Gates

• When they tear down beautiful Jerusalem buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, they often leave a facade and gateway (as a reminder of the old building having been more appealing than the new?).
• Thus the gateway to the Kiakh (Alliance) school is oddly set in the middle of the Jaffa Road sidewalk, about a block closer to the Jaffa Gate from the location of the demolished school. The Gateway to the Etz Khaim Yeshiva, flanked by the blinded facades of tiny shops, was moved a little way back from Jaffa Road and still leads to the sad expanse in front of the impressive building.
• The gate to the Talithakumi Building (http://www.jerusalemshots.com/Jerusalem_en2-435.html ) was moved a little bit up King George, and closer to the street (outside the Mashbir department store -- supermarket in basement).
• It now looks like a monument, and I suppose it is, to older architecture.

Copyright 2007 Jane S. Fox