I dated a guy for a while who lived there and as cool as it is, it was very weird being in a pie shaped apartment.  The views were amazing but at the time he lived there many of the apartments were very run down.  It's quite sad.  But I heard that people are now fixing them up so maybe this is one of those people.  His unit had horrible mid 70s kitchen.  From what I understand in some of the units that took out the wall and opened up the kitchen and living room which I think would be spectacular.

There was a movie filmed there with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason but I can't remember the name of it.

I went on a tour of the Marina City complex back in 1967 when visiting family in Chicagoland.  It included a model condo some 60-odd floors up and trip to the rooftop home of the Channel 7 transmitter.

Back then I had no serious appreciation for the kitchen design.  The thing that impressed me most was the sparseness of the railing design on the terraces so as not to interfere with the views.

Thanks Greg for posting a picture with an original GE refrigerator.

My friend was on around the 50th floor.  I don't remember exactly as it's been a while.  What I do remember was how windy it was up there regardless of the weather.

I'm not a high rise fan.  I had a friend who was on about the 57th floor of another building and he said when it got windy and stormed you could actually feel the building sway.  He said you could actually see his chandelier move a little and that this was by design.  That would FREAK me out!!

Maybe I should have used the term "flimsy" because I feel the same way about the railings and heights.  My memory is kind of vague all these decades later, but I recall that the railings on the very top of the buildings were even shorter.  I wouldn't go near the edge.

My heart starts pounding just looking at the picture of those people leaning against that railing. 

The photos of the laundry reminds me of another reason why I wouldn't like a high rise.  So many of the older ones didn't allow laundry units in the apartments because the plumbing wasn't made to handle it.   Many of the more modern buildings had them but they weren't of interest to me.