Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago
May 11, 2017 19:37:09 #
May 11, 2017 19:48:45 #
Jack 13088 wrote:
BTW Kodachrome slides dating back to 1939 were in remarkably good shape even though the were not then in acid free boxes. A few had a rubber band around a stack!
Back in the day, Kodak claimed 100 years color stability for them, which is more than they claimed for any other film
May 11, 2017 19:53:45 #
cdayton wrote:
I was an undergrad at the University of Chicago in 1954 when U505 was brought to the Museum - UC is just a few blocks west of the Museum. A fellow student in my dorm liberated the "Submarine Crossing" sign used when they brought the U boat across Lake Shore Drive. There is also a "working" coal mine you can explore.
Apparently they brought the 727 in by a similar maneuver - they landed it at some lake-side airport in the area {I wonder if Meigs was still in use}, carried it by barge to the museum, and then followed the mathematician approach of "solve as above".
May 11, 2017 20:53:13 #
The last 20 years of my teaching, I took my Seventh Grade class to Chicago to this Museum, and it was the most looked forward event of the year. We flew from Nashville, Tennessee on an early morning flight, transferred to the museum, early dinner at Edwardo's Chicago Style Pizza, and then on to what was then known as Sears Tower, back to Midway Airport for the last flight home on Southwest. It was an incredible experience to take so many of the kids who had never been out of the state, let alone fly, on such an adventure to an amazing destination. Many memories revived up as I looked at your photos - thanks for the trip!
May 11, 2017 20:53:25 #
EdR wrote:
Probably a misprint but the fighters hanging then were WWII, a Spitfire and a Stuka. You brought back great memories👌
Thank you for providing the correction.
May 11, 2017 23:14:59 #
May 16, 2017 18:52:32 #
I haven't been there for more that 40 years. I loved that place when I was a kid. Someday.........
Aug 23, 2019 08:12:00 #
rehess wrote:
One of the benefits of being raised in Chicagoland... (show quote)
As another near Northside "Chicago brat", I enjoyed the stirrings of memories. Took my wife for a whirlwind walk from the Art Institute through the Field Museum ending at Shedd's Aquarium. A walking tour that covered millions of years from then into the future.
Aug 23, 2019 08:22:33 #
Stephan G wrote:
As another near Northside "Chicago brat", I enjoyed the stirrings of memories. Took my wife for a whirlwind walk from the Art Institute through the Field Museum ending at Shedd's Aquarium. A walking tour that covered millions of years from then into the future.
In retrospect, as I look back on that visit, the two things that impress me the most were both modern engineering tasks:
1. lowering the Zephyr into the Sub-basement parking garage
2. integrating the 727 into the Mezzanine.
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