Comments on: Chicago Billboards, 1942 http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/chicago-billboards-1942/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Mon, 07 Nov 2024 10:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jufjo http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/chicago-billboards-1942/#comment-8335 jufjo Wed, 22 Sep 2024 14:02:49 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6952#comment-8335 Except that back then they weren't ugly. Except that back then they weren’t ugly.

]]> By: Old Georgetowner http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/chicago-billboards-1942/#comment-8327 Old Georgetowner Wed, 22 Sep 2024 13:16:14 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6952#comment-8327 If you bother to think about it, it's just amazing that city governments allowed these monstrous things to go up. Incredibly ugly, blighting neighborhood views, and by design a distraction to drivers. Where I live now, one of the leading billboard operators hemorrhages money into the bank accounts of city officials and their relatives. I wonder if it was like that then, back in Chicago? (No, I don't really wonder.) If you bother to think about it, it’s just amazing that city governments allowed these monstrous things to go up. Incredibly ugly, blighting neighborhood views, and by design a distraction to drivers.

Where I live now, one of the leading billboard operators hemorrhages money into the bank accounts of city officials and their relatives. I wonder if it was like that then, back in Chicago? (No, I don’t really wonder.)

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