o hai!
i can haz win, thx to teh interwebz, and i wanted to share it with y’all. go here and then come back to this post.
i will now attempt to explain why this is awesome. first, the obvious stuff:
–it’s a free downloadable calendar.
–it’s a cta historical calendar.
now, the not-so-obvious stuff.
the fact that cta still produces these historical calendars some 20+ years after i remember them hanging on the wall at home.
back in the day, the only way you could get your hands on one of these was if you knew someone who worked at cta. they weren’t sold – something i once tried to figure out and eventually gave up on.
long-time readers know that daddy and james both worked at cta for what felt like a bazillion years. which, of course, meant that there was always at least one cta calendar in our house. i loved flipping through the calendar and looking at all of the pictures. occasionally there’d be a photo that would jog daddy’s memory, either about riding the cta or being a bus driver or something someone said at work, and it’d be storytime.
daddy & james are gone now (sigh), and it’s not much of an exaggeration for me to say that memories make up a large part of what i have left. and now cta has embraced the fact that non-employees are interested in these calendars, which provides me with another way to remember the good old days. it’s even more awesome that the calendar’s free. i would’ve seriously considered paying for it, but i don’t have to.
so there you have it. woo!