100 years ago today : How to build a skycraper on nickels and dimes.
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
February 27, 2021 2:58pm CST
This was borrowed from The Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, February 27, 1921, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3 Found on Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Americus is a town in Georgia, USA.
This one was more difficult for me to pick between. I saw a cartoon, a buick ad and a "I'm the man" competition that I wanted to write about instead. Well, here we are with these two drawings - one of a building in Chicago, the other in New York.
What do you think? They make it seem so easy!
*Wrigley building in Chicago, Woolworth in New York
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
27 Feb 21
That's the first thing I noticed too. At first I thought it was the same building.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
27 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Same architect perhaps.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
27 Feb 21
@CarolDM Most likely so. Can't think that there were many architects able to do buildings of that caliber in those days.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
27 Feb 21
Yes, only the very top is different. I think it was the same architect to make both.
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@thelme55 (79352)
• Germany
28 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes, maybe it was the same architect.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Feb 21
Very nice and took a lot of time to build too.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Feb 21
I actually did not know the reason for the Wrigley building until this newspaper clipping. I knew that the name was also the name of chewing gum, but I thought that was some sort of coincidence.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 Feb 21
@LadyDuck Woolworth's was or (might still be) a department store. I think the department store were on the bottom floors and the top was dedicated to administration.
@LadyDuck (502812)
• Italy
28 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I am sure that there is a reason also behind the Dime building name.
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@LindaOHio (222806)
• United States
28 Feb 21
Two massive buildings made possible by gum and a five-and-dime store.
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