My Boarding pass for the route for Portland Oregon to New York City, New York. The bus ride from the airport was without seat belts, on very skinny 3 aisle roads, one way, bumpy, with drivers aiming their way through very small openings in other lanes causing others to honk. All of the Yellow Cabs first letter on the license plates as a Y- standing for a designation of "Yellow Cabs". After the Y were numbers.
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Entrance to the Hotel Graduate.
Lobby and bar area at the Graduate Hotel
This scene is what we saw from our 7th floor room at the Hotel "[The] Graduate". Apparently that is where the flight crews would over night. Usually they would check out at 1500 the next afternoon.
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This is the view from our 7th floor window.
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This shot was taken before the performance began. There was no photos taken during the performance. I have ordered the program for this Christmas performance so will see what pictures are in it, possibly posting some.
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This is the 2024 Rockefeller Christmas tree is 74 feet tall and approximately 11 tons. It is approximately 70 years old, and coming to the later years of it life cycle. and came from West Stockbridge, MA in the Southern Berkshires region. There are more than 50,000 colored LED lights, approximately 5 mi [8 km] of lights on wire.
The three dimensional Swarovski Star weighs approximsyr 900 pounds [408.23 kg]. It has 70 spikes covered in 3 million crystals.
This year's Tree Lighting Ceremony was on Wednesday, December 4, 2024.
The tree comes down during January 2025.
https://www.rockefellercenter.com/holidays/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting/#tree-history
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