So I went to the Fort Wayne farm show today, just one annex of the Fort Wayne War Coliseum is larger than the farm show in Indianapolis. Wrote out a half a dozen or better quotes on a G series, commiserated with a few folks on making a wrong first choice, etc.
But on the way to the show right on US30 running thru Fort Wayne has to be the largest US Flag I’ve ever seen. The pole itself is 232 feet tall, the flag is 50x80 foot, the pole is 43 inches in diameter at the base and the base itself has 400,000 lbs. of reinforced concrete in it.
We swung into a shopping mall parking lot across the street and snapped a picture, unfortunately I forgot the video function on my iPhone is almost as good as the JVC HDD camcorder I have, with the light wind we had at the time it was out in all it’s glory with just a light ripple to the fabric, the wife and I both agreed that if we turned around and drove the 90 minutes back home it was time well spent.
In the picture it’s not trick of the camera angle as the flag pole is almost aligned with the front of the car dealership building, its just that big. It’s a Dodge dealer BTW.
The light pole in the picture is in the same parking lot we are in, the flag is clear across the parking lot and on the other side of a four lane highway.
http://www.glenbrookdodgechryslerjeep.com/dealership/our-flag.htm
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