I think Evergreen was always more or less a residential street, it's Ogden that changed from being a main thoroughfare to a quiet residential street. I have a few more screenshots from the move "Goldstein".. Its fascinating..(to me at least)...being an indie film and having no budget, they went into the neighborhoods and out-of-the-way places to film.
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Vintage views of Chicago and the movie "Goldstein" (1963-1964)...Trying to nail a location after viewing the film today. Man is pushing another man in a wheelchair up (after racking my brain) what I believe is the Ogden Ave overpass at Evergreen. It seems they approach the overpass coming east on Evergreen from Halsted. The "American Roller Co." sign is evident in the dista
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DANK-Haus opens "Lost German Chicago" Chicago, IL (MMD Newswire) September 21, 2009 -- The DANK-Haus in historic Lincoln Square will present "Lost German Chicago" in its newly created museum space. The exhibition features art, artifacts and memorabilia from within Chicago's German American community. The items record what has been lost in the Chicago German community while a
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Berwyn Frank Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- If you have any questions about a particular building just let me know. There is a chance I might know what significance it has to the Czech community. I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I do have a couple of questions about the Pilsen area, past and present. 1) is there a Pilsen equivalent to the "pol
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Berwyn Frank Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is basically the same location but taken just > a little bit farther to the east looking at the > same side of the street. You can see the large > C.S.P.S. building with the tower. In the first > postcard I posted here you can see what looks like > a vacant lot next to the C.S.P.S. buildi
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happened to be in the area today, so here's an updated view of the 18th and May corner from Berwyn Frank's postcard....that postcard view was from the 2nd floor window of the building at the SW corner...I was standing directly below that window. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/4417457965/" title="18th and May, Pilsen, Chicago ...2010 by captain54_01, on Flic
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Hendrix played at the Chicago Coliseum on December 1. 1968.... live concert recording http://www.jimihendrix.com/us/node/479
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parts of the facade (the turrets surrounding the entrance) remained until the late 90's...some of the remains have been relocated to the public park across the street I remember the "Syndrome" being a major dump and a cesspool by the time it was a concert venue in the late 60's. The Kinetic Playground near Lawrence and Clark was much nicer.
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the Oak Lawn Roller rink was rebuilt after the 67' tornado destroyed it...I read that almost the entire roof of the roller rink landing in the trailer court in the area...such a tragedy the lives lost there... the rebuilt roller rink was closed in 95' <object width="410" height="341" id="veohFlashPlayer" name="veohFlashPlayer"><param name=&quo
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wow....I forgot that N Clark street was a pretty seedy strip, back in the day.. I'm 99% sure that the strip clubs scenes for "Mickey One" (filmed in Chicago in 65' with Warren Beatty) were filmed in a club just south of Chicago Ave on Clark.
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bwalsh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually, the Oak Lawn rink was across the street > from where Hooters is now. Actually, where the Hooters is now is just a couple of doors down from where the Oak Lawn Roller Rink was...the OLRR was at 9121 S Cicero, and the Hooters is 9159 S Cicero...so they were both in the 9100 S block of Cicero.
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this is great, thanks for digging that up.. not mentioned is the Cape Cod Room at the Drake and the Italian Village...still in operation....also, Chez Paul, the Empire Room at the Palmer House, Binyons, Blackhawk....all lasted well into the 80's and some beyond. the two oldest still operating eating establishments are on the south side...Shaller's Pump, in Bridgeport, the oldest continually
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According to the book "That toddlin' town: Chicago's white dance bands and orchestras, 1900-1950", by Charles A Stengstock, Driscoll's Danceland went through a number of name changes until in became the Golden Pumpkin Chinese restaurant in 1930. It later reopend in the late 30's as a dance hall named the Park Casino. After it was converted to a bowling alley years later, it lay dormant u
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222psm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BTW congrats to your lady on her home purchase. It > looks like she found a nice neighborhood. the area is great...some of the homes are beginning to show their age, so you can find a deal if you are willing to go for a "fixer upper"
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222psm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LOL that's cool. does it all still light up? > That's got to be an older building or is it newer > with a old sign? its a strip mall with about 7 or 8 shops....it looks like the shops are in older buildings with newer facades. the sign is totally functional...lights up just like did in 1959 or whenever....
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222psm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- It does look like a > "Dick Van Dyke" neighborhood. you can throw "Bewitched" and "Brady Bunch" in there as well.
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another interesting sighting from the area is the old school neon sign leading people to the "Crawford Church Shopping Center", which is really nothing more than your average strip mall. Love the lit up "arrows" to the sides pointing you in the right direction. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/4382471117/" title="Crawford Church old schoo
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tseals Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kaufmans baker was at appx. 4405 N. Kedzie next > door to Ada's delicatesian. that's interesting....what a diverse block that must have been...Kaufman's, Ada's, then down the block you had the Our Lady of Mercy Convent, followed by the Korea Times building. (both of the later now demolished). I ready somewhere tha
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MIKETOUHY Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This has nothing to do with shopping at subburban > mall as opposed to the city, the whole chain went > out of bussiness. Looks like you didn't read my post very carefully....I didn't say that Wieboldt's when out of business because people started shopping in suburban malls, genius.. I said that way back
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I think its interesting that stores like Wieboldt's, Goldblatts's, etc., especially appealed to the ethnics in the neighborhoods that felt intimidated or felt they couldn't afford the "big" stores downtown. Sort of a harbringer of things to come, when shoppers later traveled to suburban malls, rather than shop in the city.
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I have heard the same...Timber Ridge was THE place to relocate from the old Rogers Park/Albany Park neighborhood...this particular home that my friend purchased in that sub is still somewhat preserved to its original condition, and its like taking a step back in time..sort of a late 50's, early 60's streamlined cool, where chrome was king and Hugh Hefner was in his heyday. It would be interesti
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My lady recently bought a home in the subdivision of Timber Ridge in Skokie...it's roughly a square mile bounded by Church to the north, Dempster to the south, Crawford to the west, and Prairie to the east.. It's got a very unusual street layout...all the streets have Indian like names, and are winding and curved..the architecture of most of the homes is very different...the area is lovely and
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FranCarmen Wrote: > From about 1900 through the sixties, Albany Park > was a major Jewish community and had many Jewish > institutions and businesses. In the sixties many > of the Jewish families left for the suburbs and > the businesses closed down or relocated. Are there any remnants or architectural reminders of any of those Jewish institutions and businesses?? Whe
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the Chinese restaurant building had been there since the mid or late 50's...along with the homes just west of it along SW highway... Now whether or not the Chinese restaurant building was a motel is hard to say, however I didn't see any cabin like structures surrounding it...going back to aerial views of the 60's and 70's the building that houses Ghosein Auto Repair, (just to the east of the
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that must have been a long, long time ago....I know there was a motel near the intersection of SW Highway and 95th St that was destroyed in the 67' tornado...but that's way west of Cicero
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222psm Wrote: - > > I see your point, but I wonder; why did the city > let this place get as bad as it is now? Why not > save it back in the late 50's early 60's when most > of the shops and business were still there > bringing in tax revenue? Is it because by that > time minorities were moving in and the city did > not care? Was it racism? The decline of Engl
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Right...wasn't it still occupied by a department > store when it was torn down? The building may > have been used as a store longer than it was used > as a theater. > > > Tax revenue is the key, and developers are like > lemmings; once someone starts developing in an > area or on a
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > That said, a lot of the buildings on Englewood's > main drag that were torn down recently were still > quite solid and in decent shape. The Carpenters' > Union building was in remarkable condition, for > one, and it's a testament to those who built it > that the Masonic Lodge is still
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Yet, on the north side of Madison street its just the opposite. Old broken down neighborhoods or desolate old industrial areas are suddenly transformed into cool, hip areas, and eventually prime real estate markets. It doesn't make any sense. I'll give you one possible explanation, or theory for all of this...(and I'll get off of my soapbox in a minute).. It has to do with whether or not the
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I saw wrestling shows there in the 60's and a couple of teeny booper concerts when I was a kid... most memorable was all the fences and facades Daley had erected during the 68' Democratic Convention throughout Canaryville to cover up the vacant lots filled with garabage and dilapidated garages. I always thought it was ironic that he tried to make the neighborhood look like something it wasn't,
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