John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. He invites us to participate in this cellphone photo prompt by creating our own CellPic Sunday post and linking it back to his.
The photo below was taken on June 7, 2016 using my iPhone 6. My wife and I were joining our daughter, whose office at the time was in San Francisco’s Financial District, adjacent to the iconic Transamerica Pyramid, which is center stage in the photo below.
The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story skyscraper that is the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. A popular tourist site, the building stands at 853 feet (260 m). On its completion in 1972, it was the tallest building in San Francisco and the eighth-tallest building in the world. However, in 2018, the recently constructed Salesforce Tower surpassed the Pyramid’s height by around 200 feet.
While Transamerica Corporation still uses the image of the building as the company’s logo, it no longer owns or occupies the Pyramid, having moved its U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland. In 2020, the Transamerica Pyramid was sold to a New York City investor and the building is now undergoing a renovations.
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wow! that is fascinating, and I’d never heard of it until now.
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Interesting facts about the iconic building. When I was last in SF, I tried to get a photo of the building, but let’s just say, it wasn’t my best work. >grin<
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That happens to me a lot.
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To me, as well… Ah the curse of photography. >grin<
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That is a very cool and pointy building. We do not have skyscrapers here where I live.
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My interest in this ranged from nostalgia over remembering visiting San Francisco several times to having previously had some curiosity about various contenders to put the tallest building into the world, and on to a way to help me remember the name of the company for which my oldest son works.
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What a unique building… cool picture.
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Thanks.
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You are welcome.
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