I keep checking the Chicago Transit Authority's web site to see if the 2018 CTA Historical Calendar is out yet. In my opinion, it is one of the highlights of the new year. It is a regular calendar that you can download to your computer, and print out if you want, and features historical photographs of Chicago and it's public transportation. The photograph on the left was taken near 111th and Longwood Drive, in Chicago's South Side Beverly neighborhood, not too far from where I grew up in Brainerd. Of course, this photograph was taken a few years before my time, but is a lot of fun to look at.
As of yesterday, the 2018 calendar has not yet been released, but they do have an Historical Photo Collection with many photos from Chicago's past, which you can access on the CTA web site. That is where I downloaded the photograph on the right. Does this photograph not remind you of traveling in a time machine. It is of course just a CTA bus, not a Delorean, like in the movie Back to the Future, but I say use whatever works. If your time machine happens to be a CTA bus outfitted with a flux capacitor, so be it Check out all those photographs at www.flickr.com/photos/ctaweb/sets/72157628053998640/.
The photograph on the left is of a bus called The Green Hornet. The CTA used to have all kinds of fun names for their trains, buses and services, like the Skokie Swift, the Ravenswood Line, the Night Owl Service, and other such monikers. Now all the "L" trains are just named different colors, and buses are just referred to as numbers. Where has the romance gone in public transportation? You probably think I am crazy getting all excited about Chicago's public transportation. Actually, you know I'm crazy, but I don't care. I strongly advise you to check out the CTA web site and download their calendar as soon as it becomes available. Check it out at http://www.transitchicago.com/historicalcalendar/
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