Eric F Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually I'm not from the area, I'm from Englewood > and Back of the Yards. Just have a big interest in > anything related to Chicago. There's an excellent > book on the Dutch in Chicago that has lot's of > info on Roseland. Fair enough Good Sir. Thanks for the info. There's also a website devoted t
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Mikey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wow. Sad to hear that. Thanx for the info. The one > I remember was definitely on Wabash, so it wasn't > Pixley's. Now I'm straining my brain to try to > remember the name of the one I used to eat at. I'm > almost positive it was around 100 (maybe a bit > further south) on Wabash. > > Mike
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b.a.hoarder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > justacruzr2 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > mo4040 Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Yes there was auto racing, previously mentioned in > a thread here was the indoor drag racing in '62 > and '63. They also r
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Eric F Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dick Butkus lived at 10324 S Lowe and played ball > at Fernwood Park. His family attended St Helena of > the Cross at 101st-Parnell. Elliott Ness lived in > Roseland, but not sure exactly when. Yes although I never met Dick Butkus. I lived only 1 block away at 10236 S Union. Spent many summer days at Fern
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Starting a new thread with the hopes that you will share your memories of these two great neighborhoods that have a lot of history. On 103rd street who remembers the Chicago incinerator at 103rd & Doty or Gately's stadium (still there) at 103rd & Cottage Grove, The Chicago Pumping Station at 103rd & Princeton, Hi-Lo at 103rd and Yale, Van der Meers coal yard at 103rd & Eggleston
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bowler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know this is last minute but in case anyone is > interested: > > "Chicagoland's Amusement Parks of the Past". Join > us on Saturday January 19th at 1:00 PM at the > Clearing Library, 6423 West 63rd Place, as the > Clear-Ridge Historical Society welcomes local > Chicago historian,
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Does anyone remember Flash Gordon being on? I think it was WGN on Sunday mornings. The "Clay People" would always creep me out. You couldn't protect yourself 'cause they would just come out of the wall before you knew it. And they also had at one time The Lone Ranger, Superman (already mentioned above), The Cisco Kid, and Mighty Mouse (Here I Comne To Save The Day). Along with ever
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daveg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Steve B. Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Hamm's was brewed in Minnesota - Blatz was from > > Wisconsin. > > Hamm's - remember? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g > > Blatz info. > > http://www.blatzbeer.com/history
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mo4040 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Saw the LA 'Thunderbirds' (rollerderby) at the > Amphitheatre back in the mid-70's. Went to one of those roller derby matches in the 70's also. Also saw Jethro Tull and Kansas there. And when I was just a kid in the early 60's dad took the whole family there several different times to see the rodeos they used to
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Mikey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't remember The Forum, but I do remember an > "Automat"-style cafeteria on the East side of > Wabash around Madison or Washington street. I > believe it was Pixley and Ehlers. It was similar > to the New York-style place caled Horn and > Hardart. > > Mike Hi Mike. Googled The
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I think most neighborhoods had them. Ours did too. They might have been a franchise. At the same time we still received our dairy products at our front porch door (this was still into the 60's), Had a fruit and vegetable man who would drive his truck down the neighborhood streets and sell you fresh fruits and vegetables from the back of the truck, had a guy who would come around a couple of tim
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Kchi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the 60's,we had very limited TV station > choices. So I grew up watching WGN late at night > and on the weekends and early on Sunday mornings. > The main sponsors were automobile dealers like > Berens and Bert Weiman. Many of these dealers are > long gone, but others I remember were Kronon > Me
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Not exactly high cuisine but does anyone remember "The Forum". It was a cafeteria style eatery downtown I remember not far from the Randolph St Station. The food was in vending machine type slots in the wall and you would put the correct amount of change in the coin slot and the door would open and you would remove the item. Last time I was there was in the late 60's and it's long gon
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While I was driving downtown on the near south side several years ago, I came across a section of the street that was about to be re-paved. That machine they use to scrape off the top layer had already been there and exposed what was hidden beneath...the original brick-paved street and the original street car tracks. They never removed any of that when they first re-surfaced the street after asp
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 93rd & wolf rd willow springs. Santa fea Park? I think Santa Fe Speedway was at 91st & Wolf Road. Remember their commercial? "Santa Fe Speedway...the action track is clay." The place out in the SW suburbs was 107th St between McCarthy Road and RT 83 alongside Saganasky Slough. There
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geffertz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > davey7 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > My coworker grew up in Roseland and remembers a > > store on 111th between King Drive and Cottage. > > 409 E. 11th Street - I worked there when I was in > high school. I grew up in Fernwood right next d
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ChicagoJoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Stachowski Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Anybody remember the Buss Drive in on 95th in > > Oaklawn? That was in the 50's Car hops and > all. > > We stopped there on the way to the Starlite > Drive > > in Movie on 95th and Ri
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