The Citicorp Tower Revisited - UI Podcast #075

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When New York City’s Citicorp Tower opened in 1977, it was hailed as an architectural marvel—but few knew it harbored a potentially fatal flaw. A simple phone call from a college student in New Jersey to the tower’s structural engineer may have prevented a catastrophic disaster and saved tens of thousands of lives. This episode features an interview with Lee DeCarolis, the student who made that life-saving call. Also, learn about a man who desired a woman who could cook applesauce, a couple that had six sets of twins, and a teacher who dared to go tieless. Retrosponsor: Drene Shampoo Images, links, and transcripts for this podcast can be found at https://uselessinformation.org/the-citicorp-tower-revisited-podcast-75/ You can follow the Useless Information Podcast on these platforms: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uselessinformationpodcast X (Twitter): https://t.co/7pV2H8iXJV Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlipSideofHistory/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.3	Hi, I'm Steve Silverman and listening to a classic episode of the Useless Information podcast.
1:17.7	The story you're about to hear the City Corp Tower revisited was originally released on
1:22.1	August 16th of 2014.
1:25.7	I have to say in all my years of recording this podcast, this story is definitely one of the most
1:30.8	memorable. I had originally told the story of the fatal flaw that was discovered in the
1:35.9	Citicorp Tower on my useless information website way back in the late 1990s. And I love the story
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