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To: SandRat

Side Note on the 240 foot tower at Ft. Benning, It was originally built as a ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair. It was moved to Benning early in WWII. Or so I was told when I was there in the early '60s.


3 posted on 08/25/2005 4:18:35 PM PDT by AntiBurr ("Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam " with apologies to Cato)
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To: AntiBurr
"Or so I was told when I was there in the early '60s."

They were still telling it that way in the mid '80s.

8 posted on 08/25/2005 4:37:26 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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