Skyline of San Francisco, stitched together from the opening credits of the 1957 film, Pal Joey.

( Behind a cut for extreme width. )

The Frederick C. Robie House (1909), Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.


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When I took bob_bunny on a day-trip to San Francisco in January, we got stuck in traffic for a while, and just offhand, I pointed to all the tall buildings that loom over downtown today and remarked, "See all those skyscrapers? Every single one of them was built in my own lifetime ( Read more... )

A land of striking contrasts (and similarities) in human habitations...

( Two cityscapes, behind a cut for width. )

Photographed circa 1919, the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan was, at the time, the tallest building in the world; a status it retained for 17 years after its construction in 1913. Known popularly as "The Cathedral of Commerce," the Woolworth still stands today - as imposing and impressive as ever - at the intersection of Broadway, Park Place ( Read more... )

Perhaps the grandest, most monumental train station in the Americas, destroyed in 1963 to make way for a sports arena ( Read more... )