The flaw led to San Antonio’s ‘great window cleaning crisis’ of 1969.
and his firm — Ford, Powell & Carson — did not include a way to clean the windows of the top house that loomed 622 feet above the Alamo City.
Paul Thompson, the legendary front-page tough-guy columnist for the San Antonio Evening News, put the blame squarely on Ford. The architect, who also designed theat Trinity University, shot back in a letter published in the San Antonio Express, accusing Thompson of spreading misinformation and asking why the city did not come to his defense.
O'Neil Ford, whose work includes the Tower of the Americas and La Villita, had a lasting impact on San Antonio architecture.“I do not know why one of these methods has not been employed but I assure you it was not our decision nor the decision of the City Public Works Dept. to do nothing," he wrote.
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