Re. "Great pictures." THANKS!
Forum: Forgotten Chicago Sightings

I spent a lot of time (and a LOT of quarters) at the 2-story arcade that used to be at 1160 N. State St. (half a block south of Division, currently home to TeaGschwendner) ... I don't recall the name, however. As suggested above, I also think the main "nail in the coffin" for these places was the rise of computer games and the home game systems. While the initial "buy in" o
Forum: General Discussion

Back when I was a kid we had two at the corner of Clark & Fullerton. Parkway had been there for ages (and had a soda fountain back in the 60's) on the SW corner, and then there was Sol's Pharmacy on the SE corner. My first ever job was at Sol's back around 8th grade, when I put by budding OCD to use as a stockboy!
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Here's a pic I took a few years back of some of the pavers in that alley ... http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=BTRIPP&pid=177458&sid=eyV55dgtU1
Forum: Forgotten Chicago Sightings

Wow ... I've lived down "on Rush Street" for the past 35 years, and these pics are quite the trip down memory lane! I even saw glimpses of the old Louie's Cantonese Cafe sign (the dragon on the neon is poking out under a few other things there)! I was just showing my daughter these, and she was amazed at how our now-staid & über-gentrified neighborhood used to look like Las Vega
Forum: Forgotten Chicago Sightings

WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cap'n, you have a good point as far as the depth > perception in the '65 photo...is it possible that > '...chman's' is actually on Larrabee and the view > is unobstructed? > > The Cook County Assessor's site lists 1554 N. > Larrabee as 'Age: 41'. I don't know how accurate > that is, th
Forum: Questions and Answers (Q&A)

I was amazed to find that S&H is still in business, with an internet program of "green points"! ... http://www.greenpoints.com
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I think the stamps went away in the mid-70's ... I remember our local drugstore (Sol's Pharmacy at Clark & Fullerton) had them right up to when I got into highschool. I well remember the S&H Green Stamp books, where the pages had grids to fill with single stamps, one big stamp or a few middling-stamps (25 a page? 25x1, 5x5, and 1x25?).
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