Small Talk: Elevator Chat

[Meredith Quill]

The Small Talk topic is for:

• Introductions
• Off-topic chatter
• Having virtual tea with forum buddies

This is NOT a topic for actual show discussion. When you want to talk about the show:

1. Figure out the nature of the topic you want to talk about
2. Look for an existing topic that matches or fits
3. If there is NOT an existing topic that fits, CREATE ONE!

Examples of topics that populate show forums include (but by no means are limited to):

• Character topics
• Spoiler topics
• Comparison topics
• Speculation topics
• In the Media topics
• Favourite X topics
• ...you get the idea

Happy trails beyond Small Talk!

[AnimeMania]

Make sure you watch the Mapleworth Murders. Funny, stupid, short murder mysteries. Pay attention to all the stuff going on in the background.  12 episodes ~ 9 min each  Originally made for Quibi, now available on the Roku Channel on Roku TVs.

https://www.roku.com/       

If you watch online you may have to sign up for an account, but it is free.

I wanted to make a Thread for this, but I am not sure if they are planning on making any more episodes.

Edited September 8, 2021 by AnimeMania

[grandmabegum]

I'll check that out!

OMitB reminds me off Trial and Error (gone too soon]. It's got quirky characters, somewhat famous cast and cameos and is loosely based on other source material -- In Trial and Error it's the Staircase, which if you haven't seen that I highly recommend. It's less serious and some might not like the quirky comedic tone, but it's got a Murder Board that puts OMitB suspect board to shame.

Available on Amazon Prime. Maybe some other places, too but I bought it after it came out so that's as far as I looked.

[Kath94]

Did anybody catch Martin, Short, and Gomez on Late Night with Stephen Colbert?  Awkward as it could be.  Steve Martin & Martin Short are great together, but Selena Gomez looked like she wanted to be anywhere but there.

[grandmabegum]

I watched it and agree. I cringed when Martin Short went to casually put his left arm up on the couch behind (but not around Gomez] and removed it like he just touched a hot stove. The arm thing is common for talk show guests and later in the interview, Steve Martin does it towards Short and it just is what it is.

But so many other signs she is not pleased to be there or part of the show. Sad really.

[shapeshifter]

4 minutes ago, Kath94 said:

Did anybody catch Martin, Short, and Gomez on Late Night with Stephen Colbert?  Awkward as it could be.  Steve Martin & Martin Short are great together, but Selena Gomez looked like she wanted to be anywhere but there.

Answering in the Media thread: https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/110605-only-murders-in-the-building-media/?do=findComment&comment=6996228

@grandmabegum, I saw the arm thing too. Maybe mention it in the Media thread↑ too?
 

 

[grandmabegum]

Will do. I only just now realized that this conversation was not in the media thread when I posted about the View.

[chaifan]

OK, this is an odd question, that doesn't really fit anywhere else...  In one of the episodes it's mentioned that Zoe's family owned the entire 11th floor.  How does that work in a building that is essentially a square donut (with the courtyard in the middle)?  I'm just trying to figure out how you lay out a "home" in that type of configuration.  And considering the building takes up an entire city block, what's the square footage on something like that???

Yeah, these are the weird things I think about in shows with phenomenal real estate...

 

[AnimeMania]

2 hours ago, chaifan said:

OK, this is an odd question, that doesn't really fit anywhere else...  In one of the episodes it's mentioned that Zoe's family owned the entire 11th floor.  How does that work in a building that is essentially a square donut (with the courtyard in the middle)?  I'm just trying to figure out how you lay out a "home" in that type of configuration.  And considering the building takes up an entire city block, what's the square footage on something like that???

Yeah, these are the weird things I think about in shows with phenomenal real estate...

 

Let's see about some of the easier questions, most of these answers are just me guessing:

Belnord square footage: 25,000 square feet

The Belnord at 225 W. 86th St. is a 12 story condo building in Upper West Side. It was built in 1908 and has 213 units. Most units have from 1-6 bedrooms. That means there would be about 18 units per floor if all the floors had the same number of units, but I am thinking there would be fewer on the ground floor. If there were no units on the ground floor that would make about 20 units per floor. I would assume each side of the build would have the same number of apartments which would on average be around 5. The number of apartments per floor might vary based on the sizes of apartment.  I do not know how the hallways go but it seems like there isn't one, and two or more apartments share a common lobby/elevator/stairs for residents and also share a sometimes different common lobby for servants. The apartments stretch from the Street side to the Courtyard side. The apartments that are on the corners of the building are probably the least desirable since I don't think they have a Courtyard view due to the lobbies always being in the corners of the building.

This suggests there would be little reason for people in the building to know each other since they all have separate entrances that can only be accessed by one or two elevators or stairs.

The 6 bedroom/5.5 bath is 4,493 square feet and worth $12,220,000.00 or $40,953 per month for 30 years. The 5 bedroom/4.5 bath is 3,949 square feet. The 4 bedroom/4.5 bath is 3,665 square feet. The 3 bedroom/3.5 bath is 2,445 square feet.  The 2 bedroom/2.5 bath is 1,610 square feet.

Here is a 4 bedroom/4 bath on the 11th floor, the dark colored apartment on the smaller Belnord map corresponds to the larger diagram. It appears there are 4 apartments per side on this particular floor.

Here is a 3 bedroom/4 bath on the 9th floor, the dark colored apartment on the smaller Belnord map corresponds to the larger diagram. This is a corner apartment that has no view of the Courtyard.

[grandmabegum]

Purely a fun(ny] guessing game before next episode when I feel like it will be revealed: what do you think Tim Kono's phone password is? I very much want it to be Evelyn. If it's Theo that would be pretty telling.

[Rlb8031]

On 9/20/2021 at 2:54 AM, AnimeMania said:

The Belnord at 225 W. 86th St. is a 12 story condo building in Upper West Side. It was built in 1908 and has 213 units. Most units have from 1-6 bedrooms. That means there would be about 18 units per floor if all the floors had the same number of units, but I am thinking there would be fewer on the ground floor. If there were no units on the ground floor that would make about 20 units per floor. I would assume each side of the build would have the same number of apartments which would on average be around 5. The number of apartments per floor might vary based on the sizes of apartment.  I do not know how the hallways go but it seems like there isn't one, and two or more apartments share a common lobby/elevator/stairs for residents and also share a sometimes different common lobby for servants. The apartments stretch from the Street side to the Courtyard side. The apartments that are on the corners of the building are probably the least desirable since I don't think they have a Courtyard view due to the lobbies always being in the corners of the building.

In many of these pre-war buildings the ground floor units are rented out for commercial use (mostly doctors and dentists offices). I'm not sure if that is true in the real Belnord or not, but its very much standard in similar buildings in this neighborhood. My dentist is in a ground floor unit on the building across the street from the Dakota (where John Lennon lived) and my doctor is in a ground floor unit in a building on Central Park West in the 60's. Some of those offices have direct street access so that patients don't have to mix with tenants, while in others, you have to go into the lobby and have the doorman announce you before you can enter.

[shapeshifter]

39 minutes ago, Rlb8031 said:

In many of these pre-war buildings the ground floor units are rented out for commercial use (mostly doctors and dentists offices). I'm not sure if that is true in the real Belnord or not, but its very much standard in similar buildings in this neighborhood. My dentist is in a ground floor unit on the building across the street from the Dakota (where John Lennon lived) and my doctor is in a ground floor unit in a building on Central Park West in the 60's. Some of those offices have direct street access so that patients don't have to mix with tenants, while in others, you have to go into the lobby and have the doorman announce you before you can enter.

If I'm interpreting Google Maps correctly (goo.gl/maps/y747sBHLSjTKuqL28), the corporate offices of The American Maze Co. may be on the ground floor of the Belnord/Arconia.
The American Maze Company seems like good fodder for season 2: americanmaze.com/about-the-american-maze
(pun of "fodder" not intended, but enjoyed nonetheless)

 

 

Edited October 6, 2021 by shapeshifter

[shapeshifter]

...as well as a dentist

and a CVS --open 24 hours, so a good spot for drama
--although the image is from 2017, so maybe none of these are currently in business at the Arconia/Belnord 
--especially the corn maze company pictured and linked above.

But, ooo! Look! 

Garbage bags!

Edited October 6, 2021 by shapeshifter

[AnimeMania]

Stream Selena + Chef Season 3 on October 28 on HBO Max.

She's back and she's blonde! Hope you've practiced your knife skills, because Selena Gomez is serving up a whole new season. Joined by a slate of all-star chefs, they'll make the *ultimate* recipes: seafood fit for a soirée, South Indian brunches, liquid nitrogen ice cream, and even her favorite meal yet (any guesses what it is?)

This clip makes Selena Gomez seem in real life exactly like her character in "Only Murders In The Building".

[ProudMary]

Does this show drop on Hulu at Midnight Eastern time or is it 3:00 a.m. Eastern, a la the M.O. of its sister streamer, Disney+?

To this point, I've been watching at my own convenience, but I want to see the finale ASAP!

[cardigirl]

23 minutes ago, ProudMary said:

Does this show drop on Hulu at Midnight Eastern time or is it 3:00 a.m. Eastern, a la the M.O. of its sister streamer, Disney+?

To this point, I've been watching at my own convenience, but I want to see the finale ASAP!

It has been dropping at midnight Eastern for the past shows. 

[marketdoctor]

I just wanted to thank everyone for such an enjoyable discussion on such a great show. 

I wonder if Selena will be a blonde in season 2.  I'd enjoy it if she did, and no one seems to notice/care.

 

 

[AnimeMania]

There is another comedy murder mystery show about to start soon (January 28) on Apple TV + called "The Afterparty". Visit the thread for more information, hope to see you there. Here is a little taste:

 

[AnimeMania]

There is another comedy (murder?) mystery show about to start soon (January 28) on Netflix called "The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window". Visit the thread for more information, hope to see you there. Here is a little taste:

 

[Irlandesa]

I don't have Apple but The Afterparty looks funny.

[AnimeMania]

Reconstructing the Arconia for ‘Only Murders in the Building’

Discussion of the different apartments.

Charles

Mabel

Oliver

[MisterGlass]

A YouTube series called "Otherwords" just did an episode on the history of sign language in the United States and a time period when it was banned.  I found it educational.

[cardigirl]

I'm incensed. I've started rewatching the show to prepare for the season 3 debut and Hulu has cut parts from the show, as happens with other shows when rebroadcast, to fit in ads. Gosh darn it. It's a streaming service. They don't have to worry about timeframes. They could add 10 minutes of commercials at my membership tier, extend the running time, and still give me the entire episode. 
 

Had anyone else noticed this? 

[cardigirl]

A quick Google search found a number of references and Reddit pages complaining about Hulu clipping up shows. Hulu swears they broadcast them exactly as given to them by the studios that produce them, but don't they produce OMITB?  

I guess I'll have to wait and buy the DVDs, if such a thing exists, to see the shows in their entirety. GAH. 

Edited March 15, 2023 by cardigirl

[Abra]

5 hours ago, cardigirl said:

I'm incensed. I've started rewatching the show to prepare for the season 3 debut and Hulu has cut parts from the show, as happens with other shows when rebroadcast, to fit in ads. Gosh darn it. It's a streaming service. They don't have to worry about timeframes. They could add 10 minutes of commercials at my membership tier, extend the running time, and still give me the entire episode. 

Are you saying they're cutting out parts within scenes, or just cutting the ends of scenes to allow for commercials? I have ad free Hulu and I've always noticed that they clearly end scenes a certain way so they can cut to commercials for the ad-tier subscribers, but I just never saw the ads because of my subscription plan.

Or are you recalling specific parts from the show that just don't exist on the rewatch?

[cardigirl]

54 minutes ago, Abra said:

Are you saying they're cutting out parts within scenes, or just cutting the ends of scenes to allow for commercials? I have ad free Hulu and I've always noticed that they clearly end scenes a certain way so they can cut to commercials for the ad-tier subscribers, but I just never saw the ads because of my subscription plan.

Or are you recalling specific parts from the show that just don't exist on the rewatch?

I'm recalling specific parts of the show that no longer show up in the episode. Some of them are small, but informative nonetheless. I re-watched episode 1, season 1, and when Charles makes the omelette the first time, he starts to whisk the eggs, then it cuts to him dumping the omelette. Very choppy, but what is lost is how precise he is with cutting the peppers, etc. There was another part missing that I cannot recall at the moment, but it's frustrating to pay for a service AND watch ads and lose content. /rant

[snarktini]

Watching ER for the first time since it was new in the 90s, and a very young Amy Ryan is in S1E23 as a nun-to-be :)

[chitowngirl]

35 minutes ago, sjankis630 said:

Question. Are you trying to post from your phone or your computer? I have no issues on my home PC or Macbook Pro but whenever I try and read this thread on my iphone the popups and autoscroll make it almost impossible to just read. It keeps scrolling back up every time I try and read down the comments.

I’m on my iPad. I should just get out the MacBook because, yes, it’s impossible to read with the jumping and scrolling….

Edited August 28 by chitowngirl

[shapeshifter]

7 hours ago, chitowngirl said:

I’m on my iPad. I should just get out the MacBook because, yes, it’s impossible to read with the jumping and scrolling….

I use ad blockers because of migraine-triggering flashing images. 
I don't have any jumping and scrolling on my phone.
But then I also have an iPhone 7 that can no longer be updated to the latest iOS.

This page: 

currently says:

Quote

If an ad is spread across a page, causes technical issues or otherwise makes navigating the site difficult to impossible, please report the ad to feedback@primetimer.com 

The email should include:

Page URL (we need at least one dedicated link to a Primetimer page where you saw the ad/had the issue)

Description of the problem

Screenshot of both page and ad

 

Edited August 28 by shapeshifter

[Ohiopirate02]

Hey Mods

Is there anyway to unpin the 3 pinned topics on this page? It's a bit excessive and results in the episode thread with new comments falling below an ad.

Thanks.

[EtheltoTillie]

Ever since I switched to Duck Duck Go on the Ipad and the desktop computer, I no longer have the annoying ads and scrolling issues.  Duck Duck Go runs in the background. 

Edited August 29 by EtheltoTillie

[chaifan]

On my laptop, I use firefox as my browser, and get frozen pages here all the time.  Also, more often than not, within a few minutes of being on this site I can hear my computer running, maybe it's the fan.  It's like it's working overtime when I'm on this site.  I've switched over to Bing a few times, and it doesn't seem to have the same problems.

 

[tessaray]

I don't know if the browsers Brave or Opera are available for Apple OSes but I have a few sites I couldn't even tolerate without them. Brave especially. I use Opera more on the desktop than my phone.

[Yeah No]

@shapeshifter, I read that page you posted in the episode thread about the history of the 215th St. incinerator in the Inwood section of Manhattan and have some comments (and would love to hear yours as well). It's the most on the subject I have ever seen in one place and very interesting, so thank you!

The first color photo on the page is the one with my building in it. It is the last large apartment building on the right side on the cliff facing the incinerator. To the right of it are private houses that I remember well. One of my uncles lived in an apartment in one of them. The huge white Veteran's hospital looms above it. That photo, which was taken from the 215th Street elevated subway station, can be clicked on and made bigger and bigger to the point that I can even see my old apartment windows very clearly - We were on the 3rd floor on the lefthand corner of the building next to the little private house in between buildings, which I remember being built and the nice family that lived there when I was a kid. The second floor was the lowest level of windows and we were on the one just above that. This photo was taken long after I left so the windows themselves are the replacements that were put in decades later. The grounds of the hospital were across the street from my building so there were no buildings on the front side across the street, just a fence and trees.  I lived on Sedgwick Ave., which is also known as the birthplace of Hip Hop, but that was further South - South of Fordham Road and not in my neighborhood.

What I had always heard is that by the late '60s that incinerator was already being phased out and was completely shut down in 1970. So I didn't have to endure anywhere near the amount of smoke that must have poured out of it in earlier decades. And thankfully, because from the sound of it, that must have been horrible, not to mention very unhealthy! So I think this article was mistaken about the phasing out starting in 1970. And at least I wasn't breathing in anywhere near the noxious smoke that it must have put out in earlier times. But it was still enough to bother my sensitive nose, which has always been sensitive to smoke. In fact last year when some of the wildfire smoke from the West was stuck in the lower atmosphere I truly suffered with it for a couple of weeks until the weather pattern changed. 

Anyway I lived in that building from the Summer of 1964 to the Summer of 1974, just about ten years, so I was exposed to that incinerator for only about 5 years and probably less because it was already almost completely shut down by mid 1969 as far as I remember. And that's when my nose cleared up, BTW.

It just boggles my mind that incinerating garbage could be seen as a "better alternative" but I guess if the alternative to that was seen as dumping it all in the water I guess they thought so back then. But either one looks just as offensive to us now!

I have always read about how NYC had a garbage problem and that the streets were disgusting and full of trash and worse in the late 19th century so the fact that they actually removed it and cleaned up the streets was actually an improvement from their point of view. 

So anyway that's what I have to say about it right now. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[Affogato]

13 hours ago, Yeah No said:

@shapeshifter, I read that page you posted in the episode thread about the history of the 215th St. incinerator in the Inwood section of Manhattan and have some comments (and would love to hear yours as well). It's the most on the subject I have ever seen in one place and very interesting, so thank you!

The first color photo on the page is the one with my building in it. It is the last large apartment building on the right side on the cliff facing the incinerator. To the right of it are private houses that I remember well. One of my uncles lived in an apartment in one of them. The huge white Veteran's hospital looms above it. That photo, which was taken from the 215th Street elevated subway station, can be clicked on and made bigger and bigger to the point that I can even see my old apartment windows very clearly - We were on the 3rd floor on the lefthand corner of the building next to the little private house in between buildings, which I remember being built and the nice family that lived there when I was a kid. The second floor was the lowest level of windows and we were on the one just above that. This photo was taken long after I left so the windows themselves are the replacements that were put in decades later. The grounds of the hospital were across the street from my building so there were no buildings on the front side across the street, just a fence and trees.  I lived on Sedgwick Ave., which is also known as the birthplace of Hip Hop, but that was further South - South of Fordham Road and not in my neighborhood.

What I had always heard is that by the late '60s that incinerator was already being phased out and was completely shut down in 1970. So I didn't have to endure anywhere near the amount of smoke that must have poured out of it in earlier decades. And thankfully, because from the sound of it, that must have been horrible, not to mention very unhealthy! So I think this article was mistaken about the phasing out starting in 1970. And at least I wasn't breathing in anywhere near the noxious smoke that it must have put out in earlier times. But it was still enough to bother my sensitive nose, which has always been sensitive to smoke. In fact last year when some of the wildfire smoke from the West was stuck in the lower atmosphere I truly suffered with it for a couple of weeks until the weather pattern changed. 

Anyway I lived in that building from the Summer of 1964 to the Summer of 1974, just about ten years, so I was exposed to that incinerator for only about 5 years and probably less because it was already almost completely shut down by mid 1969 as far as I remember. And that's when my nose cleared up, BTW.

It just boggles my mind that incinerating garbage could be seen as a "better alternative" but I guess if the alternative to that was seen as dumping it all in the water I guess they thought so back then. But either one looks just as offensive to us now!

I have always read about how NYC had a garbage problem and that the streets were disgusting and full of trash and worse in the late 19th century so the fact that they actually removed it and cleaned up the streets was actually an improvement from their point of view. 

So anyway that's what I have to say about it right now. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

i remember visiting NYC in the late ‘60s. I lived in Minneapolis/StPaul and had been to Chicago, i had been in cities before. My memory is that I had to wash my hair every day and black came out of it, that the air was dirty. Maybe it was the incinerators. Later in the ‘70s I didn’t notice it. 

[EtheltoTillie]

Long after the demise of incinerators in NYC, we lived in a first-floor apartment.  We used to get lots of black dust on the windowsills, probably generated by passing traffic.  Now that we have moved to a seventh-floor apartment, we no longer have that problem.

 

[shapeshifter]

On 8/30/2024 at 1:21 AM, Yeah No said:

The first color photo on the page is the one with my building in it. It is the last large apartment building on the right side on the cliff facing the incinerator. To the right of it are private houses that I remember well. One of my uncles lived in an apartment in one of them. The huge white Veteran's hospital looms above it. That photo, which was taken from the 215th Street elevated subway station, can be clicked on and made bigger and bigger to the point that I can even see my old apartment windows very clearly - We were on the 3rd floor on the lefthand corner of the building next to the little private house in between buildings, which I remember being built and the nice family that lived there when I was a kid. The second floor was the lowest level of windows and we were on the one just above that. This photo was taken long after I left so the windows themselves are the replacements that were put in decades later. The grounds of the hospital were across the street from my building so there were no buildings on the front side across the street, just a fence and trees.  I lived on Sedgwick Ave.

Did you notice "Myinwood.net" at the bottom of the enlargeable photo?
https://myinwood.net/
I suspect lots of the other content on that website will be familiar to you, @Yeah No.

I wonder: Was the incinerator used to generate electricity? 

My middle daughter (age 40) lives 12 miles south of there near the Manhattan Bridge with a dirt-generating, noisy train roaring past her windows every 10 minutes.
Her apartment is closer to what Mabel from the show could afford.

My mom grew up in Newark NJ during the Depression. Their apartment was heated with coal and both her parents smoked. 🙁🚬 Her mom died from cancer at age 47.

I heated with wood stoves for 15 years when my kids were growing up. My oldest daughter's asthma disappeared when she was no longer was exposed to those backdrafts filling up the house with smoke during winter wind storms. The area was also prone to choking forest fires in the summer.

Even in Rochester NY, I love my air purifier more than anything.

Edited August 31 by shapeshifter

[Yeah No]

22 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

Long after the demise of incinerators in NYC, we lived in a first-floor apartment.  We used to get lots of black dust on the windowsills, probably generated by passing traffic.  Now that we have moved to a seventh-floor apartment, we no longer have that problem.

I remember that too. When I was a kid the soot was from both incinerators and carbon emissions but now it's probably mostly from the latter. If the snow hung around for a while it would turn completely black on the outside. Now it just gets a lighter shade of gray, lol. Still not a great thing.

Even in that photo posted above, if you blow it up (which is easier on the other website) you can see the soot on the snow on the 215th St. subway platform.

22 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Did you notice "Myinwood.net" at the bottom of the enlargeable photo?
https://myinwood.net/
I suspect lots of the other content on that website will be familiar to you, @Yeah No.

I wonder: Was the incinerator used to generate electricity? 

My middle daughter (age 40) lives 12 miles south of there near the Manhattan Bridge with a dirt-generating, noisy train roaring past her windows every 10 minutes.
Her apartment is closer to what Mabel from the show could afford.

My mom grew up in Newark NJ during the Depression. Their apartment was heated with coal and both her parents smoked. 🙁🚬 Her mom died from cancer at age 47.

I heated with wood stoves for 15 years when my kids were growing up. My oldest daughter's asthma disappeared when she was no longer was exposed to those backdrafts filling up the house with smoke during winter wind storms. The area was also prone to choking forest fires in the summer.

Even in Rochester NY, I love my air purifier more than anything.

I am familiar with the "My Inwood" site but I haven't visited it in a while. It's one of those sites I can get lost in for hours. Even on that front page in the photo of the long gone Miramar pool, which looks like it was taken in the very early 20th century, I can see the heights of the Bronx in the distance - This time further South than where I lived closer to the neighborhood where Hip Hop would be born decades later. What is most obvious in the photo is the large dome of the Gould Memorial Library and Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which were originally part of NYU's Northern campus but now belong to Bronx Community College. I was always fascinated with all the busts of "founding fathers" and other notable great Americans that figure into our arts, literature and history. I haven't visited it in at least a decade. BTW, that library was inspired by the Roman Pantheon and was designed by famous architect Sanford White, whose life and murderous death story is rather interesting and even scandalous. He was briefly featured in "The Gilded Age", another show I love. I know I've seen him featured in a few other fictional TV shows and documentaries as well. My husband and I are architecture buffs (him more than me) and so we have always loved and visited his buildings in NYC, of which there are (and were) many.

I never read that the 215th St. smoke stacks were used for anything after it was closed down as an incinerator other than a storage and parking facility.

My father told stories about how when he was in the single digits in the '30s his parents' apartment in Brooklyn did not have electricity. He remembered the lamp lighter coming around every evening to put on the street lamps. Today we don't have any concept for how fast electricity spread after it was invented, but obviously it didn't make it out to certain areas in the boroughs and beyond until much later than it did in Manhattan.

[shapeshifter]

1 hour ago, Yeah No said:

My husband and I are architecture buffs (him more than me)

My favorite thing in Chicago is the Architectural Tour Cruise:

Quote

Voted #1 boat tour in the United States by USA Today readers in 2024, as well as Chicago Reader's Best Tour for over 10 years!

Led by the Chicago Architecture Center's expertly trained docent volunteers, this 90-minute cruise reveals fascinating stories behind Chicago's majestic buildings in a way no other tour can.

https://www.architecture.org/city-tours/river-cruise?date=2024-09-01T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

It's not expensive and yet the docents are phenomenal.
It easy to take the train down from the suburbs, walk a short distance and catch a river taxi boat to cruise starting point. 
They have multiple cruises each day throughout the season.

My second favorite thing is Chicago-style pizza, which is a meal.

 

1 hour ago, Yeah No said:

My father told stories about how when he was in the single digits in the '30s his parents' apartment in Brooklyn did not have electricity. He remembered the lamp lighter coming around every evening to put on the street lamps. Today we don't have any concept for how fast electricity spread after it was invented, but obviously it didn't make it out to certain areas in the boroughs and beyond until much later than it did in Manhattan

Love this bit❣️👆

[Yeah No]

1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:

My favorite thing in Chicago is the Architectural Tour Cruise:

It's not expensive and yet the docents are phenomenal.
It easy to take the train down from the suburbs, walk a short distance and catch a river taxi boat to cruise starting point. 
They have multiple cruises each day throughout the season.

My second favorite thing is Chicago-style pizza, which is a meal.

 

Love this bit❣️👆

There is not one thing about that cruise I don't absolutely love, and now that I have my scopolamine patches, I'm all set for that, LOL. We  intend to go back to Chicago eventually. I've been there twice, once as a teenager and once 18 years ago, for several days and had a phenomenal time. I know my husband will love the idea of that cruise. You just keep hitting it out of the park, thank you! ❤️

I wonder if NYC has such a cruise. It probably does. My husband could lead it. He knows that much about NYC history and architecture.

When we went to Chicago last time we had Malnati's deep dish pizza. It was our first time having authentic deep dish pizza. We loved it and that says a lot coming from thin crust NY style pizza mavens like us!

[EtheltoTillie]

18 hours ago, Yeah No said:

There is not one thing about that cruise I don't absolutely love, and now that I have my scopolamine patches, I'm all set for that, LOL. We  intend to go back to Chicago eventually. I've been there twice, once as a teenager and once 18 years ago, for several days and had a phenomenal time. I know my husband will love the idea of that cruise. You just keep hitting it out of the park, thank you! ❤️

I wonder if NYC has such a cruise. It probably does. My husband could lead it. He knows that much about NYC history and architecture.

When we went to Chicago last time we had Malnati's deep dish pizza. It was our first time having authentic deep dish pizza. We loved it and that says a lot coming from thin crust NY style pizza mavens like us!

I took a great yacht brunch cruise around Manhattan a few years ago.  We saw so many sights you’d never know were there. Unlike Chicago with all the canals (I too loved the Chicago architecture cruise) you can’t see all the NYC architecture from a boat.  But the hidden sights were interesting. 

[chitowngirl]

On 8/28/2024 at 8:53 AM, Ohiopirate02 said:

Hey Mods

Is there anyway to unpin the 3 pinned topics on this page? It's a bit excessive and results in the episode thread with new comments falling below an ad.

Thanks.

I pinged a mod about this (there’s only one or two left now). This was the response:

“thank you for your feedback about the pinned topics.

It’s not unusual for two or three threads to be pinned to the top. The idea behind pinning these threads is to keep them visible in multi-topic and/or multi-page forums; as not all forums have the same topics, it's not always immediately clear which topics exist. By featuring them at the top of the page, the moderator team hopes to minimize posts like un-tagged spoilers and off-topic posts in episode topics as well as random new threads (often posted by members who aren’t as familiar with the forums).

With that said, I’m really sorry about the ads. Administrators aren’t ad-free (precisely so that we know what it’s like for members), so, I mean it when I say I wish there was something that could be done about them.

Thank you for your many contributions to the forums. Enjoy the upcoming TV season. 

BlueButterfly”

 

[SoMuchTV]

1 hour ago, chitowngirl said:

I pinged a mod about this (there’s only one or two left now). This was the response:

“thank you for your feedback about the pinned topics.

It’s not unusual for two or three threads to be pinned to the top. The idea behind pinning these threads is to keep them visible in multi-topic and/or multi-page forums; as not all forums have the same topics, it's not always immediately clear which topics exist. By featuring them at the top of the page, the moderator team hopes to minimize posts like un-tagged spoilers and off-topic posts in episode topics as well as random new threads (often posted by members who aren’t as familiar with the forums).

With that said, I’m really sorry about the ads. Administrators aren’t ad-free (precisely so that we know what it’s like for members), so, I mean it when I say I wish there was something that could be done about them.

Thank you for your many contributions to the forums. Enjoy the upcoming TV season. 

BlueButterfly”

Thanks for posting. I also flagged that post and got the exact same response. I replied back asking if the mod would post that in this thread or give me permission to repost it, but never got a response. 

While the explanation seems reasonable, it still feels like this forum has more pinned posts than others I follow. 

[peeayebee]

Yeah, the pinned posts bug me too. I haven't noticed this in other forums, but I might have just missed them.

[Ohiopirate02]

2 hours ago, peeayebee said:

Yeah, the pinned posts bug me too. I haven't noticed this in other forums, but I might have just missed them.

Most forums have 0-2 pinned posts. This is the only one I frequent that has 3. Usually the one pinned post is the general mod note thread for the more contentious shows or ones where the old mods had specific rules for posting. 

[Irlandesa]

5 minutes ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

Most forums have 0-2 pinned posts. This is the only one I frequent that has 3. Usually the one pinned post is the general mod note thread for the more contentious shows or ones where the old mods had specific rules for posting. 

The Law & Order forum has 5.  And I almost feel like there were more a short time ago.  It's to the point that I will see there are new posts and I have to scroll to reach the threads being posted in. 

[Ohiopirate02]

6 minutes ago, Irlandesa said:

The Law & Order forum has 5.  And I almost feel like there were more a short time ago.  It's to the point that I will see there are new posts and I have to scroll to reach the threads being posted in. 

I never really noticed that, but I only read and post there about new episodes and not past seasons. As long as the episode thread I wanted to read and comment on is one of those pinned threads, I would not register how many pinned threads there were.

[peeayebee]

It took me a while to understand the mod's response, but I guess because this is a mystery show, the Spoilers and Speculations threads are pinned as a reminder to not spoil or speculate in ep threads. 

[Yeah No]

13 hours ago, peeayebee said:

Yeah, the pinned posts bug me too. I haven't noticed this in other forums, but I might have just missed them.

I don't even see the pinned posts because I get in through streams/topics I follow, which brings me directly to the thread with a post I haven't seen yet. I recommend that highly. I had to get to that outer screen manually to see them. And they don't bother me. What bothers me more are threads with huge blue banners on top of every page with warnings or FYI's that take up a third of the screen. 

[shapeshifter]

41 minutes ago, Yeah No said:

I don't even see the pinned posts because I get in through streams/topics I follow, which brings me directly to the thread with a post I haven't seen yet. I recommend that highly. I had to get to that outer screen manually to see them. And they don't bother me. What bothers me more are threads with huge blue banners on top of every page with warnings or FYI's that take up a third of the screen. 

Ditto and ditto.