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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The 1888 built Grand Trunk Western Elsdon depot. Chicago Illinois USA.
October 1983.
Cool shot of an awesome place. Spent many hours as a kid with and without my dad on that bench pictured, watching the trains go by.
Interesting to see the tall TV antenna mast at the far left, attached to the barely-visible Baca's restaurant/bar/rooming house. Probably a remnant from the days when local tavern owners would erect very tall towers to capture the Bears home games, which were blacked out in the local market. A TV aerial at just the right height would be able to snare the signal destined for outer, non-Chicago markets.
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Cool shot of an awesome place. Spent many hours as a kid with and without my dad on that bench pictured, watching the trains go by.
Interesting to see the tall TV antenna mast at the far left, attached to the barely-visible Baca's restaurant/bar/rooming house. Probably a remnant from the days when local tavern owners would erect very tall towers to capture the Bears home games, which were blacked out in the local market. A TV aerial at just the right height would be able to snare the signal destined for outer, non-Chicago markets.
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