Where are we? #1
Hey folks! So we at Metroblogging Philadelphia have been talking about how fun it would be to rip off an a idea that some of the other Metroblogging sites have been implementing recently. It’s the “where am I” guessing game. The idea is that we’ll sporadically post a picture, and we ask that you guess where it is.
I’m going to start you off with an easy one.
As a prize, I will buy the person who guesses the most locations correctly, a beer at the upcoming Metroblogging Philadelphia Happy Hour (check our site at Upcoming.org for more information).
Happy guessing!
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I don’t have a guess, but that picture is huge. It took a long time to load on a dialup connection (AOHell!). Instead of using html to resize the pic, which doesn’t change the actual downloaded size, can you resize it in any ol’ picture/photo program so it doesn’t take so long to download?
Cool shot tho, kind of looks like it’s near a river.
That’s the southwestern corner of the Market Street bridge, which is also the southeastern corner of the intersection of Market St. and Schuylkill Ave–a stone’s throw from the magnificent 30th Street Station. The eagle in the photo is one of the four that adorn each corner of the Market St. bridge. Interestingly enough, these four eagles where among the 22 which originally graced New York’s legendary Pennsylvania Station, before it was demolished to make way for the banal, modernist, and all-around dreadful Madison Square Garden arena and its equally-depressing subterranean rail station (the current Penn Station). These are the only four such eagles to have found their way to Philadelphia after Penn Station’s demise, although all 22 were fortunate enough to survive and have found final resting places throughout the country.
James, that’s a really cool tidbit, I had no idea. My interesting story about those eagles isn’t really mine at all. My mom was a film student at Temple in the late 60’s. She had mono her senior year and was laid up in her mom’s apartment off Rittenhouse Square. One day, a friend called her and said that there was a guy who was going to kill himself by jumping off one of the eagles on the Market St. bridge. In need of a senior film project, she ran down there with her camera and made a film about the guy (he didn’t jump). She actually ended up winning awards for that film. Crazy.
After having looked at the OTHER eagle photo on your Flickr collection, I think you shoulda posted THAT one!! Much more challenging, if you ignore the clear subject heading… ;)
We have a site at upcoming.org?!
Jay: Yup, there was a post about it at some point. But rather than making you crawl through the archives, here’s the group’s
http://upcoming.org/group/30/