Friday, November 16, 2007

The wall between......


Years ago, there was a terrible fire on Broadway, and a building was lost. {The lot has been used as a needed parking lot, since.} Because of this fire, we can see something unusual... Both the building front, and its side. The front facade is fancier and the wall between buildings is not fancy. It was never meant to be seen.

The walls between buildings are double brick fire walls. And this worked, because it
kept that fire from spreading any farther. If not for the double brick fire walls, the rest of this block of Broadway buildings, on both sides of the fire, could have burned.

It is also a scary reminder of how fragile, all of our productions, can be...