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Published: 2007-06-16 20:22:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 1466; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 40
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Kansas City Union Station ticket counter shot from a balcony, 1967. The guy walking across the marble stripe in the middle foreground with the camera around his neck is John Thompson who traveled with me on many train hunting expeditions. This may be the only picture I have of him.Related content
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This rectangular ticket booth was installed in the 50's to replace the original, semicircular ticket counter. The restaurant in this place was built to replicate the original.
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Those folks who haven't ever traveled and seen the inside of grand buildings where a small-home-sized structure is dwarfed by the distance to the ceiling can't appreciate how impressive something like this can be in person... this great shot only conveys a small bit of that feeling, but does so well.
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Thanks Rich. I still remember (or think I do) the acoustics of the place. The sounds of footsteps on the marble and the fact that I could call my friends name and have him hear me without screaming.
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That's back when people knew how to use slide rules.
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LOL... and to think I used to. Someone challenged me to find my old one and post a picture of it at my non-trains devID Haven't done it yet... so many pictures... so little time.
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What make/model did you have?
It's sort of a hobby of mine to collect them when I can afford the expenditure, and to make sure I know how they work. So far I have a couple of Picketts and a Hemmi Post Versalog. (There are a few of us that are learning the art and keeping it alive.)
It all started when my Dad let me have his Pickett N500-ES a couple years back. I spent quite some time reverse engineering what each scale did.
Since then I've acquired some old manuals and teaching aids and have become more proficient with my small collection.
It's actually amazing how much I've learned about numbers (even after studying quantum physics and general relativity) just by learning to use a slide rule. Using it really gives me a visual reference of how things all relate. I really think that, as an in-class project, Algebra students should make a slide rule prototype when they are learning logarithms. I think it would really help them (especially if an A and K scale were made too).
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I just looked in the box where I thought it was... no luck.
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Doh. Well, if you ever run across it, drop me a line and let me know what model it is (or even post a picture in your scraps).
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Yeah. All the space to the right of the ticket booth was sealed into a pressure dome, and the duct work for the dome was built into the west arch window.
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That's a restaurant now, and looks quite different. My shot from inside the depot was taken almost straight across where you are pointing the camera.
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