[PRCo] Re: "Have a Duke!"
Derrick J Brashear
shadow at dementia.org
Sat Apr 18 14:08:07 EDT 2009
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
>
>> It is possible that the clock was moved to this building from another?
>
> Every (very few) picture I've been able to lay hands on of the South Side
> from before 1950 shows no clock on the 1899 building which was the old
> brewery. The shots of the new building in 1950 show no obvious indication
> of a clock on the tallest part of the old building, which is,
> incidentally, less large and less high than the tower on the new building,
> so *if* it was on that building, they'd already taken it down.
>
>
>
A 1959 USGS aerial of the South Side arrived today (from the exact day
that I care about)
The clock building is in shadow, it was taken at midday.
There is no clock on the building.
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