Talk:Chrysler Building

message: I added a third picture to the history section to allow people to view the Chrysler building and its surroundings.  Most pictures are just of the building itself and others can't really see what is next to it.  Hope this is ok!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmigliari (talk • contribs) 12:13, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Surrounding Pictures

message: I am thrilled to see all the attention that the Chrysler Building receives.  My great grandfather, Ralph Squire, was the Structural Steel engineer on the bldg.  My father used to tell stories about going to the site with his father (the 'son') to test each piece of strutural steel before it was used in the construction.  The architect, Van Allen, was my grandfather's cousin.
Nancy Squire-Robinson
:It's truly a fantastic building.  If you ever find some old pictures of the early days of the building, its construction, or the builders, it'd be great if you could upload them and share them with the world!  --Quasipalm 19:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Attention

message: Does anyone know what companies are tenants in the building?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.181.143.66 (talk) 16:05, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Various unciteable sources claim the building is mostly, if not totally vacant but for a few tenants.--KJRehberg (talk) 04:45, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tenants

message: Someone has just posted a long article at The Chrysler Building. It seems like a paper that was written for a class or something. FreplySpang (talk) 05:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[The Chrysler Building]] ?  

message: I'm trying to disambiguate for the term "gallery," and this article was on the list. Unfortunatley, none of the links on the dab page seem to match what's needed here, as I assume the top floor used to be a viewing gallery, not an Art gallery. Any ideas of what to do would be appreciated. AlexDitto 22:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambig "Gallery"

message: I thought the Chrysler Building is made out of steel and metal, not brick. Even it is was made out of brick, the ESB will still tower over it. Can someone fix this?
- yeah, it definitely has a steel frame... 212.64.98.189 22:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  tallest brick building? 

message: The above was added to the article today, but... according to Wikipedia's list of the world's tallest buildings, the Chrysler Building is the second tallest tower in New York... ? HMishkoff 00:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Despite not being the second tallest tower in New York..." 

message: Does anyone know how long the Chrysler Corporation was actually housed in the building? heresthecasey | talk  23:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No Chrysler inteneded to move his headquarters to the building but never did, it maintained small offices there for awhile though, but it was really only a monument to Chrysler and never functioned as a headquarters or important office space for Chrysler  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.26.93.181 (talk) 15:30, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chrysler Corp 

message: What struck me most when I saw the CB was the lobby interior.  As I recall it has striking huge dark panels of labradorite on the walls.  Could someone upload a photo of this?
IceDragon64 21:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interior 

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message: Wasn't the building knocked over in the Cloverfield movie? And for what it's worth, in the continuity of Marvel Comics, the entire building has gained sentience and mobillity. It's been convinced to keep a low profile. (World War Hulk: Aftersmash: Damage Control #2-3) Lots42 (talk) 04:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cloverfield and thoughts  

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thread_title:  Infobox problems 

message: The triangular inserts in the crown were in fact not used for many years until they were turned on again in the 1980s. (I distinctly remember their novelty.) At the time, it was said that the lights had been turned off during WWII, but that the switch had been forgotten and only recently been relocated.
I was unable to turn up anything on Google, but I wonder if someone else has a good reference for this. 192.91.173.36 (talk) 03:07, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lighting 

message: http://ecow.engr.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/getbig/cee/340/davidcamac/studentsbu/chryslerbuilding.ppt which supports no fewer than 11 statements in the article, is now a dead link. From the looks of the URL, it must have been a student's Powerpoint presentation for a class. I have no intention of logging on to fix it, but one of this article's regular caretakers really ought to. 192.91.173.36 (talk) 03:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It can still be accessed using wikiwix : http://wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://ecow.engr.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/getbig/cee/340/davidcamac/studentsbu/chryslerbuilding.ppt&title=Chrysler%20Building.ppt. Freewol (talk) 11:43, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference problems 

message: I've read elsewhere online that there is a rumor that the highest point in the Chrysler Building is a bathroom.  I'm not sure there's any truth to it, but is the rumor itself worthy of inclusion, simply to dispel it should people come looking?  Esprix (talk) 17:14, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bathroom rumor 

message: I'm not sure InterMedia's one floor even warrants mention under "Tenants", but certainly not under "Property".  And by the way "Property seems like an odd name for that section ... although I can't think of one that seems right.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.89.93 (talk) 20:17, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  InterMedia? 

message: I reverted an IP who had challenged this statement here, but not so sure he wasn't right after digging into it more. 
The Eiffel Tower's height at the time of the Chrysler Building's completion is the first key thing to determine. According to this source Eiffel Tower's height in 1930 was 312.27 m / 1,025 ft to "to of flag", but only 984 ft to "roof".
So do we measure to the top of antennas, or more to the point(punny) in this case, to the top of flags when considering records like this? If so, the article and my revert are wrong. --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me  15:40, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First man-made ''structure'' to stand taller than 1,000 feet (305 m)? 

message: :::Could a seprate page be created to contain the uses of the Chrysler Building in its appearences in tv shows, movies, books, video games, and whatever else? I'll give some examples below. --24.147.1.197 (talk) 21:55, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit Request 4/13/14

message: The architecture section's crown subsection has this: When the building first opened, it contained a public viewing gallery on the 71st floor, which was closed to the public in 1945.
There is no other mention about it. But someone wrote in the talk page section "lobby" this text: You can in fact walk into the lobby during working hours on the weekdays. There are tours of the building during OpenhouseNYC each year. What would "tours of the building" mean here?
Also, there is a picture with a view out from one of the 'triangular windows' from 2006. So, at least someone has been able to go there. 82.141.126.28 (talk) 10:12, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  public gallery for observation? 

message: In keeping with the article's status as a Good Article, I removed the unsourced "In popular culture" section temporarily. Epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely agree with Epicgenius's actions above, although we are likely to have further problems with offensive, unregistered IP editor. Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 08:07, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed another such edit by User:2403:7900:ade1:a1de:250:56ff:fea6:3b1f; this time, they provided a source, albeit an unreliable one.  Epicgenius (talk) 12:23, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with your action. "Edits" by the IP users add nothing to the article, which is about a iconic building and not a adjunct to science fiction fantasy. Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 12:28, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture section 

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replies: text: I've checked the urls. Substituted some. And the ppt presentation I have decided to remove it. Doblecaña (talk) 11:06, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
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message: I've uploaded images of the mural located in the ceilings of the lobby. They were taken by a friend that was in NYC and visited the CB. They can be found here. Feel free to add them in the article. Triplecaña (talk) 16:27, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mural 

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message: Does anyone think the the popular culture section could be relocated to a new article? I mean, if an article describing the Chrysler Building's appearances in pop culture was created, there would be more room to add the buildings appearances in films, TV shows, video games, books, ect. After all, the pop culture section that is already on the article can't hold too much information without making the article look ridiculously too long and messy.
The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, and Coney Island have all gotten the treatment of having popular culture articles, so why can't the Chrysler Building have a popular culture article as well?
If an article about the Chrysler Building's appearances in popular culture does get created, I'll be happily obliged to help out with the article.
--JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 15:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The section doesn't seem that large, I would also think that "appearances in pop culture" would be mostly non-notable trivia anyway.  - FlightTime (open channel) 20:21, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal/Edit Request 12/18/2017

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thread_title:  source  

message: This source, which was recently removed after being deprecated at WP:RSN, claims that the building's groundbreaking took place on September 19, 1928. I doubt that the source is correct, for several reasons:
* When searching for "Reynolds Building" (the building's original name), "Reynolds" "building", or even "Lexington" "Forty-second" "building", no contemporary sources record the building's groundbreaking as having occurred on that date. Nor did they report the news the day afterward. This is extremely unusual for a building of the Chrysler's stature, given the fact that it was already slated to be the world's tallest building at the time. It is even more unusual since there is plenty of news coverage about such matters as the building's secretly-constructed spire and its opening, as well as such matters as when exactly the Chrysler overtook the Woolworth Building to become the world's tallest.
* There are several books that talk about the Chrysler Building's architecture and construction at length, as well as a landmark designation report that describes not only its history and architecture in great detail. These do not mention a September 19, 1928, groundbreaking date (or rather, any groundbreaking date at all).
* Most Google results for this date either quote Wikipedia or are Wikipedia mirrors. One of the few not-suspicious-looking search results is this Gothamist page. While Gothamist is usually a reliable source for local news, this particular page relies heavily on Wikipedia and links to several WP pages, so I don't think it can be used as a source for this claim.
* The only book that does mention the groundbreaking date is a book about architecture in Dubai. I would expect that such pertinent info about a NYC building would be mentioned in a book about NYC architecture.
Thus, I've removed the claim that the building broke ground on September 19, 1928. – Epicgenius (talk) 22:12, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Groundbreaking date