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December 4, 2007
I know what The Absolute on Myrtle reminds me of..
I've attached a picture. See if the picture tweaks your memory.
I mean "The Absolute" as pictured by Mr B ("We think it looks good") here:
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/12/the_absolute.php
Cookie to the first person to spot what depressing building it evokes.
Comments
"So what becomes of you my love/
When they have finally stripped you of/
The handbags and the gladrags/
that your poor old Granddad had to sweat to buy you"
Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 9:31 PM
*cookie* well that was fast.
Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 9:45 PM
To me it looks a lot like the Soviet Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at December 4, 2007 9:54 PM
Is Slough hipper than Brooklyn nowadays?
Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 11:08 PM
Laguardia Airport? Orly? A Jacques Tati set?
Posted by: BrooklynCouch at December 4, 2007 11:19 PM
Here's the thing: This old building's only real problem is the rape-a-teria it creates with the brutal, shadowed plaza on the ground level. Otherwise, it has a lot of strong points--windows along the entire expanse of every single wall being a huge one.
The "Absolute" (take off the "e" for savings, and get free Citron shots in the lobby?) does not have that problem. Sleek steel vertical ribs. Cool, blue-green glass from floor to ceiling. Fresh, clean, and not 6th-Avenue cookie-cutter. Yay. (ish)
Posted by: Rehab at December 4, 2007 11:33 PM
Scranton is the new Slough which used to be the new Brooklyn
Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 8:31 AM
i do love it! really!
Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 3:19 PM
an old car radiator?
Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 3:25 PM
It reminds me of a hotel that the Brady family stayed in during either their visit to Hawaii or the theme park where the blueprints got misplaced.
Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 5:44 PM
NYS government campus building next to SUNY Albany?
DOH of any of the lower 48?
Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 6:34 PM
Seeing the Eurpoean license plate on the car, I'd say somewhere in oh, I dunno....Germany? the UK?
Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 7:01 PM
Proof that nobody ever pays attention to previous comments?
It's Wernham-Hogg, the depressingest place on earth.
Posted by: guest at December 5, 2007 7:42 PM
it's an international style standard--a Ruble a dozen.
Posted by: Espresso at December 6, 2007 7:52 AM
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