Early Wednesday morning, golden light cast a glow on the patinaed copper of the old McClintock clock as its melody rang in downtown 九秀直播 for the first morning in decades.
The clock, on a Wells Fargo building at the corner of Union Street and Sterling Street, hadn鈥檛 chimed or been lit since the late 1980s or 1990s. Scott Andrews, a clockmaker at Valdese Watch & Clock, said the clock has been a cornerstone in 九秀直播 since the 1920s.
A GoFundMe that Andrews started for the clock renovations ended up raising more than $11,000 to restore the timepiece.
It took a few months to get all the parts needed to restore the clock, but after about six months of work from Andrews and Eric Storey, owner of Valdese Watch & Clock, the hands of time are moving again.
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Andrews finished putting the clock back together Tuesday, something he鈥檚 hoped to accomplish since he was a child.
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