Comments on: Marble Run display in NYC

Question: Marble Run display in NYC

dog food sugar — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:46:09 -0800

NYC Transit users: Do you know where the Marble Run display is?

Ever since this question was posted, I've been trying to remember a marble run that I saw in February of 2005 somewhere in the Subway system. Maybe it was at a station that transfers to commuter rails? I can't remember and it's driving me pointlessly mad!

The marble run was lovely: lots of metal parts, and it was large (maybe 12' x 12' x 12'). It looked like a permanent display behind plexiglas. Is there any information online about this beautiful creature?

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:04:42 -0800

There is one in the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Photos.

By: dog food sugar

dog food sugar — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:08:58 -0800

Oh my gosh THANK YOU, smackfu! You are amazing.

By: hooray

hooray — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:09:01 -0800

Do you mean this clock in the Port Authority? It's by George Rhoads, there s'a blurb written about it here (scroll down to "MAGIC CLOCK — CERMAK").

By: hooray

hooray — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:09:26 -0800

darn you, smackfu.

By: dog food sugar

dog food sugar — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:15:04 -0800

hooray looks like yours is the same guy. Thanks both of you. Now I've got a new direction to google around in.

By: ChasFile

ChasFile — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:10:35 -0800

Wasn't this, or something like it, at the Ben Franklin Institute in Philadelphia? I vaguely remember as a pup seeing something like it there many years ago...

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:33:16 -0800

Yes, there is. That sculpture, or one like it, was also on display in the baggage claim area of the Philadelphia airport when I flew through there a year ago.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:48:00 -0800

Not that theses don't necessarily use marbles. One uses pool balls and the other uses golf balls.

By: logovisual

logovisual — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:05:01 -0800

They used to have them in the check-in area of the Delta terminal at Boston's Logan airport as well, many years ago.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:46:57 -0800

I actually saw the Port Authority one on Saturday. It's pretty depressing, just like the rest of the bus terminal. Lit by fluorescent lights and not working. Don't go out of your way to see it.