"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/29/2019 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/29/2019 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo | 3
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Here’s a Boeing 247 over an American city in 1933. Who can name the city? Should be dead simple.
facw
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:13 |
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Seems like Chicago to me.
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ttyymmnn
> facw
05/29/2019 at 09:18 |
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Seems like you are correct. You can also see a lot of B-17 in that 247.
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facw
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:23 |
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I was wondering what those towers were, but Wikipedia has my answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Ride
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
The
Sky Ride
was an
attraction
built for the
Century of Progress
1933
World’s Fair
in
Chicago
,
Illinois
. It was a
transporter bridge
(with a design similar to an
aerial tramway
or
gondola lift
) designed by the bridge engineering firm
Robinson & Steinman
that ferried people across the lagoon, Burnham Harbor, in the center of the fair. It was located near
Northerly Island
, but was demolished after the Fair, having carried 4.5 million passengers. The Sky Ride had an 1,850-foot (564 m) span and two 628-feet (191 m) tall towers, making it the most prominent structure at the fair. Suspended from the span, 215 feet (66 m) above the ground, were rocket-shaped cars, each carrying 36 passengers.
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ttyymmnn
> facw
05/29/2019 at 09:26 |
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Sounds like fun. That circular area at the top is where the Adler Planetarium sits now.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:26 |
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The lack of color messes with my depth perception and makes it look like a giant plane has been parked in a major city.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:26 |
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Good gravy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion
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ttyymmnn
> facw
05/29/2019 at 09:26 |
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This postcard gives a better idea of it.
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facw
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:28 |
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I switched to the high-resolution panorama, which lets you see even the individual cars in good detail.
Well it did, but Kinja doesn’t give the full-res image, it’s here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Panorama_of_A_Century_of_Progress_Exposition%2C_Chicago%2C_1933.jpg
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ttyymmnn
> facw
05/29/2019 at 09:28 |
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Even better, with a Zeppelin for added effect.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/29/2019 at 09:31 |
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I hadn’t really noticed it, but yeah, it does look quite flat.
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facw
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:31 |
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Good Year blimp probably? The Panorama shows two of them, and apparently they had their own pavilion. The the gondola does look a little more forward on your picture, so it could be a different airship.
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/29/2019 at 09:32 |
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Wow, that was the airplane! I had no idea. I’ve written about that bombing. I’ll have to swap this photo into the article. Thanks for letting me know. How do you go about letting Wiki know there is a photo of the actual airplane?
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ttyymmnn
> facw
05/29/2019 at 09:35 |
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Now that is super cool. Also, I now need to know if Soldier Field was actually once known as Soldier’s Field, or if the person who annotated the old photo got it wrong. Wiki only shows without the apostrophe.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:39 |
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I don’t know how one would go about it, but if the photo is already up somewhere public domain or on wikimedia commons, you could note that in the talk page and wait for somebody to add it. Or you could bravely attempt to add it yourself, but that’s the sort of thing I’d tend to leave to people who *both* have nothing better to do and have bothered to learn how.
I’m not greatly familiar with Chicago geography, but I’m much more so than I used to be, due to running a Shadowrun scenario there. In that fictional setting, an outbreak of very bad magical things was contained by a tactical nuclear weapon not that far from Northerly Island, some time after an attack destroyed the Sears tower and filled an area of the city with ghosts.
It’s a silly game.
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ttyymmnn
> facw
05/29/2019 at 09:41 |
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Looks like a drawing, or perhaps a drawing from a photo, so some license might have been taken with the placement of the gondola. Wiki has a (poor) photo of the GY Blimp at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933, but you can’t see the gondola. Here’s one from 1938 .
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/29/2019 at 09:43 |
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I found that photo on a now-defunct forum, with no attribution. It may well belong to Boeing. I could do a GIS and see what comes up, but that will have to wait. For now, I will edit my own article with it.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:43 |
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http://www.arizonawrecks.com/wrecksfromtonymireles/boeing247nc13304.html
You probably ran across this for your earlier posting, but it kind of looks like NC13304 was put on display in the Travel and Transport dome at the expo, among other things.
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ttyymmnn
> facw
05/29/2019 at 09:44 |
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Did you see what Ramblin Rover found?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:45 |
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Apparently it was in the Chicago Tribune.
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/29/2019 at 09:45 |
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Yes, thanks for finding that.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 09:50 |
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If it somehow avoided slipping into the public domain in the past
, I think the Sonny Bono act will have it fall out of copyright nine years from now. Not that some limited use may not be possible regardless.
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/29/2019 at 09:54 |
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Wiki could still use it, reduced and with a (c) disclaimer. This whole thing makes for a good article I think.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 10:02 |
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Seattle?
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facw
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 10:04 |
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Yep. Would be nice to up date W ikipedia with the image of the actual plane, but it might not be public domain (1933 copyright doesn’t expire for another decade (thanks Congress!). You could at least mention it in the talk page for the article.
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ttyymmnn
> pip bip - choose Corrour
05/29/2019 at 10:05 |
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Nope. There’s a lot of discussion about the location in this thread.
WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 10:34 |
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Wow that island at the top would be a vast spot for an airport!
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ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
05/29/2019 at 11:29 |
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Mayor Daly would like a word....
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WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 12:14 |
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He can burn in hell for all I care.
