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nora 🥥@nora.gay |
this is the entrance to a public elementary school built over 100 years ago - no one is spending money on this kind of quality work anymore, especially not on public infrastructure (where this kind of thing is more important than people might think)
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The Spy who loves you
@spyversuslies.bsky.social
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It's because labor was so cheap that they could spend it on design. When a society stops building, it decays. We should always be working on the next wonder of the world.
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nora 🥥
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i’ve never been in a sturdier building than this, you could drive a tank down the third floor hallway and not feel it on the second floor
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Mal
@ogmalcontent79.bsky.social
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Because when you’ve been handed everything on a silver platter, unearned, you don’t recognize the value of good work. Ironically the very thing the 🤬 Boomers accuse everyone else of.
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John Lowe
@archaeocore.bsky.social
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I haven’t seen that one yet!
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct
@erindwyer.bsky.social
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Our kids school was also built in the 1920s and her class may not have AC but it has a fireplace with Pewabic tiles depicting fairytale characters, it’s so joyful. We have some gorgeous libraries here too. They’re civic jewels, temples of learning!
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Ariel Ruff
@arielruff.bsky.social
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Strange how back then people could get a livable wage AND their employers could spend money on quality, yet as profits have gone up, employers have opted for cheaper quality AND workers aren't even getting livable wages 😭.
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Octocryptid 🜬
@octocryptid.bsky.social
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Yeah. Really was different when the country saw public works and institutions as a common good. Around here even some of the POs are in these grand old buildings with soaring ceilings and not some lobby in a sad strip mall
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Xelkelvos
@xelkelvos.bsky.social
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Also
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Taco Avenger
@tacoavenger.bsky.social
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This is what culture looks like. This is what patriotism looks like.
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Ace
@dygytylace.bsky.social
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gonna guess you haven't been to a courthouse recently in one room there was over $100,000 worth of marble here in the US
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe
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say what you will about early 1900s machine politics, but they did make sure that every single craft union got a piece of whatever public works project was going up
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Neil but way too sweaty
@burghpunk.bsky.social
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I wonder if part of the shift away from this kind of architecture was due to the baby boom. Philip Bump’s book “Aftermath” talks about how basically no one was ready for the influx of kids and schools were being built rapidly; at one point in California a new elementary school was opening every week
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Virginia (she/her)
@vafnord.bsky.social
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Both of the public schools I attended in Manhattan looked like castles, especially PS 3.
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Memento Morty 🌙
@mortythenurse.bsky.social
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I *love* old buildings like this. Absolutely gorgeous.
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doomnuken
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Great Gate Of Minas Tirith Tolkien Gateway
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