Today’s Mystery Photo is of two busts facing one another. Identify the guys in the busts and tell us where this photograph was made. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. gives us details on the recent mystery: “Today’s mystery photo is of the Lonja del Comercio (Commerce Market) building, located in the Plaza de San Francisco de Asís in Old Havana, Cuba. Built between 1907 and 1909, it first opened as a Stock Exchange and Commodities Trading building on March 28, 1909, and continued to serve in that role until the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
“It was renovated in 1995 after years of neglect, and is currently an office building housing foreign companies with joint ventures in Cuba, including the Brazilian Embassy, news agencies like CNN Havana Bureau, and the Havana Radio Station. It also houses a cafe-restaurant, El Mercurio, named after the bronze statue of the god Mercury, the Greek god of trade, that sits atop a dome on the roof.”
Jay Altman, of Columbia, S.C., told us: “The main part of the building is a perfect square.”
Others recognizing the photograph include Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Lou Camerio, Lilburn.
>>> SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
NESTLED BEHIND the Collins Hill Public Library are two picnic tables, perfect for a reader to take a break in this relatively quiet peaceful setting, as captured by Roving Photographer Frank Sharp. A grassed bank helps cut off the rest of the world and provide even more privacy.
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