My August photo here is a throwback to when I visited the famous Orchid Bar on its last night of existence in 2015, ten years ago today.
Highland Malt, The Macallan, Distilled on new year’s eve of 1939, Gordon & MacPhail in Elgin, Scotland. My lucky number Decanter No. 11. I wonder what happened to that bottle.
It was a special night in a place that had hosted every President since Nixon, James Bond, and numerous other movies shot here. The building was demolished in 2015 and relaunched in 2019. I haven’t been to the new one yet, but I will note it for my next visit to Tokyo. As it was such a special moment in time, I’ve included a few more photos from that night, which I spent with my friends Om, Naveen, Jane, and a gentleman whose name I unfortunately cannot recall.
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I’m in love with your hair from this era!
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I’m glad you were able to visit it. I follow a Japanese pop-culture news site (Sora24News) and I remember that announcement flashing by, the Hotel was being demolished. Never got a chance to see it tho’. So score!
I however DID get to see (the outside at least) the Nakagin Capsule Tower Hotel, more than once, before it was demolished. They threatened for years to tear it down, but only really successfully did the deed starting in 2022 I think. By the time I got travel in Japan (after the Covid restrictions had eased in Dec.2023 (no more vaccination requirement 24 hrs. prior to entering Japan). The old Nakagin was just a small-ish dark dirt colored space with construction fence up. Looked like a giant drilling/boring machine was either putting in new or taking out the old footers. They said that building was going to be hard to demolish because of all the reinforced cement core. And I believe it.
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Great, these pics remind of the power of publishing you mentioned on ma.tt and I agree 100%
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