Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
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Q. Did you attend? Do you remember when it was built?<br />
A. Oh no. It goes way back. I'l tell you, last year. . .<br />
Q, Did you attend all the summer functions?<br />
A. Oh sure. Monday was Children's Day at the State Fair and that when motQers took all the<br />
kids out there and remember when we talked about the street cars, the open smet cars. Those<br />
were wonderful, Of course you couldn't use them today cause you couldn't ga insurance for<br />
them With a conductor wallring up and down on a running board on the outside, all the seats<br />
open, kind <strong>of</strong> on the running board. You got in that way for a nickel.<br />
Q. Did you go back and forth on the street cars?<br />
A. Huh, huh. It was fhe easiest way out there.<br />
Q. How long did it take for you to get there from, say Williams Boulevard?<br />
A. Oh, maybe a half an hour because we lived then <strong>of</strong>f MacArther Blvd. just ~ ff Lawrence<br />
Avenue and you'd go down there half a block, get the street car and transfer.<br />
Q. What do you remember? Has it changed a great deal? Has it gotten largq?<br />
A. I don't think they've gotten any more land there but they've built an awful lot more buildings.<br />
In the early days like that . .oh we were talking about fjxes. I've just remembred, it was called<br />
the dome building or have you had that pop up?<br />
Q. Did you see it?<br />
A. As close as we could get to it. My father w;as on the ball again and I don't know when that<br />
burned. You see, I think that building came £rom the Chicago Worlds Fair ad<br />
I think it was full<br />
<strong>of</strong> ammunition and stuff from WWI. They used it as a supply area which they did with the Fair<br />
Grounds in WWII. They used a lot <strong>of</strong> the buildings out there to supply stuff cause our <strong>of</strong>fice had<br />
FairIield Air Depot. Out in Dayton, Ohio we had a lot <strong>of</strong> these Fair Grounds cause we were the<br />
supply for the air forces but there wasn't much going on at the Fair Grounds until years later. I<br />
mean we had a fair but the buildings weren't used like they are today,<br />
Q. Were the Richardsonian entrances the same? The original main entrance?<br />
A. They were the original. Well, how original I'm not s d , but it goes way back.<br />
Q. Did they have the "ethnic" booths then?
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