File talk:Schenectady General Electric Plant 9July2006.jpg

Image connection to NHL clarification

From en File talk Schenectady General Electric Plant 9July2006.jpg

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I will admit that I'm far less certain about the connection of that image to that specific NHL than my other contributions simply because I'd taken in prior to when I started "hunting" specifically for NHLs.

However, everything I can find about the research library implies that it is a three building complex. The Geolink brings us to this satellite picture which also shows a three building complex. I still wasn't sure that it was the same complex, because some of the details on the satellite photo differed from my photo. But then I found an old painting from a site on the Research Laboratory that shows the building in my photo is clearly the building north of River Rd on the Google Maps satellite image. The other two buildings have quite distinctive footprints, one like an uppercase "F" and the other like a serif "J". The shapes of both are clearly visible as the other two buildings from the oblique view in the painting. Also, on top of all that, the foot bridge between the photographed boxy building and the serif "J" building is just barely visible in the satellite image.

So while none of this is concrete proof, added together the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

As for why I titled the picture "...Plant" when it's evidently a research laboratory, my only defense is that it's colloquially known by every one of the region as the Plant, mainly from decades of depressing news coverage in which "workers at the General Electric plant face a new round of layoffs." Together with its literary fame via Kurt Vonnegut, it's a looming reminder of Schenectady's rust belt legacy. -Cg-realms (talk) 14:37, 5 February 2008 (EST)

[Forwarded by Athaenara (talk) 09:06, 24 May 2009 (UTC)]