The Chicago Tribune runs a day trip column every so often. This one was by Becky Yerak onSeptember 20, 2008, was to Addison, a suburb of Chicago.
She went to the new Addison Public Library and found a 1984 book saying that Chicago Blackhawk star Bobby Hull lived in town from 1963 to 1971. Former President Jimmy Carter visited town in 1980.
Then a trip to the nearby Addison Historical Museum where she found out that "Nike," before it came to be known as shoes, was "a type of anti-aircraft defense missile, and during the brinkmanship of the Cold War, Addison stored Nike missiles in silos 30 feet under the ground. A radar center was also set up in the village. The missiles were trotted out in an Addison parade in the late 1950s." Congratulations Addison, the Soviets have just put you on their target list.
The radar sites looked liked a farm silo, and we had my brother thinking that every time he saw one (and there were farms in the Chicagoland in the 1960s), it was a missile.
Nike Park, in the village, has the vestige of the good old Cold War days with a round dome that was part of a radar center that still can be seen.
Oh, Those Were the Good Old Days. --Cooter
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