Colgate clock
The Colgate Clock ( Engl. Colgate Clock ) is a detached, octagonal clock on the banks of the Hudson River in Jersey City , New Jersey ( USA ).
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The Colgate clock is opposite Liberty State Park, immediately below the Goldman Sachs Tower, at about the same height as Battery Park City in Manhattan . The clock has a diameter of 15 m, which makes it one of the largest clocks in the world. The surface of the Colgate watch is 182.4 square meters. The minute hand is about 7.5 m long, the hour hand measures 6 m.
Emergence
The Colgate clock, the front of which faces towards Manhattan, was built in 1924 and replaced the first Colgate clock, which was a little smaller with a diameter of 11.5 m, at roughly the same point. This original clock was developed in 1906 by Colgate engineer Warren Day and built by the Seth Thomas Clock Company for the Colgate company's centenary . The octagonal format of the clock was based on the successful octagonal soap from Colgate.
The frame of the first Colgate clock was made of structural steel, the face of the clock was made of strips and strips of stainless steel. Originally, the clock was part of a 11.5 m high and almost 60 m long lettering erected on the roof of an eight-story warehouse on the southwest corner of York and Hudson Street, whose 6 m high letters formed the advertising slogan "COLGATE'S SOAPS AND PERFUMES". The entire lettering was covered with 1,607 light bulbs, whose total output of 28,000 watts made it possible to see the signs over a distance of about 30 km from Staten Island and the Bronx . Since then, the lettering has stood for the prosperous success of the Colgate company for several decades. After the original was replaced by the current watch in 1924, the smaller original was transported to Clarksville , Indiana , and installed there on the roof of a local branch of the Colgate-Palmolive company.
In 1983 the letters “COLGATE'S SOAPS AND PERFUMES” were removed and replaced with a toothpaste tube that was supposed to promote the company's best-selling product. Two years later, Colgate's headquarters were relocated from Jersey City to New York City , and large parts of it also to Kansas and Indiana, due to a lack of space . The entire six-block complex was then torn down and the clock was moved from the roof of the warehouse as a free-standing structure to the floor not far from today's Goldman Sachs building, but without the toothpaste tube. With the construction of the Goldman Sachs Tower in the early 2000s, the Colgate clock had to be moved a few meters further south to its current position. As a monument to the early soap industry , it stands today on an unused and partially overgrown property that is waiting for a complete renovation and redesign in the course of the conversion of the Jersey City Waterfront. What will then happen to the watch cannot be foreseen at the moment.
The clock as a sight
The Colgate clock is one of Jersey City's most popular and well-known attractions today. Since it can also be seen very well from the southwest side of Manhattan, many Manhattan visitors mistakenly count the monument as New York.
At night, the entire clock including the pointer is illuminated and can therefore be seen and read from the opposite Hudson side even in the dark.
The clock appears for several minutes in the movie Inside Man from 2006, in the scene where two of the main characters have a long conversation on the west side of Manhattan.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jersey City Past and Present Chronology ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 43.3 " N , 74 ° 2 ′ 2" W.