A staple of Philadelphia's skyline, the PNB sign, finally finished coming down last week. It was a surprisingly quick process.
In just 34 minutes Sunday, the Philadelphia skyline was changed forever as crews removed the remaining parts of the PNB sign from its perch high above Center City.
The removal went far quicker than the last attempt in August when it took workers 7 hours to shuttle only three letters of the iconic sign to ground level. They were forced to reschedule the complete removal to Sunday.
Crews used a helicopter to lift the nine letters from the crown of the One South Broad building, over Dilworth Park and to a staging area along JFK Boulevard.
By 8:10 a.m., the final 16-foot-tall letter — an "N" from the tower's eastern face — touched the asphalt outside City Hall. The letters, each weighing 3,000 lbs., were loaded by crane onto a flatbed trailer and taken away.
The "PNB" letters have graced the Philadelphia skyline for the past 60 years. The sign was installed to signify the One South Broad as the headquarters for the now-defunct Philadelphia National Bank.
Original source: NBC 10
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