The city hall bell. Save it!

[Whitehouse]

I thought about starting a thread for this bell even though this bell has been mentioned in a different topic. And that's because maybe this is a viable project, the reinstatement of this bell. Renovating a building, a theater or a skyscraper demands an enormous ammount of money. And how much is much? $10.000,-? That's small change for Illich.

There is another bell in the USA which is woven into the fabric of that country. A beel which was an iferior cast, a bell that cracked but even though the sound is gone, this bell still retains a place in the heart of every American. It's the liberty bell.

In 1950, the United States Department of the Treasury assisted by several private companies selected Paccard Foundry in Annecy-le-Vieux, France, to cast 55 full-sized replicas of the Liberty Bell. The bells were shipped as gifts to states and territories of the United States and the District of Columbia to be displayed and rung on patriotic occasions. This was part of a savings bond drive held from May 15 to July 4, 1950 with the slogan "Save for Your Independence." The table below shows the most recent known location of each state and territory replica Liberty Bell.

A quote taken from the website of the virtual liberty bell museum.

Every state has it's own liberty bell. There are more than the 55 replica's to be found but I won't bother you with it. Why I mentioned this museum is that a yoke like this could and maybe should also be made for the city hall bell. And it would be very symbolic to use materials of buildings lost for that, like they did with the USS New York, for which the bow of that ship has been made of steel girders of the World Trade Center.

Here's the Michigan example in the State Capitol.


Wouldn't it be nice to see this bell get a prominent place again in the city on Campus Martius? It's a bell to remind Detroit citizens what has been lost in the city center. A place to remember the buildings fallen to the wrecker, like the Statler, Tuller, Lafayette and.... city hall.

Wake up the city! Wake up, Detroit!



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