| Posted by FSWood on May 3, 2022 | |
As well as an Ed Steinbrenner photo being significant, the contents of the photo have some significance: an excerpt from a history website, "Chicago Tribune, July 24, 1921. Chicago is to have the largest printing plant in the world. Architect Alfred S. Alschuler has drawn up plans and work will start at once on the first of three units which, together with the present large plant of the Cuneo-Henneberry company at 455 West 22d street, will give that concern an establishment much larger than that of the Curtis Publishing company, in Philadelphia, now said to be the biggest on this planet."
Source: https://chicagology.com/skyscrapers/skyscrapers106/
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Thanks for sharing your father's photo! This area has changed so much since the time the photo was taken.
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| Posted by mmi16 on May 3, 2022 | |
Don't think GM&O ever repainted any equipment once it got its first coat of maroon and red until the equipment was scrapped.
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Fantastic catch, thank you! Those days of the ICG were amazing, as they stretched every last mile out of these and other old units on underpowered freights. Typical IC and ICG practice, and how I miss it. Please post more!
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