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RE: 10th anniversery for Meigs Field

What a tragedy. Meigs will never be forgotten.


In honor of the two Chicago treasures lost. Meigs Field and Old Maxwell Street. :salute:
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Terry said:
How many of you attended COP? :mixedsmi:
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Well,...if you did attend the Chicago's Century of Progress,...you'd be one old geezer today. COP took place in 1933. If you were born in that year,...you'd be 80 years old today. So adding another 10 or 20 years to those eight decades would then move you up to 90-100 years of age. Naaaaah,...I don't thing there's too many persons around today who attended the Chicago Century of Progress.......:kilroy:

 
The destruction of Meigs in the dead of night was an act of vandalism that no responsible mayor would inflict on a transportation facility in his/her city. Now the site is just a big open area with no development. That really improved the downtown area. At least we can keep Meigs open in FS.
 
brad kaste said:

Well,...if you did attend the Chicago's Century of Progress,...you'd be one old geezer today. COP took place in 1933. If you were born in that year,...you'd be 80 years old today. So adding another 10 or 20 years to those eight decades would then move you up to 90-100 years of age. Naaaaah,...I don't thing there's too many persons around today who attended the Chicago Century of Progress.......:kilroy:
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Can't you see the smiley, it was just a bit of humor. I see you don't show your age, perhaps you were there?
 
Terry said:
Can't you see the smiley, it was just a bit of humor. I see you don't show your age, perhaps you were there?
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Hi Terry,.....yes, I knew you were kidding all along. So was I. Apparently it didn't pull off as tongue-in-cheek as I had intended. I was born a good ten years after the opening of the Chicago's Century of Progress. Like most of us,...I've only seen photographs and mementos of the grand event. One of the more cooler group of exhibits were the various homes/villages/temples reconstructed on sight. With of course an accompanying group of indigenous persons representing that particular country.
 
brad kaste said:
Hi Terry,.....yes, I knew you were kidding all along. So was I. Apparently it didn't pull off as tongue-in-cheek as I had intended. I was born a good ten years after the opening of the Chicago's Century of Progress. Like most of us,...I've only seen photographs and mementos of the grand event. One of the more cooler group of exhibits were the various homes/villages/temples reconstructed on sight. With of course an accompanying group of indigenous persons representing that particular country.
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I would have liked to ride the cable car that ran across the ironwork, and let's not forget the blimp rides. People knew how to have fun back then.
 
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