Thursday, September 4, 2014

Thursday September, 4th - Historical Accuracy

  March, 17th 1930 New York- The construction of the Empire State building is underway rising at four and a half stories per week. The streets are soggy with rain and the air is damp with smog from the masses of Ford Model A cars on the streets. People are sore with poverty as the Great Depression sweeps through the country destroying the economy and slowing the construction of the Empire State building.
  The nights are stricken with silence only to be split by the sound of slow Jazz playing in the distance, echoing off the glum streets and buildings. The sound is fitting for this time. The song playing is "Basin Street Blues", by Louis Armstrong. A year passes and in 1930 a rather precarious article hits the New York Times newspaper. It says "May, 1st 1931 - President Hoover officially turns the lights on for the Big Apple's own Empire State Building only to have his peepers blown out by a curve being standing on top of the beams of the building".
  The article says that there was a Martian atop the Empire Sate Building that day and that it has not been seen again after the lights were illuminated. The men that now continue the work on the building work cautiously and without rest. The being has not been seen again.

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