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2/15/12 update …
Sorry, never made it to the world’s largest auto show mentioned earlier ... prospect of spending a day looking at 1,000 shinny new cars left us wanting, so have no review.
But no need for you to be left wanting, too — for just a couple of bucks you can buy from the Chicago Tribune our story on the 1986 auto show ... though it’s doubtful any of those cars are still on the road.
Not so easy to blow off will be the annual G8 & NATO summits in May. We haven't covered anything like this might turn into, a major riot, since Carbondale, since we were a broadcast radio/TV student @ SIU in the spring of 1970.
One reporting highlight we have time to share -- we were given by the university's TV station a 16mm, hand-crank, Bell & Howell camera to shoot some crowd scenes. Thing weighed a ton. Which was good, 'cause it ended up taking a billy club intended for our head, and keep on filming. Thing was made out of iron. Swear.
In any event, we don’t intend on getting thatclose this spring ... that’s our intention @ least.
Sorry, never made it to the world’s largest auto show mentioned earlier ... prospect of spending a day looking at 1,000 shinny new cars left us wanting, so have no review.
But no need for you to be left wanting, too — for just a couple of bucks you can buy from the Chicago Tribune our story on the 1986 auto show ... though it’s doubtful any of those cars are still on the road.
Not so easy to blow off will be the annual G8 & NATO summits in May. We haven't covered anything like this might turn into, a major riot, since Carbondale, since we were a broadcast radio/TV student @ SIU in the spring of 1970.
One reporting highlight we have time to share -- we were given by the university's TV station a 16mm, hand-crank, Bell & Howell camera to shoot some crowd scenes. Thing weighed a ton. Which was good, 'cause it ended up taking a billy club intended for our head, and keep on filming. Thing was made out of iron. Swear.
In any event, we don’t intend on getting thatclose this spring ... that’s our intention @ least.
2/6/12 update …
Editorially, the list of “Chicago Firsts” is as long as you want to make it: First Farm Silo, 1873; First Skyscraper, 1885; First Softball Game, 1887; and First Ferris Wheel in 1893, are often standards.
We’ve recently come across another — The First UFO Photo was taken in Chicago in 1897.
A newspaper etching made from the second of two photos taken on April 11, 1897, by Walter McCann
Indeed, according to midwest
reporter Jay Rath’s 1999 book, “The I-Files: True Reports of
Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois,” there have been so many documented
UFO reports in the Chicago area, “it is likely that the government’s
studies of UFOs have long been centered here.”
As for the sightings, Rath reported 13 years ago there were “more than 60, many of them outstanding. And no one remembers them. Since the 1890s, each visit has been seen as an isolated event, without anyone noticing that for some strange reason they were interested in vacationing on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Perhaps they like to watch Bozo."
Well, Bozo is a personal friend, so can readily understand the attraction, yet there might be more to it.
Jon Hilkevitch, (befittingly) the transportation editor of the Chicago Tribune reported on New Year’s Day 2007 about an exceptionally well-documented sighting at O’Hare International Airport that occurred about two months earlier, on November 7th.
Since Bozo is long retired, and we happen to have a vast, clear view of the southern shore of Lake Michigan out our very own windows, we suspect we'll be getting into this at some point.
...edited addition, after checking some clips:
On April 12, 1897, in a story headlined “Airship Myth Yet Soars” the Chicago Tribune tagged the photo(s) a fake.
Partial Text:
Editorially, the list of “Chicago Firsts” is as long as you want to make it: First Farm Silo, 1873; First Skyscraper, 1885; First Softball Game, 1887; and First Ferris Wheel in 1893, are often standards.
We’ve recently come across another — The First UFO Photo was taken in Chicago in 1897.
A newspaper etching made from the second of two photos taken on April 11, 1897, by Walter McCann
As for the sightings, Rath reported 13 years ago there were “more than 60, many of them outstanding. And no one remembers them. Since the 1890s, each visit has been seen as an isolated event, without anyone noticing that for some strange reason they were interested in vacationing on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Perhaps they like to watch Bozo."
Well, Bozo is a personal friend, so can readily understand the attraction, yet there might be more to it.
Jon Hilkevitch, (befittingly) the transportation editor of the Chicago Tribune reported on New Year’s Day 2007 about an exceptionally well-documented sighting at O’Hare International Airport that occurred about two months earlier, on November 7th.
Since Bozo is long retired, and we happen to have a vast, clear view of the southern shore of Lake Michigan out our very own windows, we suspect we'll be getting into this at some point.
...edited addition, after checking some clips:
On April 12, 1897, in a story headlined “Airship Myth Yet Soars” the Chicago Tribune tagged the photo(s) a fake.
Partial Text:
Headed For Dune Park And An Amusement Privilage.
Alleged Photograph of the Queer
Aerial Visitor Showing Its Mechanism and Its Daring Navigation
Pronounced a “Fake” by an Expert—Mechanical Impossibilities in the Way
of Such a Picture—Night Gazers Report Seeing the Flying Machine.
Chicago’s air-ship romance has fallen into practical hands. If the progress made by “photographers on the spot” yesterday is carried to its legitimate end the aerial monster will be picked up soon on the shining sands of Dune Park and will be exhibited by a local amusement company as the solution of the greatest problem tackled by mankind—navigation in the air.
At Rogers Park Yesterday two men exhibited pictures “taken of the air ship” as it sailed over the suburb … Evanston at 6 a.m. A reporter for The Tribune secured one of the pictures, as did reporters for the other Chicago newspapers. The prints were peddled out eagerly to all the nimble scribers who would take them.
The picture given to The Tribune was submitted to an expert photographer for an opinion as to its genuineness. He looked at it and smiled.
Chicago’s air-ship romance has fallen into practical hands. If the progress made by “photographers on the spot” yesterday is carried to its legitimate end the aerial monster will be picked up soon on the shining sands of Dune Park and will be exhibited by a local amusement company as the solution of the greatest problem tackled by mankind—navigation in the air.
At Rogers Park Yesterday two men exhibited pictures “taken of the air ship” as it sailed over the suburb … Evanston at 6 a.m. A reporter for The Tribune secured one of the pictures, as did reporters for the other Chicago newspapers. The prints were peddled out eagerly to all the nimble scribers who would take them.
The picture given to The Tribune was submitted to an expert photographer for an opinion as to its genuineness. He looked at it and smiled.
Pronounces It a “Fake.”
(Interestingly, the Rogers Park/Evanston area is also where our very own windows are located.)
(Interestingly, the Rogers Park/Evanston area is also where our very own windows are located.)
Upcoming local events of editorial interest:
February -- Press preview of the 2012 Chicago Auto Show held in McCormic Place. I'm going. And not just for the hot car models.
McCormic Place will be the main venue of both the annual G8 & NATO summits in May. Not having been to the city’s now spralling lakefront convention center in a couple of years, think it best to get a more detailed, memory-confirmed lay of the land in case the area turns into a war zone.
Hopefully, that won’t happen. But am going to the auto show anyway.
We’re hopeful because the Dalai Lama hits Chicago some 23 days before the summits start to give a public talk on “Non-Violence.” Perhaps the public will listen.
Will keep you posted (But likely not here. More likely AnthonyDeBartolo.com).
Long ago had the pleasure of spending some time, during an interview for the Chicago Tribune, with Dr. Thubten Norbu, one of the Dalai Lama’s brothers. Norbu was teaching at a nearby Indiana university at the time.
“I am Norbu, how do you do?” he sing/song/said while extending his hand in a joyful greeting. The poetry of the line cracked me up. He joined right in.
Not sure will be able to laugh with the Lama too, but we’ll certainly try. Would also like to ask for any special advice he might have for this most special time in Chicago.
McCormic Place will be the main venue of both the annual G8 & NATO summits in May. Not having been to the city’s now spralling lakefront convention center in a couple of years, think it best to get a more detailed, memory-confirmed lay of the land in case the area turns into a war zone.
Hopefully, that won’t happen. But am going to the auto show anyway.
We’re hopeful because the Dalai Lama hits Chicago some 23 days before the summits start to give a public talk on “Non-Violence.” Perhaps the public will listen.
Will keep you posted (But likely not here. More likely AnthonyDeBartolo.com).
Long ago had the pleasure of spending some time, during an interview for the Chicago Tribune, with Dr. Thubten Norbu, one of the Dalai Lama’s brothers. Norbu was teaching at a nearby Indiana university at the time.
“I am Norbu, how do you do?” he sing/song/said while extending his hand in a joyful greeting. The poetry of the line cracked me up. He joined right in.
Not sure will be able to laugh with the Lama too, but we’ll certainly try. Would also like to ask for any special advice he might have for this most special time in Chicago.
Norbu left, Dali Lama right
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