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Climb to the top of the sweetgum tree and you can see it. If your man enough.

What ARE you talking about?

welcome to SBLive zinnia.

yes, agreed, not sure i understand what that comment has to do with the photo? maybe we can get some clarification ?

TGIF !

Welcome to the group zinnia. My older brothers, both world class climbers, would climb to the top of a tall sweetgum tree which was about a half-mile south of Flournoy-Lucas Rd. I was too little to climb and would have to listen from the ground about how cool the view and how you could see the checkerboard. That became my sole quest in life. To climb up and see it. It took, I guess five years, of climbing as far up as I could, chickening out and coming down. I must have been 10or12 when I finally made it up that tree. Wow, there it is! I wasted five years of my life for this?

Inside this facility is a "man lift" which is a crude type of elevator. It is a belt that is approx 1 ft wide that is contantly moving and you just hop on to little steps spaced every 10 feet and up you go. At the top you hop off. I had to ride up to the rooftop once and I would have rather taken the stairs.... :D

When I was younger we stayed at a hotel in New Orleans whose parking garage had one of those. My brother and I played on it for hours.

Cool, now we know.. 'the rest of the story' :)