Infrastructural Gothic
Jan. 4th, 2019 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingSome of my favourite urban sights
https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/144838649727/prokopetz-prokopetz-whitemarbleblock
As an aside, I recently discovered this person's blog, and I love it. I've had the same two tabs open on the Safari browser of my iPad for about a month now, and one of them is this blog, which I've been reading through post by post. The other tab is... a story for another day, I think.
https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/144838649727/prokopetz-prokopetz-whitemarbleblock
Anyway, I was snooping around in the maintenance tunnels below one of the larger local hotels - legitimately, mind you; I was working for the local telecom at the time, trying to track down an errant network cable - when I rounded a bend and noticed that the corridor a few dozen feet ahead of me was brightly illuminated by something. On top of being filthy and difficult to access, the tunnel was also unlit (I’d been navigating by flashlight), so this really stood out.
I couldn’t see any obvious light fixture to account for it - the light seemed to be emerging from an alcove off to the side of the tunnel - so I went to investigate, and discovered… a Coke machine.
Spotlessly clean, fully stocked, and apparently in full working order; the illumination was coming from its interior display lighting.
In a grimy, unlit maintenance corridor twenty feet below ground level.
In retrospect, I’m kind of glad I didn’t have any change on me at the time, because I’d have been sorely tempted to buy something, and who knows how that would have worked out.
This is a good thread that goes to some interesting places and gave me some fun ideas for stories.I couldn’t see any obvious light fixture to account for it - the light seemed to be emerging from an alcove off to the side of the tunnel - so I went to investigate, and discovered… a Coke machine.
Spotlessly clean, fully stocked, and apparently in full working order; the illumination was coming from its interior display lighting.
In a grimy, unlit maintenance corridor twenty feet below ground level.
In retrospect, I’m kind of glad I didn’t have any change on me at the time, because I’d have been sorely tempted to buy something, and who knows how that would have worked out.
As an aside, I recently discovered this person's blog, and I love it. I've had the same two tabs open on the Safari browser of my iPad for about a month now, and one of them is this blog, which I've been reading through post by post. The other tab is... a story for another day, I think.
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Date: 2019-01-04 05:03 pm (UTC)