TIL: Today I Learned

[Sommerswerd]

There's also Maine and New Hampshire. But it's produced in many more places as well. Most off mine has come from Maine in recent years, since i travel there every year.

Wait what?!? So why the heck you give me the shaming finger over "American Maple syrup"!

Foul I say Foul! FOUL!!

 

[Cutlass]

Wait what?!? So why the heck you give me the shaming finger over "American Maple syrup"!

Foul I say Foul! FOUL!!

If I get mine in Maine, then you can too.

 

[Sommerswerd]

If I get mine in Maine, then you can too.

But Vermont is so much closer...

Wait... aren't you pretty close to me? Im looking out my window at the famous blue-domed Colt building right now...

 

[Cutlass]

But Vermont is so much closer...

Wait... aren't you pretty close to me? Im looking out my window at the famous blue-domed Colt building right now...

That's actually extremely close to me. I didn't realize you were that close. If I walk out to the street out front I can see City Place.

 

[Synobun]

That's actually extremely close to me. I didn't realize you were that close. If I walk out to the street out front I can see City Place.

Y'all should meet up. I smell a new friendship.

And an opportunity for the Member Photos thread...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Is anyone else weirded out by the idea that an iconic American gun manufacturer adorned their building with a traditionally Russian onion dome?

 

[Cutlass]

Is anyone else weirded out by the idea that an iconic American gun manufacturer adorned their building with a traditionally Russian onion dome?

That building was built 60 or 70 years before the Russian Revolution. And as a paean to unbridled capitalism, the building it replaced was burned because of the belief that Colt was selling to both sides during the Civil War.

And there she is with my new car.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That building was built 60 or 70 years before the Russian Revolution. And as a paean to unbridled capitalism, the building it replaced was burned because of the belief that Colt was selling to both sides during the Civil War.

Well, yeah, but onion domes have been identified with Russian architecture for centuries, not just since the Russian revolution.

 

[Kyriakos]

Russia sold Alaska to the US, and at the time was on very friendly terms with it. Also due to antagonism with the british empire.

 

[Sommerswerd]

That's actually extremely close to me. I didn't realize you were that close. If I walk out to the street out front I can see City Place.

No effing way. PM me!

That building was built 60 or 70 years before the Russian Revolution. And as a paean to unbridled capitalism, the building it replaced was burned because of the belief that Colt was selling to both sides during the Civil War.

And there she is with my new car.

That is the East Hartford side of the river and I could reach that exact spot from my office parking lot on foot in less than 5 minutes... I'd have to run, but in a car I could do it in less than 60 seconds. You ever eat at PHO 99 or PHO 501?

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, yeah, but onion domes have been identified with Russian architecture for centuries, not just since the Russian revolution.

There was a bit of a fad in the late nineteenth century for "Oriental" architecture. Pseudo-Byzantine, psuedo-Moorish, things like that. I'd guess the dome was intended to add a fashionable flourish to an otherwise unremarkable building.

 

[Cutlass]

Well, yeah, but onion domes have been identified with Russian architecture for centuries, not just since the Russian revolution.

But there wasn't a reason to not use it, if the builder liked it, before the commies.

 

[Cutlass]

There was a bit of a fad in the late nineteenth century for "Oriental" architecture. Pseudo-Byzantine, psuedo-Moorish, things like that. I'd guess the dome was intended to add a fashionable flourish to an otherwise unremarkable building.

Brick was the common construction material for factories in that era. And many of them had some form of architectural flourish. Like the tower in this one that I posted in cool pics thread recently.

 

[Mouthwash]

TIL just how scary Google really is.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

But there wasn't a reason to not use it, if the builder liked it, before the commies.

Ah. Fair point. The US has always been fascinated with monarchies.

 

[Takhisis]

So TIL that if I ever do somehow reach the U.S. of A. I can visit both cut and sommer in one fell swoop. Huzzah?

 

[Cutlass]

There used to be a lot in the Northeast. Few are active any longer.

 

[Commodore]

TIL: According to siteprice.org CFC used to be valued at around $350,000 and is now only valued at around $196,000. If the value keeps dropping, I might consider putting in an offer to buy this joint.

 

[Broken_Erika]

TIL: According to siteprice.org CFC used to be valued at around $350,000 and is now only valued at around $196,000. If the value keeps dropping, I might consider putting in an offer to buy this joint.

I wonder how much Apolyton is worth, 65 cents?

 

[Synobun]

That's a generous valuation.