On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:25 AM, John Mullan <[email protected]> wrote: > Not quite so dramatic. Or maybe more so if you were walking beneath. > Hancock II was designed with a glass façade. While under construction in the > early 70's they discovered that the glass used at the higher levels of the > building was not up to the wind load and was falling from the building. It > was all removed, replaced temporarily with plywood and new glass specified > and put in place. Building 19, a distressed merchandise vendor had a lot of > fun selling the removed glass through their outlets. They weren't allowed > to say where the glass was from, but alluded to it in so many varied and > humorous ways. Because of the temporary plywood it got nicknamed "Plywood > Ranch" which was a lumber vendor at the time.
I was just a wee lad during this time; knee high to a grasshopper. But I have strong memories of the glass falling because my dad worked at the Boston Public Library, which is just steps away, and it was a big topic of conversation and news. --------------------------- Sam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
