i used to work at a telivison sales and repair store right across the street from it. direct sales for three years. there was a married couple who ran it they were both midgets.
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i know just what your saying and agree! most were run by mostly eithnic famlies in local neghborhoods. it was a case of when the elder members passed away the kids sold off to big chains (like gonella did) or closed the stores all together. i was raised in hyde park also, on 55th and lake park right on the corner. that was when there was a corner there and not a huge apartment building in the midd
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my grandfather still did it during the late 60's in the yard. i enjoyed it also! i also remember the CTA wooden salt boxes on the corners they filled with rock salt during late semptember. some people on the block used to use it on the side walks in front of their houses. but i think it was ment to be used to un freeze the rail switches on the green hornet street cars that ran on the main streets
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bismark hotel blackhawk room, wallnut room sunday brunch, great german food! went there a lot when i was a kid.
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got any old timers and gear heads out there that remember skip's drive in? the food and fries were greasy the car hops butt ugly and the place was a dump, but there was a lot of hot cars there on a friday and saterday night. it was the place to be on the weekends if you were a kid with a hot car to show off? they drove the cops nuts in elmwood park river grove maywood and river forest drag racing
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what was the name of the bakeries one on corner of chicago ave and campbell and the other on hubbard st possibly near damen? i used to stop and get sweet rolls and a bottle of milk at the one on campbell on the way to chopin school. the other on hubbard st sold really good pies my dad used to stop and pick several up on holidays.
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in the early 20's to the 50's that used to be the mining pit for the carry brick co. they exavated the mud to make the paver and house bricks for the streets of chicago. the baking ovens stood right behind the brick yard mall to the west. com ed uses the property now. the baking ovens used to run north and south from deversy to grand. what really happened from what i told by my dad they hit a unde
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i beleive there was one on grand and monclair near the picture show? after that you walked a couple of blocks and caught the diesel bus to go west into elmwood park. there was one that ran on chicago ave that ended and turned around at austin preveous to that the green hornet street car used to have a turn table on chicago and california. the north ave bus turned around at narragansett that's sti
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i got my answer from one of the other pages chicago sightings. it was part of the logan square bridge. thanks!
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when i was a kid in the 50's i used to go down chicago ave to go to globlatt's department store and the woolworth's five and dime next door to it on the trolley bus, that was just a few doors west before ashland ave on chicago ave on the south side of the street. there was 'L' tracks that ran north and south about a block west of the store. they ran right above a women's dress shop and across chic
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i remember there was a lunch room cafareia style place on wabash across the street from jeweler's row on 5 north wabash. i saw dan walker there having lunch eating a tuna salad sandwitch after he got released from jail. that was in 1975? i was working as a laborer for a brick laying construction compeny rebuilding the brick fasad on the abey crombie & finch building. they were on the first flo
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thunder moutain was open for one winter season and then it closed. i think in 68 or 69? if my memory serves me?
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i remember that it was called thunder moutain! before that it was the carry brick yard. they used to exavate mud for the bricks untill they hit a under ground spring and it filled with water in the mid 50's. that's where chicago street paver bricks and the red bricks were made. the compeney went bellie up and it was used for a land fill by the city of chicago. jim moran the courtsy man from courts
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