Phil Kane wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:41:32 GMT, robert casey wrote:

And that was in the summer! I had to do a code sending
test at 5wpm at the old FCC field office in New York City
(I've heard the place is now condos).

When the rats started to outnumber the people in that building,
something had to be done....

A shame - 641 Washington Street was a beautiful example of 1920s
Federal office buildings. A family friend who was my inspiration
in
joining the Federal workforce worked there most of her career as a
secretary and then a claims examiner for the pre-OSHA Labor
Department - may she rest in peace.

I was in the FCC facilities there only six times - twice for
amateur
exams, three times for commercial exams, and once to the office
(which was at the opposite end of the building from the exam rooms)
to pick up travel orders to my first duty post in San Francisco.

Maybe one of these days I'll get off my butt and see if I can find the
Philly Custom House where the FCC lived around here in it's glory days.


I still can't comprehend those old buildings as upscale condos....

Philly is *loaded* with 'em Phil. You'd have to see it to believe it.
The really pricey versions are those which are converted multi-story
waterfront warehouses on piers poking out into the river. When I was a
kid you took yer life into your hands when you went into those
waterfront areas. No more. Another big source of conversion properties
in the city is the huge old 6-10 story light manufacturing buildings
staffed by sweat-shop immigrant labor in the early 1900s. Out here in
the 'burbs the hot ticket conversions are the surviving ancient
(1700s-1800s) textile mills along the creeks most of which have been
chopped up into big bucks office space.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

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