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When I’m in Paris I always try and find time with the Eiffel Tower. I try and put myself in the mind of a person from the 19th century and how this structure mu
by nemo44x 5y ago
When I’m in Paris I always try and find time with the Eiffel Tower. I try and put myself in the mind of a person from the 19th century and how this structure must have appeared to them. How it made them feel. It was the beginning of modernism and a new world we are in today. A true line of demarcation from the previous era to a new era. An unbelievably important structure.
- edgyquant 5y agoIf I was alive back then I 100% would not have went up on the Eiffel Tower for fear that it would collapse because giant metal buildings were so new.
- thejackgoode 5y agoI feel like the opposite POV must be presented here, maybe someone thinks like I do. When I first went to Paris I started with a boat ride along the Seine. I was flabbergasted by the beauty of the city. When at the end of the 90 min ride we turned the last turn and I saw the Eiffel Tower it was the biggest disappointment — it looked like a rusty nail in the Victorian painting. It looks nice when lighted at night though.
- Mikeb85 5y agoAgreed. It's ugly and not very impressive. Still fun to sit on the lawn facing it at night with a beer or bottle of wine though.
- nemo44x 5y agoI think you need to view it through the lens of a person from when it was made. Consider that it was the first structure to be built by engineers, not architects (that’s revolutionary) and it gave a top-down view of the city, something never possible before. We take all of this for granted much like we take most of modern life for granted. But the Eiffel Tower marked the beginning of modernism. Look at a lot of visual art from that era - it features the Eiffel Tower for instance. It was a shocking structure for its time. It was the beginning of the mechanical and Industrial Age. Just fascinating.