Where to post?
I began this afternoon reading about a Guitar Fuzz Box from 1965, I trawled through a couple of techy sites looking at the schema for said device, and later arrived at this blog
https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/ You might indeed wonder where this is going! Mick Ronson, of the Spiders from Mars was an early proponent? of the Box. After reading about Mick, I decided to hit the front page of the blog, the link above. I pulled the page down and hit upon a post entitled "America", September 11 2014.
I'll disregard the fluff (you can read it yourselves), and cut to the chase.
I was working in 195 Broadway, a block east from the Trade Center (it was an older, far more distinguished building; it likely considered the Towers parvenus). I went to the window to see if a truck had overturned on the Brooklyn Bridge, my first guess as to what had happened, but there was nothing but traffic.
I visited the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/195_Broadway
It began
The same building, using the "195 Broadway" address, was the New York end of the first intercity Picturephone call in 1927 and of the first transatlantic telephone call, made to London, England, also in 1927
Do what? Picturephone 1927?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videophone ... hone:_1964 Please read through!
Barely two years after the telephone was first patented in the United States in 1876 by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, an early concept of a combined videophone and wide-screen television called a telephonoscope was conceptualized in the popular periodicals of the day.
By 1930, AT&T's 'two-way television-telephone' system was in full-scale experimental use.
In early 1936 the world's first public video telephone service, Germany's Gegensehn-Fernsprechanlagen (visual telephone system), was developed by Dr. Georg Schubert, who headed the Sudetengau verlagerten Fernseh-GmbH technical combine for television broadcasting technology.[34] It was opened by the German Reichspost (post office) between Berlin and Leipzig, utilizing broadband coaxial cable to cover the distance of approximately 160 km (100 miles). Schubert's system, was based on Gunter Krawinkel's earlier research of the late-1920s that he displayed at the 1929 Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (Berlin International Radio Exposition).[35] Schubet's higher performance system employed mechanical television scanning and 20 cm (8 inch) square displays with a resolution of 180 lines (initially 150 lines),transmitting some 40,000 pixels per frame at 25 frames per second.
In the initial service trial, broadband coaxial cable lines initially linked Berlin to Leipzig. After a period of experimentation the system entered public use and was soon extended another 160 km (100 miles) from Berlin to Hamburg, and then in July 1938 from Leipzig to Nuremberg and Munich. The system eventually operated with more than 1,000 km (620 miles) of coaxial cable transmission lines. The videophones were integrated within large public videophone booths, with two booths provided per city. Calls between Berlin and Leipzig cost RM3½, approximately one sixth of a British pound sterling, or about one-fifteenth of the average weekly wage. The video telephone equipment used in Berlin was designed and built by the German Post Office Laboratory. Videophone equipment used in other German cities were developed by Fernseh A.G., partly owned by Baird Television Ltd. of the U.K.
Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander using an Ericsson videophone to speak with Lennart Hyland, a popular TV show host (1969)
The image of a futuristic AT&T videophone being casually used in the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, became iconic of both the movie and, arguably, the public's general view of the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwo6JpMceg
I'll leave that there, you can read the rest yourselves and let the implications, technical and otherwise, sink in!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videophone ... hone:_1964
Back to the blog.
“How big was the plane?” a woman behind me asked. “It was a real plane?”
In 1996, I’d worked in 2 World Trade, on the 18th floor. The towers were often empty-feeling buildings, as if they’d been built for some municipal folly (say, if NYC had hosted in the Olympics in 1968) and had been left to fend for themselves. The guards wore maroon jackets. There was so little light. Our office rationed it out to the bosses and editors, each of whom had an office with a tiny window view, leaving the rest of us clustered in semi-darkness. It could feel like working in a mineshaft.
On the ground floor there were a set of halls and small lobbies that linked the two towers with the lesser buildings of the Trade Center complex. At Christmas, they set up a shabby-looking electric train set. There were statues—Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as stockbrokers, their feet up on their desks—in one shop window (I recall seeing Bugs covered in grey dust in a newscast post 9/11).
Tourists came to the Towers but they just took the elevator up to the observation decks, snapped photos and left. No one who didn’t work there hung around the neighborhood, which was full of winding, scaffold-filled streets whose main businesses were small-time importers, rug dealers and people who seemed to cadge a living out of repairing toasters and radios.
So when the men playing “God Bless America” on boomboxes began selling souvenir atrocity postcards, and the busloads of people wearing American flag T-shirts began to show up to gawk at the ruins,
No doubt at this point Phil Jayhan arrived to buy his thalidomide aircraft with squiggly line towers "photograph".
You can read the rest if you wish!
https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/america/
A deet'n'deet'n'dat's all Folks!
Well I have just found out that Booth's father name was ( If there was anyone called Booth let alone his father ever existing is another matter but "history" says he was ) -Junius Brutus Booth !
