A tour and lessons without leaving your easy chair.
Posted on 06/19/2017 3:54:31 PM PDT by poconopundit
Great to hear the memories of your childhood visits to Chicago. I hear you about the "world-class art" I saw at the Chicago Art Museum, one of the best in the country.
The great city buildings we see from another era make us recall our past and the contribution that architects, accountants, brick layers, and taxpayers make to elevate their own lives and those of future generations. They seems to say:
"May these works of beauty inspire and remind you to continue to buttress the culture, endure the toil, use your intelligence, and reward those who contributed value to our city."
"Remember: Whatever you build in stone, steel, and glass merely reflects -- for better or worse -- the greatness of the souls that build it."
Next time we go to Chicago we’ll stay at the Trump tower.
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If you check the web, it's hard to find many words of praise for this great building and the effort it took to build it. But I have high hopes that Google Images will catalog one or two of these images, and so Trump supporters will find a link to the story this way.
And maybe someday, someone in the Trump Organization will send a link to the big man himself so he can have a chuckle. On behalf of me and all the other small-time Deplorables out there, I thank him for all his sacrifices to restore America's greatness.
"Took one of the boat tours through Chicago....."
You probably took the same one I went on a number of years ago (pre-Trump Tower)...and I advise anyone visiting the Windy City to do the same. Fare is around $30 and is worth every dollar, believe me...an amazing experience.
This Chicago boat tour is one of the most-booked tours in the U.S., ranking right up there numbers-wise with the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam and the Statue of Liberty tours! And with good reason.
On your comfortable boat which snakes through the heart of the city, you get breathtaking views of the city's famous architecture, including more than forty notable and historic buildings.
What I enjoyed also was the up-close view of the activity and scenery along each bank of the river as we went by. No messy "waterfront" sites, everything landscaped, developed and interesting. The individual skyscrapers and other buildings were fronted on their riversides by outdoor cafes, gardens, sculptures and many other scenes of interest to give the folks on the boat a series of vignettes on a smaller and more intimate scale.
Everyone planning to visit Chicago should book a seat on one of these river boats....I guarantee you a breathtaking visual adventure!
At the end of the tour, we disembarked by a top-notch restaurant where we enjoyed a delicious brunch on a riverside patio....and while we ate we were watching other tour boats going by filled with people watching us!
Leni
Leni
IF he is left alone can you imagine what he could with our Country.
Thanks poconopundit...
Took one of the boat tours through Chicago when the Trump Tower was going up and, to say the least, the Chicago powers that be, hated it going up.
That little factoid was compliments of the boat skipper. Boat's name was the Seadog. I remember it so well, because I thought, he's (Trump) bringing business to your cesspool of a city and there's no reason for those comments.
Like you said, it's well worth the money to take the tour. Amazing, at the very least!
Great job poconopundit...
Leni
The Trump Tower in Chicago had a serious pre-construction problem. The land available to build it is small & narrow. The windy city is..well very windy! If the tower was built with routine standard hi-rise building design, the sway of the building at top floor would have been 4 times other hi-rise towers in Chicago.
So the architect has designed a large concrete vertical column in the center of the building. The result is that The Trump Tower sways only 1/4th of other Chicago towers of similar height in windy conditions.
How can you tell a local from a visitor in Chicago?
The visitors usually pronounce “Chi-caa-go”. The locals will usually say “Chi-caw-go”.
Well done, thank you!
Good point, Navy. We should include the underwater ballast of the Trump Tower.
Nobody mentioned it yet, but the USS Ronald Reagan on Lake Michigan (pic #3) is an impossible feat because of the super-carrier's size. However, smaller, coal-fired carriers were used on Lake Michigan for training during WW2.
Great additions, entrophy! And I like “Chi-caw-go”. Sounds tougher, like the harsh call of a crow. Can you imagine Mike Ditka saying “Chic-caaaa-go”? :- )
I will always love Chicago having spent 37 years in the area from age 22 through 58. But finally the weather and property taxes got to me and moved out in 1997. I miss the great eateries, superb golf courses with Poa Annua grass which is no where to be found here in Florida. City skyline looks much more impressive now than in 1998. I remember visiting top floor of Prudential building many times which was then the tallest in Chicago. Also the beautiful lake front many miles long all with public access, the museum of science & industry was a favorite, Bahai temple, Cantigny Park was awsome. When I arrived in Chicago in 1962, one could take city buses on Clark street well past mid-night without fear of getting mugged. The deep dish pizza served in a thick black iron pan at Uno’s in eary 60’s was to die for. The best ribs at Old Barn and prime rib at Willowbrook ballroom I miss dearly.
“Philistine?”
After all these years you didn’t tell me you were a descended of Goliath.
Hope you are doing well.
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Crap, screwed that one up.
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Better than Goliath - I think. :^D Hope you are well also - and good to see you still posting on FR.
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