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| Painting by Henry Ary, 1854 |
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| Promenade Hill, c. 1860 |
Twenty-seven years to provide a barrier to prevent people from tumbling down the frightful precipice. By comparison, the time it is taking the City to solve the problem of providing a handicapped ramp to Promenade Hill that is sensitive to the design of the historic landscape hardly seems extraordinary.
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I wonder what moron moved the benches so that you now face the rail, and also sit with your back to the path and its walkers. It's unusually anti-social for a park.
ReplyDeleteIt was done either during, or after, the 1950s (going by one photo I saw), and should be corrected.
If the benches were set on the side of the path further from the fence, they would face the path and the view, which is the obvious reason they are now facing the mountains, river and sunset.
ReplyDeleteGive me an example of a park anywhere in the Western world where the benches face away from the walking mall. It's not done.
DeleteAs soon as you find that exception, I'll acknowledge that Hudson's arrangement - only since the 1950s - is "obvious."
I always have walked down there to sit and look at the sunset so it never seemed odd to me.
ReplyDeleteYou get a good view from across the path, too, where you're not staring into the rail.
DeleteI was hoping to evoke something about the history of walking malls, and their origins in the 17th century. We have one of the earliest examples in the nation, a fact which we are free to ignore. And so we do.