Talk:John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

message: Can we get a better photo? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.175.225.22 (talk) 19:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: Hi -- I changed a bogus period to a comma to make my attached comment "stick", then found this "talk" mechanism.  A small error, but why mess up a nice page with a missing sentence fragment?  "...it is BOTH a public memorial to Kennedy" or some such, but no "AND, a major venue for the arts" or some such.  Busy life here, but hate to see this -- someone kindly fix??
70.20.93.191 06:38, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it. Viva-Verdi 13:53, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Incomplete sentence in intro material - can someone fix this?

message: I've made numerous edits in the past couple days, as well as a number of edits in January.  It would be nice to see this article become a featured article.  I'm making use of material in the "Records of the Columbia Historical Society", as well as Becker's book which I found at a used book shop, and other materials.  Sometime when the weather isn't gloomy, I'll go over there with my camera and get more pictures for the article.  The article isn't quite ready for peer review, but maybe by next week.  I know the "Events" needs more work, and "Venues" and "Management" need more references.   Please feel free to help, fill in gaps, copyedit, make suggestions, etc. My "expertise" is more with architecture and local history aspects of the article, and not as much detailed knowledge of opera and theater.  --Aude (talk) 22:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll come back to working on the article later, and get it ready for peer review. --Aude (talk) 21:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review

message: I've removed the reference to current Park Service involvement with KC maintencnce, as they contract between the Kennedy Center and NPS was dissolved in 1997. 
This history portions of this article are amazing.   
Roserita 21:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like you are correct (I believe you), but the article should say something about the contract being dissolved.  We need to cite sources when adding to the article, so if you know of some article or reference we can use, that would be helpful.  Otherwise, I might be able to find something. --Aude (talk) 21:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: National Park Service

message: They're called "corridors" in the article and are bland 1960s architecture of the worst type, tarted up a bit by the present head of the Center, but still, just hallways.
Do they need their own articles? I think not. Viva-Verdi 00:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hall of States et al needs its own article???? Then why Wikify?

message: I used a Stanley (registered Trademark) brand, "Tru-Laser,"  "TLM-100", distance measuring laser device to measure the height of the grand foyer.  The product is marketed claiming to be accurate within 0.25 inches per 100 feet: "[plus or minus] 1/4 inch up to 100 feet".  I measured the ceiling height of the structure at the front steps to the entrance to the Concert Hall, at the front steps to the entrance to the Opera House, in the Hall of States, and also outside the building between columns (canopy height).  All locations measured 63 feet 02 inches, plus or minus two inches. Here is how I carried out the measurements.
My assistant and I checked the calibration of the device using a 100 foot measuring tape.  From the front (north-east side) of the building, we extended the tape 63 feet eastward across the plaza floor. By coincidence, there had been constructed there a bench-height retaining wall, enclosing plants and landscaping, parallel to the structure under examination.  
I placed the laser atop the retaining wall and pointed toward the building and carried out eight separate measurements (turning on and off the laser as per it's instruction manual); each time measuring the distance from the front of the retaining wall to the front of the building, but at different locations parallel to the structure.  All eight measurements where the same within one inch error: 63 feet, 02 inches.
I then walked to the northeast corner of the structure and measured the elevation of the bottom surface of the exterior canopy (the cantilever); I measured it eight separate times.  I pin-pointed a location on the ground surface between two columns and did my best to point the laser straight up, plumb, to the bottom surface of the canopy above. Each time, the laser read the same: 63 feet, 02 inches (plus or minus one inch error, since I did not care, as before, to note fractions of the inch).
I then went inside the structure and made three quick ceiling height measurements.  In the Hall of States, at the front of the steps to the entrance of the Opera House, and at the front of the steps to the Concert Hall; each measured:  63 feet, 02 inches, 63 feet 02 inches, and 63 feet 04, respectively. 
I don't doubt there could be greater error in my tool, since a bit of earlier sloppier work with the machine gave, at one measure, an obviously false reading.  But out of approximately twenty measurements, not one was less than 63 feet.
Finally, climbing the several steps to the entrance of the Concert Hall, I managed to get a reading of 60 feet 01 inch.  But this is hardly what could be considered the Grand Foyer. 
It is now very clear to me that the height of the Grand Foyer, both inside and out, of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, is no less than 63 feet.--Charlesrkiss 06:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Grand Foyer is 63 feet high, not 60 feet high.

message: With no discussion as to its merits, one unregistered editor removed the section.  After replacement, it was again removed by a registered editor,Corvus cornix, who complained that it was unsourced.
I have added a link to the full Michael Kaiser article which is full of links to articles, interviews, etc. which justify including Kaiser's management of the KC in the KC article. Viva-Verdi (talk) 03:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Arbitary removal of "Management" section by 2 editors

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