Following Chris's suggestion I am including my response.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabinowitz <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: 10 west 66th st. lamps


>Thanks for the comment.  I wonder if there was a Danish something at the
>site before these modernists went to work.
>
>Are you inferring that I would be dealing in hot anchors?  (hot because of
>cathodic action).  The more I thought about that fellow's comments the
odder
>they seemed.  I think anyone who signs themselves with their degrees and
>memberships must be looking to prove something.
>
>Signed, barely literate BFA, member of no group that would have me.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 8:42 AM
>Subject: Re: 10 west 66th st. lamps
>
>
>>In a message dated 09/13/1999 8:39:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>[log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>>> The lampposts are not the same as those in Central Park but the lanterns
>>are
>>> exact matches.  Any thoughts?
>>
>>No thoughts, except that, to paraphrase Art Linkletter, "modernists do the
>>craziest things".  Taking some "ye olde" item and sticking it down on a
>>windblown plaza is actually a fairly common 1960's practice - at 1050
Fifth
>>(1959, nec 86th & Fifth) Bernard Spitzer salvaged some of the marble and
>>ironwork from the old Morton Plant house on the site (1922, designed by
Guy
>>Lowell) and plunked it down in his lobby, quite visible from the street.
>Tom
>>Mellins has observed that modernists actually liked decoration, they just
>>liked to concentrate it all in one glob on an otherwise blank facade -
like
>>the Wheeler Williams sculpture on the front of the old Parke-Bernet
>building
>>(across from the Carlyle Hotel on 76th and Madison) and the Paul Manship
>>plaques on the Coliseum at Columbus Circle.
>>
>>Seen any anchors in NYC lobbies?
>>
>>Sign me,  Owen Jones
>>
>>
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