Both lovely images,  I have the attached image on my desktop as it more
closely mirrors my own daily experience.  The boat name, if you can't read
it is "Damfino" or "Damned if I know!"  another useful thought.

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
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Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Grand Central and wallpaper


>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Bruce.Barrett wrote:
>
>>                 "I thought this was just an interesting photo."
>>
>>                 Thanks Pam. I turned it into to a Windows Bitmap and have
it
>> as a wallpaper selection. It looks great, but where did all that dust
come
>> from?
>
>Probably from all the urban coal burning they did in those days.  But
>isn't that a rendering, not a photo?
>
>I thought about using the Grand Central picture as you did, but decided to
>stay with my current desktop wallpaper, which is this photo:
>
>    http://www.potifos.com/images/wells.jpg
>
>That's the second Wells Hall at Michigan State University, built 1907 to
>replace one that burned; designed Titanic-like with fire walls between the
>six independent sections; later re-used as an office building; demolished
>1966.  It's an example of the style I like to call "Ragtime Georgian".
>
>Watching the demolition as a child, I was very surprised to see that those
>big dentil cornices were fabricated from sheet metal.
>
>MSU's current Wells Hall, a classroom and office building built in the
>late 1960s, is across the river from this site.
>
>---
>Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
>The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com