I'm a 40 year veteran of Vito and Nicks, or, as we called it locally Nick and Vito's. I've gone back several time in the last two years, and it ain't the same since the old man passed. They don't seem to use fresh ingredients anymore, and I even got a soggy thin crust there once. I'm shedding tears at this, but this is what I find it to be now. Baracco's is good-- same shirttail family of
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There is a Burger King in Naperville that looks a lot like the original constructions. I used to work at Evergreen Plaza,and for lunch sometimes would go to Whimpys. More than once I ran across Arthur Rubleoff (the Plaza owner and Big Money Devleoper) happily munching on a burger there, looking like a character out of Dickens with his bowler hat and thick eyeglasses.
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We knew the amusement park on 95th and Pulaski as "Kiddie Land". Not sure if it was "Kiddie Town" officially. It was convenient to where we lived and had rides that were the perfect scale for really young kids. I never liked the place though. My parents used to put us on a Ferris Wheel, and it would inevitably stop to pick up more riders, leaving me dangling and rocking
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Got to correct myself: "Tony's" was actually "Don's Finer Foods". The sign is still up.
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Before 7/11 and White Hen after that, there were corner stores. They were usually in the fronts of ordinary houses. One I remember going to as a kid was "Ann's". It wasn't really on the corner, but in the middle of the block in what was then a blue house. It was located on 102nd Street, between Francisco and California. I believe it's Chicago; it might be on the Evergreen Park sid
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That looks familiar. Thanks Rusty
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One of my favorite memories was going with my dad to Starks at 59th/Harlem. It was a big barn full of stuff. Genuine war surplus stuff, too. Not knock-off fake surplus stuff found today. We'd go on a Saturday. I think my dad wanted to get out of the house more than anything else.
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Thanks for the replies about Minor-Dunn. I do remember ( I think)) the Huck Finn location being a Minor-Dunn for about sixty seconds. The location at 123rd/Ashland was what I remember. Before interstates we used to stop there on my way to my uncle's in far off St. John, IN.
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So I don't go on thinking I"m crazy: was there once a few Minor Dunn hamburger joints in the city, south side? I remember going to them (I think) when I was very young. Now the only one left is in Highland, IN.
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Ha, go to the Colony for 50 cents or bump it up to the Marquette for $1.00 and see a movie; then take your date for some ice cream at the original Gerties. I just can't bring myself to try the franchises. If I want Lindy's Chili I will go to the original on Archer, though it's been years since I've done that.
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I've been driving past BG almost every day since the early seventies, and no "ghost house" have I seen, though the area was part of a larger settlement that has faded into history. Recall there used to be an old service station at the bend in the road on Midlothian Turnpike and Justamere Road, near Jack Gibbons. It's odd, but I had no fear of spirits, but the strange-o ones that l
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A couple of years ago, on a dark night (What else?), a friend and I hiked back into the BG cemetery. When we got into the yard through the old fence a votive candle was burning on the grave of the little girl. All sorts of weird whoo-do stuff was on the stone, too -- toyes, heads of dolls, etc. More interesting than the grave yard itself is to go a little further west into the forest preser
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