howye
April 10, 2009, 8:04pm
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Really_Not_All_That_Bright:
It’s not even all that big- capacity is a hair under 20,000; there are a dozen universities in the US with bigger basketball arenas. It’s just famous (outside the US) because of the concerts and boxing matches that happened there.
Also, there have been four (?) buildings called Madison Square Garden, all on the same site.
There have been multiple Madison Square Garden’s but not on the same site.
Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from 31st to 33rd Street above Pennsylvania Station. It is the fourth venue to bear the name "Madison Square Garden"; the first two, 1879 and 1890, were located on Madison Square, on East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, with the third Madison Square Garden (1925) farther uptown at Eighth Avenue an...
The current version actually comes off as rather dated.
Not that I have anything of substance to add.
Yes, but don’t worry. It will be replaced by the Madison Cube Garden .
I’d say your average British person has heard of perhaps a dozen US landmarks- the White House, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, the Empire State Building, the Pentagon, Kennedy Space Center (though they probably just know it as Cape Canaveral Space Center), Madison Square Garden, the big Hollywood sign, Disney World, Area 51, Central Park, the Sears Tower and Times Square. If they’ve seen the Bond movie View to a Kill then they’ve heard of the GGB, but not otherwise.
Well, considering that some average British persons also don’t know of such landmarks as “East Angular” …
Too soon?
I’m an Aussie and I’ve heard of most of the landmarks in this thread, and might be able to pick out most of them except for the Liberty Bell (never heard of it), Mississippi (wouldn’t recognise it), Sears building (no idea) and Old Faithful (no idea).
Annie-Xmas:
I was very surprised when talking with a young Korean tourist on the bus that she didn’t know what the World Trade Center looked like (this was post-9/11).
When we got to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, I immediately bought her a postcard of it. Really!
Until September 11 I’d never heard of the World Trade Center in New York, sure I’d probably seen it in movies but a skyline is a skyline unless the buildings are particularly distinctive (e.g. Petronas Towers). When I saw the towers up-close I was impressed by just how big they were, but really it hadn’t been on my radar at all before that day. Also the name “World Trade Center” was pretty meaningless to me since there’s plenty of buildings named “World Trade Center” around the world, so it’s not as if it was unique in that respect.
mecaenas:
I’m an Aussie and I’ve heard of most of the landmarks in this thread, and might be able to pick out most of them except for the Liberty Bell (never heard of it), Mississippi (wouldn’t recognise it), Sears building (no idea) and Old Faithful (no idea).
The Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world until the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur came along.
Old Faithful is a geyser in Yellowstone (?) National Park.
Really_Not_All_That_Bright:
Also, there have been four (?) buildings called Madison Square Garden, all on the same site.
Not on the same site, and the first two were actually on Madison Square.