Loading...

that was made famous for selling something. One of these things that wasn't his, not only once but twice, even though they weren't for sale. Let me let this drop and I will give the answer. Well, it was actually the Eiffel Tower Sea. Most everybody picked that. Well, the guy that did it was pretty clever, actually, if I could get my interwebs to work here. Where'd he go? His name was Victor Lustig. And in 1920, he traveled back to France. While studying in Paris, he chanced upon a newspaper article discussing problems faced while maintaining the Eiffel Tower. That gave him his inspiration for a con. The monument had been called to disappear, and the city was finding it at a very expensive to maintain. So part of his article made a passing comment that overall public opinion on the movement would move towards call for its removal, which gave him the inspiration to sell it. So maybe.