These images were taken in July 2001 on the tour ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty — two weeks after the 4th of July holiday and less than two months before that terrible day in September.
The top image is, of course, the Statue of Liberty. The second is the main building of the Ellis Island immigration station and the last is of the unbroken skyline of Manhattan Island from the tour ferry.
The photos were taken with our first digital camera, a Sony Mavica, 0.8 megapixel camera that saved images on a 3.5 inch floppy disk!
We stayed home all day — so far — and I worked on my landscaping project. Tonight, providing the weather allows, we’ll be driving down into the valley to see the fireworks. We haven’t gone to a 4th of July fireworks display since 1995 in Jackson, Wyoming, the same day we saw fresh snow in Yellowstone National Park.
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Hi Mike – brilliant pictures. I had no idea how huge the twin towers were, in comparison to the other buildings until I saw them from this angle.
Hope you enjoyed the fireworks display.
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That’s so cool, Dad. I’ve never seen images of the building in the center. Did the Tesar’s come through Ellis Island? Don’t we have an immigration document on them?
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I have come here too!
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Cath – thanks! They were even more impressive being there. I kind of regret that we didn’t have the time that day to make it up to the top of one of them. That certainly would have been a bittersweet memory.
Mel, Thanks! I don’t know if they came through there or not. It would have been in the very early 20th century because Grandma was born in the US. I don’t have anything on their immigration. I think what I have is Joseph Tesar’s application for a social security card.
Ramana, Two-for-one!
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