American Experience: Grand Central (2 of 24)

American Experience: Grand Central

The foundation also seeks to portray the lives of the men and women engaged in scientific and technological pursuit.
Major corporate funding is provided by...
Throughout history, ordinary people have considered it their responsibility to do something extraordinary.
Liberty Mutual, proud sponsor of American Experience.
American Experience is also made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by contributions to your PBS station from: GOLDBERGER: I got to know Grand Central really well when I was in college and would take the train down from New Haven all the time.
And you felt as if you were arriving in the place.
This was it.

If you had any doubt when you got off the train and walked into that incredible concourse, you knew it was the center of the world and you knew this was the place you wanted to go to.
It encourages movement and yet has a sort of stately dignity at the same time.
It 's sublime.
It reminds you of the greatness of human ambition.
When we build so much beyond what we have to and we do it not to glorify a king, say, as in a palace or something like that, but to glorify everybody.
This is a building of extraordinary glory, but is public in the deepest sense of the word, and it belongs to everybody.