![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But something about this layout is still troubling. ![]() As for Basing, he “showed little interest in the technical defects and added that he thought the work had been done very well.”Ī postcard of the ceiling mural, probably based on the original diagram Jacoby mentioned, shows the layout as it was meant to be, with Cancer in the east and Aquarius in the west. When the image was projected onto the ceiling for painting, Basing (according to Jacoby) must have laid it on the floor and projected it upwards, reversing the image. As such, the diagram was meant to be held overhead. Jacoby offered the explanation that the original diagram had been laid out correctly and would match perfectly against a celestial atlas. This was a bit embarrassing for the New York Central Railroad who, when the Terminal opened, had published a pamphlet about the ceiling writing “it is safe to say that many school children will go to the Grand Central Terminal to study this representation of the heavens.”īoth Jacoby and Basing were asked how the ceiling’s layout could have gotten flipped. Less than two months after the Terminal opened one astute commuter noticed the design of the ceiling is actually backwards west is east and east is west. ![]()
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