Subj : Tall buildings +steps
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Tue Oct 06 2020 05:58:10

  Aug wrote --

>  JM> place. Usually by the time you crossed the aisle to look
>  JM> out the other side you were p
> 
> I'm in suspense.  P what?

  Again Fido cut me off.
  "Out the other side you passed whatever it was that was pointed out".
  Or words to that effect.

> "..the steps of the Washington Monument were closed for walking up
> in 1971, and then closed altogether ÿÿÿ up and down ÿÿÿ in 1976. "

  Yeah, it was about a year or so after my visit they were closed the first
time.
  And over the years people had left all sorts of graffiti on the walls.
  Nothing dirty or vulgar, just things like "Joe Blow was here, 1920" and
things like that carved into the walls.  
  Some of the names/date were easily readable, others were very faint.
  There were signs up to the effect "do not write on the walls".  :)
  
> heart attacks during the climb or injuring themselves in falls
> during the descent. "

  People look at me oddly when I say "why use the elevator when the 
stairs are right here?"   :)
  Joe
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