Front:
Snow & rain can be seen
11||1.
falling up!
Rain is sometimes Red!
World's greatest TV
tower 1,472 feet
above street Ilevel.
One of World's Eight
Wonders (only one built
in 20th Century)
Used by all New York
TV stations. Reaches
5,200,000 TV sets in
four state area.
Thousands of post cards
sold annually.
102nd floor observatory
1,250 feet visibility on
clear day, 80 miles.
World's most
powerful floodlights
illuminate tower, at cost
of $250,000. Can be
Observatory employees
speak eight languages.
seen 300 miles.
Over one and a half
million visitors, from
Ships can be seen 40
miles at sea from 86th
every state in U.S. and
nearly every foreign
country, visit "Top of
the Empire State"
each year. Approx.
35,000 visitors daily.
floor observatory
1,050 feet.
3,500 miles of telephone
and telegraph wire. -
taa74 elevators operate in
speeds ranging from 600
ft. to 1,200 ft. a minute,
seven miles of shafts.
16,000 persons work
in building.-
6,500 windows to wash
twice a month.
Building weighs 365,000
tons 14 tons to support
each of its occupants.
200 cleaning women
needed to service
building.
60,000 tons of steel;
- enough to build double-
track railroad from
60 miles of water pipe.
New York to Baltimore.
Over 2,000,000 kilowatt
hours of electricity used
1860 steps on stairs
from street level to
102nd floor.
every month.
A city of shops on
main floor.
Underground two
foundation
stories
55 ft. down.
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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
PLACE
NEW YORK CITY
This giant sha ft of masonry and steel piercing the sky over New York can be seen fifty miles
away on a clear day. In the evening, huge searchlights flash their lights from the towering
observation roof of the building. The height of the Empire State Building is an overwhelming
1472 ft. to the tip of the TV tower.
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Post Card
MANHATTAN
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MADE BY
DEXTER PRESS, INC.
WEST NYACK, NEW YORK
DT-76786-B 1964 D.P.I.
Manhattan Post Card Pub. Co., Inc., 657 Broadway, N.Y.C., N.Y.
