Skyscrapers

in Baton Rouge scanned slide, Minolta X700

In the center "555 California Street", 237 m high, 52 floors, completed 1969; on the left hand side is "580 California", 107 m high, 23 floors and completed 1987. scanned slide Minolta X700

scanned slide, Minolta X700

The tallest skyscraper in San Francisco from 1969 to 2017 - 260 m and 48 floors.

seen from China town

view from Bank of America building (now "555 California Street")

The Sears Tower ("Willis Tower" since 2009) was built 1970-1973 with 108 floors and is 463 m tall, 527 m with antennas. When completed as the "Sears Tower" in 1973 it surpassed One World Trade Center in New York City, completed earlier that year as the World’s Tallest Building (WTB). It stayed the WTB from 1973 to 1996, where the Petronas Towers in Malaysia surpassed it, although this was only possible because of the spires atop the buildings, counting by roof height the Willis Tower remained the tallest until 2003 when Taipei 101 in Taiwan was completed, 19 feet taller than the Willis Tower’s roof. - see PiP From left to right: "Gateway Center III", 1970-1971, 35 floors, 137 m "200 South Wacker Drive", 1981, 41 floors, 152 m "Willis Tower", 1970-1973, 108 floors, 463 m (527 m with antennas) "Gateway Center IV", 1980-1983, 23 floors, 98 m

AON Center in the background, behind the Chase Tower

View from Sears Tower (now called "Willis Tower"), all interesting buildings are marked and described, search for and click on the (small) notes. scanned slide, Minolta X700

Chase Tower (21 South Clark Street): construction date: 1966-1969, floors: 60, height: 259.1 m. The smaller building before Chase Tower doesn't exist anymore, the building right behind is "Roanoke Building", built 1913-1925. The PiP is a view from Sears Tower (now called "Willis Tower"), which is obviously even much taller. scanned slide, Minolta X700

Chicago is also the city of drawbridges over the Chicago river. Here you see the closed "Irv Kupcinet Bridge" and the open "Bataan-Correqidor Memorial Bridge" and "Dearborn Street Bridge". To the right the residential skyscrapers Marina City I and II as seen on the image before. scanned slide, Minolta X700

This view goes to North-East. The two circular towers are Marina City I and II, built 1960-1962. Each has 61 floors and is 179 m high. More informations here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_City scanned slide, Minolta X-700, Minolta 70-210mm

between: "American Furniture Mart", 1926, 29 floors, 144 m, left and right: "McClurg Court Center A and B", 1971, 46 floors, 131 m scanned slide, Minolta X700

"One South Wacker", built 1979-1982, 40 floors, 168 m scanned slide, Minolta X700

"Chicago Temple Building", 1922-1924, 23 floors, 173 m, behind is "Three First National Plaza", 1981, 57 floors, 234 m - scanned slide, Minolta X700

a few last photos from Chicago, before we got to Toronto....scanned slide, Minolta X700

The glass skyscrapers to the left are "Sun Life Centre West and East", built in 1985, so it was brand new, when I took this photo. The old building to the right is "St. Andrews Church", built 1876 in Romanesque style. scanned slide, Miolta X700