Tower Clock
The clock tower and 115-foot (35 m)-tall ornamental spire is a local landmark and reference point in downtown Dallas. There are (4) 20 ft (9.4meter) diameter tower clocks. New tower clock movements and hands were manufactured in 2007 by Electric Time Company. The Clock hands are lighted with LEDs which replaced the original neon. Above the clock a series of LED (originally neon) lights display weather information. White light rings flash upward when temperatures will rise and downward when they fall. A star-shaped light at the spire's top glows green when weather forecast is fair and red when it's inclement.
Read more about this topic: Mercantile National Bank Building
Famous quotes containing the words tower and/or clock:
“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word “sophisticate” means, very simply, “obscene.” A sophisticated story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a “sophisticate” means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“He makes his voyage too late, perhaps, by a true water clock who delays too long.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)