BGuthrie Photos: PA -- Gettysburg Natl Battlefield -- Event: National Tower demolition

PA -- Gettysburg Natl Battlefield -- Event: National Tower demolition:

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Description of Pictures: After years of being an eyesore in the park, the Gettysburg National Tower was finally demolished in July 2000. I was told that the huge tower, which you had to carefully frame photos to avoid, was basically snuck into the middle of the Gettysburg National Battlefield. Not actually part of the park, the tower was built with the promise that a share of its profits would go to help the park. Just like in movie revenue magic, the tower claimed to have never made a profit so it never paid the park a dime. The name, though, implied that it helped the park. While I would to have liked to take pictures of the park from it, I couldn't justify paying someone who was just pocketing all of the money so I never went up it.

The National Tower web site, which is still up in protest, describes the tower as such: "Weighing nearly 2,000,000 lbs. with 5 miles of steel connected by 14,000 bolts, the Gettysburg National Tower is anchored into granite with 15,000 tons of concrete. It rises 393 feet to the top of its flag pole in a patented, hyperbolic hourglass shape of 94 ft. base, 33 ft. waist and 70 ft. top. Certified against lightning damage and computer analyzed for safety, the carpeted, air-conditioned and heated capsule, holding 750 visitors, is reached by two elevators or 508 screened stairs. ... Enjoy the breath-taking view 307 feet above the historic terrain..."

The tower was put up in 1974 and preservationists hated it from day one. Finally, in 1990, Congress approved a redrawing of park boundaries that allowed it to include the land that the tower was on. The NPS moved to have the tower condemn and eventually succeeded. The typically property-rights people denounced government control of things while preservationists were glad to have the area redeemed to a more historical setting.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GETTOW_000703_006.JPG: Compare this picture to the last in the series
2. GETTOW_000703_014.JPG: The Gettysburg Tower comes down
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