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3D Anaglyph photo of
the Empire State Building New York, New York
The Empire State Building is cemented in New York
history. Built during the Depression, the building was the
center of a competition between Walter Chrysler
(Chrysler
Corp) and
John Jakob Raskob ( General Motors) to see who could build
the tallest building.
Construction began on
17 March 1930 the steel frame rose at an average rate of four and a half
floors per week. To speed construction, the building's posts, beams,
and window frames were made in factories and put together on
the site. 60,000 tons of steel was brought in from the steel mills
in Pennsylvania 310 miles away, by train, barges and trucks
In 1945 an Army
Air Corps B-25 twin-engine bomber plane crashed into the 79th
floor of the building in dense fog.
From 1931 the
building acted as an "Ambassador to New York" to
many famous people have visited such as, Fidel Castro, Queen
Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, The Duchess of York,
Nikita Khrushchev & King of Siam
The building's
dirigible mast (now the base of the TV tower) was originally
designed as a mooring mast for Air blimps. Unfortunately
because of the volatile wind conditions at 1,350 feet,
the idea was ultimately abandoned
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