Pullman Visitors Center And Musem

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Each time Igor and I come to Pullman (and especially since it acquired the status of the National Monument), we see some new improvements. This time, we wanted to check out the new visitor’s center and its exhibits.

They are now more extensive than what they had in the old building, and the information is better organized.

Old Pullman advertisements
Car painter
Pullman car

Looking at this exhibit, I realized that I did not know what were George Pullman’s ideas that resulted in building this town. What was driving him? Did he have an idea of this “capitalist paradise” even before he started building his factory? Many details of the city planning seem to be borrowed from the works of utopists and I am wondering whether it was all cold-heartedly calculated profitability or a desire to prove to somebody that “this could work?”

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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