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Gallery of the Small and Strange
Tue 11.12.02 4:00pm PST #1329
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A small broken antique bowl that was reconstructed like a delicate three dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Beautiful.

My hotel in San Antonio, the Fairmount, has a strange history. Even though it is a relatively small hotel, it is the largest building ever "moved" in the world. See the picture of it being towed by trucks.

The 3-story brick Hotel Fairmount (built 1906) in San Antonio, Texas, which weighed 3,200,000 lbs, was moved on 36 dollies with pneumatic tires over city streets approximately 6 blocks over a bridge, which had to be reinforced. The move took 6 days, beginning March 30, 1985, and cost $650,000. The final site of the historic hotel, restored at a cost of about $4 million, is 3 blocks south of the landmark The Alamo.

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