{"id":5702,"date":"2023-06-30T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photold.org\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:00:52","slug":"the-600-foot-long-70-foot-wide-marine-angel-transited-the-chicago-river-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/06\/30\/the-600-foot-long-70-foot-wide-marine-angel-transited-the-chicago-river-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"The 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel transited the Chicago River, 1953."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>On July 2, 1953, a remarkable sight was seen on the Chicago River \u2013 the 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel, the largest vessel to ever transit the river at that time. The Marine Angel, owned by the Marine Transportation Corporation of Ohio, was a self-unloading bulk carrier, which was used to transport materials such as sand and gravel.<\/p>\n<p>It was an impressive sight to see the Marine Angel slowly making its way through the river, with its massive size dominating the waters and towering above the bridge and skyline. It took nearly two hours for the Marine Angel to complete its journey up the river, and although it only made a single trip, it was a momentous occasion that was remembered and cherished by many for years after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5703\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.jpg?resize=720%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-3-jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.jpg?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 2, 1953, a remarkable sight was seen on the Chicago River \u2013 the 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel, the largest vessel to ever transit the river at that time. The Marine Angel, owned by the Marine Transportation Corporation of Ohio, was a self-unloading bulk carrier, which was used to transport materials such as sand and gravel. It was an impressive sight to see the Marine Angel slowly making its way through the river, with its massive size dominating the waters and towering above the bridge and skyline. It took nearly two hours for the Marine Angel to complete its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/06\/30\/the-600-foot-long-70-foot-wide-marine-angel-transited-the-chicago-river-1953\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel transited the Chicago River, 1953.<\/span> r\u00e9szletei&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,2603,2604,2605,2609,391,2607,1953,945,2606,1193,2608],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo","tag-100","tag-600-foot-long","tag-70-foot-wide","tag-angel","tag-bulkcarrier","tag-chicago","tag-chicagoriver","tag-kitt","tag-marine","tag-marineangel","tag-river","tag-transit","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}