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More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
captain54
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Date: July 12, 2010 03:15AM
I know much has been discussed concerning Ogden Avenue here, but I couldn't pass up posting this pix I discovered in my book collection. It continually amazes how dramatically the dismantling of Ogden Ave changed the landscape of the near north side. This is the intersection of Weed St and Ogden in 1965...the CTA brown line is overhead. The current site of this photo is a youth baseball field.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/4785120575/" title="weed and ogden 1965, Chicago by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4785120575_f262d10ed6_b.jpg" width="1024" height="1013" alt="weed and ogden 1965, Chicago" /></a>
The caption below this photo reads.."They help cool gang violence...1965..street workers take their message to gangs. Turf wars had lessened by the mid 60's"
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/4785120575/" title="weed and ogden 1965, Chicago by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4785120575_f262d10ed6_b.jpg" width="1024" height="1013" alt="weed and ogden 1965, Chicago" /></a>
The caption below this photo reads.."They help cool gang violence...1965..street workers take their message to gangs. Turf wars had lessened by the mid 60's"
Re: More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
Berwyn Frank
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Date: July 12, 2010 03:52AM
VERY cool pic!
Re: More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
222psm
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Date: July 12, 2010 02:41PM
I was looking in google maps and the pitchers mound is almost right where the streets crossed. Very, very cool! It looks like Weed St ended at Ogden or at N. Larrabee St.
Re: More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: July 12, 2010 05:03PM
That is a fantastic photo. Gang members wearing Cuban heel boots sure seems a strange concept these days...
Re: More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
daveg
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Date: July 12, 2010 05:08PM
Very nice picture and story captain54. Thanks.
Re: More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
captain54
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Date: July 12, 2010 08:46PM
222psm Wrote:
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> I was looking in google maps and the pitchers
> mound is almost right where the streets crossed.
> Very, very cool! It looks like Weed St ended at
> Ogden or at N. Larrabee St.
from historic aerial views, Weed ended at Larrabee. This pix looks like its a view north, with the guys standing on the NW corner of Weed and Ogden. A 62' view shows what looks like a hamburger stand (....chman's) on the east side of Ogden almost directly under the L tracks. The guy leaning up against that cement post is probably a support post for fencing around the brush under and next to the L tracks. (brush that still looks like it exists today)
the dramatic shadows cast from the three guys standing suggests the street lamp overhead, car headlights approaching from North Ave, moving south on Ogden, or maybe from what was a very brightly lit intersection of North/Ogden/Larrabee.
a 73' view shows Ogden Ave in place, but an 88' view shows Ogden gone and the ball field in place. So, in the course of the 15 yr span, the entire area was practically cleared out, except for the "EL"...
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2010 08:54PM by captain54.
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> I was looking in google maps and the pitchers
> mound is almost right where the streets crossed.
> Very, very cool! It looks like Weed St ended at
> Ogden or at N. Larrabee St.
from historic aerial views, Weed ended at Larrabee. This pix looks like its a view north, with the guys standing on the NW corner of Weed and Ogden. A 62' view shows what looks like a hamburger stand (....chman's) on the east side of Ogden almost directly under the L tracks. The guy leaning up against that cement post is probably a support post for fencing around the brush under and next to the L tracks. (brush that still looks like it exists today)
the dramatic shadows cast from the three guys standing suggests the street lamp overhead, car headlights approaching from North Ave, moving south on Ogden, or maybe from what was a very brightly lit intersection of North/Ogden/Larrabee.
a 73' view shows Ogden Ave in place, but an 88' view shows Ogden gone and the ball field in place. So, in the course of the 15 yr span, the entire area was practically cleared out, except for the "EL"...
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2010 08:54PM by captain54.
Re: More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
FranCarmen
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Date: July 20, 2010 02:44AM
Older [url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?query=chicago+cook+AND+%28cook%29&page=54&pagesize=20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P10245]Ogden[/url] from the Cushman collection. Ogden at Halsted, looking north east. shame it isn't looking southeast so we could see the 1958 skyline.
http://francesarcher.com
http://francesarcher.com
Re: More Vintage Ogden Ave...1965
Posted by:
tomcat630
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Date: August 12, 2010 11:35PM
In my opinion, Ogden was tore out to keep "them" out of Old Town/Lincoln Park. Grew up in city and know all about turf wars and segregation.
Now, at least barriers are slowly coming down.
Now, at least barriers are slowly coming down.
