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Re: Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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lugnet.town, lugnet.trains
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Mon, 22 May 2006 04:48:48 GMT
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Great work Jim!!
Although I haven’t been involved with the Michigan club, I had the pleasure of
meeting Jim last August when he was on tour of Downtown Detroit’s Historic
Theatre Tour, where I was a guide. A great guy!
Jim has also done a magnificent model of Detroit’s famous Fisher Building, a 28
story 1920’s office tower that Detroit’s Fisher Brothers (GM’s Body by Fisher)
built in the heart of the city. They spent a vast sum on that building and had
to be talked out of their (impractical) idea of Gold plated bathroom fixtures.
In the roaring 20’s Detroit was the 3rd fastest growing city in America after
New York City and Chicago. Jim has a LONG list of downtown Detroit Art Deco
office towers available for him to build..... such as the 47 story Penobscot
Building, and the downtown showstopper... the 40 story Guardian Building,
America’s premier Art Deco bank building. Like he did with dark orange bricks,
Jim would probably clean out all the orange Lego bricks in Bricklink in order to
build that one (the original has 6 million orange glazed bricks).
Great work Jim!!!!
Gary Istok
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| (...) Thank you. Do not think that I have not considered modeling some of the other architectural masterpeices in the city. Last year I actually laid out a one story outline of the Guardian Building in red bricks before deciding that in order to do (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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| Greetings fellow builders: I have just completed a 7.5 foot high skyscraper MOC: A Lego model of the David Stott Building, a 37 story art deco office tower erected in Detroit during 1929: (URL) I am planning on bringing this building to the NMRA (...) (18 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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