The Key
“It’s big. Especially when you’re right up under it, which is where our wet, bloodied, scratched, scarred, scared, and very determined little band was.
There are four big legs to the tower. Each is planted on a massive concrete pedestal. Around each pedestal are the ticket booths, a place where you can buy snacks, the base of the elevator, and a lot of people craning their necks to look up.
The tower is built out of millions of individual pieces. It’s not like they molded it all out of a single ...block of steel—you see each and every piece, every crossbar, every strut, every beam—15,000 pieces. And you see the fat rivets used to hold each piece in place. It’s as if it were built entirely out of Popsicle sticks—if Popsicle sticks were iron and coated with thick gray-brown paint. But from a little distance it appears very delicate, as if it were made out of lace.
There are three decks on the Eiffel Tower. The first one is about a quarter of the way up. A second deck is closer to the halfway point.MoreLess
There are four big legs to the tower. Each is planted on a massive concrete pedestal. Around each pedestal are the ticket booths, a place where you can buy snacks, the base of the elevator, and a lot of people craning their necks to look up.
The tower is built out of millions of individual pieces. It’s not like they molded it all out of a single ...block of steel—you see each and every piece, every crossbar, every strut, every beam—15,000 pieces. And you see the fat rivets used to hold each piece in place. It’s as if it were built entirely out of Popsicle sticks—if Popsicle sticks were iron and coated with thick gray-brown paint. But from a little distance it appears very delicate, as if it were made out of lace.
There are three decks on the Eiffel Tower. The first one is about a quarter of the way up. A second deck is closer to the halfway point.MoreLess
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