As I See It: History Makers
October 9, 2006 Victor Rozek
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In the early 1960s, when IBM abruptly bolted from New York City, Armonk was a remote and barely inhabited woodland. On my only visit to the IBM mothership nearly two decades ago, I remember wondering why a big-city company would select such an out-of-the-way site to house its world headquarters. Like guys with a Rolex, successful companies enjoy showing off their architectural bling-bling. Power and status find their expression in steel and glass and are typically flaunted, not hidden. Cheap land, I thought, may have been an inducement, but uber-wealthy people don’t buy things just because they’re cheap. There were, |
