A sign reads, “Please bear with us as the ball clock is being repaired” A photograph that accompanies the Times article shows two men removing the clock faces and temporary clocks placed on a box around the clock. Sometimes it was so off that the staff in Grand Central had to literally throw a large paper bag over it to prevent people from missing their trains.
The clock had been taken in for repair at the Self Winding Clock Company’s factory at 205 Willoughby Avenue in Brooklyn (next to Pratt Institute) for the first time because its movements had become unpredictable or “eccentric,” as the Times described it. Looking back at historical documentation, a 1954 New York Times article reporting on the restoration of the current clock in the atrium describes the faces of the clock as just “glass,” not opal. The small Regulator you placed in this office in June has performed equally well.” Toucey, the General Superintendent of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company praised a clock that had been purchased from the Self Winding Clock Company for Grand Central Station: “Replying to your inquiry, would say that the large Self Winding Clock purchased from you…for our Incoming Passenger Station has never failed to wind, and has proven entirely satisfactory.
The Self Winding Clock Company also created the clocks in Grand Central Terminal’s predecessor, Grand Central Station. It was designed by Henry Edward Bedford, a sculptor and executive of the Self Winding Clock Company which built the clock with assistance from the Seth Thomas Clock Company, which made the movements. We traveled to see this train car, which is now in the Danbury Railway Museum in Connecticut, and documented to our readers how it had always been a mundane tool car and that FDR’s limousine would have been too large to make it inside.īut back to the Grand Central clock. While FDR did take his own train into Grand Central, it is not the same car that sat for many years on Track 61. On a tour we took in 2015, he stated the clock was worth between $10 to $20 million. Brucker similarly promoted a myth that a train car underneath the Waldorf-Astoria was used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Brucker worked for Metro-North starting in 1987 and was frequently interviewed on television and by news publications. Someone who also promulgated the myth of Grand Central’s clock was Daniel Brucker, the former docent-in-chief at Metro North who gave off-limits tours of Grand Central until he was let go for running them.
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The user specifically added, “Each of the four clock faces are made from Opal and both Sotheby’s and Christie’s have estimated the value to be between ten and twenty million dollars.” The Wikipedia user, identified only by the user’s IP address, 216.179.65.2 which can be traced to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, essentially made this update about Grand Central’s clock, the last of a few minor updates to the main Grand Central Terminal Wikipedia entry, and never appeared on Wikipedia again. Later that decade, a Wikipedia user edited the Grand Central Terminal page on (at 2:17 PM to be exact). On March 5, 2000, an Arizona Daily Star stated that the clock faces “are polished from precious opal.” “The clock with an opal face that has been a meeting place for generations of New Yorkers,” it proclaimed. The root of the myth comes from the supposed material of the clock faces, often erroneously said to be of opal or “solid opal.” The appearance of this claim can be traced back to at least March 7, 1999, when the Associated Press published the article “Celebrating New York City’s Unique Public Spaces” that was syndicated in newspapers all across the country for the next two months.
Where the Grand Central Clock Myth Comes From
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