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oddistrange t1_ja1cbjg wrote

Reply to comment by Bunnawhat13 in Super cool building on Broad. Does anyone know what it’s for? by Shush808

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipO5XQgtsnsqxKzXsVxPH21_rUom98uT5wiJud6r=s680-w680-h510

From Google maps.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gammaman/8748858387

And Flickr.

https://flic.kr/p/ekcX8Y

Also from Flickr, the view looking up towards the balcony from the fence.

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a_real_tomato t1_ja1hayi wrote

Is the red paint meant to look like blood?!

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oddistrange t1_ja1ieq7 wrote

That's not paint, it's just the way the metal oxidized over time. Not a metal doctor but it could be that it was plated and the physical deformation (it being bent) ruined the integrity of the plating, could be that during the attempt to free the body tools were used on it and that damaged it in some fashion that altered how it oxidized.

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