[Mpls] airport noise

[James E Jacobsen]

Ref:  Barb Lickness's letter about airport noise:             My Grandparents lived in the Ford Town -just where the new runway is being built- I was there a lot through late 1940's and early Fifties until they moved to Overlook in Bloomington.              My Uncle and Cousins liked the airplanes but often we would be sitting there in the living room talking and an airplane would rev up and it got so loud, that you absolutely couldn't hear the person in front of you talk and the windows would be rattling.  It was a complete war zone, My Grandpa got a few letters in the Star & Trib then about it.              My Granddad told me long later that during the Depression when they had no money, he used to go out there at night with a 30/30 rifle and shoot multiple ducks with one shot while a plane was reving up.             They voted with their feet, they moved and sold.            My cousin though, became a pilot and was captain of a 757 for Northwest.  I asked him if they should move the airport or not.  He said well, now most of the take offs and landings are over the river anyway and they have jillions of dollars invested there, and wherever they moved to, it would just build up again anyway to the same problem.             James E Jacobsen // Whittier