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The Harrisburg Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial Bridge.

Here is the Harrisburg Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial Bridge, now popularly known as the State Street Bridge. Built in the mid to late 1920s, while he was still working on the Nebraska State Capitol Building, this bridge commemorates the sacrifices of those who died in WWI and previous wars as well.

I just constructed a page here on LeeLawrie.com where you can view a series of closeups on the various military-themed designs, such as patterns made from the tools of war, grenades, torpedos, warships, canons, a periscope from a U-Boat, tank treads and other weapons, transformed into design elements.

Click here to visit the slideshow.

While I took some of these pictures during my 2006 visit, I missed some of the details, as I shot the Education and Finance Buildings, and had also visited Gettysburg that day. I was fried, and missed these elements. Fortunately, my dear friend Sidney Hacker who is a public policy consultant agreed to go hunt down some of the images I missed.

And she really struck gold in identifying and photographing these unsung works of Lawrie's. She was able to get a great collection of photos of all of the fantastic Art Deco images. Many, on the bridge's exterior, are likey missed by most people. My eternal gratitude goes out to Sidney for shooting these images for me. What a pal!

Thirty Years..and Thirty Pounds Ago.

This was a vacation circa 1977 and this was taken hiking in Zion. I was probably 24 then, and working as a forklift driver at Kawasaki.

This is my new fitness goal: turning back time, becoming schizophysical. It will take some doing to get this buff again, but I believe I can. Gave up beer for Lent.

This is a stone mural behing the Finance Building at the Grove, just north of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. I don't know the exact title, but it is by Lee Lawrie and features symbols of the Commmonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is in Harrisburg. I hope you can click and download this panorama shot.

Lawrie's portrait of General Reynolds at the Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg. Lawrie did three of the eight statues on the work, circa 1909. This was taken in April, 2006.

Updating LeeLawrie.com

In process of redoing LeeLawrie.com. Trying to make it aesthetically more pleasing, more interactive with users. It sure would be nice to hear from some one?
Anyone?


Beuller?

Spent the morning digging up the garden, prepping the soil to get it ready to plant tomatoes and peppers.