Airdome

SethG on May 18, 2024 at 2:50 pm

The address would today be somewhere on S Main (Chestnut was renamed sometime after 1918). I don’t find any evidence of an airdome on the July 1911 map, but it only went as far south as Wilson (now 6th), and only shows the north side of that intersection. That is really far out of downtown though, so I suspect this was somewhere between 7th and 9th streets. Nothing on the 1918 map, but if it was dismantled in 1916, there wouldn’t be. Comparing the 1911 and 1918 maps makes it hard to see where it would have fit. Possibly the west side of Main just south of 8th, or the NE corner of Main and 7th.

The earlier airdome would have been at the corner of what was then Chestnut and Normal. The only logical place would have been the NE corner, everything else is occupied by the same buildings on the 1905 and 1911 maps.