Gettysburg-Observation Tower

[infomanpa]

How many of you remember?

 

[captaindrew]

I do!

 

[Kurt G]

Me too , but my fear of heights meant there was no way I was ever going up in it .

 

[Pat Answer]

Gettysburg was on the way back from honeymoon road trip (summer 2000!) and the Mrs and I asked someone to snapshot us with the tower in the background because I'd heard it was coming down.

I sure wish we hadn't lost that picture when we moved years later...

 

[dlavin]

I get why it came down but I bet it offered great views of the area

@infomanpa my how you have changed. Lol

 

[Pat Answer]

I get why it came down but I bet it offered great views of the area

It did. I went up on my very first trip to Gettysburg with friends shortly after the movie came out. But I remember thinking it probably wasn't worth the eyesore at the ground level. There are plenty of natural high-ground views there of course!

 

[reading48]

1995....That was our first trip up the tower..

 

[rpkennedy]

I was an intern working at GNMP when it came down. At the moment of implosion, I was down by the Texas Monument and had a great view of its collapse.

Ryan

 

[infomanpa]

Me too , but my fear of heights meant there was no way I was ever going up in it .

Even though I was there a few times while the tower existed, I never went up.

 

[infomanpa]

I get why it came down but I bet it offered great views of the area

@infomanpa my how you have changed. Lol

At least I have cut my hair.

 

[Gettysburg Guide #154]

I confess that I was in the tower and really did not learn anything I did not already know from a tour at ground level. I am active on the field today without it. It is not missed by anyone I know.

 

[Lampasas Bill]

I'm still trying to forget it. What an eyesore.

 

[Pat Young]

The one time I was near it bad music was blasting.

 

[Belfoured]

I'm still trying to forget it. What an eyesore.

I recall watching on tv (from Vancouver Island, of all places) as that vertical junkyard imploded. One of my favorite tv moments.

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

It was called the National Tower, but I called it the National Blight. It served one useful purpose--you could see it from anywhere, and when I was leading tours on East Cavalry Field, you could use it to orient to the center of the Union. That sole purpose was not a reason to keep the thing, and I joyously watched it come down. Good riddance.

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

Let us all take a moment of silence for all the battlefield towers that have passed..... And be thankful their gone....

 

[Jamieva]

Yes I remember that as a kid in the 80s, never went up in it

 

[ronzzo]

I do!

 

[Adam1stVa]

This would be a good topic for a new thread about what all they erected/created on the battlefield. I had heard once that there was a restaurant on LRT.

 

[Tom Hughes]

I remember the tower when I was in Gettysburg back in 1995. Not sure why I didn't go up in it. Pretty cool.