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Amsterdam Anne Frank (#0128)

Amsterdam Anne Frank (#0128)
Two very separate points in this picture:

1) I took this picture standing close to the Anne Frank statue seen in the adjacent picture, which resulted in this poster for a Marilyn Monroe exhibit seemed rather incongruous.

2) Across the canal are two of the clearest examples of the problems of houses that are hundreds of years old settling to very odd angles. Almost all of central Amsterdam was tidewater flats and many of the houses are built on wood pilings that were also constructed hundreds of years ago.

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 Clint
Clint
I know a lot of century-old houses in Chicago that sit at similar angles, for similar reasons. We don't sit on tidal flats, but there's a lot of filled-in marsh.
7 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
I didn't realize that. Much of SF is built in old fill, but this doesn't seem to happen often there (with the exception of one very expensive high-rise example that's happening now).
7 years ago.

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