Titanic’s Whistle Blowing, St Paul, MN Union Depot, Feb. 1999

I, Jake Schoeder, video recorded the blowing of the Titanic’s whistles on February 1999 at Union Depot, St. Paul, MN. First whistle blowing is at the very beginning and the second blowing is at 1:32 in this video. jakeschoeder@ (from The Free Library by Farlex) Thousands of people standing in the streets of St Paul, Minnesota, responded with cheers, applause and whistles after the ten-second blasts, which sounded about two minutes apart. The free whistle-blowing ceremony was held outside the old Union Depot in St. Paul, MN, where other artifacts from the Titanic are on display. Police estimated the crowd on the cold but sunny afternoon to be between 80,000 and 100,000 - much higher than the 2,000 to 3,000 organisers had predicted. ’s whistle sounds after 87 years of