳 For those who may not know - the UrbanOhio site and forum are a spinoff of the Skyscraperpage forum. That said and keeping things on topic - be on the lookout for a forum meet up/get together for the SW Headquarters groundbreaking 👍
Even on an overcast day, gotta love the views from Lakewood's Gold Coast 🙂
Forgot to post this - a little shaky but always love this view returning from a trip A0885200-7478-43AC-9A22-1AB21112B383.mov
Okay @ColDayManand ( @richNcincy) - no clue why these won't post in the order I upload them but oh well!
Gotta sort through some pics and videos (since SSP doesn't allow those!)
Just a few pics for now, hoping to get the full set up soon.
Already back in Cleveland; only “celebrity” sighting was Donna Karan’s son in law at Tutto il Giorno in Sag Harbor. Everyone was wondering who he was, acting like he owned the place - well, he DOES own the place 😆 Highly recommend the Budoni dessert, btw. On our last visit in 2018 we saw Jimmy Fallon and family out and about in East Hampton. Apparently Madonna has a property in Southampton - had we seen *her* in person I was fully prepared to be tackled, throttled and/or tased by her security detail (I might be a huge fan 😁)
First trip since everything went on lockdown - stayed a few days in East Hampton and then a few days in the city. Pics in this thread are East Hampton and Sag Harbor. The famous estate, Grey Gardens. Egypt Beach The Maidstone Club - the initiation fee is "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". Egypt Beach and the adjacent estates. East Hampton Village Home of the Ladies' Village Improvement Society (with a FABulous consignment shop - not joking). Atypical stone mansion (as opposed to the usual clapboard). Sag Harbor. Two Bentleys, parked in front of the laundromat - yes, a laundromat. This Yacht named "Kisses" is 175 feet long and takes about $2-$4 million a year to operate.
Okay - found them; although the date reads 2004, these were taken in 2002 with my old trust Minolta 140EX film camera (thus the graininess/lighting), but didn't get them uploaded until years later. A friend of @Paul in Clevelandwho worked at Key at the time managed to get us up (though we had to sign waivers not to do anything stupid 😄) The views are indeed spectacular but the experience was also pretty scary even for someone who isn't afraid of heights. Along the edge is a raised section that doesn't even come to knee height and on the east/west facades it's pretty much a sheer drop. The aforementioned 57th floor. Lakewood and points west - the structures on the horizon are the steel mills in Lorain: Long before every building had signage at the top: Federal Courthouse was brand spanking new, Nautica didn't have the canopy, Stonebridge was under construction ... okay now I'm feeling old. Looking down on Terminal Tower was quite an experience. On the left is the former Cleveland Cold Storage building, now the site of one of Cleveland's script signs and the overlook of the Scranton Flats trail. Like I said, not really any kind of barrier - the small antenna looking thing is a lightning rod. Now this was by far the most nervous part - see the lights in the above? I stepped past those, turned around and got down on one knee to snap this. When I stood up my legs were complete jelly and I was superglued to the wall for a few minutes: "So, the rotunda is going to be a Heinens and the tower is going to be a popular hotel/apartment complex". Didn't see *that* coming! Now PNC (Previously National City or Pittsburgh, Not Cleveland - take your pick): No EY tower, no Pinnacle... 19 years later in this view, and along with thousands of others, I'd be doing my part to fight a pandemic. And Lumen would be looking pretty snazzy: Riiiight. A W Hotel - believe it when I see it.
Better that than this? (a quick photoshop job from back in the day when the bank merger rumors were going strong).
Yes, because like rental prices, the tourism count in Cleveland is an equal comparison to New York City. 🤨 Apples to Plums? Terminal Tower tickets are $5 a pop and open only for limited hours on weekends. Observation decks in NYC are open daily and able to command ticket prices well over $30.
Absolutely security and insurance reasons. The 57th floor was unfinished for 16 years until a law firm took up the space. Here’s a link to some photos from the 58th floor (not an office floor, the crown has six floors of HVAC/maintenance equipment, etc.) I’ll try to dig up the photos I took back in the day. https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/erry-2018/06/6db63bb51a7808/88_awesome_telephoto_views_fro.html
The Ledges, Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Many many moons ago, I lived five minutes from this place - drove by all the time, never realized it existed 🤷♂️ Almost 25 years later, friends came into town, wanted to go on a hike and came across it on the interwebs - who knew?
Yeah, it's my thing but just love getting out on the Lake and the Cuyahoga this time of year.
When it comes to post processing, my style is more “here’s how/what I saw” than things like super saturated colors, filter, etc. Not that there’s anything wrong with the latter, it’s all good. 👍 I shoot with a Canon RP, and post processing in Photoshop. Usually stick with cropping, adjusting levels, and the occasional editing out small things that detract from the image. In this case, a bug on the outside of a window, a reflection of a ceiling light, etc.
Not a great photo but here’s the world class signage 👍
@KJPI was actually thinking about that well before the pandemic. It’s on the to-do list after things hopefully settle down.
^ Annnd Euclid terminates/starts at the southeast corner of Public Square (South Roadway & East Roadway). But it’s all good 👍
Thank you! Canon EOS RP, purchased locally at Dodd Camera, came with the 24-105mm lens. 👍 https://doddcamera.com/can2008.html
Stopped by the Terminal Tower observation deck yesterday. Know before you go - admission is via online tickets only and you need to be at the security desk when your timeslot starts. Figured I'd get some photos of our 'beloved' parking crater before 616' of Sherwin Williams HQ wipes it out 👍 Always good to look up every now and then: Don't forget to make sure your ballot is postmarked on time. Won't be long before the Avon Lake power plant stacks come down. Crazy to see the amount of development of northern Ohio City/Hingetown: Really shows the scale of INTRO: Electric Gardens dwarfing the townhomes nearby: You can just barely see the Waterford Bluffs apartments going vertical on the left of this pic: Remember, don't forget to keep looking up 🙂
