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This morning, I had the opportunity to climb the clocktower at work to shoot some photos.

The clock is not currently functional.  In fact, it’s always 12:00.  That may change soon.

There are small household lightbulbs which illuminate the clock at night.  These could easily be changed out with some colored party bulbs to really add some awesomeness to the Macon skyline.

The old wooden ladder below is used to service the clock.  When my boss traversed up the ladder, you could hear it cracking.  I let him snap the first picture above.

When you are up that high, you have to walk out onto the balcony and check out the marble accents and the view of downtown Macon.  It is the highest point in town.  I usually take fellow staff members (and sometimes friends) to the roof, seen in the bottom left below.  The roof is an easy climb, the clocktower however, is much higher.

There are actually two levels above this.  This diagonal metal ladder takes you another 30 or so feet to another level with a balcony and then a vertical ladder takes you another 20 or so feet to the top.

Here is the entire clocktower.  You can see how much higher you can go than simply inside the clock face.  I wouldn’t want to be in there during a thunderstorm!

The balcony I went out on is actually in the bottom left.  It doesn’t look so high now!

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