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'That's a nice tie'
"Kat":
Which reminds me there's a big London Underground map on the floor of a Toronto subway station... can't remember which one. It's my home station, Eglinton. A company bought all advertising space in the station, including sections of floors, walls, stair risers, and recycling bins, as companies here sometimes do. I counted about 60 Under- ground diagrams (or rather sections of them -- there are no complete ones), about 40 roundels, and only about 20 places where the advertiser was actually identified. It was all done overnight and felt rather surreal the first time I saw it. No, it wasn't Transport for London spending your money. It was a travel web site in Canada, and the (almost hidden) advertising slogan was "get to London or anywhere else". They used quite a recent version of the diagram, by the way; it includes the improved rendering of Earl's Court where you can see that no trains run from Richmond or Ealing Broadway to Edgware Road. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Don't anthropomorphize evolution: It hates that." --John Freiler My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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'That's a nice tie'
In message , Mark Brader
writes "Kat": Which reminds me there's a big London Underground map on the floor of a Toronto subway station... can't remember which one. It's my home station, Eglinton. Snipped Thanks Mark. I know it's OT for this group but can you tell me anything about the sculpture over the track just outside Union; I didn't get a close look at it but it seemed to be something to do with building the railway.. -- Kat Frogs have it easy. They can eat what bugs them. |
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'That's a nice tie'
"Kat" writes:
I know it's OT for this group but can you tell me anything about the sculpture over the track just outside Union; I didn't get a close look at it but it seemed to be something to do with building the railway.. The Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial? Sorry, I never heard of it. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "It was too crazy to be true, | and too crazy to be false." --Tom Clancy |
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'That's a nice tie'
In message , Mark Brader
writes "Kat" writes: I know it's OT for this group but can you tell me anything about the sculpture over the track just outside Union; I didn't get a close look at it but it seemed to be something to do with building the railway.. The Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial? Sorry, I never heard of it. Must be my memory playing tricks then... -- Kat Frogs have it easy. They can eat what bugs them. |
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