Showing posts with label parking lot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parking lot. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Maksim Gazinosu
This post is actually in "response" to M. Serdar K.'s post on the Maksim Gazino. Serdar and I park our car in the same parking lot, which is in the heart of Taksim behind the Marmara hotel, in the Beyoglu district, inside the building falling apart.
This "old" building or what's left of it used to be the Maksim Gazino, the last surviving large gazino, owned by the “king of gazinos” Fahrettin Aslan. One of the trendiest place of Istanbul (if not the trendiest), the Turkish "Olympia" for the connoisseurs. All the big Turkish stars performed or/and were discovered there.
If you read/speak Turkish I would advise you to read Serdar's post to learn more about it.
Since I didn't grow up in turkey, gazino is a strange concept for me. I never really understood what it was or what it meant. I just thought it was the Turkish way to say "Casino", but it's not. It's a kind of night club/music hall.
Anyway, I'm always out taking photos and I realized (Serdar made me) that I never cared (or dared) having a look inside that "building". So I went and took a few pictures.
All the gazinos in Turkey were forbidden* a few years ago (probably because of the unauthorized gambling going on - anyone knows ?) so they all shut down and ended like this one, waiting to be turned into a hotel or a mall.
*I've just been told that they weren't forbidden but they had to close because of the lack of interests after the advent of private TV. It was reopened back in the mid 1990's with great performers like Ibrahim Tatlıses, Bülent Ersoy, Sibel Can, Emel Sayın and many more only to struggle and finally close forever.
To learn more about gazino, go here.
The ropes holding the lusters are still there.
I even dared going inside the pitch black staircase to see what was inside. The bad smell and the dirt kept me fro, going further.
The old fake ceiling is still in place.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Day Off
Today I decided to walk to Cihangir, near Taksim to take pictures of some stencils. The weather seems nice and mild.
This picture was taken in our street, one of this building is actually where we live. I really like the one in the front, it's a typical house of the neighborhood but a bit falling apart.
I walked through the Topagaci district (Topaadji), Tesvikiye district (Teshveekeeyea) and the Maçka district (Matchka). Before arriving to the open air theater you can enjoy this view of the Bosphorus. The cable cars you see are actually working and you go from ITU (Istanbul Technical University) to the University's campus on the other side flying above the Maçka Park.
The interesting thing is that very few people in Istanbul know about those cable cars.
In this little park near the University you can actually see the cable cars boarding place on the left and the campus on the right, behind the trees. By foot it would take 15 minutes with hills, with the cable car, it only takes 2 minutes. (it goes from here to here - google maps)
I skipped the Taksim Place and went through the Gumussuyu district and started wandering around, discovering every new back streets.
I discovered this little church by the previous wooden house.
The building under construction is abandoned since many years now. They started to build this parking lot but then the construction stopped due to the lack of work permit. I believe a trial is still going on to decided of its faith. It totally denatured the face of the district. You can see it from everywhere, it's a huge and ugly building (here on google maps, that's the big grey building). The 'funny' thing is that some mafia (probably) is using it as a parking lot. So you can go and park there if you want.
The mosque by the parking lot.
The Marmara Hotel (the one on Taksim Square) from Cihangir's back streets.
Well today I discovered a lot of new stencils I've never seen before. I almost walked 8 km (5 miles). So good night.
PS : You can see the path used by downloading this .kmz file (google Earth) here.
This picture was taken in our street, one of this building is actually where we live. I really like the one in the front, it's a typical house of the neighborhood but a bit falling apart.
I walked through the Topagaci district (Topaadji), Tesvikiye district (Teshveekeeyea) and the Maçka district (Matchka). Before arriving to the open air theater you can enjoy this view of the Bosphorus. The cable cars you see are actually working and you go from ITU (Istanbul Technical University) to the University's campus on the other side flying above the Maçka Park.
The interesting thing is that very few people in Istanbul know about those cable cars.
In this little park near the University you can actually see the cable cars boarding place on the left and the campus on the right, behind the trees. By foot it would take 15 minutes with hills, with the cable car, it only takes 2 minutes. (it goes from here to here - google maps)
I skipped the Taksim Place and went through the Gumussuyu district and started wandering around, discovering every new back streets.
I discovered this little church by the previous wooden house.
The building under construction is abandoned since many years now. They started to build this parking lot but then the construction stopped due to the lack of work permit. I believe a trial is still going on to decided of its faith. It totally denatured the face of the district. You can see it from everywhere, it's a huge and ugly building (here on google maps, that's the big grey building). The 'funny' thing is that some mafia (probably) is using it as a parking lot. So you can go and park there if you want.
The mosque by the parking lot.
The Marmara Hotel (the one on Taksim Square) from Cihangir's back streets.
Well today I discovered a lot of new stencils I've never seen before. I almost walked 8 km (5 miles). So good night.
PS : You can see the path used by downloading this .kmz file (google Earth) here.
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