http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog The Free Market of Signs & Signifiers Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:58:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-general-empire-state-chrysler-motors-building/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-general-empire-state-chrysler-motors-building/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:03:58 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=1901 In 1930, competing American car mavens Chrysler and General Motors were directly and indirectly responsible for the two tallest buildings in the world. Walter Chrysler would have the diamond-studded, spear-shot spire of his titanic building designed in the style of the front-grill of a 1928 Chrysler automobile. John Jakob Raskob, the former V.P. of GM [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-general-empire-state-chrysler-motors-building/feed/ 0