The Model Room Visitor Book

CASEF-041

CLASSIFICATIONFacilities

STATUSPHOTOGRAPHED TWICE

DATE RANGEJul–Aug 1986

The lectern register beside the 11F city model. One entry was photographed in 1987 and again in 1989. Only the second photograph has it.

The book

The Integrated Living Systems suite on 11F kept a visitor book on a lectern beside the city model. Visitors signed with their employee number, the date, their name and a comment. Most comments are what you would expect: A splendid model. Most impressive.

The rows that matter

No.	Date	Name	Comment
4415	12 Aug 1986	S. Ishida	My wife says the house is smaller than the model.
4416	13 Aug 1986
4417	14 Aug 1986	K. Watanabe	The house was lit. Why is my house lit?
4418	15 Aug 1986

The problem

I have two photographs of this page.

The visitor book open at the August 1986 page, with the 4417 row empty. — PHOTOGRAPH 1 · DATED ON REVERSE: MARCH 1987

The same page, now with K. Watanabe’s shaking entry in the 4417 row. — PHOTOGRAPH 2 · DATED ON REVERSE: 1989

The first is dated on the back March 1987. In it, the 4417 row is empty.

The second is dated 1989. In it, the 4417 row is filled in, in a hand that shakes badly, pressed hard enough to dent the following page.

Nobody had a reason to sign a visitor book in 1989 for a visit in 1986.

Every row is in its visitor’s own handwriting, number and date included. Except 4418. That one is in a clerk’s neat print. Somebody dated it in advance.