Nothing like a battered CTA sign for the living room
Is your living room missing that certain pizazz that only a used CTA sign can muster? Then hightail it quickly over to the Illinois Railway Museum.
Gapers Block reports the CTA donated the signs to museum, which in turn is selling them to raise funds.
I've always wanted one of those signs that say "Way Out." See what's available here.
I thought "Way out" was like a George Carlin expression (like "far out" on hallucionogenic substances). However, it appears to be an expression for "exit." I found a site with that expression in a Korean subway, and a Toronto reference to it. There is also a London Way Out Tube Map for the Underground.
Didn't there used to be a Chicago Store at North Pier that sold this type of stuff?
Posted by: jackonthebus | April 03, 2006 at 03:29 PM
It's in the old Pumping Station (across from the Water Tower) now. Or online at http://www.chicagostore.com/
Posted by: Cheryl | April 03, 2006 at 04:52 PM
Only in Chicago / Midwest would they come up with another word for EXIT. But why? Exit is almost an international word like taxi, pizza... Why, Chicago, why do you always have to prove that can't keep up with the rest of the world?
Posted by: typical | August 03, 2007 at 10:59 AM