My husband helped open the Hyatt Recency - Dearborn, Michigan hotel during 1975-1976. He worked there for several years. Anyway, there was a restaurant called The Rotunda...and it rotated at 2 speeds. One rotation per hour or one rotation per 45 minutes. The switch was in a locked cabinet.There was a monorail connection to the NEW huge mall across the street, where I worked at the time...we were young. 😉 The monorail is no longer, nor the Hyatt name on the building. The hotel and mall were wonderful in the early days. Thanks for the memories @Unk-p.
@journeywithme2 I enjoyed the one at the top of the Hyatt in Atlanta in the 1970's. We'd sit there, sip pink frozen daiquiris and watch Atlanta.
I ate at that Atlanta one with my parents decades ago. It was a really nice evening.
We have 2 revolving restaurants in Sydney, the one in Australia square I think was the first and I have eaten there many moons ago. Since then a lot more high rise have gone up so I think the view may not be as good these days, you would probably have better at the one in the Sydneytower. If you look at the websites you can see some of the views you get
https://skyfeastsydneytower.com.au/
https://www.obardining.com.au/
Regards to all
Matildagirl
@jeanne-mayell My father's glass company did a lot of work for John Portman and they did the glass for it. :-)
@lovendures It was definitely a "high class" experience to eat there. My father and mother would go there occasionally ..but no way would they take their 5 kids there LOL. I finally got to eat there when I was in my 20's and a date took me there.
the World's "oldest living teenager", Iris Apfel, has died. Age 102.
From the New York Times:
Iris Apfel, a New York society matron and interior designer who late in life knocked the socks off the straight fashion world with a brash bohemian style that mixed hippie vintage and haute couture, found treasures in flea markets and reveled in contradictions, died on Friday in her home in Palm Beach, Fla. She was 102.
Stu Loeser, a spokesman for her estate, confirmed her death.
Calling herself a “geriatric starlet,” Ms. Apfel in her 80s and 90s set trends with clamorous, irreverent ensembles: a boxy, multicolored Bill Blass jacket with tinted Hopi dancing skirt and hairy goatskin boots; a fluffy evening coat of red and green rooster feathers with suede pants slashed to the knees; a rose angora sweater set and 19th-century Chinese brocade panel skirt.
Her willfully disjunctive accessories might be a jeweled mask or a necklace of jade beads swinging to the knees, a tin handbag shaped like a terrier, furry scarves wrapped around her neck like a pile of pythons and, nearly always, her signature armloads of bangles and owlish spectacles, big as saucers.
She was tallish and thin, with a short crop of silver hair and scarlet gashes on lips and fingernails, a little old lady among the models at Fashion Week and an authentic Noo Yawk haggler at a shop in Harlem or a souk in Tunisia. Many called her gaudy, kooky, bizarre, even vulgar in get-ups like a cape of gold-tipped duck feathers and thigh-high fuchsia satin Yves Saint Laurent boots.
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But she had a point.
“When you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think like everybody else,”
And from the Guardian:
When asked about ageing in a 2018 interview, Apfel said: “I wouldn’t want to stop the clock. No, that would be so boring. It would be like being caught in a time machine, a time warp. I don’t like that. I think variety is the spice of life.”
"More is more, and less is a bore" -Iris Apfel ❤️
Have you seen this yet?
It's a short video of former film/T.V. presidents giving Biden advice on his State of the Union address. Many of the offered pieces of advice are things we would also wish for the president. It is sweet and should bring a smile to your face. There were some great actor presidents represented.
(I wonder why Keith Sutherland didn't give advice from his role on Designate Survivor? Oh, wait...yeah, that would not have been a good call considering how that series began...but suggestions from Harrison Ford would have been great and same with Martin Sheen).
https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse
Happy Daylight Savings Time, Community!
@lovendures I loved that video. It lifted my spirits for Biden right when I needed it. And I am glad his people are creating videos like that.
I also thought he crushed it at the State of the Union.
Every night I am doing @Tesseract's prayer plan for Biden: I am visualizing with all my inner powers that he is being inaugurated in January 2025 for the second time. We are happy and I am hugging my husband and breathing a great sigh of gratitude.