Looking east from the Merchandise Mart entrance, 1956, Chicago.
Wow. I go by this every day on the train (you can see it in the lower third, center); how empty the skyline looks in comparison. Today those buildings are totally overwhelmed by other buildings.
(On the other hand, the heads of the Captains of Industry in front of Merchandise Mart always crack me up, in part because I imagine they’ve been set on pikes at the gates of the city. Sorry, robber barons!)
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Hah, I always think the same thing! “BRING ME THE HEADS OF THE CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY!” (Also, that black building across...
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The natural magpie impulse is, of course, to grab shiny things and hoard them in one place.
Hi, I'm Esther, and I run Magpie & Whale, currently steampunking Shakespeare and the Roman Empire in the weekly serial Innogen and the Hungry Half!
