check their website. they probably have a flag. why are you so concerned about mount prospect?
Posted by: laura on Sep 15, 04 | 5:23 pm
Their website did not have any flag. Mount Prospect has some wonderful people... one person in particular. :-)
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 15, 04 | 7:46 pm
what's that? it's the world's smallest violin. ;)
how did mt. prospect get its name? now that's an interesting question.
Posted by: laura on Sep 15, 04 | 9:14 pm
MOUNT prospect is a place where friendliness is a way of life. Actually i think they were trying to lure city people to the northwest suburbs, and part of the marketing scheme was to make them think they were moving on up. Arlington HEIGHTS, MOUNT prospect, prospect HEIGHTS, as if you could reach a whole new level of life there.
Posted by: lisa on Sep 16, 04 | 10:16 am
Montreal is named after a mountain ["Mont Royal"]. is there a mountain named Prospect in Mount Prospect? how would they come up with this name otherwise?
Posted by: laura on Sep 16, 04 | 5:10 pm
well it is actually the highest point in cook county. the actual highest point is supposedly right on my street (my 102 year old neighbor Mrs. Bydal told me that, she moved to mount prospect in 1926 so she knows A LOT about it). i guess prospect got thrown in because ezra eggleston, the dude who named it, thought it had great prospects. i love moutains, but it is far from a mountain. i think he was trying to make it out to be bigger than it was. i mean it is BIG on friendliness. but you dont feel like you are high up or anything.
Posted by: lisa on Sep 16, 04 | 5:22 pm
sounds like the founders were trying to attract people to the "mountain" of Chicagoland by building it up [ha!] in people's imagination. nothing wrong with that. i'm originally from Elmhurst, which was settled by Germans [hence the "hurst"?] and i think has a lot of elms in it. there are a lot of trees, at any rate. Elmhurst's first name was "Cottage Hill". neither city name is as grand-sounding as Mount Prospect. so there you are.
Posted by: laura on Sep 16, 04 | 7:52 pm
oh, i like elmhurst, its seems to me like friendliness is a way of life there too. i know some great people from elmhurst. mount prospect was founded by germans too YEY GERMANS
Posted by: lisa on Sep 19, 04 | 10:47 am
oh yes. Elmhurst has some great people.
ïÝMy twin Erik (yikesmoose) lives there.
ïÝLaura is from there.
ïÝThe art director from my previous job, Maureen Pusich, lives there.
Yah germans! I live in Germantown of Chicago.
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 20, 04 | 4:37 pm
elmhurst has a great public high school - York, which i attended. but it's not what you'd call a diverse town. that's why i like living in the big city [one of the reasons, anyway].
Posted by: laura on Sep 20, 04 | 5:13 pm
Laura's neighborhood has lots of people walking around. I always comment on that when i visit. (i also used to live in that area). Mount Prospect has a wonderful big water tower. And the people there like to walk in the street. *giggle*
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 21, 04 | 8:44 am
and oh! the new library in Mount Prospect which opend JUST LAST WEEK might have their town flag outside it. We couldn't tell, cuz it wasn't windy. Surely their library would know what flags are flying outside the library.
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 21, 04 | 8:46 am
ok, i just emailed the Execute Director of the Mt. Prospect library, Marilyn Genther.
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Hi there. I was just wondering if Mount Prospect has a town flag? I walked by the library the other night (when it was closed) and noticed three flags on the flagpoles outside the main entrance. But it wasn't windy outside, so the flags were limp and we couldn't discern what they were. One was clearly the American flag. But the other two... One looked like it might be the Illinois flag, because it was white. The other one was yellow. That got me excited that the Mount Prospect town flag could be yellow! That is, if there does exist an official Mount Prospect flag.
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 21, 04 | 8:52 am
spud is referring to my current neighborhood in Chicago, not Elmhurst. that there are a lot of people on the street all the time. this is the neighborhood of Lakeview i am referring to. it's nice having people milling about at all hours. it's like the neighborhood never sleeps. somewhere in Lakeview, at any given time, there is someone awake. it's oddly comforting.
Posted by: laura on Sep 21, 04 | 9:21 pm
I got a response!
She said that Mount Prospect's flag is the yellow one!
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 22, 04 | 10:28 pm
Meanings of the yellow flag:
Auto racing: Caution requiring slow speed
Football: Foul
Ships: The ship's crew is quarantined for an infectious disease, although now it's custom for a baot to fly the yellow flag when entering a foreign port. After clearing customs, fly that country's courtesy flag.
Beach: Dangerous Conditions
Pensacola's Warning Flags: Cautious of strong long shore currents or other swimming hazards
sources:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/special_packages/outdoor_guide/4389657.htm?1c
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Flag
http://beach.com/beachwaterquality/water_rating.asp
http://www.reflections.com.au/GoldCoast/Beaches/BeachSafety.html
http://www.pensacolasgreatest.com/WarningFlags.htmlPosted by:
spudart on Sep 22, 04 | 10:47 pm
I replied to Marilyn with the following:
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Marilyn,
Thank you so much for your reply! Wow not only does Mount Prospect indeed have a town flag, but it is YELLOW! Wow, I wonder why it is yellow. That is really fascinating.
Here's some meanings behind a yellow flag:
**please refer to previous comment on spudart.org for the list, they were included in the email, but i already posted them on this page**
But i'm sure it doesn't have to do with any of those flags and more with yellow in general...
perhaps something with the sun, or gold (or pyrite minerals), or oak trees (which the Quercus genus is commonly refered to as yellow), or maybe even egg yolks! Or maybe it's just the enthusiasm, energy, and vigor that yellow and Mount Prospect brings!
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 23, 04 | 6:19 am
i think it's based on the town slogan,
"where friendliness is a way of life" yellow is a very friendly color.
Posted by: lisa marie on Sep 23, 04 | 7:19 am
Oh wow, Pensacola is in the news. Check out
their bridge, it's all jigg-jaggy. (Pensacola was one of the sources for the yellow flag research).
wow, "where friendliness is a way of life" is the for real town slogan of Mount Prospect? that's great!
Posted by:
spudart on Sep 23, 04 | 8:37 am
