What is the story about "Lonigans fireplug?"
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I agree with HALTANEK, Mr. D's was on Irving and Narragansett.
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By the way, I also have memorabilia from the other two dealers the original poster mentioned, Kronon & Gateway. (I just posted pics of stuff from Nickey and Keystone). I also have a cool postcard from Courtesy and memorabilia from many many more Chicago area dealerships.
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Ahh......a subject dear to my heart! I have been researching Chicago area dealerships and collecting memorabilia from them for years, longer then I have been into Chicago history. I think it may have been influenced by the decade I spent in the car business. I focused mainly on Chevrolet because I collected 60s & 70s era Chevy muscle cars as well. Nickey Chevrolet at 4501 W. Irving Par
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Hawthorne, I would DEFINITELY recomend Pilsen as a fantastic place for a tour. This historic ethnic neighborhood is very old and largely intact. I could go on and on but I will link you this thread instead. Check it out! http://forgottenchicago.com/forum/2/1846/page=1/_subject_
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Wow Skekaago, your article basically solved this mystery. The medical district was "supposedy" supposed to develop the property. As a result another Chicago neighborhood bit the dust. That name for the neighborhood was neat....."the valley."
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shekaago Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fascinating story on the Stob family history! I > had no idea that area was once a Dutch > neighborhood. Perhaps the U of I Medical Center > complex has something to do with the final > clearing out of this area but am just guessing > here. I attended the University of Illinois back > in the 80's
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I spent some time stydying the historic ariels and wow! This whole little neighborhood started falling apart in the 1960s and from 1988 to 2007 was the worst. The buildings must have been EXTREMELY blighted because every year there were more and more gone. It's sad that these neighborhoods were literally torn to pieces by the people that inhabited them.
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A couple more updates. Sign sales have been slow. S. Wallace St.- $91.00 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=160507004401&si=GpB5BeyO78bTFywpXzttFq%252BgJ7Q%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT S. Parnell Av.- $49.99 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=390262711735&si=GpB5BeyO78b
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Check out this thread for more info on Chicago street signs. http://forgottenchicago.com/forum/5/4529/early_chicago_street_signs
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That's a VERY good question! I will have to look into it and see what exactly happened to this neighborhood. I can tell you for sure that the neighborhood was a Dutch colony in the first half of the 20th Century. Quite a fascinating place. Here is an amazing story that was linked by FranCarmen from this site describing this EXACT neighborhood by a man who grew up in the neighborhood.
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Dave you're dating yourself there! >:D<
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The house is not that nice inside. http://myalcaponemuseum.com/id166.htm
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Mr. Leeks, I spent a while looking at your blog this morining and I love it! Mr. Leeks has some photos posted in his blog of the Hebrew Theological Colleges demolition. Check them out.
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Great! thanks Mr. Leeks! Ok, I got some more info on the "castle house" at 1322 S. Independence Blvd. James J. Schruta WAS in fact a Bohemian and he definitely owned the house. I updated the post above with the story of Mr. Schruta. 1322 S. Independence Blvd. was designed by Bohemian Chicago architect James B. Dibelka who designed many other buildings in Lawndale and other Cze
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Ok, I finally got some exact numbers and dates regarded this much discussed Forgotten Chicago topic. In September 1936 President Roosevelt approved grants by the Federal Public Works Administration in which $96,000 would be going to Chicago to hang some 64,000 yellow and black 5" X 26" metal street signs. It would take 17 weeks to manufacture the signs and they would begin to be hung
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It's been for sale for a while at an unrealistic price in a sketchy neighborhood.
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In the 1908-1910 era "street signs" were basically painted letters stenciled onto the poles that were usually on the corners in neighborhoods. Street signs started popping up after that period. Here is a photo I saved from e-bay of men that took part in breaking up the 1919 Chicago race riots. Note the 63rd & Racine street sign. During WWII most of the street signs were tak
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Some more bad news as far as losing historic buildings is concerned. Mr. Leeks also informed me that this VERY interesting "castle like" building was also razed at 1322 S. Independence Blvd. The building which more recently housed the Peace Missionary Baptist Church has always been one of my favorites. A while back a portion of the castellated top corner of the building collapsed. Th
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Capt. I got a TON of Western Electric shots if you ever need any! Man, that siet is great. Chicago has sure changed! This one's for Artista! Yo Artista, where you at? http://www.trolleybuses.net/chi/htm/usa_h_chi_mh_9578_rt53pulaskinorth_19690504_ss.htm **Darn, the link won't work! It was a cool shot of North & Pulaski showing the bank.
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The next bit of news is not so good. During a conversation I had with Mr. Leeks he regretfully informed me the former Hebrew Theological College had been razed about a month ago. The building located at Douglas Blvd. & St. Louis, which was owned by the City of Chicago, was in severe disrepair. The front of the building which was constructed in 1922 was falling away from the back of the buil
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The next thing I wanted to mention is in reference to Mr. Charles Leeks post at the top of this page. He and his group Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago worked very hard to get the area known as "K-Town" on the National Register of Historic Places. If you don't know, this is a very involved task and quite an accomplishment for a neighborhood. The area on the register encompasse
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Let me start my updates on North Lawndale with a neat ghost sign. This one is on the side of this neat old graystone store front building at 1528 S. Kedzie Ave. It's not the best picture but it advertises Cigars, Tobacco, & Pipes.
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The one that has recently caught my interest is the Michigan Blvd. Garden Apartments. This megalithic 451 unit structure was built in 1929 by Julis Rosenwald, President of Sears Roebuck & Co., to provide affordable housing for black recent arrivals from the south making the migration north. Unfortunately the building has fallen into severe disrepair and is "endangered." Here is a c
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I have been really getting into Bronzeville history these days. One aspect in particular that fascinates me is the mega apartment houses that were famous in the old Bronzeville neighborhood. The one that originally captured my fascination was the Mecca Flats which was legendary in Chicago, located at 34th & State St. Many blacks that moved north during the great migration passed through thi
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Wow, i had a nice chat with Lori offline. Isn't it amazing what pops up on Forgotten Chicago!? >:D<
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YES!
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I never heard of that street of moonshine alley. I will have to look it up.
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63-64?
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When he first moved there he went to Whitney, then to Good Shepherd, then to Farragut.
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