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Great Lakes Naval Training Station was authorized as a "training ship on land" in 1904. The base opened on July 1, 1911, and the first class of 300 U.S. sailors graduated four months later in a grand ceremony attended by Pres. William H. Taft as guest of honor. It has since sent to the fleet over four million sailors, serving the nation through all the conflicts of the 20th century. Today Great Lakes is the sole remaining navy boot camp in the United States. Anchored by the stately Building One, the entire 43-building complex was designated as Great Lakes Naval Training Station on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. This book, with over 200 vintage images, explores its colorful and important history.
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Lesa Wells
reviewed Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Illinois (Images of America Series) on February 08, 2017
Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Illinois (Images of America Series)
Some interesting slice-of-life photographs. Among a dozen music photographs, my favorite shows a parlor piano with Gertrude (Baumgaertner) Damrau looking at sheet music. She played piano and organ for silent films at The Riverside Theater. She also played honky-tonk bars and worked as a song plugger for sheet music customers at the downtown Boston Store. Gertie lived from 1899-1983.
This is a formula book, one of six thousand titles in the series with each one featuring a couple hundred photographs on 128 pages for a standard $22. The quality of writing, editing and varies from title to title. This one suffers from a lack of editing and chronic immersion of the author in the captions. Nonetheless, this book offered some photographs not seen in other history books.
Two and a half stars.
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