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yeah but are there any photos of minneapolis?
I posted a ton on the first page.

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I posted a ton on the first page.
Haha, I think they are well aware..

The thread is a good 75% Minneapolis photos
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^Fan-tastic picture of Detroit. Funny how that big train station building was placed way out there. What was that neighbourhood like, light residential?
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^Fan-tastic picture of Detroit. Funny how that big train station building was placed way out there. What was that neighbourhood like, light residential?
That's not the train station. That's the former General Motor's HQ. There's mainly a lot of large mansions and there were mostly low-rise apartment buildings and townhomes. There's also some industrial buildings along the rail line.

The apartments pictured here were replaced with the New Center Building.


http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...82/dpa5182.tif


http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...-74294%5D74294


http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...-34223%5D34223



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^Also note the Lodge Freeway is being built in this last picture.

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An aerial photograph of Philadelphia from 1935 that has been posted a few times on this forum:


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WHOA!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That looks like something from New York City, I had no idea that Philly looked like that back then!! One of the many reasons I hate how LA had a height ordinance =[
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^ Philadelphia had a height ordinance as well.
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That Philadelphia picture is impressive with all those 20-40 story buildings.

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^ Philadelphia had a height ordinance as well.
I had thought that the height restriction was a gentleman's agreement not to build higher than the Penn statue on City Hall but not an actual regulation.


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Detroit - 1925
I believe that the picture is actually from 1924. To the left of the Dime Building and beyond the Penobscot Annex is the Book Cadillac Hotel under construction. The hotel was completed in late 1924.

The picture is very interesting; to see the city before any of the art-deco towers were constructed (or even the neo-Romanesque Buhl building or the neo-Gothic Cadillac Tower). It of course also shows a large number of lost buildings such as the Statler Hotel, Majestic Building, etc.


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^Fan-tastic picture of Detroit. Funny how that big train station building was placed way out there. What was that neighbourhood like, light residential?
Even though you got the two buildings mixed up, you were still right in a way. The Michigan Central Station was built too far away from downtown. If the photo you commented on extended more to the left, you would of seen the station to the west in relative isolation, just as at the time the General Motors headquarters appeared to be way out there to the north.
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I find it odd that there's so many historical photos of Detroit. Other than New York City, it seems like Detroit was just an often photographed city. Maybe they knew they were taking photos of a future forgotten city...

Anyway, MCS relative to Downtown aerial. MCS is on the left.


http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...-79204%5D79204

Another thing that's quirky about Detroit is that the skyline "goes" away from the riverfront. Detroit doesn't look like Chicago, basically. I know much of the waterfront was industrial, but even so, I would think that Jefferson Avenue ought to been just as developed if not more than Woodward.
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An arial photograph of Philadelphia from 1935 that has been posted a few times on this forum:

For those who want to try and match up buildings to names, here is the 1935 diagram for Philadelphia.
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^ Philadelphia had a height ordinance as well.
The majority of our old downtown is below 15 floors. I can see a good 20+ buildings over 20 floors. They may have had an ordinance, but no where near as extreme.
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in philly it was more of a gentleman's agreement to not build anything taller than the statue of William Penn atop city hall, which lasted until one liberty came and, quite controversially, broke the rules.

For LA i think it was because of how earthquakes effect the basin area whereas the peninsula in San Fransisco was more solid, the LA basin is composed mostly of sediment and has been described as "a bowl of jelly" in earthquakes, L.A. City hall had to undergo massive retrofits to keep it up to code and the last major quake damaged one prewar highrise building in downtown beyond repair, and left another empty for decades.

As much as it sucks, L.A. had a practical reason to limit building height before technology allowed man to counteract nature, Philly on the other hand, had no reason to and a bunch of stuffy old men agreed to limit height
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But then LA had to still ruin it somehow by requiring helipads as a fire escape. It'd been interesting to see at least a few towers with spires on the top.
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For LA i think it was because of how earthquakes effect the basin area whereas the peninsula in San Fransisco was more solid, the LA basin is composed mostly of sediment and has been described as "a bowl of jelly" in earthquakes, L.A. City hall had to undergo massive retrofits to keep it up to code and the last major quake damaged one prewar highrise building in downtown beyond repair, and left another empty for decades.
It was actually simply because L.A. didn't want to have a dense, tall, shadowed downtown like New York. There was one building, on Spring and 4th, that was built over the 150ft limit on the early 1900s, and it scared the city into instituting the ordinance.
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Seattle is also earthquake prone, and it's had the nearly 500 foot Smith Tower since 1914. My understanding is that the technology for skyscrapers in earthquake prone cities has been there; it's more a issue of developers' desires, costs, and city planning.

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The Terminal Tower was the tallest skyscraper outside of New York City until 1964 when Boston's Prudential Tower passed it.
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Wow Detroit is beautiful then and now
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