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09/19/2016 5:39 PM

I went here years ago.

I'm sure a few other have as well.

This photo shows how the staircase looked before the rails were added so those using it wouldn't be fearful. They also plastered the underside.. which is what I wanted to see.

Impressive for anyone much less an unpaid contractor.

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09/19/2016 6:16 PM

Is that staircase in the church in Albuquerque, NM? Or was that in Sante Fe

built by a no named drifter, it was assembled with no fasteners. (Nails)

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09/19/2016 7:10 PM

I believe it's the one in Sante Fe...spent some good times there when I worked for a living.

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09/20/2016 7:14 AM

We were in Sante Fe in June, but didn't get around to see it. I thought they partitioned it off now though.

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09/19/2016 7:38 PM

Stairway to nowhere in the Winchester house?

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09/19/2016 8:23 PM

Loretto Chapel, Sante Fe, NM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto_Chapel

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09/19/2016 8:27 PM

The Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe New Mexico, called the Miracle Staircase, builder credited with construction is François-Jean Rochas....

http://www.lorettochapel.com/staircase.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto_Chapel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_New_Mexico

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09/19/2016 9:41 PM

Nice, but clearly not the same one as in the OP.

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09/19/2016 9:57 PM

The one pictured by the OP is a scale model of this staircase as it would have looked 1877-1887 before the banisters were added....

https://dailyoddsandends.wordpress.com/tag/nailless/

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09/19/2016 11:37 PM

Huh? Different number of wraps altogether.

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09/20/2016 7:16 AM

No, just a different camera angle.

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09/20/2016 10:06 AM

Can't you even count?

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09/20/2016 11:09 AM

or you can't see the bottom coming around... for 2 revolutions... but I would say its there.

This spiral stair case is only one of a kind. The later pictures has the railing, the early photo does not. The railing was added because they were afraid of people falling off.

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09/20/2016 2:16 PM

Yes, at least one of us can.

can't you follow a link?

lol

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09/20/2016 2:25 PM

The pictures without the banister have been described as a model, which starts at a different place on the floor and has less turn than the as-constructed pictures with the banister. LOOK.

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09/20/2016 2:52 PM

No, its a simulated picture, not a model.

for being our resident cr4 grammar police, add reading to the list.

here is an actual photo.

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09/19/2016 11:23 PM

Could be the Stairway to Heaven

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09/20/2016 4:01 PM

Especially if the choir girls were wearing high heels that day, and the top one took a header.

This is a most impressive work, and God Bless ol' Frenchy for creating it.

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His heirs should have been paid for his work....

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09/20/2016 4:35 PM

He had heirs??

I thought Frenchy's benefits were out of this world.

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09/20/2016 4:54 PM

A little bonus for being on time and under budget would be in order as well.

It's got to be my favorite piece of wood working antiquity

Even thought the egyptian boat builders were well ahead of their time this was as close to mystic as the antikythera mechanism is to astounding.

Ingenuity is historically present.

..oh wait? Who said it must be aliens?

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09/20/2016 9:12 PM

Not to mention all the tourism and revenue it has generated over the years....

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09/20/2016 11:02 PM

not nearly as much as this ...spot.

and it doesn't deserve two wooden nickles!

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09/20/2016 11:13 PM

Oh, but it got your attention, huh?

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09/20/2016 11:16 PM

That sounds about like the Oregon Vortex.

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09/21/2016 9:26 AM

Those ancient alien dudes are all potheads. I went to college with one of them, definitely a stoner. Some of their programs are a bit entertaining, but there is just so much that up with I will put.

The ancient stone work at Puma Punku as having been formed by power tools and lasers, I can only say, totally debunked. That is unless the ancient Bolivians somehow used water powered saws (doubted). Stone hammers and softer metal tools as copper can work sandstone and Andesite, no problem. None of the ancient alien guys are geologists or any kind of authority on what stone is what.

Here is the debunking link I found on first hit:

no ancient aliens required or need apply

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09/21/2016 9:39 AM

This guy cracks me up.

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09/21/2016 1:24 PM

You went to college with an ancient alien!?

Dude!

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09/21/2016 1:30 PM

OK, maybe he was just an old Mexican, sorry for the exaggeration.

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