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Last September ... a year ago, not just months ago ... several like-minded folks went on a short little excursion out to Chicago's Field Museum. We exited the train and I was mystified by this bridge to nowhere. Rails to keep people from falling off ... chain link to keep little ones from falling off ... and then ... this huge squared arch ...
... to nothing. There's no track that high for a train to come past this bridge. There's no ladder down.
It just abruptly ends.
It had the same effect on me that seeing an old run-down building has. In fact, it very much reminds me of when my mother would drive me through the run-down parts of town. She did this to show me just how lucky our family was. I didn't get her point.
I didn't see a run-down house.
I saw a home in need of some fixing up. I saw potential.
So this rusted bridge to nowhere is something I find intriguing. Where did it go?
I can sit and watch a scene like that ... and the possibilities ... the potential ...
... my vision starts to blur and I can almost see some old fashioned double-decker passenger train pulling up alongside that bridge ... Nick, Nora and Asta prancing out ...
Other people in our group talked about it being a sad little bridge, rusting, alone, unused.
I see stories untold, mysterious and delightful ... I see a bridge waiting to be noticed and storied once more.
Posted by Red Monkey at December 1, 2007 10:52 AM |
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Ya know....
You need to move closer...I need to pick your brain(I know like we could do that more!LOL)
fascinating!
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