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 | | The painting of the National Geographic Balloon Explorer II's twelve and one-half mile ascent, November 11, 1935, from the Black Hill in South Dakota on the wall of the south mezzanine lent interest to the actual gondola and instruments immediately beneath. |
 | | An article in the American Architect, July 1935, contrasted the romantic beauty of Bertram Goodhue's hallmark California Building with the blunt, austere appearance of the Ford Building. |
 | | In 1966, architecture historian James Marston Fitch declared the simplified, curving style, popularized by Norman Bel Geddes and Walter Dorwin Teague in their designs for the 1939 New York World's Fair, was cold and impersonal and suggested the functional and fluid forms of an assembly line, a diesel locomotive, or a motorcar body. |
| www.sandiegohistory.org /bpbuildings/fordbldg.htm (4321 words) |
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