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PHOTO GALLERY
We hope you appreciate these pictures. They
have been sent in by various people, and you may have a few you
would also like to share. If so, please send them, preferably
in .jpg, .bmp, or .gif format, to paul@carrbiz.com.
THE LATEST ON THE
PLAZA CONSTRUCTION:
We will keep out "Pictures of
interest" section up for a while (see below). In this
first section, for the moment, we will archive some of the ongoing
pictures of the construction of the plaza. The construction
finally began on July 7, 2008, and is scheduled for completion by
Sept. 6, 2008, when we are planning a great Plaza
Celebration. More details on that will be coming soon on the home
page.
Meanwhile, here's some construction photos:
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Bright and early Monday
morning the fencing contractors were out, unloading portable
chain link fencing sections. The statue area is quite
close to the Bathhouse, but the project won't interfere with
access to that structure. |
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Within a couple of hours the
fencing was completed around the statue area.
Fortunately, the promenade by the water didn't have to be
fenced off, so people can still walk there.
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home page for more photos. |
PHOTO
ALERT: Go to bottom of page
From time to time we will be adding pictures of
interest; particularly those people send us about events around the
Alki statue. As we get them, we will put them on the bottom
of this page. Other than that, please just wander through
this section. The first 10 or so from the top down are in historical
order. After that, it's pretty random.
We have the ability to scan in photos,
but please do not send your photos to us through the U. S.
Mail--we cannot guarantee they will be returned. Call us at
206-938-8720 and we may be able to make some arrangement to get the
photos online. Naturally, we cannot guarantee your photo will
make it to the site; a lot of it depends on the subject matter,
whether it is close (or a duplicate) of another photo, and the time
it takes to keep up the site.
That said, the statue seems to
bring out the craziness in a few of us, the real heart in many of
us, and the best in all of us.
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Sept 11. 2001, and the Seattle
Statue of Liberty was a natural gathering place for all who
mourned what would become the turning point in America for
years to come. |
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Sept. 11, 2007, and the new
Seattle Statue of Liberty comes home to Alki Beach.
Still sitting atop her original planter, she now awaits
construction of her new plaza home.
Meanwhile, her sister, the
original Statue at Alki Beach, will be just down the street
at the Log House Museum. |
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Check the haberdashery!
It's 1952, and the original Statue of Liberty is being
unveiled at Alki Beach, a project of the Seattle Sea Scouts
and the Boy Scouts of America. |
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It's 2007, and the Seattle Boy
Scouts and Sea Scouts are still an important part of our
Seattle Statue of Liberty history. |
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There's just one year when
Lady Liberty was not around for the Holiday Season (even
though it seemed longer). But someone took advantage
of the snowfall to place "The Snowman of Liberty"
atop the old base. |
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This image of the Seattle
Statue of Liberty is the work of Phil Jones, a local artist
who lives at Alki Beach. Phil has paid a lot of
attention to the Alki sunsets, and his rendering of this
logo captures perfectly the colors of many an evening
looking to the west across Elliott Bay.
©JonesProductions |
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The Lady bedecked by Alki
Beach residents during the original Sept. 11th memorial.
The following photos are
shots taken by a local resident during that fateful day.
They speak for themselves. |
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FREEDOM LIVES
(Lady Liberty)
This Statue stands above the flames, above the smoke and
Hell;
Her lighted lamp will never dim as long as tongues still
tell
that we are one in Liberty, for we will not be cowed;
not one knee bends to tyrant's bombs, no single head is
bowed.
We are America, each one, we are not stone and steel;
we are all colors, races, creeds, and we will never kneel.
Each bitter act of infamy makes this resolve more strong;
We will these heinous cowards find, and we will right this
wrong.
No place on Earth can evil hide from Freedom's piercing
light;
For we will go to any ground to make this wrong aright.
Our Statue stands above the flames, and millions think as
one;
Our freedom lives in hearts and minds and Justice will be
done.
(c)
Paul S. Carr III: 2001
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NEWEST
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From
John Monahan:
Some
friends and I got the idea to build a miniature scaffolding
for the Alki Statue of Liberty during the restoration of the
Statue of Liberty in New York in 1984. We assembled three
walls and a loose fourth wall of tubular aluminum and wire
at one of our homes – and then we attached miniature men
to look like workers.
On the day that we erected
the scaffold – it quickly went up and was easily guyed to
the statue to keep it from moving in the wind. Pleased
with ourselves, we stood around kicking a hacky sack and
watching the puzzled looks on the faces of passers by –
until a large police officer came by to tell us to remove
it, that there had been a complaint, and a past history of
vandalism.
He
asked if we had gotten a permit – and just as we were
asking “From whom?” an elderly couple came up to us, and
informed the officer that they were the president and vice
president of the Parks Commission – and that they loved
what we were doing to the Statue to help celebrate the 100th
Anniversary of Seattle Parks. Who were we to argue?
By
sheer luck – Lee Iacocca was in town raising money for the
New York
statue – so a news crew invited him to Alki, and the
evening news showed clips of his amusement. I was
called at home, but asked that they merely say that “A
Boeing Engineer” had acted on impulse – and that he
hoped everyone seeing it might take the time to donate to
the renovation in
New York
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The
scaffold stayed up for 6
weeks of storm Fall weather – and to the end, evinced
amusement and confusion amongst countless West Seattleites.
Our thanks to John Monahan. SSLPP |
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Though
hard to see at this detail level, this is a photo taken in
1918 of 18,000 men at Camp Dodge in Iowa. They were
preparing for World War I.
Our
thanks to Roger Stark-
weather, who forwarded this photo from Jon Von Kessel |
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