Macy's Gives Us NYC's Hand-Me-Down Windows For Christmas
After reading about the hub-bub over this Macy's mistake over on Rachelle's blog , I had to go see it for myself. My photo isn't the best angle of this thing, so if you want to see a straight-on-shot, check out this photo to see the full thing for yourself . What you're seeing there is some iconic Chicago buildings (Hancock, Sears, Crain) all wedged into what is definitely Manhattan Island with the NYC Thanksgiving Parade running right down the middle. Rachelle Bowden has some close-up photos of this mess here . To be fair...the windows this year are just flat.out.awesome. Really beautiful to look at and a really fun story. But why did they have to put Chicago on an island?!? This is *some* bullshit, right? This thread on Reddit does a good job of covering the issues . Just corporate deafness. Oh, Marshall Fields...what could have been... Chicagoist got a response from Macy's where they are saying that this isn't a hand-me-down fr