On 14 Sep 2004 16:29:48 -0700, (Dave
Jacobowitz) wrote:

Though I a appreciate aeronautical charts for helping me navigate to
my destination without bumping anything, I also admit to having an
aesthetic affection for them as well -- especially sectionals.

So, I've been thinking of perhaps framing some and hanging them from
the wall........

Might interest you to know that in the early 1950s, the walls of the
bar in the Officers' Club at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station
were decorated with framed aeronautical charts of the Pacific area,
where the Marines spent WW II.

Being charts of the Pacific, they naturally had a lot of blue on
them, punctuated by blobs of green and some browns in odd free-form
shapes. From ten feet away they looked very much like abstract
paintings.

I thought them very attractive.

vince norris