Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Attack Of The Factoids - Plot & Excerpts
Three hundred artists and architects publicly objected to its design and the fact that it looked “like a gigantic black smokestack.” The Eiffel Tower was originally designed as a temporary entrance arch for the 1889 World’s Fair. Postcard historians credit the Eiffel Tower (and the tourists amazed by it at the fair) with making picture postcards popular in France. After the Germans captured Paris during World War II, French rebels sabotaged the Eiffel Tower’s elevators before a visit by Adolf Hitler, forcing him to climb the stairs. The elevators remained “broken” for the rest of the war. For 41 years, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world. It was surpassed by New York City’s Chrysler Building in 1930…and by lots of other buildings since. In 1925 a con man named Victor Lustig created an apparently convincing story and “sold” the Eiffel Tower to two different scrap metal dealers. Needless to say, when the men arrived with heavy machinery to dismantle their prize, they discovered that they’d been had.
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