Has to be 1902 or later.
The Fuller Building (now, and better known as, the “Flat Iron” building) wasn’t completed until 1902.
I’ve discovered that the building got its current name because of the New York City district it is in, not its shape.
Having just made the “discovery” that the Flatiron building was named after its New York City district today, I used that “knowledge” without citing the source. I’ve looked, but can’t find that source again (Google searches ! !).
The quotation marks are because when you said ‘ …you might want to recheck that….’, I did.
Every other source, including my ” The World Book Encyclopedia” (1963) agree that it is indeed the other way around.
While doing the above I came across this…
“The Flatiron District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, named after the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Generally, the Flatiron District is bounded by 14th Street, Union Square and Greenwich Village to the south; the Avenue of the Americas and Chelsea to the west; 23rd Street and Madison Square to the north; and Park Avenue South and Gramercy Park to the east.”
I didn’t mean you had to find your original source, or quote ANY sources, especially in detail….
or make it complicated at all.
This is simply about an identifying caption for a picture of a distinctive building with a descriptive name.
….
I only meant that IF you were going to include that extraneous information, you might want to look at SOME source or other, since I just happened to have heard of several three sided Flat Iron buildings in the US.
It’s very unlikely that the one I know in Oakland, and the others elsewhere, would all be named for a district in NYC, and not their similarly triangular shapes.
…..
Besides, I was also pretty sure the NYC Flat Iron building is much older than the district designation, and more famous and recognisable.
I won’t be going there, so thanks anyway, but the detailed boundaries and such don’t matter to me.
I recall two things about this movie.
1) I’ve seen it.
2) How ridiculous it actually was when the premise behind the title was played out.
In a city there is always enough ambient light from some source to see and attack a human target.
Doctor Ratbreth, who BTW looks suspiciously cat-like, meets all the requirements for mad scientist status. He wears glasses and a white lab coat, rubber gloves for handling all those tricky chemicals, AND the all-important pocket protector. Plus, of course, he is shown standing next to his latest dabble in dastardly, devious devices.
Doesn’t sound like Dr Ratbreath has a plan for reversing his Shrinkerator. Maybe BatBasset will turn it on him and see if that focuses his nerd mind.
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2 years ago
The Boardwalk in this video is nothing like the one I grew up with. It was typically 5 or 6 feet tall on the ocean side, shrinking to two feet in the back. Much more intimate and more fitting to the song.
dennisinseattle
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2 years ago
I think the BeeGees got their vocal cords caught in the Shrinkerator. It is one thing to listen to this on the radio, but to see these normal guys emitting sounds that do not normally come from humans, whether male or female, is disturbing/fascinating.
It’s early early in the morning… but not for me… for me it’s still late at night…
I don’t usually post about this stuff… but I have to say I’ve had a heck of a day.
For one thing, it was about 100° this afternoon…at 3pm, my weather app said the predicted high was 97°, but the current temperature was 100.
Makes sense, right? And tomorrow is predicted to be 100 so we’ll see.
I live in Northern California, where we’ve all been hypnotised into thinking we don’t need air conditioning, because we only have “a few” hot days a year.
…
At about 3pm, usually nearly the hottest moment, the electricity went out in my neighborhood. No fan.
So I lay on my bed, out of the sun but very hot, writing a long email on my tablet… it has batteries, after all.
After about 2 hours the power came back… but a while before it did, coincidentally, the internetwent out.
…
I was able to see my ISP’s site by using my cell phone… they had a notice up, saying the outage covered about half of town, and they were working on it.
So I looked at that email on my phone, forgetting that the tablet hadn’t had access to save it. Guess what.
…
I think the internet came back about 8 or 9 pm…
Too hot to care…. too hot to cook or even eat a cold dinner till well after midnight.
We’re not used to this around here. We’re babies. I admit it!
Part of the reason I moved totally out of the state nearly 35 years ago. I luckily had a job transfer to Southern Oregon then and in 2000 when the plant closed, I found another job near Portland. I’m glad we’re north of the heat line so far. Last year’s four days of 116 degrees was bad enough.
There were also a lot more days over 100 last year than just those four.
when we moved here 16 years ago, there were about 10 days aver 90. last summer, we had 30 days over 90. luckily none were over 100, cause we, too, don’t have a/c.
The loco in the painting looks to be a Great Western Railway (GWR) ‘Castle ‘ Class 4-6-0 locomotive. It could be a ‘King’ Class, but I can’t make out the detail on the front axle on the front bogie. The ‘King’ Class had outside axleboxes on the leading axle, the ‘Castle’ Class had inside bearings, like most of the other GWR 4-6-0’s.
NYC 1900
Has to be 1902 or later.
The Fuller Building (now, and better known as, the “Flat Iron” building) wasn’t completed until 1902.
I’ve discovered that the building got its current name because of the New York City district it is in, not its shape.
Um… I think you might want to recheck that “discovery.”
AFAIK, it’s the other way around.
Having just made the “discovery” that the Flatiron building was named after its New York City district today, I used that “knowledge” without citing the source. I’ve looked, but can’t find that source again (Google searches ! !).
The quotation marks are because when you said ‘ …you might want to recheck that….’, I did.
Every other source, including my ” The World Book Encyclopedia” (1963) agree that it is indeed the other way around.
While doing the above I came across this…
“The Flatiron District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of
Manhattan, named after the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Generally, the Flatiron District is bounded by 14th Street, Union Square and Greenwich Village to the south; the Avenue of the Americas and Chelsea to the west; 23rd Street and Madison Square to the north; and Park Avenue South and Gramercy Park to the east.”
…which comes from HERE.
I didn’t mean you had to find your original source, or quote ANY sources, especially in detail….
or make it complicated at all.
This is simply about an identifying caption for a picture of a distinctive building with a descriptive name.
….
I only meant that IF you were going to include that extraneous information, you might want to look at SOME source or other, since I just happened to have heard of several three sided Flat Iron buildings in the US.
It’s very unlikely that the one I know in Oakland, and the others elsewhere, would all be named for a district in NYC, and not their similarly triangular shapes.
…..
Besides, I was also pretty sure the NYC Flat Iron building is much older than the district designation, and more famous and recognisable.
I won’t be going there, so thanks anyway, but the detailed boundaries and such don’t matter to me.
….
ok, change that to NYC 1900s
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Good morning!
Thanks for that laugh!
,
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I recall two things about this movie.
1) I’ve seen it.
2) How ridiculous it actually was when the premise behind the title was played out.
In a city there is always enough ambient light from some source to see and attack a human target.
one of my favorite ‘scarrey’ movies!!! no need for the scardey cat row!!! if Audrey is in it, she’ll make it all nice.
she’s the world champion blind lady!
Here’s a trailer:
I think most of us know it by its title in English… not a direct translation, which would be “The Eyes of the Night.”
Here we know it as “Wait Until Dark.”
I guess Montana Lady is braver than I was .. I thought it was scary.
i guess we watched it so many times it’s no longer scary.
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This caption re the steam locomotive:
“ Purley King ” By: Richard Picton
A king class locomotive approaching Reading near the village of Purley in Berkshire.
Comes from HERE.
Doctor Ratbreth, who BTW looks suspiciously cat-like, meets all the requirements for mad scientist status. He wears glasses and a white lab coat, rubber gloves for handling all those tricky chemicals, AND the all-important pocket protector. Plus, of course, he is shown standing next to his latest dabble in dastardly, devious devices.
love the pocket sized arches!
and the pocket protector!!
Doesn’t sound like Dr Ratbreath has a plan for reversing his Shrinkerator. Maybe BatBasset will turn it on him and see if that focuses his nerd mind.
The Boardwalk in this video is nothing like the one I grew up with. It was typically 5 or 6 feet tall on the ocean side, shrinking to two feet in the back. Much more intimate and more fitting to the song.
I think the BeeGees got their vocal cords caught in the Shrinkerator. It is one thing to listen to this on the radio, but to see these normal guys emitting sounds that do not normally come from humans, whether male or female, is disturbing/fascinating.
I was never a BeeGees fan…. except when Saturday Night Fever came out, like everyone else, I enjoyed it, so I had to like the music…
But I never bought a BeeGees record and didn’t know much about them, except their names and that they were brothers.
I considered them a disco group and I didn’t care for disco.
…
I recently discovered a new respect for them because of what most of you probably already know… but I had no idea.
These guys had that tight harmony and started making records together when they were in grade school.
I think they were 8 and 11 when they cut the first one.
….
Here are a couple of clips from 1963… when Barry was 16, and the twins were 13… oldest video I happened to find tonight.
They would turn 14 and 17 later that year.
The first one has two songs… skip the 1st… the 2nd, at 2:09, is a funny old English music hall song.
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and a Beatles number:
I rather liked the Pre-Disco Bee Gees. The “Odessa” album is one of my favoritest ever.
Sunday morning woke up yawnin’…
I like them now… didn’t know about them then.
Why does panel 2 remind me of several Richard Scarry books?
I love Richard Scarry books!
You’re right… everything labeled.
Oh… and good to see you again!
I’m here every day. I just don’t always have something to say.
I get it. 🙂
Oh noes! The Evil White Cat Gang™️is truly… what’s that word I want? … oh yeah… evil!
Not just holding all those monuments for ransom… but… but… are they really going to leave them tiny??
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Troops trying to march through the Arc de Triomphe would only move till the first soldier’s boot toe got stuck …
you could get to the top of the St.Louis Arch in one easy step… and so much more, so many mini arches.
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Dr. Ratbreth is, indeed, as Liverlips points out, the quintessential mad scientist… with a dollop of evil thrown in… or perhaps the whole jar.
The EWC️™️, of course, eagerly awaits each new invention, always able to develop a dastardly deed for using each deadly device.
Being a cat, I suppose it’s he who needs the business end labelled, though, so he doesn’t accidentally shrink his kibble.
…
OH! I just realised… if he gets Got-ham City’s golden arches as well…
Would MacDonald’s start serving hamburgers half the size of a dime??
<<Gasp!>>
Holy Special Sauce, Batbassset! You must save the Big Mac!
Before it becomes the Mini Mac!
root beer float
MMM’s favorite!!!
egg rolls
looks GREAT!
Is that avocado in there?
I think so!
Doesn’t look much like an egg roll as I know them.
But maybe they’re different here on the west coast.
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Get out of the rain, silly robot!
And the pool….
You don’t want to end up like your uncle Rusty!
“ Doldrums ” By: Matt Dixon
It’s early early in the morning… but not for me… for me it’s still late at night…
I don’t usually post about this stuff… but I have to say I’ve had a heck of a day.
For one thing, it was about 100° this afternoon…at 3pm, my weather app said the predicted high was 97°, but the current temperature was 100.
Makes sense, right? And tomorrow is predicted to be 100 so we’ll see.
I live in Northern California, where we’ve all been hypnotised into thinking we don’t need air conditioning, because we only have “a few” hot days a year.
…
At about 3pm, usually nearly the hottest moment, the electricity went out in my neighborhood. No fan.
So I lay on my bed, out of the sun but very hot, writing a long email on my tablet… it has batteries, after all.
After about 2 hours the power came back… but a while before it did, coincidentally, the internet went out.
…
I was able to see my ISP’s site by using my cell phone… they had a notice up, saying the outage covered about half of town, and they were working on it.
So I looked at that email on my phone, forgetting that the tablet hadn’t had access to save it. Guess what.
…
I think the internet came back about 8 or 9 pm…
Too hot to care…. too hot to cook or even eat a cold dinner till well after midnight.
We’re not used to this around here. We’re babies. I admit it!
you don’t need air conditioners.
you live in Northern California and you don’t need them.
you don’t NEEEED them.
Yeesss Maaaster…. I don’t neeeeed them…..
Part of the reason I moved totally out of the state nearly 35 years ago. I luckily had a job transfer to Southern Oregon then and in 2000 when the plant closed, I found another job near Portland. I’m glad we’re north of the heat line so far. Last year’s four days of 116 degrees was bad enough.
There were also a lot more days over 100 last year than just those four.
when we moved here 16 years ago, there were about 10 days aver 90. last summer, we had 30 days over 90. luckily none were over 100, cause we, too, don’t have a/c.
Love the guy with Brutus. He doesn’t have to whisper.
The loco in the painting looks to be a Great Western Railway (GWR) ‘Castle ‘ Class 4-6-0 locomotive. It could be a ‘King’ Class, but I can’t make out the detail on the front axle on the front bogie. The ‘King’ Class had outside axleboxes on the leading axle, the ‘Castle’ Class had inside bearings, like most of the other GWR 4-6-0’s.
obviously, YOU are someone who knows your trains
Heeeeey. I got those at the souvenir stands and didn’t pay nearly as much for them.
TGIF Bat Basset phans!
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