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| Times Square - Friday evening, June 8th |
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| More Times Square - busy, but clean and
exciting |
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| 5th Avenue at 45th Street. Click
here to see a live Web Cam at this location. |
Radio City Music Hall |
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| Rockefeller Center, home of the GE Building, NBC Studios and the Plaza |
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| The Plaza hosts a nice restaurant in the summer
and an ice skating rink in the winter |
On the way to Ellis Island |
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| The Statue of Liberty - what a beautiful sight! |
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| South end of Manhattan |
Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island ferry |
The American Immigrant Wall of Honor - my
father, Ernest Stangeland is among the over 420,000 entries. This is the
largest wall of names in the world. |
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| Docking at Ellis Island |
Beautiful location of the wall |
The newly remodeled building |
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| The American Family Immigration History Center |
Norwegian exhibit |
Early farming |
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| The Great Hall where the immigrants were
questioned and either given permission to land or denied entry. |
Their luggage was taken away from them while they were
processed. |
Some of the precious items they brought from their
homeland. |
The main building as it looked back then.
As many as 5,000 people per day were processed. |
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| New York skyline from the ferry |
Arriving back at Battery Park after a very
interesting and educational trip to Ellis Island |
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| Wall Street |
Staten Island ferry |
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| Main building where I stayed while in the Army |
Bridge to Brooklyn |
Lighthouse at Battery Weed |
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| Battery Weed, a Revolutionary War bunker |
Main Army barracks |
Exit gate |
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| Cruise ship, Norwegian Sea, on it's way |
Beautiful Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan |
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| Battery Park, named for the defensive cannons, is built entirely on land fill |
Walk to Twin Towers |
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| Twin Towers |
What a fantastic view from the top of the tower! |
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| Governor's Island |
Liberty & Ellis Islands |
Brooklyn Bridge (foreground) and Manhattan Bridge |
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| It was not windy and felt so solid and safe to be up
there |
Verranzano bridge |
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| The Today Show at NBC Studios |
Photos of visitors were taken, then you could buy them at
www.nbcpix.com |
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| David Letterman Studio |
Where David likes to visit |
Crystal room, Tavern on the Green |
Tavern on the Green |
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| Trump Tower |
Pigeon art |
Columbus Circle |
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| World famous guitar player, Les Paul at the Iridium Jazz
Club. See
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/les.shtml |
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| This night happened to be Les Paul's 86 birthday! What a
great man! My idol since the '50s. |
