You're not that oik who threw an icecream on my head from the spotter's terrace in 1976 are you ?
Those 747's looked SO majestic as they paraded past the Queens Building it has to be said! Yes, a sad day for those who flew them, flew on them and watched them.
I remember waking up by chance around 5am about this time of year in 1989 and on going outside onto my roof terrace seeing two British Airways B747-400's going over the city side by side at 3500ft to land parallel to each other on 27L and 27R on their delivery flights. My apartment was bang in the middle of the two runways, so it was an impressive spectacle visually.
Who knows, some will live on as ad-hoc steeds or freighters, rather than the scrapper.