Also, a key element that you can't garner from the pictures is our hilly landscape. The tallest building in South Carolina, the Capitol Centre, appears to be quite short in many pictures. My friends from California mock the fact that it's our tallest, but they have not seen it in person. It appears to be so short in several photos because it's in a slight depression. Or perhaps much of the rest of the city is elevated. Either way, the elevation changes rapidly enough within several blocks to obscure the true beauty and magnificence of Columbia. You gotta see it to believe it; I guess that's what I'm trying to say.
And, finally, since most of the Cola pics were posted long enough ago that I can no longer view them and thus, don't know what's been shown, here is a picture from Wikipedia. Again, this is not the best angle and it doesn't do Columbia full justice, but it's still pretty. It is interesting to note that at least one new tower has been built since this picture was taken, although it's certainly not one of the tallest. This picture does not include the Bank of America tower, either, since it's too far away on the horizontal plane for this photo.
In this picture, the Capitol Centre (tower on the far right) looks shorter than some of the other buildings, just like I said:
View from the Gervais Street Bridge:
