Enraptured About An Edifice

Daer Internets,

Why you suprize me so?

Okay, so I suck with teh lolcat spellingz, but I am sincere in my utter and complete "WTF?"-ness about a recent find. After using the Google Image Search to try to find an image of Loop 410 (for the previous post), I was beyond surprised to find this particular photo.

As a small child, I remember spending summers with my grandparents and being their passenger as my grandfather drove us around the part of town immediately north of where we were situated. Because my grandparents lived just north of downtown by the time I was about four, this meant venturing into the glittery North Side, right in the shadows of North Star Mall. Now, usually if we were to go to the mall, we'd opt for the considerably more middle class Central Park Mall, but North Star always loomed large in my mind. (So much so that I am still not comfortable with venturing in, unless it's to visit a store that only they have.)

Another building that my grandfather would always drive past was this particular building. It's called the Spectrum Building and, for a very long period in my life, it was my favorite building in the whole wide world. Never mind the Ferry Building or the Conservatory Of Flowers or the Bank Of America Tower or the Smith Tower or any other, much more notable edifice. When I was in San Antonio, I longed to be taken to drive past the Spectrum Building and, once I was, I let my eyes drink up every moment I could spot it. I obsessed about it to the point where I fantasized about what exciting businesses might be located within its glittery, curved walls. I fancied some kind of hip record company or architectural design firm or something equally thrilling and deserving of such spectacular sights. So imagine my disappointment when I found out that the Spectrum Building actually houses, of all things, real estate companies! Something mundane! Not something exotic!

But never mind that. I've found a photo of this Most Favored Building of my youth and my inner child is happy, for she can finally gaze at that building at her leisure. Even though I've found myself more excited by other buildings as I've grown older, there's always that soft spot in my heart for this particular building, so to have found this photo is truly exciting to me.