Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs

[bigeasy]

On 10/11/2023 at 7:35 AM, smeagolsfree said:

Either way there is not going to be a championship team from either school or the Titans or Preds the way all of the teams are playing or recruiting. You guys wonder why I don't watch sports. Why should I brutalize myself watching all of the local and state teams lose. It is a waste of time.

At least we do not live in Wisconsin where they put blocks of cheese on their heads.

I realize that most people only care about football but Tennessee did rank #1  and #6 in two different college athletic program rankings. They fielded some great teams in football, men's/women's basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, soccer, etc

[markhollin]

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[BnaBreaker]

On 10/6/2023 at 1:49 AM, markhollin said:

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Wow, if we could somehow get a hyper closeup of the skyline from this angle... it might be the best I've ever seen!

[markhollin]

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[dragonfly]

On 10/9/2023 at 8:48 AM, Sean blackdog said:

Last Friday night from Facebook. 
This Nashville,TN.
43,000 feet above from plane.  

 

That showed up on my FB feed also. I don't know why unless coming onto this board triggered it. On the other hand I posted on my timeline a picture of Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer playing Boots' stage at his Printer's Alley club, maybe that did it. So with that aerial photo do you think that was taken over Ft. Campbell?

So when you hear Brenda Lee say We'll Do Some Caroling (Rockin Around the Tree) in a few weeks, that's Boots playing the sax solo.

 

[markhollin]

Amazing to think that nearly every thing in this view did not exist 5 years ago. Looking NE from McGavock St., east of 16th Ave. South:

[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning from Instagram Sky5. 

[donNdonelson2]

Great “Old Nashville” photo from the Tennessean via Facebook 

[markhollin]

Looking south from 10th Circle North and Josephine Holloway Ave:

[Sean blackdog]

On 10/15/2023 at 6:23 AM, markhollin said:

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Wow, look like New York City? 

[East Side Urbanite]

On 10/10/2023 at 8:34 PM, UTgrad09 said:

Vandy fans are about as dignified as roadkill at this point.

[markhollin]

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[chris holman]

Nashville 2016

[markhollin]

TBT: War Memorial Gardens, 1935.

[donNdonelson2]

6 hours ago, markhollin said:

TBT: War Memorial Gardens, 1935.

I watched Governor Winfield Dunn’s inauguration perched atop one of those stone fences. My sixteen year old backside felt like a block of ice at the ceremony’s conclusion. 
I wish they’d demolish Legislative Plaza and bring back the gardens (but only if it would be beautifully designed and maintained, which it would never be, unfortunately).

[Baronakim]

44 minutes ago, donNdonelson2 said:

I watched Governor Winfield Dunn’s inauguration perched atop one of those stone fences. My sixteen year old backside felt like a block of ice at the ceremony’s conclusion. 
I wish they’d demolish Legislative Plaza and bring back the gardens (but only if it would be beautifully designed and maintained, which it would never be, unfortunately).

i remember the plaza too, but it was always pretty crappy.  The "gardens" never had any worthwhile planting and unlike classical  designs for such layouts it was just plain awful and unsymmetric.  A competant plan would have laid it out centeresd on an axis with the Capitiol and with the main entrance to the War memorial Building.  This was just a division of squares by extending the street grid.   By the 60s, the stone walls were behind ugly bus stops, trash bins and benches plastered with nasty advertisements on the back rests..  It was all lawn, no nice landscaping at all.  The plaza never saw tree one. IMO the whole thing was rather pathetically plain jane. The only good thing about it were the hotels arond it which except for the Hermitage are long gone.

 

 

Edited October 19, 2023 by Baronakim

[East Side Urbanite]

6 hours ago, Baronakim said:

i remember the plaza too, but it was always pretty crappy.  The "gardens" never had any worthwhile planting and unlike classical  designs for such layouts it was just plain awful and unsymmetric.  A competant plan would have laid it out centeresd on an axis with the Capitiol and with the main entrance to the War memorial Building.  This was just a division of squares by extending the street grid.   By the 60s, the stone walls were behind ugly bus stops, trash bins and benches plastered with nasty advertisements on the back rests..  It was all lawn, no nice landscaping at all.  The plaza never saw tree one. IMO the whole thing was rather pathetically plain jane. The only good thing about it were the hotels arond it which except for the Hermitage are long gone.

 

 

Those two buildings were very attractive. Nashville has lost many such structures over the years. It's one reason, among others, we don't offer as attractive a man-made urban environment as, say,  Pittsburgh or Cincinnati.

[MLBrumby]

"Batman Building" under construction October, 1993. 

Courtesy The Tennessean.... 

The new South Central Bell tower, under construction on Commerce Street, dominates the Nashville skyline as viewed from West End Avenue during sunset on Oct. 10, 1993. The building is expected to be completed in 1994.

P. Casey Daley / The Tennessean

[Baronakim]

59 minutes ago, East Side Urbanite said:

Those two buildings were very attractive. Nashville has lost many such structures over the years. It's one reason, among others, we don't offer as attractive a man-made urban environment as, say,  Pittsburgh or Cincinnati.

While there were many attractive buildings downtown back then, from my observation, they were surrounded by a lot of cluttered junk.  We did lose buildings that should have been retained but the emminent domain that wiped them out by blocks was ruthless in its execution.  Those two hotels were important landmarks, but IMO not particulary great architecture like the gorgeous banks at 4th and Union or the Maxwell House.  I disagree that we have lost so much as folks whine about,  as a great core of the older buildings survive from ther river all the way to Rosa Parks.  I miss the Sudekum tower visually most of all, but it's interioe was horrendous IMO  to convert to residential and useless for any uses as it had in today's markets.  I think Nashvilele has penty of surviving urban environment.   

 

Edited October 19, 2023 by Baronakim

[TNinVB]

3 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

"Batman Building" under construction October, 1993. 

Courtesy The Tennessean.... 

The new South Central Bell tower, under construction on Commerce Street, dominates the Nashville skyline as viewed from West End Avenue during sunset on Oct. 10, 1993. The building is expected to be completed in 1994.

P. Casey Daley / The Tennessean

Here’s another photo from around the same time, and the second  spire is already in place. It is interesting to see the building in this phase, and I’d imagine since renderings probably weren’t as accessible to the average person in those days, that folks  must have wondered what the heck was going on at the top. 

[markhollin]

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[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning from Instagram Sky5. 
 

[CenterHill]

12 hours ago, Sean blackdog said:

Today this morning from Instagram Sky5. 
 

Whoa.  Love that shot 

Edited October 21, 2023 by CenterHill

[markhollin]

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