Greening skyscrapers are traditional landmarks of New York.
But there are other landmarks like the grind the ribbon of steel now being
dismantled
that decorates Manhattan's east side of a chalet it was the third Avenue elevated
railroad. But New Yorkers just called it the L four seventy six years. L.
Train splattered by carrying people to work and home again.
But the old steel skeleton outlived its usefulness passengers dwindle
and so the L is being torn down above
Chinatown and has been blasted L.
Double the street with Chatham County New York's chrome
and glitter it proudly clung to pot bellied coal stove for heating it's old
fashioned waiting room colored glass on
and then an ancient window
and passengers pay the station agent to push the plunger to unlock again to let
them in a wooden train started with tire dignity
passengers sat and swayed
and the dragon roamed behind the ruthless past miles of tenements giving the
passengers a glimpse into every window all the Pentagon has got in return was a
feeling of the in close to the passing parade
and noise lots of noise cars
themselves with the thirty years old and almost everybody agreed.
Third Avenue would be better without the L.
that Nearly touched the buildings obstructed traffic
and blotted out the sun a ride once cost a nickel before electricity came
Chinese steam engines all the cars jarring red hot coals on the best way of
belching smoke on the Housewives was well things change
and the girl is at the end of the line.
This is the last of the Third Avenue El film just before its strange rumble into
history bound by the scrappy the L.
Belongs to the past in the mountains of brick and steel
that soon will be forgotten. Amid America's changing B.
The Statue of Liberty known the world over as a symbol of freedom
and promise
and yet from the people of friends to commemorate our country's close bond with the
colonies during the revolution America's lady of Liberty has stood faithful the
jewel in New York Harbor for nearly seventy years building the towering figure
and transporting it across the Atlantic was a monumental task
an artist sketch made in the eighteenth seventies revealed how the statue rose over
the rooftops of Paris during its construction the work was supervised by Frederick
on whose bottled a brilliant French sculptor who can see the idea during a visit to
New York and in Torch were sent to America in eight hundred seventy six
and shown at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition marking the one hundredth
anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence Civil War veterans
joined in the patriotic rallies held to raise funds.
As for a pedestal of the statue in one thousand nine hundred five work began on
reassembling the figure which had been dismantled in France for shipment to the
United States in two hundred ten packing cases they had was completed last year
craftsman working from the inside rivet copper sheeting over the framework of
Liberty's seventeen foot high base by the rockets red glare President Cleveland
dedicated Miss Liberty
and eight hundred eighty six the day her torch still throws out
and speaking of welcome
and hope to all who seek shelter in America by ferry more than a half a million
visitors journey each year to bed lows island on which the copper Colossus stands
countless thousands of youngsters are thrilled to their first glimpse of are
mounted on a pedestal of concrete in granite a body fashioned out of Metal Gear
Still every inch a warm inspiring symbol of man's faith then freedom.
MARGOLIES mother was his model for liberty working from a nine foot cast of her in
plaster the computer the dimensions of the proposed statue
and constructed it in sections a news magazine cameraman from the
target films a New York City skyline more than half a mile away
three hundred feet above the bay.
Here is a camera eye view of the tiny bed clothes Island.
Once an Army board with seventy guns
and a garrison of three hundred fifty men visitors can if they wish to climb inside
a statue to the head which is ten big tech
and will hold thirty person past Liberty's Galland ageless lady have come
immigrants of all nations.
They have found the meaning of the famous Ana by Emma Lazarus mother of exiles from
her become a hen close world. Why.
And welcome her mild eyes command the air bridge harbor that twenty cities rain.
Keep in giant land your storied palm cries she was silent lips.
Give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free the
wretched refuse of your teeming jaws send these the homeless tempest tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden dawn.