Why was such a place demolished?
They tear it down to make room for a fast food chili joint?
Damn it I want to see elaborate shit like this in person safety hazard be damned. I’ll sign a waiver, gimme my overbuilt adult playground.
Should look at some of the pictures of the Los Angeles Public Library.
I’ve been! My wife is a librarian and she used to work for the L.A. library system. Very beautiful. The main branch of the NYPL is wonderful too. As a bonus, in the children’s department, they have all of Christopher Robin Milne’s original childhood toys that inspired his father to write the Winnie the Pooh stories:
Is that an otter behind Kanga?
Is that AI?
Nope. 100% real.
See the photo of the main hall on the right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Main_Library_(Cincinnati)#Opening
This place looks like a wizard boss fight location for a big d&d campaign. Sad it’s gone.
Well, the new one is really nice.
That doesn’t mean you get rid of the old one. Not when you can have wizard fights in it.
I was about to go on about how there weren’t many wizards in Cincinnati when I was there, but then I remembered about the Hollows series
Bring back dangerously tall and elaborate libraries that wouldn’t look out of place in a Resident Evil game
100000 percent this!
If a background in mountaineering isn’t a qualification to work at your library, then I want nothing to do with it.
They issue you a harness and arborists’ knots pocket guide on the first day.
Falls in Dewey Decimaaaaaaaaalllllllll
After 1904, they might have been falling in LoCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!