What is this? What are these people looking at?
UPDATE: You guys are too smart and too well-traveled for me. Of course, you all know I've been posting pictures of Paris, so I guess that helped.
Anyway, this is indeed a picture of people ascending the famous outside escalator of the Centre Pompidou. I had a little bit of time to kill the day I took these, but not enough to make it worthwhile visiting the museum itself. So I rambled around the outside taking pictures, and eventually took a whole series of shots of people ascending the escalator.
However, this is a picture of the Pompidou looking east, not west toward the Eiffel Tower.
At the Pompideau Center looking toward the Eiffel Tower?
You could be right.
Pompideau Center
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/05/centre-pompidou-piano-rogers-high-tech-architecture/
I immediately assumed that as well.
there are reflections in the pictures in the second row...to the left of the person in the image, upper part. Though the closer I look at it, I'm not quite sure what it is....
maybe construction near the top of the tower?
ok, now we know--not Eiffel Tower...
so reflection is of a statue on a pedestal???
That was my guess. I'll scroll down to see if we're right.
If you allow me, it's written Pompidou. Also, if it's a photo of the East side of it, it's looking opposite the Eiffel tower (the Eiffel Tower is further to the East of the Pompidou center).
And, fwiw, I hate the damn thing. It disfigures Paris center. At least, the Louvres Pyramid managed to pull itself off, despite my reservations and it looks nice despite having nothing in common with its surroundings. The Pompidou Center fails there completely.
They're on the up escalator looking at Trump on the down escalator. Where is he going now?
Whatever it was the Beatles twice looked at from the same vantage point?
At the strange looking American taking pictures of everything.
and somehow, just like on "Wait wait, don't tell me...", you're all right!!!
😉
Inside the I.M. Pei pyramid entrance to the Louvre?
That guy Shatner saw in The Twilight Zone?
A mime beating up another mime and they can't decide if they're really fighting or not?
On the escalators at the Pompidou Museum, probably looking at some activity going on in the plaza next door.
The Beatles.
Escalators in Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Still wondering why the bundled-up guy at the top left is the only one who appears to be very happy.