Dear Bi Twin, fellow PNEHs, painters, poets, Mai Quang, and Forum friends,
As mentioned yesterday to Hien Lan and BiTi, I went on a trek at lunch time in search of clocks to submit to the blog.
First stop was Grand Central Station where I took pictures of the famous clock at the central information booth.
Then I got out of GCT, and walked along 42nd Street towards 5th Avenue. On my way, I saw another clock in front of Nat Sherman cigars store, so I took a few more photos. As I was about to leave, I noticed a little travel clock displayed behind the store window. I had a hard time taking its picture due to the sunlight reflection, so I asked a delivery man who was standing near by if he would be kind enough to position himself to block the reflection for me :-)
Then I made a bee line to the Public Library on 5th Avenue to look for more clocks but got distracted by the statues of the lions, and then finally realized that I still had to get some lunch and go back to work, so the Library clocks will have to wait for another day.
On my way back I saw TNS's clock and was tempted to take a picture, but decided to wait for HL and BiTi so we could all take its photo together.
Here are my entries...
Goodnight and have a nice Wednesday
from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC
As mentioned yesterday to Hien Lan and BiTi, I went on a trek at lunch time in search of clocks to submit to the blog.
First stop was Grand Central Station where I took pictures of the famous clock at the central information booth.
Then I got out of GCT, and walked along 42nd Street towards 5th Avenue. On my way, I saw another clock in front of Nat Sherman cigars store, so I took a few more photos. As I was about to leave, I noticed a little travel clock displayed behind the store window. I had a hard time taking its picture due to the sunlight reflection, so I asked a delivery man who was standing near by if he would be kind enough to position himself to block the reflection for me :-)
Then I made a bee line to the Public Library on 5th Avenue to look for more clocks but got distracted by the statues of the lions, and then finally realized that I still had to get some lunch and go back to work, so the Library clocks will have to wait for another day.
On my way back I saw TNS's clock and was tempted to take a picture, but decided to wait for HL and BiTi so we could all take its photo together.
Here are my entries...
Goodnight and have a nice Wednesday
from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC
Em Ci Twin Babi,
ReplyDeleteThank you for walking all over NYC :-) to capture these beautiful watches
for us.
The Colgate watch that HLan shot is on the Jersey side of the Hudson,
I look it up and this is what Wiki says:
The Colgate Clock is an octagonal clock facing the Hudson River near Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, with a diameter of 50 feet (15 m).[1] It is currently situated 400 meters south of the former site of the headquarters of consumer products conglomerate Colgate-Palmolive, which was until the 1980s based in Jersey City. The clock was maintained by John A. Winters from the 1930s until his retirement in 1976.
The current Colgate Clock was built in 1924 to replace an earlier clock designed by Colgate engineer Warren Day and constructed by the Seth Thomas Clock Company for the centennial of the Colgate Company in 1906. After the current clock's construction, the earlier clock was relocated to a Colgate factory in Clarksville, Indiana.[1][2]
As of 2005, the Colgate Clock stands on an otherwise empty lot; all of the other old buildings in the complex were demolished in 1985, when Colgate left New Jersey. The lot is located on the Hudson River waterfront and the clock itself is 100 meters south of the Goldman Sachs Tower, the largest skyscraper in the state of New Jersey. The construction of that building in the early 2000s forced a relocation of the clock southward to its current location. At the time of the relocation the size of the Colgate advertisement attached to it was reduced to comply with the Hudson River No Billboard law. As a part of the relocation agreement Goldman Sachs now maintains the clock.
This reminds me of Hugo, I read the book but haven't seen the movie, has anyone seen it?
Cheers,
BT