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Old Posted Sep 9, 2012, 11:19 PM
alanlutz alanlutz is offline
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
alanlutz, I was also thrown off because I always thought the Main Street side of the Federal Building was identical to the Spring Street side.
I didn't take into consideration that Spring Street was at a higher elevation than Main Street.

below: In the postcard below you can see the grade/slope of Temple Street (circled in red).


ebay
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below: The Spring Street entrance to the Federal Building.


google street view







below: The Main Street entrance to the Federal Building.


google street view


I file this under "You learn something new everday."
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ER, Great shots of the Federal Building. Today I only know it as the United States Courthouse, since there are two other Federal buildings to the east of it now. But it says "And Post Office" so I'm going to have to do a little more research on that. http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/
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