Bertz Member Username: Bertz
Post Number: 470 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.61.15.89
| Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 6:53 am: | |
http://glassian.org/Prism/3Way /14S/page9.html They must have been removed/obscured long ago for in my many ventures into the grand old lady I don't recall seeing these under the platform and as dark as it is under there they would definitely be noticeable. |
Bertz Member Username: Bertz
Post Number: 471 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.61.15.89
| Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 2:19 pm: | |
bump |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 1628 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.129.170
| Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 7:08 pm: | |
I don't ever recall these anywhere downtown, but boy I do remember them in NYC. I kinda get the willies from walking on them though. They looked fragile, even though I really knew they weren't. Are there any buildings along lower Woodward that have basements underneath the sidewalk? |
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026
Post Number: 272 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 71.10.63.140
| Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 7:14 pm: | |
there still are some on woodward, at the hudson site for that parking garage |
Eric_c Member Username: Eric_c
Post Number: 554 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.73.197.225
| Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 8:38 pm: | |
The Hartz Building (Detroit beer Company) on Broadway had them out front before the sidewalks were redone. When I used to work in the building, I remember they let in some pretty dingy looking light down in the basement. |
Jmy8 Member Username: Jmy8
Post Number: 2613 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 12.75.31.181
| Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 9:08 pm: | |
The sidewalks around the American Hotel are still prisms. |
Bertz Member Username: Bertz
Post Number: 473 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.61.15.89
| Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 10:49 pm: | |
Anyone recalling seeing the one depicted in the picture at MCS? |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 1902 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.163.181.81
| Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 2:09 am: | |
I'm having trouble picturing where this was ... the photo describes it as being the subway undrneath the platforms. I remember the walkway underneath the platfroms alright but what I can't picture is where the glass was located overhead ... if it was on the platforms themsleves (as it must have been) well I certainly can't recall glass block underfoot in the platforms and I would have likely remembered something that nice ... so if I'm right in what I remember figure they were either asphalted over or too filthy to be recognizable by the 70's ... I might be wrong tho ... I recall there were a few glass inset sidewalks infront of buildings around the CBD, lower Cass Corridor and even eastern market back when ... in fact I remember the first time I went to Soho in NYC the sidewalk skylights reminded me of some of these in Detroit (waay more in Soho tho) ... |