The Sky is Falling! And other historical facts.

[mackinzie]

So, I was taking pictures of products at work today, and I thought I'd show people the ceiling. I think it's gorgeous. The store used to be a grocery store back in the 1920s and everything's been redone except for the back workshop and office, which features these metal ceilings.






The detail is great. It may not be much for other places but...for this rinky dink city, I'm impressed.

The office is really narrow, which leads me to think it might've been the meat locker or something back when it was a store. Or maybe just an office. Who knows? It's fascinating, though. I love history.

Oh! And also, speaking of history...weirdly, there are swastikas on a building downtown. But no, there weren't nazis here (Not that I know of). The building was built before World War II and before Hitler was a dumbass and took the symbol to mean his thingy, it was actually used a long long time before.

More about the symbol. I might try to go down there some time and take a picture of the building.

(UPDATE: After searching the net, I found a picture of it! It's better than I'd ever take. The symbols are in red.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v14/psychegirl/hamiltonbuilding.jpg

And Indians too! Cool huh? It's called the Hamilton Building and it was Built in 1927. World War II started on September 1, 1939.)

My town is also in Ripley's Believe it or Not! But as I don't want the entire world to know where I live, people who know me can ask me why is is. :)

Comments

[bobo-kitty9.livejournal.com]

The little symbols are for good luck ^_^ . I can't remember weather it was a middle-eastern thing or an asian thing, but the broken armed crosses and the earth symbols (the circles with crosses in them) are for good luck, plus the yin-and-yang symbol at the top (must be asian, duh) has significance ^_^ . And the Indian heads are supposed to work kinda like gargoyles, "The indian spirits will protect us!!!" :P . Hee, that's the building and the floor where our prom was ^_^ . And lemme guess, the ripley's thing is for the "skyscraper", right? That's all I can think of...

[mackinzie.livejournal.com]

Huh, that's awesome! *jealous* I wanna live in the old telephone company building. It looks like an apartment building. Actually, I wanna live in the newly remodeled hotel thingy.

You betcha! (Skyscraper)