When the building opened, we had lines of people, six people wide extending for 1/2 a mile. The first day it opened, we had 62,000 people that one day, and it remained an extremely popular building. It was not without problems in my opinion. Because it was dark, we had to be very careful because it was a great place for pickpockets and we had some instance of incidences of pickpockets. So that required us to keep more guards than we had anticipated. Eventually we learned that if we simply reversed the light cycle, we could achieve much of what we got with the red light. In other words, light them brightly at night and more dimly during the day that made it much more acceptable to the visitor because it isn’t fun to look at red light. So in some ways the original concept that Joe came up with as thoughtful and clever as it was, didn’t work as well as we’d hope.
