Most of my photographs are from street level. That is where I am and I am looking up. But every so often I am fortunate to go into buildings and look out and down, it’s a different perspective.
Like the time I was finishing a tour in the PE building on Main and 6th. A local resident invited us up to view his loft. It was lovely, it is also his private space so I didn’t take pictures there. I did take a picture of the view, the KRKD radio tower and Bunker Hill beyond.
While at the workshop on Sunday I got a better view of the Radio towers.
KRKD – Arcade, these are atop the Spring/Broadway Arcade building. These no longer function, but the owners of the building have maintained them well. These are the Radio Towers that Sister Aimee Semple McPheasron used to broadcast her sermons from the Four Square Church. Radio Evangelism in it’s infancy.
Looking across at the Hotel Alexanderia, These wonderful glazed Terra cotta sculptures look down on the street from the roofline.
From the street one does’t see all the detail work. One also doesn’t see how messy the roofs really are.
A while back I had the pleasure of visiting an apartment in the Eldorado lofts. Here is the view from the balcony towards the TICOR building. The two tallest buildings on Bunker Hill gracing the skyline. The US Bank building (it has just changed ownership, so the name will be changing) and The Gas Company building which now proudly bears the name Deloitte. I understand the importance of signage on buildings, I’m sort of sorry that their sign is marring the blue gas flame that graces the top of this building.
Looking down on Spring St. Park.
Across to the Rowan Building. The name is painted in bold, while the Ghost advertising of the old names are fading away. Title Insurance building moved across the street and became TICOR.
Rooftop of the Rosslyn hotel from the back. The neon sign is refurbished now, hope to get images from the front soon. Once again, rooftops are often messy.
The picture I didn’t take was the young couple in the Alexandria who were enjoying an afternoon delight. I don’t think it occurred to them that people in the building across the street would glance down and see them. Our ideas of privacy are often determined by what we see, not how others see us.
Leah