# Going up in the Statue of Liberty's arm **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [October 20, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257 "2011-10-20T15:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/1 "2011-10-20T15:08:38Z")
[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/612/could-visitors-once-go-into-the-statue-of-libertys-arm](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/612/could-visitors-once-go-into-the-statue-of-libertys-arm) Work up there was the subject of a July 1946 Norman Rockwell illustration: [http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/13213000/13213974.jpg](http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/13213000/13213974.jpg) And I can think of at least one other fan of the picture: [Obama's Rockwell | The Saturday Evening Post](http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/01/09/art-literature/artists-illustrators/illustrator-norman-rockwell/obamas-rockwell.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/2 "2011-10-21T16:02:29Z")
I remember Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942 film, “Saboteur,” with its climactic fight scene between Robert Cummings and Norman Lloyd in the Statue of Liberty’s torch. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/3 "2011-10-21T17:04:23Z")
There’s a similar scene at the end of the first _X-Men_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/4 "2011-10-21T19:35:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > There’s a similar scene at the end of the first _X-Men_ movie. Yeah, but IIRC, they didn’t get up there through the inside. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/5 "2011-10-22T02:08:44Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > Yeah, but IIRC, they didn’t get up there through the inside. I believe you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/6 "2011-10-23T23:05:41Z")
soon to be five torch webcams > **[Statue Of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)](https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm)** > > Statue of Liberty National Monument Home Page ---
**Author:** ![TexBork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@TexBork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexBork)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/7 "2011-10-25T01:15:54Z")
Unca Cecil, I felt I should bring this up. I know that when it came to the issue of Lady Liberty’s arm and if Black Tom had any issue in the history, I had heard that contrary to what you posted as the notion that the arm was closed due to the terrorist attack was a “rumor” it seems that there may be some truth to prove to that the Black Tom attack was the reason for the closure. As such, I looked up the incident and found that the US Park Service states on their own website [www.nps.gov](http://www.nps.gov) “Is the torch open? No. The torch has been closed since the “Black Tom” explosion of July 30, 1916, which was one of the largest acts of sabotage to our nation prior to the event of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Many people think they’ve been there and confuse it with climbing a spiral staircase which goes to the crown. National Park Service staff must climb a narrow 40ft. ladder in order to maintain the floodlights which light the torch.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/8 "2013-09-05T01:53:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …And I can think of at least one other fan of the picture: [Obama's Rockwell | The Saturday Evening Post](http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/01/09/art-literature/artists-illustrators/illustrator-norman-rockwell/obamas-rockwell.html) Now for sale from the White House Historical Assn.: [http://shop.whitehousehistory.org/the-statue-of-liberty-by-norman-rockwell](http://shop.whitehousehistory.org/the-statue-of-liberty-by-norman-rockwell) [http://shop.whitehousehistory.org/statue-of-liberty-bookmark](http://shop.whitehousehistory.org/statue-of-liberty-bookmark) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/9 "2013-09-06T03:31:19Z")
In Jack Finney’s time travel novel Time and Again, a man from our time(the 1970’s), goes back to 1882. Plot ensues, and the man’s life and that of a woman he’s met, Kate, are in peril. Running for their lives they hide in the Statue of Liberty’s arm. From a Wikipedia article about the novel: \*They are able to flee, but have no money and nowhere to go. They shelter in the as-yet-unassembled Statue of Liberty’s arm, then standing in Madison Square. (Again, the arm standing in Madison Square Park prior to the statue as a whole being erected is a factual event). \* ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-up-in-the-statue-of-libertys-arm/600257/10 "2013-09-06T04:21:25Z")
Quite so! See several images here: [http://www.retronaut.com/2011/10/the-arm-of-liberty-1876-1882/](http://www.retronaut.com/2011/10/the-arm-of-liberty-1876-1882/)