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Palmolive Building by Night, Lindbergh Beacon, Chicago

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $7.95

Stock #:1154536
Type: Postcard
City: Chicago
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Cook
Publisher: The J. O. Stoll Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Publisher's Series #: JA-H530
Additional Details:
A spectacular night-time feature of the new Palmolive Building is the Lindbergh Beacon. Mounted atop a shining bronze column, 603 feet above Chicago, its two billion candle-power beam is visible to aviators in the air as far east as Cleveland, Ohio, and as far south as St. Louis, Missouri. Government Surveyors have determined the location of this Beacon as being Latitude, 41° 53' 59¼" N., Longitude 87° 37' 25" W.

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