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Friday, March 14, 2014

Random 5 Friday - Triangle Building in Clifton Forge

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Across the street from Jack Mason's Tavern (yesterday's post) sits this cool old building. This building was owned at the turn of the century by the successful black businessman E.F. Scott. He sold produce and operated a restaurant from this location near the tracks, ran a hotel in the upper stories and a barber shop next door...found that tidbit of info HERE along with histories of other Clifton Forge buildings.

Now let's get random!

1) Finished reading This Rock the other night and this passage made me wonder:

"Lucky the row is turned so the graves face the east," Hank said.
"Why do graves face the east?" I said.
"So the dead will be facing Jesus when he busts through the eastern sky at the Rapture," Hank said. He heaved a big rock out of the hole.
A church faces west, and a grave faces east, I thought. The worshipers and the dead always face east.

I had never heard of this before so of course I had to Google it the next day and found THIS.

2) Dalton is taking a Tech Ed class and studying about engineering bridges. He told me about this video they watched about a bridge called Gallopin Gertie:


3) Saw a series of photos about an abandoned amusement park in Berlin. Immediately thought of Halcyon @ Berlin 365. You can see the set of photos HERE

4) Watched an incredible video of an injured dolphin that was rescued by a diver HERE.

5) Looking forward to the St. Patrick's Day Festival on Saturday. We haven't missed a year since we moved here. It is easily my favorite festival!

Have a great weekend and check out more randoms at Nancy's Rural Journal :)

Oh one more: This Dick's Sporting Goods commercial stopped my boys in their tracks tonight:


They really have a great advertising team don't they?!


24 comments:

  1. Lovely building, lovely street!

    Ah... Tacoma Narrows Bridge, loved taking it to Gig Harbor!

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  2. What a shot ! You could use it to calibrate the RGB of your monitor !

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  3. Great shot! I missed this building when we were in Clifton Forge. Will have to look for it next time.

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  4. Dicks Sporting Goods video stopped me too. Hug B

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  5. I have a B&W of that building that I took about 34 years ago, I think that it used to be the greyhound bus station and had a sign on front and the exterior was real shabby looking. There is an underground creek that runs under that area I think, you can see it over where the amphitheater was just built.

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  6. a St. Patrick's Day festival that sounds fun!! hope you wear green. i love the triangle building .. i bet that is interesting for arranging furniture. wonder if you can buy triangle furniture?!?! ( :

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  7. Always love how you include interesting tidbits about your photos Tanya --

    Have fun at the festival! xo

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  8. great commercial. happy st. pat's day! love that building against the blue sky!

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  9. It stands out beautifully against the sky!

    We've got our St. Pat's parade on Saturday.

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  10. we've a few of those v shaped buildings I wonder what the room at the tip of the V is like..enjoyed the links-recently saw the GG bridge demise and the last commercial video was touching.

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  11. I never knew that about facing east. I've heard of that bridge, but am in no hurry to cross it - eek! I love the colors in your photo of the building. Enjoy the St. Pat's festival!

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  12. That's a fantastically composed photo, great colours too. Enjoy your weekend!

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  13. That is a really cool building! I love seeing different styles of architecture. Have a great weekend!

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  14. Great looking building...love the red against that beautiful sky. Enjoyed your randoms! Have a nice weekend.

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  15. I remember seeing 'galloping gertie'! Love your randoms:)

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  16. Thought of your tonight. Bud and I drove over and had hamburgers at Jack’s. IT WAS MOBBED. They were turning people away and it took ages for us to get our food. Still, we had a good time and, as always, din din was yummy. I want to try the Irish Tea Room across the street,but don’t think I can talk Bud into that one.

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  17. Love the colors on this building.

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  18. A fine colorful building against a superb sky. Nice.

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  19. Really like the shot of the Triangle building ... interesting place. I remember hearing about Gertie. Enjoy St. Patrick's Day! Happy weekend.

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  20. Enjoyed the Triangle building. Would love to see inside. The bridge video was a bit scary. Nice post!

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  21. Thanks for the mention!
    I looked at the photos and I've never heard of the Spreepark, but my curiosity is definitely piqued! Hopefully I can make my own trip there one of these afternoons. :)

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  22. Awesome post, Tanya. I've been trying to go by and see everyone and I keep getting behind! :-) Well, I enjoyed the info on the graves and your other links.

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  23. That bridge video is scary, but the baseball one makes up for it. :-)

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  24. Hey I just found a 1979 photo of the triangle building and posted it on my blog, they sure cleaned it up!

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