Re: vintage photos of logan square / avondale
Posted by:
b.a.hoarder
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Date: January 03, 2013 02:53PM
murphman Wrote:
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> IS Berlin took up the entire area from the Kennedy
> to Kimball along Belmont north to where the
> Kennedy exists now. Remember it well, HUGE plant
> with blue neon IS BERLIN PRESS emblazoned across
> Belmont. Check out historicaerials.com for
> overhead view. Also as a footnote Marshall Berlin
> was suspected and aquitted of tossing his galpal
> out of the 90something floor of the Hancock bldg.
> in the early seventies
According to Marshall she jumped. As I recall, the authorities questioned how the young woman was able to jump against and shatter the thermopane glass and fall to her death. Glass that was rated to withstand the high wind forces it would be subjected to on a sky-scraper, yet Mr. Berlin walked. The city that works, if you know a guy who knows a guy.