The Dark Story of Walter Chrysler and the Tower Built on Automobiles and Betrayal

🏆 Please consider to join my channel as an exclusive member and supporter:    / @oldmoneydynasty   The Dark Rivalry That Built New York's Most Iconic Tower A twenty-seven ton steel needle hung suspended above Manhattan. Eight hundred sixty feet below, the architect William Van Alen stood on the sidewalk, watching. His stomach churned. If the cables snapped, fifty-four thousand pounds of metal would tear through seventy stories and crash onto Lexington Avenue. Rumors had circulated for weeks. A flagpole, people said. Some kind of ornament. This was no flagpole. The workers began pulling. The first section rose through an opening in the building's dome and descended into the sixty-sixth floor. Then the second piece. The third. Within ninety minutes, all four sections had been riveted together. A one hundred eighty-five foot spire now pierced the sky. The Chrysler Building had just become the tallest structure ever built by human hands. Taller than the Great Pyramid. Taller than the Eiffel Tower. One thousand forty-six feet of steel, brick, and one man's obsession. Twenty-four hours later, the stock market collapsed. This is the story of a railroad mechanic from Kansas who built that tower as a personal monument. Not for his company. For himself. For his children. A man who insisted his bathroom be the highest in Manhattan so he could, as one observer noted, look down on Henry Ford and the rest of the world. Public Domain Photos from: Library of Congress Wikimedia Commons (Non-restricted) Copyright Disclaimers • We use images and content in accordance with the YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines • Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.” #documentary #chryslerbuilding