The early days of the tower, almost named 'Astroshaft,' included a legal battle over damage to the iconic structure
When I arrived from Baylor Law School in 1968, we didn’t want to wait on jury verdicts in the depressing halls of the courthouse. So we would tell the bailiff to call us when the jury came back. No cellphones then, of course. We didn't really need to tell the bailiff where to call, because he knew we would be at “the Carpet.”
Maybe you could tell us about the history of the Old San Francisco Steakhouse next. The girl on the swing and the blocks of cheese at every table are locked in my memory bank.Whoa, Tower of the America’s “lifting cables broke” and a “suit for damages? Yes, sure, we can look at the Old San Francisco Steakhouse, but first … what happened to the Tower, and whose fault was it?
Named through a public contest, HemisFair’s tower dodged a bullet when runners-up such as “Astroshaft ” were passed over in favor of the popular choice, “Tower of the Americas,” submitted by 68 people as a good match for the fair’s bumpy but good-hearted theme, “The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas.” Once construction of the tower was underway, the project had a tight deadline. The start date was Aug. 9, 1966, and the fair’s opening date was April 6, 1968.
Lifting rods had broken due to high winds from Hurricane Beulah in September 1967 and had been replaced by comparable ones. The Tower was about 30 days behind when the doughnut-shape tophouse took a slight tumble during the night of Oct. 30-31, 1967. The next morning, workers found the tophouse tilted and discovered that three lifting rods or cables out of the 24 used for lifting it had given way overnight.
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