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On Friday 26 November 2004 1:44 pm, James Knott wrote:
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
In Greater Chicago goloshes were ALWAYS called RubberZ even when you meant just one.
Rubber? I thought in Chicago, they were made with cement. ;-)
Hi, Patric is right, east coast gangsters favor cement shoes and salt water. Oddly, the Great Lakes seem to **preserve** things sunk in them. CAF folks are still recovering Navy fighters and bombers that sunk in Lake Michigan during WWII. Most WWII Navy flyers did carrier t/o and landing training on Lake Michigan. There are several now flying at air showa all over. Local news did a story about the restorers finding the Navy trainee who sunk their plane. They got him in the cockpit and he said "This plane was never this clean when I flew it!" Chicage hit men are reputed to favor putting the body in a car, crushing the car into a "Scrap-Iron Cube" and personally delivering the cube to the blast furnace. When I flew here I enjoyed flying the approach into Gary Airport that took me south-bound over Lk Michigan, over the steel mills and refineries, on down to Rnwy 20 (200 deg on compass). On good days you could see the red-hot slag pits freshly dumped. They use the slag to make Portland cement, so there are cement plants next to most steel mills. PeterB p.s. thanks for the nostalgia we call the Great Lakes states the "Third Coast"