Thursday, July 3, 2008
News / Chicagoland Wait, what?
Posted by Whet Moser on 07.03.08 at 06:47 PM
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There was a whole series of self-destruct items — a "Gothic Castle," among them and perhaps the most bizarre — "A Wild Elephant — A Ferocious Beast That Belches Fire, Goes Mad and Destroys Itself!"
George Plimpton--like the George Plimpton--ran around Chicago as a kid setting off fireworks? And never really got over it, and wrote a book about it, and hosted an A&E home video about it, and was appointed as the Fireworks Commissioner of New York by John Lindsay?
I did not know that. Anyway, here's an excerpt from Fireworks: A History and Celebration.
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