Wonderful set, Rick - very Eurocentric. So clean too. Must be inspiring
to live in such a place. Very little of that in SA, restricted to the
old cities & a few rural Churches. Nothing at all in my part of the
world. Here they even burn or tear down what little we have (e.g.
Parliament which is now unusable & many "offensive" statues) and there
is no money even for basic maintenance because so much of the fiscus is
being stolen through corruption on a daily basis. The story of Africa.
Alan C
On 13-Jun-22 02:13 AM, Rick Womer wrote:
After Reading Terminal Market, our group made its way to Philadelphia’s City
Hall. It is the second-tallest masonry building in the world at 538 feet/ 167
meters (a building in Italy is a few cm taller). It is topped by a statue of
William Penn, and until 1987 there was a “gentleman’s agreement” that no
buidling in the city limits would be taller than Penn’s hat; then an office
building (One Liberty Place) opened at 945 ft.
The stonework and statuary are remarkable, and these photos only hit at it.
https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2022/June-2022/Philly-City-Hall/
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