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September 15, 2003
Subway Fun
This evening, with the excitement and glee of a six year old boy, I eagerly attended the ribbon cutting of the new education center at NYC Transit Museum.
What a friggin' cool museum! I did wind up pacing back and forth around Schemerhorn Street trying to find the entrance (it's a subway station..DOH!) for about 10 minutes. After that embarrassing maneuver, I made my way down to the newly renovated Transit Museum.
I highly recommend visiting. The exhibits are very hands on. You can play on all of the old subway cars and chart the evolution of the turnstile. The screening room is inside a renovated subway car.
In all, it's mad fun, yo. And I want to know why they don't paint the subway cars sea foam (or Martha Stewart) green anymore...
More NYC Transit Museum pictures.
The Aside: Somone needs to teach me how to create a pop-up photo album...javascript?
Posted by callalillie at September 15, 2003 7:56 PM |
When you upload a picture with Movable Type, you are (or should be) given an option to display it as an embedded image or as a popup, with or without thumbnail. I think that some of this ability is contingent upon some magic words and pixie dust provided by your host, though. I remember that my hosting service underwent some sort of upgrade a while back. Before the upgrade, I either couldn't do popups or thumbnails; afterward, I could.
Posted by: Ashley at September 15, 2003 11:22 PM
Yes, but what about a series of images in a pop up, seen one at a time via a navbar?
Posted by: callalillie at September 16, 2003 6:30 AM
Ah. Very good question. Ummm, start a petition to MT for version 2.65?
Posted by: Ashley at September 16, 2003 7:18 AM
In 1982 my friend from Canarsie took me to what's now the NYC Transit Museum, then knowns as the NYC Transit Exhibit.
Back then the country in recession and NYC still trying to recover from the 1975-1976 financial collapse, in the same decom'ed subway station used now, all they could afford was several old subway cars sitting next to the platform. It was pretty neat but it sounds as if it has come a long way since then callie.
Posted by: ChrisM at September 16, 2003 8:23 AM
Yes, the Transit Museum has undergone a major transformation. It's a really neat museum for both young and old...though I think much more nostalgic for those who have watched the subways change over the years.
Posted by: callalillie at September 16, 2003 8:42 AM
