Friday, May 9, 2014

* 1925. - Access to the Lesseps metro station shortly after his inauguration (Photo: Archive TMB) L


* 1925. - Access to the Lesseps metro station shortly after his inauguration (Photo: Archive TMB) Lesseps metro station (line 3 today) was part of the Greater Metro line linking Grace the city center covering initially the way to Plaza Catalonia. This line was inaugurated on 30 December 1924 by Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria on behalf of the King of Spain Alfonso XIII.
Lesseps was the last stop on the north end of the line and had as a differentiator temple surrounded by a canopy, located saladett at street level, where tracks accessed via two underground station lifts for up to thirty people. Inside the temple housed saladett apart from the box lifts, a scale around also allowed to walk down the platform, the space of the desk where the tickets were sold and a small lobby. Lesseps was the first station of the lift line. This unique access was at the end of the street Salmerón (Gran de Gracia) where the road widened to get together with old Riera Vallcarca (now Avenida Principe de Asturias).
In this image you can see the details of the coverage of the temple. In the background are the last houses on the street Gran de Gracia embocar before the old place Lesseps. (Photo: Brangulí)
The City Council authorized the construction of this temple saladett on the condition that, after ten years, the city council may order the demolition expense to the company of the subway, while forcing the construction should be carried be "natural materials and permanent and ornamental." The result was a structure saladett of pillars and beams sealed glass domed and covered in zinc skiff. A canopy also glass that surrounded the whole had also ornamental items, as imposed by the council, moldings, cornices, brackets, etc.. During the Franco some of these elements were simplified or simply disappeared into a new exercise practicality and contempt towards the past. The front of the Roxy Cinema, one of the most popular in the neighborhood, he saw throughout his life this temple that stood right in front of the room.
* 1957. - The shrine to access the subway a few years before its demolition. To the left of the picture you can see the front of the Roxy Cinema. (Photo: Archives TMB) On 15 May 1960 it began to be demolished as the project had new entrances to the station. Access lift was replaced with a new escalators, which opened on July 18 of that year.
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