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NHL Winter Classic Rink Update: Late Thursday, Closeups

Since a storm is headed this way, I thought I'd head over to Wrigley again this afternoon for some updated photos, especially after I saw the NHL Network video link on the post below, showing they had made considerable progress today. The lights were already on at 3 pm when I went there, so they must have been on all day.

Also ran into Brad from Cubs security again; he mentioned that they were intending to get the ice laid down tonight.

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Inside closeup photos below the fold!

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Click on photos to open a larger version in a new browser window. Taken at Wrigley Field, Chicago, Thursday, December 18, 2008, approximately 3:15 pm CST.

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Zamboni

Don’t know if anyone saw the news, but the second zamboni fell off the truck bc they didn’t have the ramp down

Someday we'll go all the way.

by Cubbinstrongsince86 on Dec 18, 2008 5:37 PM CST reply actions  

Saw a 9-foot Steinway do that once.

Bet the Zamboni made a cool noise too.

Bleed Cubbie Blue: Like Drāno for your internet tubes.

by znohitter on Dec 18, 2008 10:11 PM CST up reply actions  

The zamboni is funny,

the steinway’s is tragic! I won’t sleep well tonight, thank you.
Al, thanks again for the pics!

by stadiumguru on Dec 18, 2008 10:46 PM CST up reply actions  

It wan't really that tragic.

It fell on the viola section.

Bleed Cubbie Blue: Like Drāno for your internet tubes.

by znohitter on Dec 18, 2008 10:50 PM CST up reply actions  

whew, ok

so that’s the purpose of the viola section, to provide padding for the piano? I always wondered why they were there. Thanks for clarifying this, I can sleep soundly tonight!

by stadiumguru on Dec 18, 2008 11:54 PM CST up reply actions  

Really enjoying all the pictures, Al. Thanks.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson

by tucsoncubsfan on Dec 18, 2008 5:50 PM CST reply actions  

Great pics

Great pics Al and also I wanted to pass along thanks from a group of diehard Hawks fans where I work and also some Red Wing fans I know (nice people otherwise :))

MaIne South Hawks 2008 Class 8a Champs!

by puckishcubsfan on Dec 18, 2008 6:03 PM CST reply actions  

I'm so impressed

with your devotion to the Cubs and all things Wrigley. How lucky we are.

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Dec 18, 2008 6:32 PM CST reply actions  

Those are very cool.

Get me, I'm giving out wings!!

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Dec 18, 2008 8:40 PM CST reply actions  

Bud House

How long has the “Drinkability” Bud Light banner been up?

The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.

by sanantonecub on Dec 19, 2008 11:33 AM CST reply actions  

That went up late in the baseball season...

… about the same time the TV campaign started.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Dec 19, 2008 11:44 AM CST up reply actions  

Wouldn't of known there was a TV campaign

Bud Light isn’t exactly a big seller over here…. :)

The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.

by sanantonecub on Dec 19, 2008 12:15 PM CST up reply actions  

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