“(CP-1) reactor could not continue operating on the University of Chicago campus located in the middle of the bustling Southside neighborhood of Hyde Park.” 1942.
My Wife’s mother and aunt Went to Hyde Park HS. I think they graduated in 1940 though.
NAS Glenview. I Went to Church located on the flight path!
YOu could always count on the P-3s (I think) to fly over during the service.
Never went to Mars! Did not go to Springfield. Went to the School district the other side of Lk-Cook Rd. I grew up surrounded by Farms and tree nurseries. I played in places that now contain corporate Offices like Baxter labs and Walgreens. (My mother picked wild asparagus along the fences on Lake Cook Rd.) Once I could drive did the S curves on Sheridan Rd! Different standard for entertainment at the time for teenagers. (Yah, I know you did this too>)
OK A-M-P-S. U-Chic “A” pile “Metallurgical Lab”. not sure of the rest.(personal Safty?) (I would think that most of the Pile was removed. Some residual fissionable material remained?) under the cafeteria. Maybe this is wrong...
Time in the service involved Avionics. First courses taught Vacuum Tube theory. Came in when VN was almost over.
Science: think of me as a Liberal Arts student who hangs out the Science lab with his Physics major buddies. Exposed to a lot of interesting things he would rather be doing and of which he has some grasp, but its too late to change majors!
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Prospero is the magician and main character (Probably the designation for the Project lead!) He is stranded on a Desert Island with his daughter. whose character is the source of quote “Oh Brave new world!
I will read about the “Tempest Project” Sometime. (A lot of copper!)So..If I read about the “Tempest Project” Sometime. is the NSA going to start monitoring me, I mean, more than they monitor any of us here?
Hope it brings back memories!
“My Wife’s mother and aunt Went to Hyde Park HS. I think they graduated in 1940 though.”
To make the transition from Hyde Park, do you stop to decompress near Comisky Park on the journey north? So far from the White Sox and so deep into Cubs territory!
My mothers family lived in Portage Park, going south was never discussed.
There be dragons and who knows what down there and, I still shudder to think, you can fall off the edge!
I was over 21 and been around the world before I even considered venturing south of North Ave!
“NAS Glenview. I Went to Church located on the flight path!
YOu could always count on the P-3s (I think) to fly over during the service.”
A Swedenborgian? Their church was close to aligning the main runway to the south.
Baptized, grammar school, Confirmed, Married all at Immanuel Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Glenview, Illinois.
My family was deeply embedded in that Church and some are buried there. About a mile east of the main runway on Chestnut Ave.
“Went to the School district the other side of Lk-Cook Rd. “
Not one of the dreaded Deerfieldians?
We’ve always been at war with Deerfield! Or is it Eastasia???
As a kid, we used to ice skate on the local creek, the old West ForkNorth Branch of the Chicago River up past Dundee rd, about a three miles up. Don’t recall if we made it to Lake-Cook? Some of my classmates at the Lutheran school made the long trip each day down from Deerfield.
“Once I could drive did the S curves on Sheridan Rd! Different standard for entertainment at the time for teenagers. (Yah, I know you did this too>)”
OH, YES!
They called it THIRTEEN TURNS or the RAVINES.
Raced motorcycles there on warm summer nights.
Arriving late one night, just as they placed a buddy in the ambulance, hospital time for MAJOR pavement rash.
That and another friend missed a turn and rode into a backyard pool! Was he ever unhappy.
Twenty old men at a party, they managed to drag his Norton to the shallow end, but could not lift it out of the pool! His bike spent the night underwater.
I think Winnetka placed a sweet bounty on motorcycles after that.
“I would think that most of the Pile was removed.”
I went for a ‘look-see’ and there were some long chunks of pipe and other junk.
Probably safe but a bit above background.
Some jamoke troublemaker calls the newspapers.
Notice the golf cart in one of the photos?
Argonne safety officers ‘patroled’ from probably the same cart. Never met anyone with a nice word about them.
One mornings headlines on Sun Tomes “ARGONNE TO CLOSE”.
One of my guys holds up the paper to the safety team and shouts, We are all getting a layoff, don’t bother me!
And they left.
A DOE Tiger team comes by and do not have any PPE (personal protective equipment) required to enter, so they are switching glasses and shoes around.
If I told someone to do that I would still be in Leavenworth.
They wrote me up because someone had a bandaid on their finger, scratched pruning raspberries at home!
I failed to report it! Now on my permanent record.
I enjoyed going in early to have coffee and watch the deer before work. Sometimes bring the kids on occasion too.
https://today.anl.gov/2016/04/final-fallow-deer-roams-the-argonne-site/
SAD.
“First courses taught Vacuum Tube theory.”
They are resistant to EMP, the audio guys love them, maybe they will come back?
My father was career Navy, So naturally, I went Army Infantry.
Was a good time, except for a couple of holes added to my head and hide. I receive a modest rebate to my fed income tax each month.
“Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.
Had heard of Prospero didn’t know about him.
One simply needs to enjoy anything from the writer of:
“...If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.”
“...And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
Yes, I did paraphrase that speech at work one late October day.
Scuttlebutt was, the Temptest room was not actually a lab in a lab building but a continuously tested ‘safe room’? One of many across the USA.
” is the NSA going to start monitoring me, I mean, more than they monitor any of us here?”
NSA? Who knows?
I do know for a fact, the Spelling and Grammar Police have me on speed dial! A known repeat offender!
“Hope it brings back memories!”
Yes, thank you.
The odd thing is I sometimes have night dreams of ramping up a new project at work? And many say they cannot wait to escape?
‘The workers doth protest too much, methinks’