Crowley's Yacht Yard Lakeside

You look familiar.
How did you get down there?

The wide world of sailing.

The Graf Zeppelin hovers over Grant Park in 1929.
Buckingham Fountain was just two years old.

Life's been good so far.

A view of the Skyway Expressway from the south.
Crowley’s south yard is visible on the left, just beyond the Norfolk-Southern Railroad bridge.

Hurry it up, would you?

A 1969 poster for Chicago's own Kinetic Playground with some of the month's featured performers.

Drone's-eye view of Chicago, 1857.
JK about the drone. 🙄

Dinner is served.
San Francisco.

🙄 If the previous year was any indication.

Captain Jack's resolutions.

A message from Foghorn.

Captain Jack wishes everyone a safe and peaceful New Year.

A Tribune Tribute to Captain Bill Pinkney, who departed us this year.

Captain Bill Pinkney featured in Tribune's 2023 "In Memoriam."

Captain Jack wonders.

It's a time for new beginnings.

You would even say it glows.

The holidays have been rough.

The Tao of Cat.

Gulls getting good at the nuances of extortion.

Atlantic Road, Norway

Photo from Sandun Sandeepa
National Geographic

A seashell Nativity.

Chicago mail carrier in 1927.

It ain't over til it's over.

Cosmic coincidence or numerological conspiracy?

Typical traffic on the Chicago River in the sixties.
Looking east from Wabash.

Rough week for everybody.

Boxing day.

Air traffic control issue.

Gnomes for the holidays.
Your evergreens going incognito until the holiday heat blows over. 🙄

And a cartridge in a flare gun.

Got a deal.

Let all mortal flesh keep silence.

Dreaming of a Wet Christmas.
State Street 1964.

I have no gift to bring. 😬

After a busy night.
Nighthawks revisited.

Although it's been said
many times, many ways.

Now dash away all.

🙄 Was it that one time?

Tiny tots, with their eyes all aglow
will find it hard to sleep tonight.
They know that Santa's on his way.