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Absolutely amazing, and my gut reaction is surprise it lasted so long before inevitably burning up. Also quite interesting how they integrated it with the city

Absolutely amazing, and my gut reaction is surprise it lasted so long before inevitably burning up. Also quite interesting how they integrated it with the city aesthetics of the time, complete with the flags. When viewed from a distance it doesn't look quite as odd as it otherwise might have done had no consideration to that side of things happened.

Zirro 13y ago
"...and my gut reaction is surprise it lasted so long before inevitably burning up." The fire started in the building below it, and didn't have anything to do with the structure itself. By 1953 the tower hadn't been used for its original purpose for many decades, with the wires having been removed in favour of underground cables. The flags, however, were used for various informational purposes, such as indicating how many medals Sweden had received in international competitions for a particular day. (My main source is this clip, in Swedish: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/stockholm/mitt-stockholm/7695700_7695700.svd http://www.svd.se/nyheter/stockholm/mitt-stockholm/7695700_7...)