| Posted by SnakeCorp |
6/15/2005 9:20 PM | remove |
Slightly Off topic: The 'Columbia' sign and the 'Music Note' symbols over the gate on the main lcation pic - Columbia was an EMI label up until 1974 when it was scrapped (in the UK at least), so that would tie in nicely with the Minos label being EMI's Greek subsidiary.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
6/16/2005 7:14 AM | remove |
Columbia certainly lasted longed in Greece, they advertised very heavily on the radio between 1974 and 1979 (I think -- at five, I didn't care much about the life and death of music labels, though I do remember the commercials because they were on all the freaking time).
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
6/16/2005 7:16 AM | remove |
longed -> longer (never post comments before your morning coffee is ready)
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| Posted by SnakeCorp |
6/16/2005 3:26 PM | remove |
Funnily enough, the style of these buildings remind me very much of the EMI world headquarters in Hayes, Middlesex, UK. Imagine this complex, multiply in size by about 20 and you've got it! Pic here:
http://middx.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/2904/cat/519
About 70% of the Hayes site has now gone and is being either demolished/converted into offices.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
7/14/2005 4:15 PM | remove |
"To the Manager, The Gramaphone Company. Dear Sir...."
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| Posted by trojansxc91 |
3/4/2006 11:42 PM | remove |
i dont know if its just me or the camera or what, but is the top of the building leaning back?
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
3/29/2006 3:09 PM | remove |
It is! The leaning bit with the windows is part of the roof. Factories used to do this a lot back then, there are a few different reasons for it (including controlling fires).
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| Posted by DLNorton |
9/15/2008 5:34 AM | remove |
those trees are called Ailanthus, also known as "Tree Of Heaven". They grow world wide, and are hard to destroy. You will find them around a lot of urban areas and especially around derrilik buildings since that's where they thrive best.
These trees' flowers (in the females) put out an odor much like urine.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
10/10/2008 9:22 PM | remove |
It's been a few years, and I can't remember the exact type, but I *think* they were acacias (which also grow wild everywhere in Greece). I can check the full-size photos, if you want. I had a look on Wikipedia and the leaves and fruit don't match anything I've seen here.
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| Posted by tralfaz |
9/1/2009 3:57 AM | remove |
DLNorton is correct. Pictures on Wikipedia are particularly bad for this; Google "ailanthus" and "acacia" images and compare. The smaller branches do not connect like this in Acacia, the leaves are different. Both trees are present in your picture set. Photo 2 shows an Acacia branch at left, but the small trees in the back are Ailanthus.
Urbex wouldn't be urbex without Ailanthus in the picture somewhere! Except maybe in Antarctica . . .
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