In the great Hilton tradition, he gets great pleasure out creating light and heat from nothing but a pile of sticks and a few sheets of newspaper.
The wine bar next to the tacky souvenir shop. I realized when I looked at this photo, however, that the really good picture would have been of the classic sign on the now closed Waffle Shop on the other side of the souvenir shop. Here's a photo by someone whose eye was better than mine. www.flickr.com/photos/aggtastic/3218531515/
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I learned how to type almost 50 years ago, and these typewriter erasers were old-fashioned then. I can't imagine that most visitors to the sculpture garden at the National Gallery have the faintest idea what this is.
Not that that makes it any less cool.
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Sculpture by Michael Lantz at the Federal Trade Commission Building, 1938. According to
www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/1525.php , this shows "a muscular man holds a rearing stallion, symbolizing the enormity of trade and the government in its role as enforcer."
Somehow this seems apt in light of the current health reform debate.
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From Ghana. At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The quote on the wall is "Everyone helps to carry the burden of a funeral."