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West 65th Street - Clearing Industrial District photos
Posted by: adgorn (---.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net)
Date: July 14, 2010 10:21AM

My original quest was to see if the art deco Lady Esther plant at 7171 W. 65th and the National Aluminate plant at 6221 West 66th Place (see [snuffy.lib.umn.edu]) were still there. When I got to the first location, I saw what looked like the same shaped building, but covered now with a new reddish brick exterior. I then tried to get to the second location, but it is Nalco fenced property and inaccessible. For the heck of it I drove around the area and was pleasantly surprised to find a number of interesting structures, facades and logos from the Clearing Industrial District days. I thought I would share some of my photos, if you might find interesting. (I hope the two methods below from Picasa show up correctly.)

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Alan

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Re: West 65th Street - Clearing Industrial District photos
Posted by: bwalsh (---.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net)
Date: July 14, 2010 04:13PM

Love your pictures adgorn! I have been meaning to drive over that way for the longest time to take pictures and just never get around to it. No excuse either, as I live all of 5 minutes from there. I have kicked myself repeatedly for not taking pictures inside and out of the old Johnson and Johnson factory that stood on 65th St about where the Marriott is now. I used to work there when it was offices for Acorn Corrugated (which is actually located a little further west on 65th). We only had a very small suite of offices in the front of the building. The rest of the building was empty, left exactly as it had looked when it was J & J. We went back in there a few times exploring - it was like being in a time capsule. Driving through the com plex of streets behind the factories was interesting too, but that's all gone now.

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Re: West 65th Street - Clearing Industrial District photos
Posted by: 222psm (---.br.br.cox.net)
Date: July 15, 2010 07:01AM

Very nice pictures! When I was a kid my friend and I used to explore the factories
behind the WGN studios. Outside of course, because they where still in use back in the 80's. To bad bwalsh you did not take pictures of the J & J that would have been cool to see.

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Re: West 65th Street - Clearing Industrial District photos
Posted by: shekaago (---.sub-75-242-219.myvzw.com)
Date: July 15, 2010 08:37AM

Great photos! Nice shots of the architectural details on the buildings too. I love stuff like this but must admit, rather shamefully, that I've never explored that area of Chicago. And now, after seeing your pics, I plan on taking a drive out there one of these days. I'd also like to do a bit of reading up on the history of this interesting place.

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Re: West 65th Street - Clearing Industrial District photos
Posted by: bowler (---.chipublib.org)
Date: July 15, 2010 12:16PM

I have all sorts of photsos of the Clearing Industrial District and I'm pretty sure the J&J building . There is a woman who owns a jewelry store on 63rd street just west of the airport who has books and books full of old CID brochures, pictures and documents. I'll see if I can figure out how to post pics on this forum, if not drop me a PM and I can email some pics to anyone interested and give you contact info for the lady with all the originals.

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