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Getting ready for world's tallest structure
Getting ready for world's tallest structure

Getting ready for world's tallest structure

Date4/17/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Getting ready for world's tallest structure. From this hole in the ground; 250 feet wide and 30 feet below the level of Lake Ontario; will rise the world's tallest self-supporting structure. Located just south of Front St. and east of John St. in downtown Toronto; the 1;805-foot CN Tower will be the centrepiece of the planned $1 billion Metro Centre. Completion date of the tower is expected in late 1974 or early 1975. At the 1;100-foot level a six-storey pod will house a restaurant and two observation decks.
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0109801F
. . . And there's more! The 10-foot section of antenna that made the CN Tower the tallest self-supporting structure in the world was added today with (...)
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Up goes the CN tower's crown. That crown-like structure that has been inching up the CN Tower is 350 tons of pod structure that will be the forms of t(...)
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6/23/1975
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