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Why was such a place demolished?
Most likely because old buildings are expensive to maintain, expensive to heat, must be refitted for modern lights or communication or have asbestos or lead pipes or don’t comply with modern building standards, such as accessibility.
There is this old cinema from the 1920s in my town that went out of business in the 1990s. Nobody goes to the cinema anymore to fill the 300 seats, it’s a 20min walk away from residential areas and there is no parking nearby. On top of that it needs 30 years of maintenance. Nobody has a good business plan for this building.
The height of those railings makes me nervous
Damn it I want to see elaborate shit like this in person safety hazard be damned. I’ll sign a waiver, gimme my overbuilt adult playground.
They tear it down to make room for a fast food chili joint?
Bring back dangerously tall and elaborate libraries that wouldn’t look out of place in a Resident Evil game
If a background in mountaineering isn’t a qualification to work at your library, then I want nothing to do with it.
They issue you a harness and arborists’ knots pocket guide on the first day.
Falls in Dewey Decimaaaaaaaaalllllllll
After 1904, they might have been falling in LoCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!
100000 percent this!
This place looks like a wizard boss fight location for a big d&d campaign. Sad it’s gone.
Well, the new one is really nice.
That doesn’t mean you get rid of the old one. Not when you can have wizard fights in it.
I was about to go on about how there weren’t many wizards in Cincinnati when I was there, but then I remembered about the Hollows series
Should look at some of the pictures of the Los Angeles Public Library.
I’ve been! My wife is a librarian and she used to work for the L.A. library system. Very beautiful. The main branch of the NYPL is wonderful too. As a bonus, in the children’s department, they have all of Christopher Robin Milne’s original childhood toys that inspired his father to write the Winnie the Pooh stories:
Is that an otter behind Kanga?
Shhhh…
Is that AI?
Nope. 100% real.
See the photo of the main hall on the right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Main_Library_(Cincinnati)#Opening
