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King Kong

Posted by on Jan 22, 2014 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on King Kong

Construction of the Empire State Building had only recently been completed when Hollywood realized how to romanticize it —...

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Americana: Radio City Music Hall

Posted by on Oct 7, 2011 in Americana, Featured | Comments Off on Americana: Radio City Music Hall

Imagine every man, woman, and child in America inside the art deco palace called Radio City Music Hall. Wait! Not all at once! My latent...

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Architecture: Empire State Building

Posted by on May 13, 2009 in Architecture, The Arts | 1 comment

You can’t talk about the Empire State Building without being startled by the sheer scale of the thing. It’s almost a quarter of...

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