Tag: Chicago
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single frame: Tiffany glass ceiling
Tiffany glass ceilingCanon PowerShot S952017 If you’re ever in the cosmetics department at Macy’s, formerly Marshall Field’s, in Chicago, look up. This is what you’ll see. This mosaic of iridescent glass was designed by none other than Louis Comfort Tiffany, of Tiffany & Co. in New York. 50 artisans labored on scaffolds for 18 months,…
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The astonishingly beautiful Auditorium Theatre in Chicago
Margaret and I saw The Nutcracker in Chicago last month – at the stunning 1889 Auditorium Theater.
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single frame: Randolph Street at night in December
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single frame: On Wabash Avenue
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single frame: Ross Trump Self-Park (with Man)
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Chicago on the Pentax K10D and the 28mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-M
Margaret and I went to Chicago for the weekend, and I took my Pentax K10D with the 28mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-M lens.
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single frame: Looking up in Chicago
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Vintage TV: Garfield Goose and Frazier Thomas
Even in the 1970s, children’s television could be frenetic. Frazier Thomas and his friend, puppet Garfield Goose, were the gentle antidote. A pleasant morning breeze upon the children’s TV landscape, Garfield Goose and Friends aired each weekday at 8 AM on WGN-TV in Chicago. The premise was that Garfield Goose thought he was the king of the…
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Favorite Photos Week: The Bean in the fog
What a beautiful spring weekend my son and I had been spending in Chicago — sunny but not too warm. We did all the touristy stuff, from visiting the museums to looking at the city from the top of the John Hancock building to eating deep-dish pizza and drinking Old Style beer. (My son skipped the beer,…
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Vintage TV: Beany and Cecil
Have you ever had a childhood memory so dim and sparse that you wondered if you had dreamed it? I’ve had a few. Sometimes I’ll encounter something that cracks such a memory open. Here’s one. In college thirty years ago, I built a collection of Paul McCartney vinyl. One day I bought a 45 of the song Another…
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Captured: A slice of Chicago
When my older son turned 13, we spent a weekend in Chicago together, just he and I. We visited the Museum of Science and Industry, ate deep-dish pizza at Gino’s East, slept at the posh Palmer House Hotel, and went to the top of the John Hancock Building to see the city. We had a…
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Millenium Park in the fog
After a good night’s rest and a leisurely breakfast at the Palmer House, my son and I shouldered our backpacks and headed toward the train station, which is under Millenium Park. It had rained overnight, and the city was covered in fog. I was fascinated by how the buildings disappeared into the fog above. My…