Mechanics Hall

[topaz]

Mechanics Hall, originally uploaded by qwrrty.

Source of grumpiness for the day: discovering that iOS 4.0 photos taken in portrait mode show up sideways when e-mailed. It's apparently a consequence of iOS 4 being dogmatic about using EXIF orientation tags in the JPEG file correctly, and the rest of the world not having caught up. I'm disappointed to find that flickr doesn't do this right.

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[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Hooray, Mechanics Hall! I spent most of my childhood and teen years at the building across the street (the big brick one with the gray concrete; it was a Boys Club back then.) and now and then we'd slip over just to be inside the place. What's the occasion?

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Morgan's music teacher is having her wedding there, and he's singing. Today was the rehearsal. That's the choir lined up on the steps.

It is a gorgeous building! I took some more photos with the good camera, to put up on Wikipedia.

Really there's a lot of fascinating architecture in Worcester.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

There is. Also some really elegant parks. When the city was flush they put a lot of cash into public works, but the real secret is there was never so much of a demand for real estate that the old stuff got destroyed. Nobody wanted it enough to "improve" it. Lowell's the same way; there are some really nice buildings up there that have remained untouched since they got built with mill money.

Anyway, it's a weird town but it definitely has its charms. My mom lives just outside the city now so I frequently find myself wandering the streets at odd hours. :)