Another kind of passing....

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I opened the building!!! djf


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From: Dennis Allison <allison () shasta stanford edu>
Date: June 14, 2006 12:48:37 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Another kind of passing....


The New York Times

June 14, 2006
Square Feet
Pastoral Site of Historic Inventions Faces the End
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN

HOLMDEL, N.J., June 7, 2006.  For 44 years, a six-story,
two-million-square-foot structure nestled here in a 472-acre exquisitely
pastoral setting was a habitat for technological ferment.

The vaunted Bell Labs, whose scientists invented the laser and developed
fiber optic and satellite communications, touch-tone dialing and
cellphones, modems and microwaves, was housed in the glass building, set
far off the road, providing the community with some luster ? not to
mention a tax bonanza.

These days, the building's lobby, with its magnificent glass ceiling, is
off limits to all but those having formal appointments with Lucent
Technologies, which disassembled and dispersed much of Bell Labs  
after the
collapse of the technology market in 2000.

Few outsiders have viewed its breathtaking scale or walked along the
perimeters to admire displays of technological breakthroughs like a 1929
movie camera or an early office switchboard straight out of "Bells Are
Ringing."

But now, the building has been sold, and the public will be invited  
in for
at least one date while it remains, which may not be much longer. The
developer who will create a future for the property says the structure
will have to be demolished.  [>>more]

See http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/realestate/commercial/14bell.html
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