Anniversaries

09Oct06

Always a little late, all the 9/11 anniversary press as me thinking a lot about the World Trade Center and I feel oddly connected to them. In spite of my fervent desires to be a downtown New York type I definitely was not. I have stayed at a small European Marriot that was near the Battery tunnel. It was usually a place to stay while visiting Brooklyn. (The fact that Brooklyn has 3 million people, has had a large scale hotel ((the Marriott)) for only  10 or so years and has no other real hotels that are not at the airport is for another day. For an interesting Brooklyn hotel look google the Lefferts hotel, located across the street from my son.)

Back to the WTC. In  fall 1979 we visited the top sometime after dayligh saving time ended. As we watched the sunset over Jersey I was struck by how high we were, how the light just disappeared behind the horizon and it immediately got very dark. My older sun was an infant, dancing as we held him along the windows. Even before 9/11 it was one of my most distinct memories of NY.

I also had a fancy dinner at Windows on the World and spent one other time stopping children from trying to throw things out or down.

 My last memory is on Labor Day the Monday before we were driving back from DC and for some unknown reason took the Holland Tunnel on our way home. As I sat swearing in traffic Gs took the photo at the top across the river.

I diverge-here is why I am too old. I have been trying to find the time to figure out how to put up this photo. Now I am working on a machine that does not have my photos.

Hooray 9 days later I have had enough time to get that shot in. Each time I learn something that seems intuitive to people way younger than I, I feel like I have won something.

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