31 July 2007

stuck in a large, bell-filled tower for an hour

To continue in the vein of bad publicity for the carillon, a family gets stuck at a carillon for an hour because of a habitually dysfunctional elevator! Not that I would have had any problems in the same situation (I am always looking for excuses to get stuck at a carillon), and fortunately the former news has been superseded by the dedication of Moser Tower on Sunday, but still... you have to feel sorry for this family being pointed towards the interior ladder as an alternative exit down which they could somehow take their 20-month-old child.

The most memorable part of the article is its description of the belfry as "a large, bell-filled tower in Washington Park." Sounds like a diseased architectural tumor.

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