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Observatory
The old observatory at the north end of the lakefill, Northwestern University campus, Evanston, Illinois. Day after Thanksgiving, 1993. My first Thanksgiving away from home. Also my first winter in Chicago.
Bleeeeak! Now I know why I used grainy Tri-X film in college. I felt like it accurately portrayed the starkness of my soul. Or something.
This observatory was torn down a couple of years later. The light pollution from Chicago and the suburbs made it useless for stargazing.
December 9, 2006 9:56 AM
Thank you for this photo. When I go home to visit my family we often walk up to the point where the observatory used to be and none of them will believe that it ever existed. Finally some proof for them!