1929-1931 Empire State Building, Dirigible, originally uploaded by straatis.
In Manhattan, onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, now enterprising citizen of big projects (part owner of New York "Giants," trustee of New York State College of Forestry, director of the National Surety Company, board chairman of the County Trust Co., and president of Empire State Building Corp.), announced that the plans of the Empire State building, world's largest, tallest, on the old Waldorf-Astoria site on Fifth Avenue, would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street.
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