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So there I was playing around with Googles "Street Views" when I found this. When did our buildings start magically floating the upper floors? (Nice trick of the light, eh?)

My first thought on this building was "It looks like a big drill bit"... then you told us this and well... it is a Drill Bit!! Bob Villa must love it.

Is it just me or does that address look suspicioulsy close to Grants Bock?

OK... this is very OFF TOPIC but there's no place else to ask... At the end of the month I'm going to Madison Wisconsin for 4 days to visit my brother. So, I went to look up the Madison WI thread here on UP to find out would I might get to see while I was out there. Guess what? No Madison thread.... In FACT no Wisconsin thread at all!! What is up with that? Does no one in Wisconsin have any interest in archetechture or civic development? Anyway, I don't mean to bash on Wisconsin, but since I'm going and there is no WI forum here, I thought I would aks my RI UP friends if they have any recommendations? Thanks for any ideas you have.

Garris, THANKS for sharing such great photograpy. I don't know how many ways we can say it so it doesn't become trivialized. We are lucky to have such a talented guy to capture the beauty of Providence so skillfully. Your pictures are just awesome.

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I went to waterfire last night with a couple of friends. We walked down from Wickenden, along south main and crossed over near the Turks Head building. I must be clueless, because I never knew that they had a live jazz band and a huge dance floor set up in the middle of the intersection. There were lot's of people dancing and the whole area had a such a festive atmosphere. it was truely impressive.

Hey Gusterfell, welcome! You photos are wonderful! Thanks for sharing them with us. Please don't hesitate to post more.

Hopefully Eltron can get his gouged eyeballs fixed!! (and I hope ruchele was able to sew up that wrist!!) B)

So do I. I like the symbolism in our flag, but I've always thought it could use a little pizazz.

Our moderator... A CELEBRITY!!

Garris - Did it look like this: It's the flag of the Rhode Island Regiments. A quick search on google got this: In Rhode Island the anchor has been used as a state symbol ever since 1647 which is evident in the current State flag. The anchor represents Rhode Island's seafaring activities and the thirteen stars, the original thirteen colonies. The native Rhode Islanders were among the first to join the Minutemen outside Boston. The Rhode Island Regiments served at the Battles of Brandywine, Trenton and Yorktown. This flag is preserved today in the State House at Providence, Rhode Island.

me either... but I'M STEALING IT!!

Child World = is now Home Goods Leachmere!! = Now Target

Google Maps has a "hybrid button" that I never noticed before. You used to have to chose between Map or Satellite. But now, if you click the Hybrid option, you get the satellite view with street names (and arrows, indicating one way streets - also names of parks, golf courses, cemetaries, etc etc etc...) superimposed on it. Very Cool!

They look awesome. Excellent Job! I noticed that all pix look much darker for me when I'm on my computer at work with a standard CRT type monitor. But when I look at them at home with my (new) flat panel LCD monitor things look much brighter and better.

Im I the only one who thinks "Whoville" when they see this??

Welcome!

I hear this stuff all the time too! I really have to restrain myself when going to Waterfire and overhearing person after person saying how "... it's a shame that they're leting GTECH ruin WaterPlace..." , and how the codo towers will make everything too congested. Even friends of mine have talked about losing all that "GREEN" space. I have to keep reminding them that Capital Center wasn't designed to be huge open spaces but a place for economic expansion to take place (in the form of office and residential towers).

It seems like the city & state only get involved AFTER someone threatens to move their corporation out of state. As witnessed by GTECH and now Brown & Sharp. If I were Hasbro/CVS/APC or any other large RI corporation, I'd be threatening to move just to watch the state scramble to kiss my @ss to get me to stay!

I went to Station Park for the Fireworks Sunday night. I thought the display was pretty good. The State House in the foreground added an especially nice touch. Next year I'm hoping for BIGGER & BETTER, preferably with music. But for the 1st show for years in Providence, I was moderatly impressed. I NEED to start remembering to carry my damned camera more often.

Excellents shots! Thanks to you & Mahesh, these are great.

Amazing... I like being able to just type in an address and the program zooms right in on it. Thanks - gotta love those Google people.

Oh yeah! I remember it before. It was fugly, that's for sure! They basically totally tore down the old strip mall. They did it in sections, so that the existing stores didn't have to close completly (but the stores had to shift a couple of times during the construction). I think that's why it took so long. It wasn't refurbish, but completly domolished and replaced at the same time. While I generally hate strip malls, this one isn't TOO bad. Except of course.... Yeah.... that whole end needs to be reconfigured somehow. Makes you wonder what the hell they were thinking.