April 05, 2004
Métrorama - Panoramic photos of various stations of the Paris metro.
Absolutely brilliant post. Banana!
v.v. cool!
via boingboing? Or ?
Nope. I never read boingboing. Just gleaned it from my universal RSS aggregator...
[banana]
I love subways. I miss them very much. My vote goes to Mexico City for favorite subway, in terms of looks, cost and efficiency. But I have never been to Paris or Tokyo, both of which I understand to have good systems.
How did I know there'd be no picture of Marcadet-Poissoniers (my home stop for a year) or Censier Daubenton (next to Uni Paris III)? Must be psychic. Or they must not be particularly photogenic stations.
Uglies need love too!
Whoah, memories. I wandered through some of those very same subway platforms as a kid when I got separated from the group during a high school trip to Paris.
I couldn't speak a word of French, I had no idea how to navigate the city and I couldn't properly pronounce the school we were staying at. So I bought a 5th Element poster from some dude at the far end of the platform and a bottle of Orangina from the the vending machine, then sulked until I finally decided to get on the next train. I did, and when I stepped of the train a few stops later, I bumped right into a few of my friends who had broken off from the larger group and were exploring the city. This was the mid-90s, so my ensuing cry of "booyah!" was both situationally and time-period appropriate.
Great link posted by the Hat on that other filter here. Paris streets, monuments, parks, Métro, museums, more ...
/crippling nostalgia
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