Rockefeller Center – My Weblog

In those days, after Thanksgiving this space was an ice skating rink (free). It had a restaurant downstairs where, if you were lucky, or tipped well, you could get a table right next to the glass where you could watch the skaters. Some were kids and families, but some danced beautifully together. In the summertime there were all kinds of international activities and shows to expose New Yorkers and tourists to customs they’d never seen. This is also where the biggest Christmas tree in the nation stood for the holidays drawing people from all over the world.

In those days large corporations felt they had an obligation to give something back to the people.

It was my birthday. I was 21.

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New on 500px : The statue of Atlas in front of the Rockefeller center by spikerbagger by spikerbagger

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Atlas is a bronze statue in front of Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City, across Fifth Avenue from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The sculpture depicts the Ancient Greek Titan Atlas holding the heavens. It was created by sculptor Lee Lawrie with the help of Rene Paul Chambellan, and it was installed in 1937.

The sculpture is in the Art Deco style, as is the entire Rockefeller Center. Atlas in the sculpture is 15 feet (4.6 m) tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet (14 m) tall,[1][2] as high as a four-story building. It weighs 7 tonnes (7,000 kg),[3] and is the largest sculpture at Rockefeller Center.[4] The North-South axis of the armillary sphere on his shoulders points towards the North Star as seen from New York City.[5]

When Atlas was unveiled in 1937, some people protested, claiming that it looked like Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Later, painter James Montgomery Flagg said that Atlas “looks too much as Mussolini thinks he looks”.[6]

The piece has since been appropriated as a symbol of the Objectivist movement[7] and has been associated with Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged (1957).

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New on 500px : GE Building by joscarati by joscarati

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The GE Building is a slim Art Deco skyscraper and the focal point of Rockefeller Center. At 259 m with 70 floors, it is the seventh tallest building in New York and the 30th tallest in the United States. Built in 1933 and originally called the RCA Building, it is one of the most famous and recognized skyscrapers in New York. The frieze above the main entrance was executed by Lee Lawrie and depicts Wisdom, along with a phrase from scripture that reads “Wisdom and Knowledge shall be the stability of thy times”, originally found in the Book of Isaiah, 33:6

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