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« Thread Started on Nov 30, 2009, 1:24am »		[Quote]
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« Reply #1 on Nov 30, 2009, 2:06am »		[Quote]
Wow, that's really nice. Do you know anything about the design? The main feature seems to be some kind of plant (corn?) and then there seems to be poppies in the top rail.
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« Reply #2 on Nov 30, 2009, 2:07am »		[Quote]
One of my favorite places in the world! *pause for homesick snivel*

Great shots, especially #2.
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« Reply #3 on Nov 30, 2009, 2:13am »		[Quote]
Sorry if this is stupid, but is this where the zoo is also? I remember going to the zoo in NOLA once - I think we took a boat to get there from the end of Canal Street (yeah, I know - dumb tourist thing to do - don't ya love bein' a dumb tourist?)
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« Reply #4 on Nov 30, 2009, 3:22am »		[Quote]
I don't know anything on the history of this gate... :-/The botanical motif somehow I don't think is corn,but I can't put my finger on it. It's part of one of the main gates to the New Orleans Botanical Garden.

City Park is located in the Mid City section of NOLA. The park where you were Imec was Audubon Park in the Uptown University section. It hosts the Audubon Zoological Garden and is accessible by Riverboat from the French Quarter or the Saint Charles Avenue Streetcar line.
(Not a dumb question at all) Only about a mile or so from my neighborhood.
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« Reply #5 on Nov 30, 2009, 3:25am »		[Quote]
I love iron in all it's forms. I'm glad you started this thread.
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« Reply #6 on Nov 30, 2009, 6:43am »		[Quote]
A second cousin of mine was a metal worker, and he continued to make wrought iron until the day he died.
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« Reply #7 on Nov 30, 2009, 6:10pm »		[Quote]
I'm guessing it might be sugar cane. However it could be plain old giant reed, which probably grew abundantly on the swampy ground on which much of City Park was built.

http://chiefblackwhite.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/sugar-cane.jpg <-- sugar cane

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/06/11506-004-33C45BB1.jpg <--- giant reed

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« Reply #8 on Dec 1, 2009, 3:03pm »		[Quote]
I fell in love with doors in Paris and also the wrought Iron. I took this on a Sunday while we were searching for an open restaurant, cafe bistro etc. We were walking somewhere in the neighborhood and I am not sure exactly where this was. Also, I could post it in the reflection thread, as I just noticed it.

We have an enormous amount of wrought iron here in Tucson so I will be on the lookout.

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« Reply #9 on Dec 1, 2009, 3:54pm »		[Quote]
Gorgeous T63!! I'm so excited,as you know we have tons here and when the weather is less inclement I am going to tour around getting more shots!
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« Reply #11 on Dec 17, 2009, 7:00pm »		[Quote]
The entrance to the Marcel Dassault corporate headquarters.

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I fell in love with this door today at the recycling center.Some are into diamonds,shoes,I just simply love this stuff... :P
No,did not buy....
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Dec 19, 2009, 7:03pm, casimira wrote:
No,did not buy....


Then you're stronger than me. I would have to have it - gorgeous.

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« Reply #14 on Feb 4, 2010, 2:45am »		[Quote]
This particular fence is in my neighborhood,I walk by it everyday,I know it is quite old. Nothing elaborate,just nice and old...

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« Reply #15 on Feb 5, 2010, 7:56pm »		[Quote]
Oh ~~ I missed seeing this latest entry! Is that side always in the shade, Casimira? The lovely mossy patina is on everything.
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« Reply #16 on Feb 7, 2010, 12:11pm »		[Quote]
When I see photos like the last ones, it makes me realize how really excellent the Disney people are in copying certain details. The "Phantom Manor" at Disneyland Paris has several fences that look EXACTLY like those.

But of course the real thing is still better! :D
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« Reply #17 on Feb 7, 2010, 12:14pm »		[Quote]
Here are a few details of the Grand Palais in Paris, a leftover relic of the 1900 World's Fair. Even though the Eiffel Tower already celebrated the wonders of iron at the 1889 World's Fair, the event in 1900 was considered to be the absolute consecration of it.

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« Reply #18 on Feb 9, 2010, 10:01pm »		[Quote]
And sometimes more is just glorious! The arches, the curlicues, the exuberant excess so beautifully rendered makes up an entire symphony in iron. Great pictures, Kerouac!

~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o~o=o

I have not contributed to this thread because frankly I don't find the ironwork around here all that pretty. Having lived in Savannah & New Orleans, I need to be dazzled. The thing is, tons of things around here are made from iron. I posted a photo of one such thing in #10 above, and was surprised that no one was even curious about what it was.
Anyway, here are some bits taken yesterday afternoon in downtown Oaxaca, unfortunately in not such good light.

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part of the side wall of La Soledad church

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Ground floor of the balconies in the previous picture.




The building at the extreme far left of this picture is the first place Bixa lived in Oaxaca.

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No matter how pretty, how over- or under-wrought, the main purpose of all this iron is to keep out intruders.


Sometimes it's very obvious ~~ Don't climb onto my balcony!































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Don't sit on the ledge in front of my store!



















On the other hand, sometimes employees and the public need easy access ~~
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But this ~~ this was my absolute favorite thing I saw all day :D.
This is the on the front wall of an ironworker's business ~~
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« Reply #19 on Feb 9, 2010, 11:43pm »		[Quote]
Great shots Bixa and Kerouac,love them all.
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« Reply #20 on Feb 10, 2010, 6:42pm »		[Quote]

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One more from yesterday, taken in the seedy commercial part of town south of the zócalo on the way to the ring road.

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« Reply #21 on Feb 11, 2010, 6:38am »		[Quote]
More seedy parts of town, Bix!
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« Reply #22 on Feb 11, 2010, 7:25am »		[Quote]
Actually, that part of town is super interesting because of the people. However, there is no way I can get candid shots of them. The picture in #20 was taken on Calle Victoria, which used to be my route to the big market when I lived in the place I mention in #18. Calle Victoria, in addition to having all kinds of regular businesses, has a bunch of crummy bars and lots of prostitutes and hot sheet hotels. Most of the people plying the oldest profession seem to be gender-specific women, but there are a fair number of transvestites as well. This is a shot of Calle Victoria, looking south towards the ring road and market. (sorry about photo quality) I'm on the nicer side of the street -- more "working girls", but fewer people staggering out of barrooms to barf between parked cars. You can see there are lots of regular people on the street as well.

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« Reply #23 on Feb 15, 2010, 8:47pm »		[Quote]

Nov 30, 2009, 6:43am, kerouac2 wrote:
A second cousin of mine was a metal worker, and he continued to make wrought iron until the day he died.

Maybe metal working gets in one's blood. My grandfather worked in a wrought iron shop in Chicago (called Acorn), and when he retired and moved to Wisconsin he missed the work so much that he got a job at a tool and die shop that he worked at until his second retirement, when he returned to "the Old Country" for the rest of his life.
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« Reply #24 on Feb 18, 2010, 3:14am »		[Quote]
A couple of New Orleans-style buildings in Sydney's The Rocks neighborhood:
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Very pretty ironwork, Kimby. Do you know the era?

These pictures were taken yesterday ~~

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Very pretty ironwork, Kimby. Do you know the era?


ummm - November 2009? Oh, you mean the buildings, not the photographs? Sorry, no clue. But I believe The Rock is the oldest part of Sydney and Sydney is the oldest settlement on the continent, isn't it? Googled it and found:

The Rocks, a 19th century village hemmed in by Sydney Cove, Campbells Cove and Walsh Bay, lies in the shadow of the southern end of the Harbour Bridge.

This is the birthplace of modern-day Australia, Captain Arthur Phillip having settled here in 1788. From this, today’s Sydney has grown.

Just across Sydney Cove from the Opera House, The Rocks district is a must for visitors to Australia.

Here, buildings exuding the country’s historic past combine with today’s amenities to provide a unique precinct that caters almost completely to the visitors’ needs. There are restaurants, bistros, pubs, souvenir shops, weekend markets, music and entertainment along its main streets and squares.
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« Reply #27 on Feb 18, 2010, 10:42am »		[Quote]
Wrought iron balcony in Candelaria, Bogota, Colombia:
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« Reply #28 on Feb 18, 2010, 10:46am »		[Quote]
And a lousy picture of one of the gates to Buckingham Palace, London.

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« Reply #29 on Feb 18, 2010, 10:49am »		[Quote]
I just remembered this -- it's the top of an iron elevator, Santa Justa, in Lisbon, dating from the late 19th century. It is used to go between two levels of the city.
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