I’m lucky in all sorts of ways.
One particularly piece of good fortune is that I have found the Chicago
Architecture Foundation as a source of satisfaction in the years following my
retirement. As a bonus I get some
exercise most of the days I lead tours because I can jump on my bike and ride
the lakefront path to the river or to Jackson and Michigan where my walking
tours start.
Every time I ride west on Jackson Street toward the Railway
Exchange Building, I think the same thing between Lake Shore Drive and Columbus
Drive. Here I am in one of the great
open spaces in Chicago, halfway across the space that breaks the north-south
axis of the 319-acre Grant Park into two halves.
To the south there are the majestic jets of water rising from
Edward H. Bennett’s Buckingham Fountain.
The park surrounding the fountain is filled with flowers, shrubbery, and
trees.
And right in the middle of it all, sitting on the south border
of Jackson Boulevard is a big, honking utility poll with wires of every size
and description hanging from it.
I call it the ugliest utility pole in Chicago.
How much better would it be if this:
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| JWB, 2012 |
could somehow be turned into this:
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| JWB, 2012 |
Just thinking . . .
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3 comments:
I think you should send this blog to the Mayor and see what can be done!
You know what those standard issue '60s, '70s and forever lightpoles were called? Cobras.
Nice thought lining your streets with Cobras, isn't it?
It’s in reality a great post.
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