This one, shown from CHNN Headquarters, and then from the street, is Charles Luckman’s building, formerly the  First National Bank Tower, which although derided at the time and since by Ada Louise Huxtable and many other lesser critics, I’ve always loved, back since I was a tiny tot and called it the bell-bottom building.  It was the tallest by far in Little Beirut, which hadn’t even been named that yet in 1971, and that alone captured my seven-year-old imagination, and it still packs a punch almost 40 years later.

Update:  I took a wander back to take some more pictures. the evening being so darn lovely.