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1939 Aerial Photograph Showing a Gasometer, or Gas Holder, in the Chicago Metro Area.  The Sign on its Roof Directs Pilots Towards "Curtiss Airport" which was later to become the Glenview Naval Air Station (now decommissioned)
A large, coal-gas gasometer located near Chicago Curtiss Airport (later known as Glenview Naval Air Station) in 1939 (houses are located in the lower-right for scale).

 

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