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mystery location, Los Angeles
Robby Muller, Polaroid 600 (1984)
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Dayum! Fantastic sleuthing RiichKay. .with an assist by Noir Noir.
I wonder how many collectors were mislead by the title , Los Angeles, 1984. (Price: € 2.800)...I'd want my money back.
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Yes! Applause applause to you! Debunking Los Angeles photos in Texas, LOL! This was pretty remarkable.
Just to put a coda on the photo that captured our attention:
This is a c.1970 photo of Austin. The street in the center leading to the statehouse is Congress Ave. The Austin National Bank Tower (now known as the Bank of America Center) would have been (will be) located to the right of Congress Ave. almost exactly center of this photo. That building and the gold Chase Bank Tower were the tallest buildings in Austin at around the time of the photo we were discussing. That means the photograph was probably taken on one of the streets in the lower left quadrant. South of that is a park along the Colorado River and area designated now as Lady Bird Lake.
Now: (!)
And: Yes, there is a Colorado River in Texas. (I wasn't aware of that.) It's not the one we usually think of when we hear Colorado River:
Of further interest is an article about that "Golden Bank Tower." The author writes about it in ways that are reminiscent of people writing about the Richfield Tower. Though this building is still there, but it's exterior was removed. The glass panes, infused with real gold, weighed three hundred pounds each and were carted away to a landfill, except for a few designers that rescued a few of them.
There's also this interesting 1985 photo from the southern side of the Colorado. It always amazes me that southern Texas occasionally gets snow. (Like we know about this year.)
A view of downtown Austin during a 1985 snowfall, with the golden exterior of the American Bank Plaza building circled in red:
The article, and other photos,
HERE.
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Okay, moving on to the next mystery!