LudibriumventisMay 13, 2024

Dinner with a view

#WestBaden #Architecture #GildedAge

General Strike NowOct 31, 2023

Posted October 31, 2023 ... The United Auto Workers union will end its month-and-a-half-long strike at General Motors after reaching a tentative ...

Full details of the agreement haven’t been shared publicly yet but it is expected to be very similar to the agreements struck with Ford and Chrysler-parent Stellantis last week.#bloomington #indiana #radio #npr #classicalmusic #jazz #localnews #kokomo #terrehaute #columbus #greensburg #frenchlick #westbaden #1037FM
Fort Wayne UAW leaders 'pumped up' as General Motors strike ends with tentative agreement

Fort Wayne UAW leaders 'pumped up' as General Motors strike ends with tentative agreement

Full details of the agreement haven’t been shared publicly yet but it is expected to be very similar to the agreements struck with Ford and Chrysler-parent Stellantis last week.

News - Indiana Public Media
General Strike NowSep 15, 2023
UAW members in Indiana are ready to take to the picket lines, but this possible strike's strategy is unusual. If Ford, Stellantis and General Motors ...#bloomington #indiana #radio #npr #classicalmusic #jazz #localnews #kokomo #terrehaute #columbus #greensburg #frenchlick #westbaden #1037FM
'We've never done this': Indiana UAW workers prepare for 'targeted' strike strategy
'We've never done this': Indiana UAW workers prepare for 'targeted' strike strategy

UAW members in Indiana are ready to take to the picket lines, but this possible strike’s strategy is unusual.

News - Indiana Public Media
LudibriumventisMay 22, 2023

One more hilarious anecdote about my experiences with #WestBaden

I'd always wanted to get dressed to the nines and go dancing all night in the atrium. Well, in January of 2020, I got to do just that!

The film company #PigasusPictures was filming #SoColdTheRiver, a film based on an eponymous horror novel, based in and around the resort.

We literally danced ALL NIGHT. Then, we took a Shining-style group photo, and I totally got Mike Wazowski-ed. (I'm behind the left two band members.)

LudibriumventisMay 21, 2023

There are shuttles going back and forth between French Lick and West Baden all day - some regular shuttle busses, some busses disguised as quaint trolleys, and one actual antique trolley, on tracks and all!

#WestBaden #FrenchLick
#Trolley

Show threadLudibriumventisMay 21, 2023

The Jesuits turned it into a college, and, being Jesuits, thought that it was Too Fancy. They covered up the fancy paint jobs, and tried to chip up the million and a half or so pieces of the atrium mosaic floor, but found it was too big a task and decided to just leave it and cover it up with carpets, instead.

#WestBaden

Show threadLudibriumventisMay 21, 2023

More of the gardens at #WestBaden

Another view of the Apollo Spring during the Golden Hour, the peonies that were ON GAME, this past week, some false indigo with a very happy bumblebee, and some irises

#BloomScrolling #Gardens

Show threadLudibriumventisMay 21, 2023

The history of the place, in a nutshell, is that the founder had been a business partner with the French Lick resort, but had a falling-out, and went a mile down the road and built his own (wooden) hotel for people to come and "take the waters". That burned down, and he decided he wanted to build the grandest dome anyone had ever seen (at least, in North America). Many architects told him he was nuts, but not the bridge architect!

#WestBadenSprings #WestBaden

LudibriumventisMay 21, 2023

The West Baden Springs hotel is pretty much my favorite hotel in the entire state of Indiana. Built in 1902, its 6-story atrium was an architectural marvel of the time. (Honestly, it still is, if you ask me.) In the early 20th century up until the day the stock market crashed in '29, anyone who was ANYONE came here to "take the waters" and party like there was no tomorrow.

#WestBadenSprings
#SoFancy
#WestBaden
#FrenchLick #Rookwood