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New York City says happy 100th birthday to Grand Central Terminal
A grand birthday for a Grand Lady! Happy Birthday GCT!
It is truly a grand building. We were there in he late 90’s. I hope it can be maintained for another 100 yrs!
How about Gotham Central Station? That’s where The El Chief used to leave for Los Angeles. I guess I’ve seen the old Batman TV series a little too much. I just was in the mood for a little levity here, that’s all.
It’s guite a place to visit an see what goes on. Recommend seeing the toy train exhibit at the annex for the museum of transportation. It will taken down an put back into storage next week.
My wife and I were there for the celebration of GCT. Unfortunatly, nobody mentioned a very important person who spoke there. That person was Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy, the lady who worked very hard along with the late former Mayor, Ed Koch to save Grand Central Terminal from the same fate that happened to Penn Station. At the end of the ceremony, a cake was rolled out with the symbol of the centenial, the clock that’s on top of the info. booth & we sang, “Happy Birthday!”
I remember as a child visiting GCT around 1970. I vividly recall going underground and ending up in GCT. The most memorable experience was looking up at the ceiling in the main concourse it was Awaome. Several years later I took metro north from New Haven and relived the experience as an adult it was great experience.
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Happy 100th Birthday Grand Central! Now its time to turn our attentions to Grand Centrals sibling, Central Terminal in Buffalo NY. If you love grand central you love Central Terminal.
Congratulations and Happy Birthday !!! Can only say that I look forward to visiting an awesome, grand city and train terminal again in the near future. Would recommend a visit to everyone else also.
I enjoyed a laser light display to Nutcracker Suite dancing off the ceiling Christmas Day after 9/11. I also enjoyed travelling on Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited to/from there, despite having to make the subway connection to/from Penn Station during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. What would have happened to New York’s commuters if the place would have been torn down? I’d hate to think of the traffic and all of those toll road hogs ripping everybody off.
William D. Middleton’s book Grand Central, published by Golden West Books in 1977, is another fine treatment of that terminal’s history. The final chapter includes an account of the battle, still unsettled at that point, to prevent a giant office building more than 50 stories high from being erected over the station. Middleton pointed out that the original plans for Grand Central called for a 23-story office building over the station concourse, and he included the architectural rendering of it in the book. His account of the battle over the giant office building fought over in the 1960s and '70s includes renderings of two concepts done for developer Morris Saady by architect Marcel Breuer. The second one, presented in 1968, was termed by famed New York architectural critic Ada Huxtable “a magnificently ludicrous plan.”
William D. Middleton’s book Grand Central, published by Golden West Books in 1977, is another fine treatment of that terminal’s history. The final chapter includes an account of the battle, still unsettled at that point, to prevent a giant office building more than 50 stories high from being erected over the station. Middleton pointed out that the original plans for Grand Central called for a 23-story office building over the station concourse, and he included the architectural rendering of it in the book. His account of the battle over the giant office building fought over in the 1960s and '70s includes renderings of two concepts done for developer Morris Saady by architect Marcel Breuer. The second one, presented in 1968, was termed by famed New York architectural critic Ada Huxtable “a magnificently ludicrous plan.”
I recall annual train trips from the old King School (Stamford, CT) guided by Mme. Lyman to Grand Central Station to see the opera at The Met. The awesome Grand Concourse was always an exciting moment, and helped me to become an informal Railfan for life!