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Tue., Feb. 23, 1999

For the first time in four months, visitors were able to enjoy the view from the top of the Washington Monument on Monday. The interior was closed in October to allow workers to erect a metal and fabric web of scaffolding that now robes the 555-foot obelisk. Crews are fixing the monument’s agin masonry joints, repairing cracked and chipped stones and cleaning the entire exterior surface of 36,000 stones. A crowd of about 75 people braved below-freezing temperatures and winds gusting at more than 20 mph to wait in line to enjoy the view of the city, obscured slightly by the scaffolding. The scaffolding is scheduled to be removed by the middle of 2000.

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