Dallas

Views in and around Dealy Plaza, the location of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. The white cross on the road marks the approximate location where Kennedy was shot.  The Texas School Book Depository is pictured in the upper left hand corner below.

Views from the grassy knoll.

 

A mosaic of Kennedy comprised of thousands of pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at the Sixth Floor Museum in the Dallas County Administration Building (formerly the Texas School Book Depository).

 

Kennedy’s route, left to right, from N. Houston Street to Elm Street.

Hot Springs

Garvan Woodland Gardens, located a short distance from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The Quapaw Bathhouse.

The Hot Springs National Park Visitor Center directly north of the Quapaw Baths. Excellent reconstruction and preservation of the bathhouse.

 

Excuse us, our rejuvenating spa bath awaits…

Memphis

Views of the Mississippi River and the Hernando de Soto Bridge from the Madison Hotel (wiki) in Memphis, Tennessee.

Madison Hotel’s elevator interior paying tribute to former guests.

Blues bars and restaurants a plenty at Beale Street in Downtown Memphis.

The National Civil Rights Museum located at the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

King’s room at the Lorraine Hotel as it was in 1968.

The room from where James Earl Ray shot King.

St Louis

Crossing the Mississippi River and the Illinois/Missouri state line into St Louis along the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge.

St. Louis’ emblematic Gateway Arch, a towering structure reaching a height of 630ft (192m).

 

 

Views from the top of the city and the Mississippi River.

Chicago

The historic Palmer House Hilton (see wiki).

The Palmer’s large bronze Peacock designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany at the corner of State and Monroe.

The iconic overhead CTA train tracks.

The Crown Fountain

Cloud Gate and the Chicago skyline.

Boeing Gallery South featuring Paula, Laura and Inez by Jaume Plensa.

The Art Institute of Chicago

A miniature display of a Virginia Parlor (1758-1787)

Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja), Chola period, c. 1000, Bronze

Houses at Chatou, Maurice de Vlaminck

Interior at Nice, Henri Matisse

The Red Armchair, Pablo Picasso

Amphora (Storage Jar), Greek, Athens, 530/510 BC

American Gothic, Grant Wood

The Bedroom, Vincent van Gogh

Entrance to the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building.

Landmark clock in Chicago off State Street.

The interior of the Hotel Burnham in the Reliance Building, the first skyscraper to feature large plate glass windows.

Dining at Hotel Burnham’s Atwood Restaurant.

Views from the 103^rd floor (1,353ft/412m) of the Willis Tower (formerly and still commonly known as Sears Tower).  Willis Tower was the tallest building in the world from 1973 to 1998.

The ledge,  a suspended glass observation boxes on the 103^rd floor.

The 53ft Flamingo sculpture in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Federal Plaza.

U-505 (wiki), an actual German world war II submarine at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

The Chicago Theatre (wiki) following a heavy rain storm.