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Verrazano-Narrows Bridge linking Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Gone With The Wind
The flag succeeds a slightly smaller version of the Stars and Stripes that made an illfated appearance on the bridge during New York’s 1976 Bicentennial festivities. The wind tore it almost in half the firs time it was hoisted aloft.
Steel supports will protect the new flag, which on patriotic occasions will be raised and lowered with cables powered by nine small motors.
The undisputed heavyweight champ before the appearance of the Verrazano contenders was a flag that weighed a ton and a half and adorned the front of a Detroit department store on suitable holidays. Measuring 230 by 204 feet, it took 55 men to get it into place each time.
Retired after 25 years’ service, Detroit’s Old Glory is folded neatly into a corner of the “Nation’s Attic,” an exhibit in the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington, DC.
The original Star-Spangled Banner, hanging in the same museum, was 42 by 30 feet before decay gradually ate away about a fourth of it.
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