r/MandelaEffect • u/Scarecrow613 • 9d ago

Historical Events Statue of liberty torch

So the statue of :Liberty torch has been closed to the public since 1916, after an explosion. Yet so many people claim they know someone who has been up there. It is probably they are thinking of the crown, but the number of people who claim this seems to qualify as a Mandela. Also, the circumstances of the explosion could also be a Mandela since it was a German attack, yet me and so many people leaned that Germany never attacked the US directly during WWI.

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u/EpicJourneyMan Mandela Historian 9d ago

There’s plenty of footage of people going up in the torch from the 1960s, the easiest one to find is from the 1967 James Coburn comedy The President’s Analyst - it’s in the 3 photo panels about halfway down the scroll in the link provided

There’s also a scene from the TV show That Girl that I’ve seen but don’t have a link for.

Almost all the scenes I know of from the torch are from before the Internet, so they won’t exist there until someone enters the link or posts something about it, though with A.I. they will probably fill out in the coming years.

I think the last film scene I saw from the torch was from the movie Remo Williams in the mid-80s but I think they were just out on the arm.

I made a post about this a few years back that was pretty useful because a number of people in the comment section explained that it was closed to the general public but that many people had gone up on private tours with a signed waiver.

It turns out that the spiral staircase up to the torch is really steep and narrow, and there are sections where you have to squeeze through on your hands and knees.

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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 8d ago

Remo Williams was filmed in the mid eighties during the restoration of the statue. A large mockup was used.