Lucy the Elephant

Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped example of novelty architecture, constructed of wood and tin sheeting in 1881 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, approximately five miles (8 km) south of Atlantic City. Originally named Elephant Bazaar, Lucy was built to promote real estate sales and attract tourists. Today, Lucy is the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America.^[1]

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Lucy the Elephant is featured in Sin City Meltdown.

It was introduced in 1 month after people when the strangest of bizarre structures is Lucy the Elephant near Atlantic City. It was designed to attract investors to what was then an undeveloped stretch of sand and the 65 foot tall pachyderm was completed in 1882, a year before the Brooklyn Bridge. But it's hardly an engineering marble due to its fragile skeleton had to be rebuilt in 1973 at a cost of $124,000 and being lasted into 21st century was a miracle.

Richard Helfant stated that the exterior shell is made up of wood covered with tin sheathing and being 100 feet away from the Atlantic Ocean, the structure requires constant maintenance. He continues that it needs to be stripped and painted every three years at a cost of around $65,000, rotted wood continues to replaced, and rotted tin panels replaced all the time. The last time Lucy was painted was 2002 and by 2009, the deterioration is clear. On average, it rains every three or four days in Atlantic City with winter time bringing snow and ice. Every time Lucy's future was threatened, concerned humans stepped in to save her, but after people, she's on her own.

LucytheElephant15Years — Lucy the Elephant after 15 years.

Its fate is revealed in 15 years after people when Lucy the Elephant is on her last legs. Richard Helfant stated that the first thing that will happen to Lucy is her outer skin begin to fail and each piece of tin eventually start to peel off and fall to the ground. He continues that one good storm will weaken one leg and when the leg goes, the rest the of Lucy fall to the ground. As Lucy falls to the ground, the head then split off from the body.