Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Wurger]

 

[manta22]

Old Imperial Hotel Lobby secured near Nagoya City.
This classical design is said to be reproduced in the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo by 2036.

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Source: LIXIL 繝薙ず繝阪せ諠

I attended a magic show at the Imperial Hotel when we lived in Tokyo. He was "The Great Blackstone" and I assisted him with picking cards on stage. The Imperial Hotel was a magnificent place.

 

[Shinpachi]

I attended a magic show at the Imperial Hotel when we lived in Tokyo. He was "The Great Blackstone" and I assisted him with picking cards on stage. The Imperial Hotel was a magnificent place.

I didn't know him, Neil.
Thanks for your information

 

[Wurger]

 

[ARTESH]

I was admiring the architecture of the room. I wasn't looking at the objet d'art. That stuff would get in the way when I run through the house with model airplanes while making airplane noises.

That's same for me! But i make seashell noise.

 

[ARTESH]

Where do you think the bad guys positioned their flak batteries?

This Street, That Street and the The Other Street. I've marked them on your map.

 

[Shinpachi]

Japan's first practical quartz clock developed by a governmental laboratory and Riken.

Engineer Miyaji and the new clock at Tokyo National Observatory on September 12, 1934.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Sept.1934)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Capt. Vick]

Old Imperial Hotel Lobby secured near Nagoya City.
This classical design is said to be reproduced in the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo by 2036.

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Source: LIXIL 繝薙ず繝阪せ諠

Frank Lloyd Wright, correct?

I believe the lobby was preserved at another site. A sort of building museum.

 

[Shinpachi]

Frank Lloyd Wright, correct?

I believe the lobby was preserved at another site. A sort of building museum.

Yes, it is Jim.
Building new structure based on the original design will be safer than using the aged parts.

 

[Shinpachi]

New powerful fireless locomotive with no boiler in the U.S. introduced to the Japanese people in August, 1934.
Charged with pressurized steam in the can, this can run for twelve hours at speed 12miles/hour.
Mr. M. J. Cramer invented for the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Aug. 1934)

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

Never heard of that locomotive before. That's pretty neat. "Steam in a can".

 

[Shinpachi]

Great Britain's Manchukuo Industrial Mission headed by Load Barnby at the lobby of Imperial Hotel on October 1, 1934.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Oct. 1934)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Great Britain's Manchukuo Industrial Mission headed by Load Barnby at the lobby of Imperial Hotel on October 1, 1934.

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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Oct. 1934)

Emphasis mine. Not surprising that the League of Nations utterly failed to stop agressive nations in the mid 30s.

 

[Shinpachi]

Japan only did after the western countries about the colonialism.
If they blamed Japan, they had to blame themselves first IMO

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Japan only did after the western countries about the colonialism.
If they blamed Japan, they had to blame themselves first IMO

So true.

 

[Snautzer01]

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[Snautzer01]

wonder if the wrecks are still in that pit.

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