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Published: 2008-04-27 20:23:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1650; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 0
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Empire State Building through the east tower of the Manhattan Bridge. Taken from DUMBO.Brooklyn, New York.
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Excellent shot !
- reminds me of the Bernice Abbot photo updated ---- 31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9y…
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Thanks, Douglas!
I think I've seen that photo before, but I never knew the photographer! Thanks!
R
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~ Didn't realize there was a modern view -- great shot , really !
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Thanks again! That area, now called DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass), is now part of the trendiness that is Brooklyn. 
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Heh - does that Brooklyn accent still remain ?
Sports trivia - the Dodgers used to be called -
The Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers !
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The Brooklyn accent still exists. But the newbies don't acknowledge that it exists!
Trolley Dodgers. Yes, actually, I did know that . . .
New York Yankees used to be called?
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The Highliners ( sounds like a 50's folk group ) - and they were purchased
from Baltimore 
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Well, Google was close this time. 
I'll come back to this in the note where you raised it, but you asked if I knew of the 1960 Lions-Colts game in Baltimore. Douglas, how could I NOT know of that game??? My father and his friends were there. My dad had season tickets until I went away to college. So I started going with him at age 5, until college. That game will live in Baltimore sports infamy forever! Jim Gibbons (who I do remember later at the end of his career) was the most hated man in Baltimore for years! 
You'll be pleased to know that Baltimore sports fans have never really hated any Detroit sports team - at least that I'm aware!
"Talk" to you soon!
R
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~ Certainly enjoyed watching Jeter in the All Star game !
Great that you will see him one more time .
~ Just can't believe that anyone would remember that Lions - Colts
game - doesn't happen very often -- and quite fascinating to get the other side of the
story from a Baltimore perspective -- I was literally crushed when Unitas hit Moore for that
diving catch - I was totally distraught 
received the ball with enough time for one play - I couldn't believe that Gibbons got open and then
turned and outran the lone Baltimore defender - why weren't the safeties dropped way back ?
Their was nothing but daylight between him and the endzone ! - youtu.be/13cyi0MV_Zg
Lion fans were in their glory - but I never thought of it from the Baltimore side - from what
you say - it certainly had a long lasting effect ! 
Packers on Thanksgiving in 1962 ---- Bart Starr was sacked 11 times and lost 110 yards attempting to pass
- outside of that - all we had was one ---> Barry Sanders <-------- a human highlight reel !
------ Remembering the greatest game in Lions history
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Yes, you did have Barry Sanders! I don't know what he's doing now, but I've always admired him for walking away at the top of his game. Only Jim Brown seemed able to do that.
Wasn't that '62 game vs. Green Bay the only game the Packers lost that year?
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Yes we -had- Barry Sanders - who might have stayed - if management
had decided to build a solid team around him to give the Lions a chance at winning .
~ But he was a class act all the way - no end-zone dance for him - just flip the ball to the ref .
Yes - that ws the only Packers loss - I think we finished second - but it was great watching
Alex Karras and Joe Schimidt continually sacking Starr that Thanksgiving.
The Lions have a new head coach ( thanks Ravens ! ) - and added Golden Tate - and drafted
a good tight end - along with Bush --- they should be able to spring Calvin Johnson free
a lot more -- anyway that's the plan - ( all depends on Stafford throwing the ball more accurately )
~ All might work if the heretofore 'undisciplined 'Lions can learn the new offensive and defensive schemes - but I won't bore you with that
---football is a tough game to predict - and the winning teams often disappoint the following year .
~ good luck to the Ravens - can't wait for the season to start .
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Melanie,
My Capitals play your Rangers on Sunday. I'll be thinking of you!
Thank you Dear for faving mostly my entire Gallery.
You're wonderful, Melanie!
Richard
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A frame within a frame within a frame.
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I love this one ! : D
b - b e a u t i f u l composition , light , everything ^^
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Gorgeous shot, I have to admit I am dying to see this in B&W as well
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i love the framing of the building. very nicely done
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Wow, fantastic composition. Not a view of two of New York's landmarks often seen together like this!
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i love how its all perfectly framed, well seen, well seen.
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thank you, Dear . . .
R
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Another excellent one! I love the framing of the Empire State Building with the bridge structure, unique touch! 
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Thanks Ali -
I had seen a different version of this shot, where the Empire State Building is framed in the upper arch of the same bridge tower. But that was shot either from inside or on top of one of the buildings behind me.
Thank so much for the comment!
R
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Definitely welcome and definitely a good photo!
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