Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.