As Forgotten Chicago is more about architecture and infrastructure than personal stories, I'm hoping to get my sister in here as soon as she recuperates from her trip. She remembers more of the important points, (such as; Kimbark Avenue dead ended in our front yard on 50th Street, and that our house was built in the nineteenth century post The Fire). Here's what I remember about the house on 5
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Jack Spratt's: My first encounter with and subsequent love affair with brilliant color. We often walked to Jack Spratt's for after-church brunch. On one of these occasions - I must have been four years old - we were about to cross the street to the coffee shop when I saw an African American girl about my age wearing the most glorious colored socks I'd ever seen in my life! They were glow
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Three hours later and the unfinished canvases are taking over my studio. My sister and I were adopted out of the Illinois Children's Home, (thus the LOAnnie - Lucky Orphan Annie) four years apart - my sister first, so she remembers much more about 1940s Chicago than I do. Here's what I remember: Our Bowman's Dairy milkman, Elmer drove a buggy with a horse named Johnny. I went to Kinderga
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Hello, Although I didn't "grow up" in Chicago - we moved to NH when I was five, 1947 - I do have a few very fond memories of early childhood there: We lived in the Kenwood area of Hyde Park on East 50th Street. I remember spending many glorious days on the beach at South Shore Country Club, which my sister tells me has been turned into a youth center or some such? Good. I haven'
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