Skip to comments.
Just call me Willis: Sears Tower now officially renamed
latimes ^
Posted on 07/16/2009 2:46:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Goodbye, Sears Tower. Today is the first day that the Chicago skyscraper totes its official new name. The turning point for the tallest building in the U.S. was marked this morning with a public ceremony.
The 110-story building is owned by American Landmark Properties of Skokie, Ill., but London-based insurance-brokerage firm Willis Group Holdings “secured the naming rights as part an agreement to lease 140,000 square feet (13,000 sq. meters) of space, and has said it plans to bring hundreds of jobs to the city,” according to the Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at travel.latimes.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chicago; searstower; skyscraper; willis
To: JoeProBono
“Whats you talkin bout Willis?”
2
posted on
07/16/2009 2:48:15 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(UnitedCitizen.Blogspot.Com --------- United Citizens Nation! ------------- Join Today!)
To: JoeProBono
I prefer, “Big Willie.’ ;)
3
posted on
07/16/2009 2:48:20 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: GeronL
No it’s;
What you talkin bout? Willis?
4
posted on
07/16/2009 2:49:08 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: JoeProBono
At the rate it is going, the next name will likely be something more like the Hong Kong-Shanghai Golden Tower, or even 香港上海金大厦.
5
posted on
07/16/2009 2:54:25 PM PDT
by
snowsislander
(NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
To: JoeProBono
It'll always be the Sears Tower to me....just as the Triboro Bridge in NYC will *never* be the “Robert F Kennedy Bridge” to me.
To: JoeProBono
Let me be the first to say...as an ex-Chicago suburbanite who watched it being built, it will always and forever be Sears Tower.
7
posted on
07/16/2009 3:03:16 PM PDT
by
Hazwaste
(Liberals love the average American the same way that foxes love the average chicken.)
To: JoeProBono
8
posted on
07/16/2009 3:04:40 PM PDT
by
TurtleUp
(So this is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause!)
To: JoeProBono
That little girl in the photo is a lot braver than I am!
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Your comment brings to mind the apochryphal story about the John D. Rockefeller library at Brown University. Supposedly, when university officials learned that some of the students referred to the edifice as the “Rock,” they were appalled; they suggested that the students pick a more respectful name. As the story goes, the students changed the nickname to the “John.”
To: JoeProBono
Bruce Willis, one presumes.
11
posted on
07/16/2009 4:28:30 PM PDT
by
Grut
To: Grut
12
posted on
07/16/2009 4:32:40 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Better than Nakatomi Plaza...
13
posted on
07/16/2009 5:20:16 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: normanpubbie
“I’m going to the John to study, LOL!”
14
posted on
07/16/2009 7:40:30 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: JoeProBono
LOL! It's going to take awhile to get people to quit refering to it by the name by which everyone knows it.
Eventually, it MAY be known by "The Tower Previously Known as Sears." 
15
posted on
07/16/2009 7:47:43 PM PDT
by
bannie
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
