Wasn't the inside open to the public at one point?
/edit: yes.
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It still is, you can go up and look out through her crown. You used to be able to go all the way up to the torch but that was closed a couple of decades back due to structural concerns.
You used to be able to go all the way up to the torch but that was closed a couple of decades back due to structural concerns.
That's what I was thinking of. I knew at least some had been closed off, but thought it was the whole interior.
Never actually been there myself.
βDonβt worry men, weβll wait until they move us from this island to the mainland.β
Fun fact, before the statue was placed on Liberty Island the hand with the torch was placed in Madison Square Park as an attraction to help raise funds to put the whole thing up.
https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2022/02/when-statue-of-liberty-left-her-arm-in.html
Between them, smbc and xkcd really do seem to have a comic for everything. We could probably reduce most human communication to just the codes for the relevant comic. This meme would just be 'frenchmen', and we'd all laugh.
And we all end up speaking Tamarian.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Hon hon hon