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    When was the last time that the torch observation deck on the US Statue of Liberty was open to the public?

    Question #106809. Asked by star_gazer.

    looney_tunes

    The torch was closed to tourists in 1916, following the Black Tom explosion (an act of German sabotage on a nearby island's munitions store that caused $100,000 damage to the Statue of Liberty).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion

    Jul 03 09, 11:35 PM
    unclerick

    The observation deck on the twenty nine foot torch was closed to the public July 30, 1916. World War 1 was raging in Europe and earlier that day German agents had attacked a nearby nearby waterfront munitions depot. The resulting explosion caused the equivalent of two million dollars damage to the statue. Lady Liberty was never designed to have large numbers of visitors. Her interior was a fire hazard and there was no emergency exit other than a single steep, vertigo inducing staircase.

    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1897552,00.html







    Jul 04 09, 12:05 AM

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