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Whoa! Cool!

Bee Hat has always been one of my favorite buildings, and this feature makes me like it even more!

How often do they go off?

That is REALLY cool.

The pics are now showing all three. I screwed up when putting them into my message.

Holy crap! That's freaking awsome!

I drove by the building just the other night and they now have lights that show the angels at the top of the building. they look really good!!!

WOW, that is flippin' awesome.

I think the lions are going roar every hour!! I think they were originally connected to steam but I am not sure? Does anyone know??

I haven't seen anyone mention it, but two of the retail tenets are Dubliners Irish Pub and a shop called Paper Dolls. I've been looking for more info on both, but have been able to find little.

HonestBusinesMan wrote:I haven't seen anyone mention it, but two of the retail tenets are Dubliners Irish Pub and a shop called Paper Dolls. I've been looking for more info on both, but have been able to find little.

Here's some info on Paper Dolls: http://www.urbanstl.com/viewtopic.php?t=2255

HonestBusinesMan wrote:I haven't seen anyone mention it, but two of the retail tenets are Dubliners Irish Pub and a shop called Paper Dolls. I've been looking for more info on both, but have been able to find little.

And here's is some more info on Dubliners Irish Pub http://www.urbanstl.com/viewtopic.php?t=2221

charlestonSC wrote:I think the lions are going roar every hour!! I think they were originally connected to steam but I am not sure? Does anyone know??

This is from the first page in this thread...

Eleven terra cotta lion heads on the outside of the building are a signature feature of the structure. The heads were attached to the gutters and drained water to the street. BHat wants to link them up to steam lines and have each lion roar every half-hour or so, Burghoff said.

we walked by yesterday and checked out paperdolls boutique, it was really cool. also, the lion's were being tested too.



More developers should be doing fun stuff with their buildings too.



You can even hear the lions roar as the steam comes out of thier mouths

Pyramid oughta do the steam-thing with the "evil fish heads" on the Banker's Lofts just down the street.

New windows are being installed. It's amazing how much of a difference new windows can make.

I just walked by to check it out - the windows are in on the first floor, and the building looks better already!

It looks like Paper Dolls is already open..and that's just a small enclosed section of the first floor. Looks like Dubliner's is going to take up the rest! It's going to be friggin' huge. That'll be nice, since I'm in the Dorsa, I'll have a watering hole within stumbling distance

StLRisen wrote:I'll have a watering hole within stumbling distance

You and me both my friend, you and me both.



How about a car bomb toast when they open?

TheWayoftheArch wrote:Watch out with posts like that...you may get picked up by the NSA's Datamining program!



I bet I'd win...

I'm sure I'm already being watched, tracked, recorded. I don't care if I'm not doing anything wrong, it's still illegal.



Anyway, we should have car bomb night sometime. The whole bar gets bombed!

HonestBusinesMan wrote:

StLRisen wrote:I'll have a watering hole within stumbling distance

You and me both my friend, you and me both.



How about a car bomb toast when they open?

Heck, I'll even do two! I was beginning to wonder when you'd figure out I was on here



After Dubliner's is properly christened...well, my place won't be done yet; I guess we could go to Banker's instead!

I toured the Bee Hat building, and admittedly, I was not impressed. Maybe it's because the units are rentals, but I was not crazy about the level of finish in them. The lion heads out front were operating, which was very cool, and I peered in the window to check out the progress of The Dubliner, which should be very nice.

DeBaliviere wrote:I toured the Bee Hat building, and admittedly, I was not impressed. Maybe it's because the units are rentals, but I was not crazy about the level of finish in them. The lion heads out front were operating, which was very cool, and I peered in the window to check out the progress of The Dubliner, which should be very nice.

I have to agree with you there. I also struck me that they didn't quite put as much effort into the display either. I mean, come on, all they had in the second bedroom was a lamp! They had way more time to get up a decent display then some.



Then again, I suppose if you're looking to rent, I wouldn't look at too much more than the basics. And variety is nice; any units that can be built downtown is a plus in my book.



Yeah, I looked in at Dubliner's too...they're getting the wood paneling up. I wonder if they'll stain it darker?