[Leica] IMG: Wayback Pix 1968 - Demolished Train Depot Album

[Douglas Barry]

Interesting building, Alan, and a shame they knocked that campanile 
clock tower. They should have kept it, refurbished it, and incorporated 
it into the whatever new building was put up. You should take a new 
image from the exact spot you took this one 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680210_MR_EMKE_NWD1A_2.jpg.html 
using the same focal length lens with a car driving up the hill in the 
foreground like the original.

Douglas

On 24/03/2018 15:55, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> Fifity years ago the demolition of the Chicago & Northwestern Depot in
> Milwaukee got me started documenting old buildings (before they
> disappeared).
>
> (The depot album starts here:<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-
> Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/
> 19680210_MR_EMKE_NWD1A_2.jpg.html>)
>
> I loved this station.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
> ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680206_
> MR_EMKE_NWD1_19N.jpg.html>
>
> My friends and I used to sneak inside.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
> ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680206_MR_ARCH_NWD1_8.jpg.html
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680206_MR_ARCH_NWD1_8.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
> ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680317_
> MR_ARCH_NWD4_12.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
> ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680227_
> TP_ARCH_NWD2_3N.jpg.html>
>
> This sequence of the tower was from one blow of the wrecking ball (and shot
> with a thumb-wind Pentax H3v).
> First one + six more.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
> ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680508_
> MR_EMKE_NWD24_13.jpg.html>
>
> I eventually shot 24 rolls of B&W, some slides, and a few Stereo Realist
> pictures of the building, and have three pieces of the terra cotta
> decoration in my basement.