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Area # 751 - General: Buildings and Structures
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 87kb#2680 in the "Castles of Europe" series.  40kbView of the Great Chinese Wall.  29kbThe Taj Mahal.  26kbStonehenge at dusk... what a mystic place!  39kbThe Acropolis.  29kbRed Square at night... wow!  42kbOne of the Egyptian pyramids.  42kbSorry, dunno where exactly this is...  21kbThe Statue of Liberty from a distance.  37kbThe Arques de Triomf at night.  44kbThe White House, red flowers and all...  32kbThe Roman Amphitheatre...  42kbOne of the South American pyramids...  38kbOkay, another landmark building I don't quite recognise...  35kbThe Wall in Jerusalem.  33kbStatue of Napoleon Bonaparte.  17kbLighthouse at sunset... kitsch at its best!  31kbThe Sydney Opera House.  49kbAt the airport...  24kbSome Greek-looking building.  27kbLudwig van Beethoven's grave in Vienna.  48kbDouble-decker bus travels over a suspension bridge against the red sun...  41kbSuspension bridge.  51kbSan Francisco cityscape at dusk.  48kbDammit! Dam wall with the gates opening...  48kbCityscape at night.  39kbAn illuminated Eiffel Tower at night.  16kbEnter the car, urrhm... pleasure park!  28kbLas Vegas, Erotic Visual Entertainment!  78kbGood scan of the Golden Gate bridge.  98kbA truly magnificent rendering of a city, as seen from a bridge across the river.  282kbExcellent scan of Berea, Johannesburg with the 52-storey Ponte building at sunset.  368kbA magnificent view of Hillbrow at sunset, facing north-west, with the 269-metre JG Strijdom Telkom tower's aircraft warning lights glowing red... [try changing one of these globes!]  317kbJohannesburg panorama...  403kbMoonrise over Johannesburg's city centre.  117kbCourtesy of yours truly and a digital camera, it's Ellis Park, the Ponte building, the JHB Sports Stadium and Wits Technikon taken from atop the JG Strydom Tower on 25-11-1999.  57kbThis picture was taken from the top of Hillbrow Tower. Unfortunately, it doesn't show as clearly the sad state that the buildings in this metropolis have sunken to as the naked eye does. Nonetheless, a very well-travelled viewer has mentioned that this does look like the slums of Sao Paolo or Mexico City or Manila or any other third world city.  71kbExcellent view DOWN the Hillbrow Tower mast (Photograph taken by the SysOp early 1988 and scanned a few years later).  96kbAnd, an excellent view UP the Hillbrow Tower mast (Photograph taken by the SysOp with a digital camera late 1999 - see H-JSMAST.JPG for reference).  113kbYep, almost another excellent view DOWN the Hillbrow Tower mast. [I still prefer film over a digital camera!]  109kbMy left foot, erhm... shoe on the mast above the Hillbrow Tower.  72kbThe Hillbrow Tower mast from just below...  235kbTower around the wall of Wiener Neustadt.  216kbThe beautiful town of Salzburg, Austria.  72kbLooking down at Hillbrow... and look, see that red spot down there? That's my Jetta!  19kbFrench jets fly over Dubai's Burj Al-Arab, the world's tallest sea-based hotel, on November 12 during preparations for the Dubai Air Show.  27kbA bolt of lightning strikes the mast of the Hillbrow tower at night.  41kbThe Leaning Tower of Pisa.  1214kb'Derelict, disgusting, messy, and a shambles' are a polite way of expressing what happens when a Telkom building (JPK = Joubert Park) is left without caucasian supervision!  48kbSome marina somewhere.  46kbJudging by the file name I guess it's a mission.  18kbCAD: Some plaza.  96kbAn east-north-eastern view of Johannesburg.  59kbView of Johannesburg...  28kb"The factory belches filth into the sky!": Synchronicity II - The Police.  49kbRuins, high in the Peruvian Andes...  22kbTower of a castle covered by a creeper.  18kbYe ole' windmill...  25kbAncient building on the hill top...  25kbBeautiful snow scene with a quaint cottage.  9kbGood picture of the Capitol building.  19kbClock Tower and a bridge at night.  29kbThe traditional and the modern in the city of Bangkok.  15kbSome domed building at night, don't bloody ask *me* which one!  37kbThe Sphinx.  41kbNerves of steel: Two construction workers high above ground...  56kbStonehenge casts long shadows...  42kbThe Great Wall of China (well, part of it!)  256kbStep in, step out of the rain, I'm gonna walk on out to the Waterfront: South Africa's premier yuppie attraction, the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. Nice place, with lotsa nice chicks!  92kbThe White House...  43kbTwo windmills.  67kbSomeone's backyard... |
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Totals for this area: 6,263 kb in 72 files Average Downloads: 0 Total Downloads: 10 Most Pop. File: 1280181.JPG downloaded by 1 user Largest File: JPK_MESS.ZIP with 1243631 bytes (Note: Some files have been re-saved and duplicates were deleted). |
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Webmaster/Ex-SysOp's 2003/2011 comments:
"Ah, looking at these pictures one gets a little homesick and then realises that there are lotsa other places we haven't yet seen either! Includes quite a few stock photos from Microsoft, it seems." |