I am putting laundry away and watching an old episode of Barney Miller on WGN. Well the opening theme song and credits are rolling they show a picture of Manhattan and the twin towers. Well in that picture the one tower that had the cell\communications tower on it was not there.
In the movie, "Godspell", there is a song they perform on top of the twin towers; I believe it is called "All for the Best". They were still under construction at the time, and was not open to the public yet. My husband just told me that he and his friend paid $5 admission to go to the top of the twin towers in 1976.
I've noticed more and more older movies and tv-series that originally featured the twin towers being edited to show only one tower. I've noticed some photos getting the same treatment, as well.
No argument that there is tragedy with how those towers ended. Is it not sort of , revisionist, to not reveal them as they were? I mean no disrespect to anyone here. It seems to me that if we allow the tragic chapter on the towers to end with their coming down, or seeking comfort in the vision of when they were new, that we are allowing success to those who want to change the vision of what we can do. I'm not regretting that those towers stood, and will, in some form or another, stand tall again. I'm not a big fan of revising history so that it is more palatable or politically correct, whether it's the deluded denial of the Holocaust, objections to the Star and Bars, or not displaying the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian. Yes, the Holocaust happened, in all its factual tragedy. Yes, the Confederate flag represented Southern States and their desire to maintain their sovereign rights. Yes, we dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. Of course, in human history there is tragedy. The quote that most expresses it, in my mind, is,"Man's inhumanity to man causes countless thousands to weep." Yet, in spite of the tragedies, we move forward. That is our nature. To remember the past, and use it as a stepping stone to our future. Is that not what was done with the twisted steel of those buildings? Used to ignite a war, they were, instead of remaining a smoldering mass, recast into fighting ships that show our resolve. Again, no disrespect is intended. My pride in our journey forward should be evident.
Barney Miller is a comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982
Yea Sunday nights on WGN they have retro night. They show two episodes of WKRP, two episodes of The Newhart show, and two episodes of Barney Miller
