Rustymuscle Wrote:
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> I scanned a 1951 phone book. Lots of variations of
> Peterson, but none on 33rd.
Rusty,
Could you do me a favor and look up the businesses at 1630-32 N. Milwaukee Ave. in the phone book.
PKDickman Wrote:
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> Rustymuscle Wrote:
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> > I scanned a 1951 phone book. Lots of variations
> of
> > Peterson, but none on 33rd.
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> Rusty,
> Could you do me a favor and look up the businesses
> at 1630-32 N. Milwaukee Ave. in the phone book.
>
> Paul K. Dickman
I take that back. I had criss-cross directory in my brain.
It would be too tough to look up an address in a regular directory.
Never mind.
It somehow looks like your old home at S.Wolcott no longer exists. I wonder if it was demolished because of a fire in later years or just plain, unfeeling eminent domain??????.
Would love to get a list of folks who lived in the 4200 - 4400 blocks of Pittsburgh Ave. in the late 40s/early 50s. It was a temporary housing for WWII vets. Consisted of barracks & quoset buildings. Also Plainfield Ave. Same addresses.
This site isn't an archive of old phone books, but it does list all the old phone exchange names from back in the day when your number was BIshop7-2447, or HUdson3-2700.
It's tough dating information based on a phone number. AT&T began to convert letter/number prefixes in Chicago in the late 1950s, but the project wasn't complete until the 1970s. Additionally, other phone companies converted at different dates, so the information is all over the map.
One last thing. Non dial to dial conversion further complicates the issue. Not all central offices (Chicago proper and suburbs) converted to dial at the same time, so some could still be using a non dial phone while others converted to dial. The Western suburbs began conversion to dial in the 1950s but the last western suburbs (far west) didn't convert until the early 1960s.
BTW, this website has a nice discussion of prefixes.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/25/2012 02:45PM by Rustymuscle.
I am looking for the exact address of a tavern called Pat Flaherty and Swede's Lounge. It operated in the mid 50's around the Irving Park Rd and Kedzie area.
Any other information would be greatly appreciated.