{"id":473,"date":"2014-12-21T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-10-01T21:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T01:39:29","slug":"christmas-radio-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/christmas-radio-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas at Radio City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2014 Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center.<\/p><\/div>\n

Normally, I would avoid Rockefeller Center the Saturday before Christmas at all costs, but this past Saturday I found my self only a block away and it was early enough in the morning to take some photos and avoid the large mobs. Rockefeller Center, whose nickname was “Radio City” back in the 1930’s\u00a0was and is\u00a0dominated by the enormous slab of the RCA Building (known as the GE Building since 1988, or 30 Rock, or the Top of the Rock). \u00a0Noted architect, Raymond Hood (1881-1934), who was the model for the fictional Peter Keating in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, designed the 70 story, 842 foot building. The RCA Building is the home of NBC studios, the best observation deck in New York City (in my opinion) and the famed Rainbow Room restaurant.<\/h4>\n\n\t\t