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"all good cities have obelisks; that way, when they aliens invade, they'll know which cities to spare." - a friend of mine while walking around and we saw an obelisk
go ahead and post pics. all pics here by me
Houston - the world's tallest
Washington D.C. - the most famous?
London
Columbia, SC
Asheville
Birmingham, AL
Birmingham, UK
Knoxville, TN
Oklahoma City
Charlotte
Manchester
Charleston, SC
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Calgary's Shaw Millenium Park, a large skateboard park on the west edge of downtown. The obelisk was supposed to have a laser beam pointing to the stars at night, but I don't know what happened to that big idea. The pic is 3 years old, I have a much better camera now, so I should do a new and improved shot.
Too bad about that beautiful obelisk in Houston being in the middle of nowhere...
not exactly the middle of nowhere...it's by the shipping channel, and on the San Jacinto battle site where the Texans beat the Mexicans to win independence.
it would look better closer to the city.
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Another view of Asheville's obelisk, (aka the "Pack Square Priapism") from the stage at the far end of Pack Square Park.
Our obelisk is called the Vance Monument and honors Zebulon Baird Vance, an Asheville native who served as governor of North Carolina during the Civil War. The obelisk was erected (tee hee, I said "erected") in the 1890's, but it stands at the spot where Asheville was established in 1793.
__________________ “The railroad has penetrated it in every quarter, cities having sprung up, splendid hotels have arisen, an exotic semi-metropolitan watering–place life has been transplanted into these mountains. The most perfect climate, both in winter and summer, which can be found east of the Mississippi River has attracted (to Asheville) the hordes of fashion..." -- Courtenay De Kalb, January 30, 1892
We have plenty of obelisks, at least as tall as the shortest one shown here, up in the massive northside cemeteries, so we are ok. The aliens already checked us out in 2000, if you recall. It was only the Illinois side police departments that gave a shit and called it in.
Nothing precludes an obelisk from having interior spaces, an obelisk is a shape, not just a monument. And even if you did use that definition, then you disqualify the Washington Monument because it has usable interior space as well. People work in the Washington Monument; Park Rangers and other staff.
Nothing precludes an obelisk from having interior spaces, an obelisk is a shape, not just a monument. And even if you did use that definition, then you disqualify the Washington Monument because it has usable interior space as well. People work in the Washington Monument; Park Rangers and other staff.
and there's a museum at the base of the San Jacinto Monument in Houston; so?
Hancock's sides aren't proportional; there's no pyramid on top; no stone/stone cladding; it's a building vs. a monument/tower.
it's obelisk-inspired and obelisk-like, maybe, but not a real obelisk.
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and there's a museum at the base of the San Jacinto Monument in Houston; so? 
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