THE GREY GIANT

[DirtPirate76]

What if the "Grey Giant" is not the Statue of Liberty or a statue at all...what if its an Aircraft Carrier...  could make sense why no one has located this treasure yet because we are looking in the wrong area!...I just started looking into this today and that popped right out at me and a co worker.

[DirtPirate76]

Yes the face on the girl does match up with the Statue of Liberty, but there are many replicas floating around the US...find one near a port with a decommissioned air craft carrier or a place known for air craft carriers and you might be on to something...

here is a list of current replicas of the Statue in the United States:

From 1902 to 2002, visitors to midtown Manhattan were occasionally disoriented by what seemed to be an impossibly nearby view of the statue. They were seeing a 30-foot-high (9.1 m) replica located at 43 West 64th Street atop the Liberty Warehouse.[22][23] In February 2002, the statue was removed by the building's owners to allow the building to be expanded.[24] It was donated to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which installed it in its sculpture garden in October 2005 with plans to restore it on site in spring of 2006.[25][26]
A bronze sculpture of the Statue of Liberty is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[27]
Duluth, Minnesota, has a small copy on the south corner of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center property, in the center of a clearing surrounded by pine trees where it may be passed unnoticed. It was presented to the city by some of Bartholdi's descendants residing in Duluth.[28][29]
The Boy Scouts of America celebrated their fortieth anniversary in 1950 with the theme of "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty".[30] Between 1949 and 1952, approximately two hundred 100-inch (2.5 m) replicas of the statue, made of stamped copper, were purchased by Boy Scout troops and donated in 39 states in the U.S. and several of its possessions and territories. The project was the brainchild of Kansas City businessman J.P. Whitaker, who was then Scout Commissioner of the Kansas City Area Council. The copper statues were manufactured by Friedley-Voshardt Co. (Chicago, Illinois) and purchased through the Kansas City Boy Scout office by those wanting one. The statues are approximately 8 1⁄2 feet (2.6 m) tall without the base, are constructed of sheet copper, weigh 290 pounds (130 kg), and originally cost $350 plus freight. The mass-produced statues are not great art nor meticulously accurate (a conservator notes that "her face isn't as mature as the real Liberty. It's rounder and more like a little girl's"), but they are cherished, particularly since 9/11. Many have been lost or destroyed, but preservationists have been able to account for about a hundred of them, and BSA Troop 101 of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has collected photographs of over 100 of them.[31][32] They are commonly installed at city halls, libraries, and schools. One of these statues was sent to the Philippines. After some years at the mouth of the Pasig River, Manila, it was kept in a store room at the Scout Reservation, Makiling, Laguna, for about two decades. It is now stored at the national office of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Manila.
A nine-foot-tall replica of the Statue, built in 1950, stands in Warner Park in Madison, Wisconsin.[33]
A replica of the original statue was unveiled on 12 October 2011, at 667 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Its owner, billionaire Leonard N. Stern, purchased it after reading about it in the local news. The replica is one of only 12 cast from the original mold created by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi using digital surface scanning and lost-wax casting methods, and is the only one currently on public display. The statue itself is 9 feet tall and 15 feet including the pedestal on which it stands.[34]

New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, complete with Statue of Liberty in the foreground.
There is a half-size replica at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.[35][36][37][38] In April 2011, the U.S. Postal Service announced that three billion postage stamps mistakenly based on a photograph of this replica were produced and would be sold to the public.[39] In November 2013, the statue's sculptor, Robert Davidson, filed a copyright infringement suit against the U.S. government.[40]
Another small replica exists in Las Vegas on Route 589 near Arville St in a plaza parking lot.
The city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, erected a replacement bronze reproduction standing 9 ft (2.7 m) tall in McKennan Park atop the original pedestal of a long-vanished wooden replica.[41]

Liberty Enlightening the World replica in Birmingham, Alabama
A 36-foot-tall (11 m) bronze replica, accurately based on Bartholdi's Liberty Enlightening the World, stands in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. It was cast in 1956 at the Société Antoine Durenne foundry in Somerville, Haut Marne, France, for placement in 1958 atop the Liberty National Life Insurance Company building in downtown Birmingham.[22] It was relocated and placed on a 60-foot-tall (18 m) granite pedestal adjacent to Interstate 459 in 1989.[42][43][44]
Two 30-foot (9.1 m) copper replicas by sculptor Leo Lentelli stand atop the Liberty National Bank Building[22] in Buffalo, New York, nearly 108 m (354 ft) above street level.[45][46]
A 25-foot-tall (7.6 m) replica sits on the ruins of the late Marysville Bridge (erected on a platform (pier)) in the Dauphin Narrows of Susquehanna River north of Harrisburg. The replica was built by a local activist Gene Stilp on July 2, 1986; it was made of Venetian blinds and stood 18 feet (5.5 m) tall. Six years later, after it was destroyed in a windstorm, it was rebuilt by Stilp and other local citizens, of wood, metal, glass and fiberglass, to a height of 25 feet (7.6 m).[47][48][49]
A Lego replica of the Statue of Liberty consisting of 2882 bricks and standing 0.9 m (3.0 ft) is a popular sculpture among Lego enthusiasts. The statue went out of production, but due to popular demand was returned to sale.[50]
A 1/12 replica of the Statue of Liberty made essentially out of junk stands at the intersection of US 280 and US 341 in McRae, Georgia. The head is made out of a stump from a nearby swamp, the arm holding the torch is made from styrofoam and the hand holding the book is actually an electric lineman's glove. The town's Lion's Club erected the replica in 1986 during the statue's centennial.[51]
An 11-foot (3.4 m) miniature Statue of Liberty (holding a Bible instead of a tablet) currently stands atop a 15-foot (4.6 m) pedestal outside the Liberty Recycling plant in San Marcos, California. The company was named after the statue, which has been moved throughout northern San Diego County for over 80 years, originating at the Liberty Hotel in Leucadia, in the 1920s.[52]
A 25-foot (7.6 m) replica of the statue, lofting a Christian cross, holding the Ten Commandments, and named the Statue of Liberation through Christ, was erected by a predominantly African American church in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 July 2006.[53]
A small replica stands on the grounds of the Cherokee Capitol Building in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, a gift from the local Boy Scouts in 1950 (presumably as part of the above-mentioned national Boy Scout celebration).[54]
Fargo, North Dakota, also had a replica of the Statue of Liberty on the corner of Main Avenue and 2nd Street at the entrance of the Main Avenue bridge, which was reported stolen on July 26th, 2019.[55][56]
There is a replica on the shoreline of Lake Chaubunagungamaug in Webster, Massachusetts.[57]
A 1/6-scale replica (≈50 feet including pedestal) stands in a parking lot of a strip mall in Milwaukie, Oregon, off McLoughlin Blvd at 4255 SE Roethe Rd.[58]
A 6-foot (1.8 m) replica stands at Statue of Liberty Plaza in West Seattle, Washington, at Alki Beach Park.[59]
A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands on Mackinac Island, Michigan.[60]
A replica of the Statue of Liberty is located in the downtown area of New Castle, Pennsylvania.[61]
A replica of the Statue of Liberty is located near the Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania.[61]
A bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty resides in Neenah, WI. It was cast in California by the Great American Bronze Works. This version of the Statue of Liberty is 14 feet, 6 inches tall. It is 10 percent the size of the original.[62][63]
A replica approximately the same size as an adult person is located alongside Highway 80 at the west end of Forney, Texas. An earlier installation stood from 1986 until May 2016, when it was removed to make way for highway construction. As of November, 2019, it has been replaced in nearly the same spot, this time painted a darker green and with a illuminated torch.[64]

[DirtPirate76]

anyone have a high res scan of the page with the photo on it?

[DirtPirate76]

If not an aircraft carrier then, definitely a submarine

[blazer88]

has anyone considered the grey giant to be the massive george washington bridge

[blazer88]

the george washington bridge is over the wide path and alexander hamiliton bridge is over the slender or narrow path

[blazer88]

whirring sounds are helicopters sightseeing over new york city. cars abound= 175,000 cars travel over the alexander hamiliton bridge every single day. The indies native is alexander hamiliton who was born in the leeward islands. 3 volumes or books were written about his life and works. The bridge is made of 2 arches or v-shapes put together to make one bridge. If you walk east 22 or more steps from the middle part of one branch of the bridge { V } and look down over the north side of the bridge you will see a cement U shape on the ground with several benches around it. Latin=Simple roots for soil is (seat). George Girschen was a famous piano player who played rhapsodic blues. He also sat on a piano bench. While standing on the bridge you can look north and see the isle of B. Bridge Park is an island between the Harlem River and several railroad tracks running north parrallel to the river. I believe the casque might be buried by the middle bench.