The Flickr 1960Sofficetower Image Generatr

You love concrete.

T-Mobile thought you'd like to see a picture of a solar eclipse-themed iPhone. And they were right, weren't they!

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In downtown Dallas, Texas, on February 18th, 2023, One Main Place (designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill in 1964; completed in 1968; 15000245 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of North Field Street and Elm Street. It was partially converted to a Westin hotel in 2015.

The blue building at the left was built in 1958 (according to the Dallas Central Appraisal District) but the blue tiles were installed in 2017 (according to Google Streetview).

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According to the building's documentation for the National Register of Historic Places, it was built from 1963 to 1966 as the Wachovia Building, and was the tallest building in North and South Carolina until 1970-1971, when a taller building was erected in Charlotte; and was briefly the tallest building in the southeastern U.S., but construction had begun on a taller building in Atlanta by the time it was finished.

Thinking back to your memories of the late 1960s, do you remember your delight at your awareness that this was the tallest skyscraper in the whole Carolinas?

The defunct crowdsourced website Emporis asserted that the building was renovated and renamed "Winston Tower" in 2003. That sounds plausible and maybe it was!, but it's just an unsupported assertion on a defunct crowdsourced website so idk.

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In downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 2nd, 2023, the Winston Tower (01000376 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of North Main Street and East 3rd Street, as viewed from West 3rd Street at its intersection with Town Run Lane, in the Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District, 100008467 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Print this out, fold it in half, and put it in the 1965 box.

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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, 333 Fayetteville Street (built 1963-1965 as BB&T Tower, later known as Capital Bank Plaza, designed by Emery Roth & Sons; a "contributing property" in the Fayetteville Street Historic Street, 07001412 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of Fayetteville Street and East Davie Street.

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They are delighted by its elegance and awed by its monstrous size. They are proud that something like this could have happened here. Plus there's a parking garage downstairs!

Narrow vertical concrete bands up the sides of the building form short "spires" at their tops, which at least one commentator has called "Gothic-like." Okay!

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, "800 SW Jackson Street" (built in 1969 as the Merchants National Bank Building, later the U.S. Bank Building) at the southeast corner of SW Jackson Street and SW 8th Avenue.

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"18-wheeler or car wreck call Jim Adler."

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In downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on February 12th, 2023, the Fritz G. Lanham Federal Building (opened 1966) at the northeast corner of Taylor Street and West 10th Street, as viewed from the northeast corner of West 10th Street and Lamar Street.

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