Comments on: Nostalgia Sunday – The Tallest Building in the Middle East http://israelity.com/2009/12/06/nostalgia-sunday-the-tallest-building-in-the-middle-east/ Life beyond the conflict Sun, 20 May 2012 18:10:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nostalgia Sunday – Cinema Savion saved! | ISRAELITY http://israelity.com/2009/12/06/nostalgia-sunday-the-tallest-building-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-314856 Nostalgia Sunday – Cinema Savion saved! | ISRAELITY Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:42:06 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=10109#comment-314856 [...] up by sentimental, well-meaning people in recognition of the original structure, demolished to make way for the Kolbo Shalom. And does anybody know that the Gan HaIr mall and residential complex was named for the municipal [...] [...] up by sentimental, well-meaning people in recognition of the original structure, demolished to make way for the Kolbo Shalom. And does anybody know that the Gan HaIr mall and residential complex was named for the municipal [...]

]]> By: Nostalgia Sunday – Class photos | ISRAELITY http://israelity.com/2009/12/06/nostalgia-sunday-the-tallest-building-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-302736 Nostalgia Sunday – Class photos | ISRAELITY Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:45:39 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=10109#comment-302736 [...] In the early days, the graphics were lovingly, if amateurishly, hand-drawn, as in this class photo of the 1929 graduating class of Tel Aviv’s legendary Herzliya Gymnasium. [...] [...] In the early days, the graphics were lovingly, if amateurishly, hand-drawn, as in this class photo of the 1929 graduating class of Tel Aviv’s legendary Herzliya Gymnasium. [...]

]]> By: Nostalgia Sunday – Kikar Atarim: What’s up with that? | ISRAELITY http://israelity.com/2009/12/06/nostalgia-sunday-the-tallest-building-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-295985 Nostalgia Sunday – Kikar Atarim: What’s up with that? | ISRAELITY Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:54:50 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=10109#comment-295985 [...] architecture in Israel. When it opened in the early 1970s, it was very successful for a time: the Kolbo Shalom department store had a branch called “The Drugstore,” modeled after Le Drugstore, (a [...] [...] architecture in Israel. When it opened in the early 1970s, it was very successful for a time: the Kolbo Shalom department store had a branch called “The Drugstore,” modeled after Le Drugstore, (a [...]

]]> By: Charlie Yawitz http://israelity.com/2009/12/06/nostalgia-sunday-the-tallest-building-in-the-middle-east/comment-page-1/#comment-295597 Charlie Yawitz Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:00:22 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=10109#comment-295597 Please don't write about this building without a thank you to the fine and innovative architects, Gidon and Tova Ziv, along with the Pearlstein office of the Mayer Development Company. And please remember that the decision to tear it down was not made by rapacious developers, but by the Gymnasia board of directors themselves when they ran out of money building the new school on Jabotinsky. By the way, Herzl Street runs North-South, so Nahum Gutman was maxing out his artistic license showing the sun setting over the Mediterranean in the background. Please don’t write about this building without a thank you to the fine and innovative architects, Gidon and Tova Ziv, along with the Pearlstein office of the Mayer Development Company. And please remember that the decision to tear it down was not made by rapacious developers, but by the Gymnasia board of directors themselves when they ran out of money building the new school on Jabotinsky.

By the way, Herzl Street runs North-South, so Nahum Gutman was maxing out his artistic license showing the sun setting over the Mediterranean in the background.

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