Back in 1988 Rax Strapped A Massive Gorilla to The LeVeque Tower

WCMH-TV was looking to promote their 3-D broadcast of Gorilla at Large, a 1954 movie starring Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, and Raymond Burr.
get the Scarlet Letter (Central Ohio's best newsletter) delivered in your box, every Friday morning! www.onlyincbus...
Enjoy!

[@larryc43230]

This is a fun inside look at how they managed to get that beasty hanging outside the Leveque Tower. I worked in the Rhodes Office Tower at the time, on a floor that was pretty much level with the installation, so I had a bird's eye view of the spectacle.

[@nickbona4210]

This is amazing (and something I've never come across before). It turns out this took place the week of Thanksgiving in 1987. Gorilla At Large (a movie I have never heard of) did pretty well in the ratings back in the 1980s. WTVN (now WSYX) showed it on June 17, 1982 and it did an 18 rating (44 share). WTVN also sold more than 285,000 pairs of 3-D for the airing (with the money going to benefit the Secret Santa Fund).

[@Candy-of2hq]

Man, that's an ambitious project.

[@GVanArsdale]

This video is a bonafide piece of Columbus history. I need to save it.

[@Candy-of2hq]

Great job. Too 🤣.