We sure did and without all the drama from the media! Just put on extra layers. It built character.
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Thanks for the info since I don't live in Chicago anymore. After what they did to Meigs Field, this doesn't surprise me. Swede, I remember putting the butter cookies on my finger to eat that way...nice memory! My 2 cents is that a building constructed in 1935 is not really historic, although I love Art Deco. Let's just hope the site is put to a good use as the economy could use some new li
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So the buzz is they are demolishing the Salerno Cookie Factory on Division Street. My question is when was the building constructed and is it REALLY historic? I loved the cookies, but going crazy over a factory building that I am guessing was built in the last 100 years is a little over the top. Thoughts? Comments?
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When they went to billing via mail, it really killed things for paper boys. We were paid so poorly, that the tips were what we counted on. We used to put the paper on their front porch and on bad weather days, we bagged them. Now they fling them out of cars and hope they land somewhere in the driveway. Oh well, newspapers are going the way of the buggy whip, so it really doesn't matter.
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Vaguely...a lot of my memories are pretty hazy! What was that club that Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeanie) was part-owner of? Was it Huckelberry's?
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Ok, Fscott, now you are talking! Rush Street in it's heyday! BBC, Sweetwater, Arnie's, Faces, Jays, Mothers, I found a picture of that riverboat. It was called Sari's Restaurant/Lounge.
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I delivered newspapers in the late 1960's and was the only girl at our "paper boy" meetings, but I don't ever remember anyone being mean to me. We lived in South Holland and it was 7 days a week...the Tribune, the Sun Times and one other (there were only a few subscriptions to the third paper). I thought it was the American that changed to Today but it may have been the Daily News, dif
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How about Poor Richard's? Or is that too far south? I remember that being special as a kid, they had a lobster tank in the front and some outdoor gardens we could wander in while we were waiting?
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LOL. Since they were owned by Ralston Purina at the time, we had a lot of jokes about the meat. In reality, they used South American beef back in the 70's.
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There used to be one in South Holland, at or near the southwest corner of South Park Avenue and 170th St. (across from where they build Thornwood High School). There also used to be on in Lombard, a popular place to hang out and cruise through. I remember a friend pulled a prank and put one of those lawn jockeys on the roof at the front of the drive through (so you could see it from the stree
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There was one out in Lombard, on south Main Street, in the early 70's. I worked there when I was in high school. They were growing the chain back then and I remember going to a regional meeting at another old landmark, Shipwreck Kelly's. Funny you should mention the tacos, they were deep fried and I don't know anyone else ever did that. I still have a box of memorabilia from them...some
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I remember collecting the presidents. Thought the stand and the columns were styrofoam...
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Growing up in South Holland in the '60's, I remember a bowling alley right on the main street (South Park Avenue), easy to walk to and not far from the library and the old "five and dime" with the wooden floors and penny candy! Funny, I just Googled a map and it's still there, oddly enough called the South Holland Bowling Lanes ;)
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I went to the assessor's website but didn't see where you can find the owner's name for a property...
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