So did you know that
the Terminal Tower has a twitter feed?
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| This tower has a twitter feed? What? |
YUP.
And even cooler that they take requests for what color lights they display via this feed?
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| Image from the Terminal Tower Twitter Page |
Yeah Buddy! Which means when you're out with your kids you can say "hey kids! What color do you want that tower to be?" AND THEN MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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| Amazing! Mommy can do anything! And bit surprise my 4yo girl wanted it to be pink! |
But I'm pretty fascinated by this as an adult, too.
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| Cleveland from the Edgewater Pier. I stopped after a happy hour a few months ago just to watch the Terminal Tower Lights show. I also got to see the moon rise over the city (it's the big circle of light just to the left of the tower). |
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| Showing off the red, white, and blue for a serviceman who was hanging out downtown. |
There is an official form to light up for events, organizations, etc.
here. But I"m fascinated by this whole take requests from the plebs via social media thing. FASCINATED. To the point where I'm pretty sure if I still lived downtown with a view of the tower I would be the most annoying Clevelander ever asking to change the lights every five minutes:
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| The view out of our first apartment circa 2005. |
My kids are a bit obsessed with the color changing tower. And so when we were out picking up our fresh fork a few weeks ago on a perfect, fall Sat. morning we decided to investigate it further:
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| Perfect Cleveland Fall Day. |
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| Kids in Tower City. |
And took everyone up to the Observation Deck.
I didn't realize the Observation Deck was open again until I started following the tower on Twitter. It had been closed for many years - remember all of that scaffolding? But it's open weekends now through December (
more info on hours etc here). They say that on a clear day you can see 30 miles from downtown Cleveland:
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| View west over the warehouse district all the way to Lakewood. |
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| View east to CSU. |
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| View South across Scranton Peninsula (that btw was my thesis site many years ago) |
It's really a cool vantage point to see our city.
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| Public Square from Above. Love the shadow of the tower! |
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| Spider with a view. The kids LOVED this guy. |
Hands down the Terminal Tower is the coolest tower ever.
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| Happy in Cleveland. |
