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KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
SouthSide41
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Date: March 29, 2015 05:14PM
FREE KOOL-AID!!!!
Here's my story:
http://memoriesofatime.com/2013/06/20/kool-aid-baby-2/
Here's my story:
http://memoriesofatime.com/2013/06/20/kool-aid-baby-2/
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
locoengineer
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Date: March 29, 2015 11:11PM
I grew up near the Kool-Aid factory----what a sweet smell when the wind blew a certain way! Otherwise we were stuck with the aromas of Nabisco......
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
b.a.hoarder
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Date: March 30, 2015 02:10AM
locoengineer Wrote:
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> I grew up near the Kool-Aid factory----what a
> sweet smell when the wind blew a certain way!
> Otherwise we were stuck with the aromas of
> Nabisco......
Growing up near Archer & Oak Park if the wind was from the SW we had Corn Products malodorous offerings and when it came from the NE the Metropolitan Sanitary District Treatment Plant at 39th & Central sometimes sent it's smells. Luckily both were "cleaned up", CP updated their equipment and the MSD changed processes but up to the early to late'60's it could be interesting around there. Corn Products was the bigger offender even though we were about equidistant between the two.
Even the Archer bus was no picnic back when the Stock Yards were in full swing. Truckers pulled stock trailers full of cattle coming off Ogden Ave at Harlem, south to Archer and then east to 47th st. Imagine a hot summer day, riding a bus before they had A/C and being in traffic next to that! BITD the parade of cattle trucks was pretty constant. Ah, sweet memories; no pun intended.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2015 03:49PM by b.a.hoarder.
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> I grew up near the Kool-Aid factory----what a
> sweet smell when the wind blew a certain way!
> Otherwise we were stuck with the aromas of
> Nabisco......
Growing up near Archer & Oak Park if the wind was from the SW we had Corn Products malodorous offerings and when it came from the NE the Metropolitan Sanitary District Treatment Plant at 39th & Central sometimes sent it's smells. Luckily both were "cleaned up", CP updated their equipment and the MSD changed processes but up to the early to late'60's it could be interesting around there. Corn Products was the bigger offender even though we were about equidistant between the two.
Even the Archer bus was no picnic back when the Stock Yards were in full swing. Truckers pulled stock trailers full of cattle coming off Ogden Ave at Harlem, south to Archer and then east to 47th st. Imagine a hot summer day, riding a bus before they had A/C and being in traffic next to that! BITD the parade of cattle trucks was pretty constant. Ah, sweet memories; no pun intended.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2015 03:49PM by b.a.hoarder.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
Dunning1
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Date: April 01, 2015 01:27PM
Kinda ironic...I went to high school at Gordon Tech, 1967-71, and I distinctly remember the lemonade smell from the Wyler's Lemonade factory that was in the industrial park just east of the Chicago River between Addison and Irving Park Road. I also remember when the Commonwealth Edison plant was a generating plant, and coal was removed from barges on the river, and a very short line railroad would carry the coal across California Ave. to a huge coal dump that was at Sacramento and Addison, where the mall currently sits. Don't remember when Wylers closed up, but I remember it was gone before I graduated high school.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: April 01, 2015 07:51PM
My friends are Gorden Tech alums of 1973. I can remember getting cinders from the coal dump for our running track in the mid 1970's.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: April 01, 2015 08:32PM
b.a.hoarder Wrote:
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> locoengineer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I grew up near the Kool-Aid factory----what a
> > sweet smell when the wind blew a certain way!
> > Otherwise we were stuck with the aromas of
> > Nabisco......
>
> Growing up near Archer & Oak Park if the wind was
> from the SW we had Corn Products malodorous
> offerings and when it came from the NE the
> Metropolitan Sanitary District Treatment Plant at
> 39th & Central sometimes sent it's smells. Luckily
> both were "cleaned up", CP updated their equipment
> and the MSD changed processes but up to the early
> to late'60's it could be interesting around there.
> Corn Products was the bigger offender even though
> we were about equidistant between the two.
> Even the Archer bus was no picnic back when the
> Stock Yards were in full swing. Truckers pulled
> stock trailers full of cattle coming off Ogden Ave
> at Harlem, south to Archer and then east to 47th
> st. Imagine a hot summer day, riding a bus before
> they had A/C and being in traffic next to that!
> BITD the parade of cattle trucks was pretty
> constant. Ah, sweet memories; no pun intended.
I remember Sunday night with all the cattle trucks comming down 47th st, And of course the smell from Darling & CO. we never got used to.
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> locoengineer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I grew up near the Kool-Aid factory----what a
> > sweet smell when the wind blew a certain way!
> > Otherwise we were stuck with the aromas of
> > Nabisco......
>
> Growing up near Archer & Oak Park if the wind was
> from the SW we had Corn Products malodorous
> offerings and when it came from the NE the
> Metropolitan Sanitary District Treatment Plant at
> 39th & Central sometimes sent it's smells. Luckily
> both were "cleaned up", CP updated their equipment
> and the MSD changed processes but up to the early
> to late'60's it could be interesting around there.
> Corn Products was the bigger offender even though
> we were about equidistant between the two.
> Even the Archer bus was no picnic back when the
> Stock Yards were in full swing. Truckers pulled
> stock trailers full of cattle coming off Ogden Ave
> at Harlem, south to Archer and then east to 47th
> st. Imagine a hot summer day, riding a bus before
> they had A/C and being in traffic next to that!
> BITD the parade of cattle trucks was pretty
> constant. Ah, sweet memories; no pun intended.
I remember Sunday night with all the cattle trucks comming down 47th st, And of course the smell from Darling & CO. we never got used to.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: April 04, 2015 02:29PM
Being a Back of the Yarder I knew the smells of the 50's. Do you remember the smells of Argo starch in Argo IL. or the sludge pits off of I55 expressway?
Getting back to Kool Aid I knew two employees one was my sister in law and my buddies wife who was an shipping expediter for 25years.
Getting back to Kool Aid I knew two employees one was my sister in law and my buddies wife who was an shipping expediter for 25years.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
Hugh Manatee
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Date: April 07, 2015 02:15PM
Better smelling Kool Aid and Nabisco than the smells of Visking sausage casings or Darling and Company's green tarp covered trucks. How about the smells of World's Finest Chocolates or the Vinegar mfgr on 51st and wood
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: April 07, 2015 10:58PM
My Mom worked at World's Finest, however, I can't remember any bad smell.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: May 06, 2015 07:20PM
Kool-aid, invented along side the current route of the California Zephyr, in Western Colorado or Eastern Utah.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: May 07, 2015 01:50PM
Sorry, Hastings Nebraska!
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: May 12, 2015 01:19AM
I was in the Army and served in the states in the 60's, however, my cousin was in Nam and we use to send him Kool Aid. He said thank God for Kool Aid.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
southwestsiderlaredo
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Date: May 12, 2015 04:21PM
didn't that factory have a water tower with the kool-aid face on it? that is what I can remember, what intersection was it at? Thank you everyone.
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
locoengineer
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Date: May 12, 2015 05:37PM
Yes, the water tank had the Kool-Aid smiley face on it! The plant was located at 75th & Rockwell. The sugar was brought in daily by railcars via the Belt Railway Co. of Chicago (BRC)...
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
southwestsiderlaredo
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Date: May 15, 2015 08:06AM
Yes, thanks. We were Marquette Park country cousins at 65th and ROckwell and if we took the road home and watched, we could see the smiley face! Thanks for the memories!
Re: KOOL-AID FACTORY WHERE MOM WORKED
Posted by:
s0uthsider
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Date: July 31, 2015 11:53PM
My childhood home was one block east of Kool-Aid on Maplewood Ave. I couldn't possibly count how many days and nights I spent playing baseball or football on the big lawn in front of the factory on the corner of 74th & Rockwell. When the playground and baseball fields on the west side of the factory at 74th & Washtenaw (which were provided by Kool-Aid for the enjoyment of neighborhood kids) were replaced by more parking for employees and an expanded factory, we moved to the nicely manicured lawn on the east side of the building on Rockwell. I can't remember how many times we were chased off by angry security guards. I still have black & white snapshots from the mid-1960's when a boxcar crashed through the east wall of the building on the far south end. The Kool-Aid factory was the center of my universe in those days.
