European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 17 modern living retiring from flip top by William new York times miss it said Bill Suchanek miss this place miss working Are you serious who is he kidding he loves he is like a kid from Keokuk up he had been working in the Empire state building observatories for 39 and until recently he was still walking around out on the 86th floor observation pointing and look at that and gee and even wow from time to said the somewhat abashed this is a wow you can see for 60 five states he said that he loves the Way people go Woojoo in the elevator on the Way Suchanek retired this he received the plaque and the and although he does have a Sailboat that he cannot wait to hop his insistence that he would not miss the place sounded like just so much Reti ree Bill  Suchanek has shepherded tens of millions of visitors through the 86thand 102ndfloor observatories since it is possible that he has heard More people the people look like than anyone in and he has never i i he shares their sense of is is True the building sways 20 feet in High winds a visitor Suchanek it bends As much As inches in either Suchanek head is filled with statistics that he continually rattles off feet 2 inches tall he stood in the 86thfloor Observatory and recalled witnessing weddings As Well As seeing women Erma Bombeck i Hope you dont think this is going to be another one of those columns a lonely Mother writes to her offspring begging for in certainly savvy enough to know that couples need time to know one another and build a foundation that will stand the stress of a never mind that their Mother will never have a shot at what Are we Here for but to suffer i know parents who have kids in their 30s who actually leave messages on their childrens answering service telling them time is running out on their reproductive not i think a preschooler connecting liver spots on Mommy hands is not to mention taking dad Dys pacemaker for show and parents have lived their they have no right to Bill Suchanek on the Empire state building observation new York times photo dressed in Black coming in solemnly and walking to the railing to scatter the ashes of loved he remembered trying to talk people standing on the ledge out of sometimes successfully and sometimes one he and the guards Lassord a Man on the and he remembered watching people place their Chil Dren on the before there was a to photo graph he shuddered when he thought of he has six children of his and he said they All loved the they used to beg him to take them there at night when he came Home from most of the time he took the View at night is out of this world he its a he was involved in the decision to Light the top 30 stories of the building at night and to turn them off during foggy Spring nights and the fall Bird he recalled shoving a horse in the elevator for a promotional stunt on the observation he remembered being the Host for hundreds of famous from the Queen of England to various dogs playing Las he photographed Many of the famous and in the photographs Fidel Nikita Winston Churchill and the others look just As wide eyed As the children who they say people Are More Blase and sophisticated these Suchanek i dont see not up part of his Job is thinking up promotions to attract More publicity and More tourists to the he originated the a race up the stairs of the buil won the first year by a former firefighter on a disability he lured the worlds tallest Man As Well As Beauty Queens of every conceivable most of them shivering in swimsuits or holding Down their skirts in the admiring the View from the 86th he bemoaned the fact that much of the Job is paper work now and that he must spend too much time in his base ment which has two phony windows with Vene Tian blinds and fluorescent lights behind strange things happen up said who told of the legendary red Snow falling a result of City lights and and he recalled the tale of a work Crew being pelted with stinging Barley that had blown in from someplace in the Middle Static builds up in the and some people stick their hands through the Over the Side of the and can see Sparks Fly from their Finger sometimes lovers Shock each other with their its a very romantic said who is professionally opposed to Graffiti but has never been Able to bring himself to get terribly upset with the hundreds of visitors who have scratched their names in the stainless steel of the enclosed 102ndfloor Obser Vato inside the etching of a heart is Rocky n Denise 91583 we were Here we have to replace these panels from time to Suchanek said adding in a soft you won Der where Rocky and Denise Are one of the Low Points of his career was learning that the world Trade Center would be with an observation but business has not suffered at the Empire state with nearly 2 million visitors a Suchanek could see this Day All the Way up to Long Island where he will be doing much of his sailing during i always hated the fact that i could always see this place where i worked even when i was out sailing on the he reluctantly conceded that now it might be kind of Tell their children How to live if Young people put More importance on a Lousy microwave oven and a who Are we to inflict our priorities on them it would never occur to me to remind my son that i postponed my surgery to Correct his it was my unselfish decision and i made that its experts say what parents Are feeling is what have we got to be frustrated about just be cause our friends show slides of their grandchildren when we go to lunch with Call them Nana wonderful and give them Sticky kisses and make them feel 15 Why should we feel frustrated after i have pictures of my kids at club med and can babysit their newly spayed cat who just sits on the television set with a look that nod old and ill suck the air out of Young people Are they dont need that kind of its Tough enough for them in this world to survive the Rigours of work and its really not fair to Point out that an older brother or sister has contributed something to the genetic pot first and is mentioned prominently in the mature adults have to face a few the old timetable of career is being and maybe it should for All i know it could be fun teaching a child to drive during the same week you Are going through just because we have never tried it Doest mean it int a Good As my son said the other Why did you leave a message on my answering machine anyone look promising Why Are you killing All the love 1 Ever had for you does this have anything to do with your not being a grandmother i ask would i spread that kind of guilt c 1985 los Angeles times Syndicate