Hot Pot, Zhongshan, Dalian, China

Russian Mairie (Dalny), Old Russia St., Dalian, China

Surrounded by ocean on three sides, this strategic seaport was originally known to the Chinese as Lüshun. It took its English name, Port Arthur, from a Royal Navy Lieutenant named William C. Arthur who surveyed the harbor in the gunboat HMS Algerine in August 1860, during the Second Opium War. At that time Lüshun was an unfortified fishing village. The port was known as Port-Artur (Порт-Артур) under Russian administration and later Ryojun (旅順) under Japanese administration. In the late 1880s, German company Krupp contracted to build series of fortifications around Port Arthur. 

After World War II, the region found itself under Soviet (until 1953) and finally Chinese rule.

Note First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Japanese took control Port Arthur in a massacre.  Triple Intervention of 1895 granted Japan Liaodong peninsula.  In 1897, Russia coerced lease from China to extend Chinese Eastern Railway from Port Arthur to Harbin.

The Russian town of Dalny (Dalien/Dalian) was undeveloped in this era prior to 1898 when the Russian Tsar Nicholas II of Russia founded the town of Dalny (sometimes Dalney). In 1902, the Russian Viceroy de-emphasized Dalny (building a palace and cultural edifices instead at Port Arthur), except as a commercial port.

Note Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) was extended battle for possession Port Arthur and the railway (renamed Southern Manchurian).  Japan opted for war with Russia.  Japan won resoundingly. 

Old Russia St., Dalian,China

Surrounded by ocean on three sides, this strategic seaport was originally known to the Chinese as Lüshun. It took its English name, Port Arthur, from a Royal Navy Lieutenant named William C. Arthur who surveyed the harbor in the gunboat HMS Algerine in August 1860, during the Second Opium War. At that time Lüshun was an unfortified fishing village. The port was known as Port-Artur (Порт-Артур) under Russian administration and later Ryojun (旅順) under Japanese administration. In the late 1880s, German company Krupp contracted to build series of fortifications around Port Arthur. 

After World War II, the region found itself under Soviet (until 1953) and finally Chinese rule.

Note First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Japanese took control Port Arthur in a massacre.  Triple Intervention of 1895 granted Japan Liaodong peninsula.  In 1897, Russia coerced lease from China to extend Chinese Eastern Railway from Port Arthur to Harbin.

The Russian town of Dalny (Dalien/Dalian) was undeveloped in this era prior to 1898 when the Russian Tsar Nicholas II of Russia founded the town of Dalny (sometimes Dalney). In 1902, the Russian Viceroy de-emphasized Dalny (building a palace and cultural edifices instead at Port Arthur), except as a commercial port.

Note Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) was extended battle for possession Port Arthur and the railway (renamed Southern Manchurian).  Japan opted for war with Russia.  Japan won resoundingly. 

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 Scallop rolls are sublime

LaGuardia Marine Air Terminal, Queens, New York, New York

The Marine Air Terminal, located at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, is the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States, a.k.a. the "Golden age of the flying boat." Originally built to handle seaplanes, the Marine Air Terminal, an Art Deco building designed in 1939 by William Delano of the firm Delano & Aldrich, consists of a central circular core of two stories with an attic, from which a rectangular entrance pavilion and two symmetrically opposed one-story wings project.

Inside the terminal hangs "Flight," a mural measuring 12 feet in height and 237 feet in length, the largest mural created as part of the Great Depression-era Work Projects Administration (WPA).   Completed by James Brooks in 1940, "Flight" depicts the history of man's involvement with flight.
The mural was painted over without explanation by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey in the 1950s, possibly because some saw left-wing symbolism in it.  After an extensive restoration project headed by aviation historian Geoffrey Arend, the mural was rededicated on September 18, 1980.

PanAm logo on transom

couple holding hands and binoculars aspiring to travel, Port Authority thought this subversive and painted over mural

statue of Fiorello LaGuardia

flying fish on waves

Public Safety Answering Ctr (PSAC II), Bronx. New York, New York

The $800 million PSAC II, a 240-by-240-by-240-foot concrete fortress, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is where more than 11 million emergency 911 calls (230 operators) are taken by Police and Fire Depts. each year.  It is intended to be self-sufficient for 3 days.  It is surrounded by an earthen berm, appearing to make building float.  Phytoremediation, the use of plants to purify the interior, was undertaken by Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.

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