There has been mention on this blog before of fire escapes. I am fond of/in love with/borderline obsessed with them. & I've never been on one! It's so unfair. Except for the "needing to flee a fire" part. I haven't done that either, & I'm glad about that. I just wanna hang out on one on a hot night. That's all.
Here's a doubtless unsafe fire escape that I took a picture of on this day in 2017. The Dallas building was at the time abandoned - its Wikipedia page doesn't note its fate. I believe on the morning of the very last episode of the KNON program I did, in 2019, I met a friend in Deep Ellum for lunch & took some pictures of it being renovated. Please don't ask me to try to find those.
Nowadays it's not abandoned, & it's not a bank either - it's a hotel. The Pittman Hotel. That web page shows how they managed to save some of its design. It was finished in 2020, & I haven't been in that part of Dallas in a very long time. & probably won't any time soon.
But I wonder if they saved the fire escape!
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