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by Wren
Rated: 13+ · Book · Biographical · #1096245
Just play: don't look at your hands!
#438152 added July 4, 2006 at 12:33am
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Posting Pictures Exercise
Here's the outside of the Union Station in Indianapolis, Indiana, built in 1881. It is the oldest Union Station still in operation.

train station 1881



This is the interior of the station. Picture rows and rows of wooden slat benches, full of weary travelers and soldiers off to war. Picture my grandfather leaving for Washington state in 1910, and
my grandmother afraid to have him go. I wonder if she drove him to the station? In what? I think they may have had a car by then.

Crowne Plaza Hotel




This is the window at the end of the station that didn't show up in detail in the above picture. Doesn't it look sort of Frank Lloyd Wright?

Indianapolis Crowne Plaza Hotel




Here's a statue of a typical passenger standing alongside one of twelve train cars in the hotel that now provide 26 rooms people can stay in.

A statue of a typical traveler in the Union Central Station


If I could figure out how to print next to these pictures, or to move the pictures around, I'd do it. That must be my next lesson, after some help.

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