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http://tinyurl.com/us-swastika-names

This is actually part of a US Navy base.

Here's the story: http://www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com/pho ... 143053448/

For what it's worth, the swastika actually goes the other way.

anybody notice that to the left of the swastika their are two building that look like bomber planes

The swastika was actually an Oriental symbol of good luck, hijacked by the Nazis. Pilots during the '20s used to wear them as good luck charms.

Many of the old tile floors in pre-war New York City buildings have swastika tiles, primarily anticlockwise ones, as borders or accents. Since most of the these buildings date from the late 1800s or early 1900s, the pre-Naziness of the design seems to render the tiles emotionally inert, and no one pays much attention to them.

Here's The Straight Dope on swastikas; there is bickering involved:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_156.html

^Hehe, that's one of the common places I see them, in tiles. Saw one on top of a cd rack at "Wherehouse" music store, the design of the thing was so that the top of it looked like a swastika. I can't think of any more, as when I see it, it's usually random off the wall thing, easily forgetable.

Most of the swastikas I see point the "wrong" direction tho. If a bathroom has tiles that are rectangular, more than likely they'll crosshatch them, and there's swastikas all over. It seems people deliberately avoid orienting things where they are running in the "correct direction tho...

^ Huh, the Wherehouse? Is that in Winston-Salem, by any chance?

Nope. It's a music store I once loved (after the mighty "Tower" fell), and is now called "F.Y.E." Believe they are a chain, also under them is Sam Goody I believe, and Second Spin-that one I know for a fact.

I have noticed the symbol inside pictures of mythology, I have a book on world mythology and I thought it was kind of odd seeing it there. Though the symbol does interest me, and I am against Nazis, it is strange that such a symbol can be so corupted to envelope such thoughts with its image. I think I am interested in balence, and the symbol is so balenced, and to me appears kind of perfect, but its conection with the Nazis has soiled it beyond my use.