Tis the
return of the mustachioed monuments!
With
mustaches being all that these days,
it seems fitting to put them where everyone can see them: skyscrapers. And so I
dig into the character and history of the structure in question, finding which
hirsute hairstyle is most complimentary.
100 Berkeley Street is home to one of the Bean’s oldest tallest buildings (second tallest
from 1947-64), the Berkeley Building, aka the Old John Hancock. Though
construction was completed in 1947, it is arguably the most prominent art deco
building in Boston, making it something special to its two preceding decades.
Running with
its art deco styling and the spirit of the Roaring Twenties (the decade that
bore and best represented the movement), my search for the perfect ‘stache
began with The Great Gatsby. Unfortunately,
neither Robert Redford nor Leonardo DiCaprio wears a mustache in either of
their movies (1974 and upcoming in 2013, respectively). And F. Scott Fitzgerald himself didn't either, old sport.
Then
inspiration struck – not unsurprisingly – in the form of George Clooney. The
mustache that best fits the Berkeley Building is the one that George Clooney wore
for O Brother Where Art Thou, set in
the 1930s.
Til next
time!
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