UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT: A birthday party to remember today in New York City: the Brooklyn Bridge is 100 years old, and New Yorkers by the thousands marked the occasion with a parade, a flotilla, and later tonight, there will be a huge burst of fireworks.</s>JEFF BARRON, CNN N.Y. BUREAU OPERATIONS MGR.: It was may of '83 and it was a huge undertaking. CNN was still kind of small at that time, and the New York bureau was even smaller. This was, as I recall, eta four-camera remote. I directed it. The big fireworks display was, I guess, about 8:00 at night, but before that, we had our "NEWS WATCH" program. The fireworks were tremendous. The closest thing I had seen to it since then is what they had at the Eiffel Tower for the millennium.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Happy birthday, Brooklyn Bridge, happy birthday to you.</s>BARRON: It was just a real memorable event, a memorable event for the early years of CNN.
CNN 20: Brooklyn Bridge's 100th Birthday, May 24, 1983