Earffel Tower.....gone ***Reminiscing video added in OP***

[msmama]

Well I'm sure glad I got it I pictures yesterday then!!

 

[rpb718]

Starbucks will have to design a new mug, and the old one will be a collectors item.

 

[ajwolfe]

It doesn't really fit anywhere else. Water towers signify movie studios. DHS is not a studio anymore, it was time to change.

What? How does a water tower signify a movie studio? My little home town of less than 1,500 has 4 of them and we certainly aren't filming any movies.

I'm sad to see it go. It definitely should have just been moved to somewhere else.

 

[HopperFan]

What? How does a water tower signify a movie studio? My little home town of less than 1,500 has 4 of them and we certainly aren't filming any movies.

I'm sad to see it go. It definitely should have just been moved to somewhere else.

It was standard to have them on all the back lots in case of fires due to cheap temporary construction. Many studio lots were run very much like small towns. So if WDW was going to build a "working studio" then it would include a water tower by design. That said - water towers are common everwhere, cities, towns, counties, roofs of older tall buildings .... so leaving the tower would not have been odd, especially since the park still has two+ streets of old Hollywood architecture.


"..water towers commonly found on Hollywood studio backlots of the first half of the 1900s, originally a safety measure to douse any fires on film sets."

 

[Micca]

I love the water tower, I used to love Ear Force One too.

 

[JimmyV]

I guess NYC must be a really big movie studio!

Glad we got to see the Tower one last time last week. I agree that it came down so quickly that it seems next to impossible to believe that it could be salvaged. Sounds more like a "Look out below!!!" kind of demolition.

 

[rteetz]

What? How does a water tower signify a movie studio? My little home town of less than 1,500 has 4 of them and we certainly aren't filming any movies.

I'm sad to see it go. It definitely should have just been moved to somewhere else.

Yes cities have them mine does as well but Hollywood studios had one because it was a movie studio. Movie studios in Hollywood all have water towers.

 

[maltdizzy]

It was standard to have them on all the back lots in case of fires due to cheap temporary construction. Many studio lots were run very much like small towns. So if WDW was going to build a "working studio" then it would include a water tower by design. That said - water towers are common everwhere, cities, towns, counties, roofs of older tall buildings .... so leaving the tower would not have been odd, especially since the park still has two+ streets of old Hollywood architecture.

"..water towers commonly found on Hollywood studio backlots of the first half of the 1900s, originally a safety measure to douse any fires on film sets."

Yep, here's the one at the real Walt Disney Studios in Burbank...

It even has its own pin...

Southern California never really had abundant clean water on hand and the municipal utilities weren't necessarily reliable in the first half of the 20th century, so all the studios had water towers for the very reason mention above...lots of wood sets lit with hundreds of thousands of watts of lights. The studio water tower is still the major film industry symbol, despite many actually being empty these days (like Warner...they moved theirs and now it's just for show...and home for the Animaniacs!). Note: Sony Studios is the former MGM Studios in Culver, across the street is the hotel that was famous for the munchkin parties. Studios were all-inclusive towns during the studio system years.

 

[zaccaglin]

Came here hoping the video was of the removal..