What or where in the World ? Antique Strange Tower Photograph

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Posted 4 years ago

JSmed
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This weekend I picked at a yard sale a huge collection of thousands of very old photos and negatives from an early 20th century photography business in Wisconsin. This was a small oddly cut photo near the top in the box. There might be the original negative in the box somewhere but it's going to take some time to sort through it all. I sure don't recognize the tower or the structures but it's all quite distinctive.

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JSmed, 4 years ago
I have subsequently learned what this is. One of the the Ski Car towers at the 1933-34 Century of Progress Fair Grounds in Chicago. You can see one of the cars on the cables and it's shadow on the ground. At the time they were the tallest structures in Chicago.
vetraio50, 4 years ago
Sky Ride …. A pic from the other tower then ???
dav2no1, 4 years ago
Interesting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Ride

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