WOW! I"m also eagerly waiting! Be care full out there!
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Cool pics, are you honestly going in there? The 4719 home can still be seen on Google street view. Like I said this part of town always fascinated me, East Garfield Park, North Lawndale. We used to drive down California to get to Brighton Park.
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I recall several months ago a story on WGN or WBBM about a dead body found in or around the abandoned GF Structures building on the corner of S Kilpatrick and W Arthington. I think this is the extreme northwest corner of N Lawndale, if you get a chance please post your pictures. I have always found this area very interesting, just be care full out there.
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I remember reading there was a Turn Style in the Dixie Square mall in Harvey, the mall chase for the Blues Brothers was filmed there.
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Frank, Dave; That's what I figured, no Facebook for me. LOL!
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your welcome, we rode the Montrose bus from our Irving Park home to the bus turn a round at Broadway then walk to our doctors office near Wilson. I remember my mom being a little nervous of the street people, but they never bothered us. My dad how ever did get mugged on Sheridan near that store we shopped at. The picture "Uptown lady" looks like the store we shopped at, it had a pole by
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Brings back memories of when I was a kid, our doctors office was on Broadway at Wilson. My parents shoped at a store on Sheridan, my dad often parked the car on a side street near a alley with rats the size of cats! These pictures are exactly as I remember it. http://bobrehak.com/wordpress/portfolio-2/documentary/
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Please do!
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I'm not a fan of Facebook, sometimes I think about signing on just to see the FC posts there. But, I just hate Facebook!
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I often wonder that myself, and also Artista.
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Very cool, would be awesome to snoop around in person.
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My parents as newlyweds went to Riverview in 1967 the last year it was open.
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b.a.hoarder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff, go to www.historicaerials.com and enter 73rd > & Lawndale, Chicago, IL. The tank shows in the '38 > air survey, but the next done in '51 only shows a > circle where the tank stood. You can zoom in for a > good look. A later survey shows the spot paved > over. > After the '43 incident
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Nice find! was not familiar with them.
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Chuck, can you post the pics?
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Found some pics on Eddie's Rail Fan Page: http://eddiesrailroad.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/eddie-chicago-railfan/8465847016/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/eddie-chicago-railfan/8464748617/in/photostream No pics of the whole building however. This is where the Jim Beam advertisement was back in the early 80's!
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about a FC archaeological dig? I'm in! I'm in to for a dig, but it's not 2048 yet! LOL
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Is this the same warehouse that used to have a giant Jim Beam advertisement painted on the side facing California, so drivers on the Stevenson going east bound could see it? Around Christmas time it had something to do with jingle bells (JB=Jim Beam/jingle bells). I remember seeing it back in the early to mid 80's, every time we went to my uncle's place in Brighton Park.
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Wow, Artista you had been MIA for a long time. I had often wondered what had happened to you. Welcome back buddy!
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Love that pic Lance, thanks for posting it.
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I was spending a week at my cousin's house, and my aunt and uncle worked at Merchandise Mart. while they worked we would roam the mart. We where playing in the elevators and Ron Majors got in, we just looked at him and he smiled at us. Latter in the day as we got off an elevator Jane Byrne got in with her entourage.
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Nice piece, I enjoyed that. Love your picture Wardell, looks like the Strand Hotel is one of the few buildings that's still standing. http://maps.google.com/?ll=41.780177,-87.605925&spn=0.008961,0.013797&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.780277,-87.605916&panoid=638qmW51-jfuttbp3CL9UQ&cbp=12,180.81,,0,8.46
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I read somewhere that they were covered with metal plates, that would be awesome to get inside one of the stations. If you do go up there get lots of pictures and please post, if I still lived in Chicago I'd join you CrazyIvan!
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Excellent!
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Yes, you're right. I just posted it like it was on You Tube, and Chicago screen shots.com.
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Wow, CE thank you so much for the detailed information. I did not realize that a part of the embankment between 41st and 42 nd had been removed. I knew about the section between Drexel and Cottage Grove, it's funny or lucky that back in the day we did so much exploring that not once we where stopped or questioned by the police. But now, post 9/11 especially on active railroads I'm sure it's
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Great detective work and pictures! Makes you wonder how much history is still put up and forgotten in the basements and attics around the city!
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there is a small stretch of 17th st between S. kostner and S. Kildare (4300 W.);) <iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=41.857903,-87.732369&amp;spn=0.002257,0.005284&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;output=embed"&g
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Awsome, that inside photo is like a trip back in time. I wonder if they have more indoor shots they could share? Thanks again Frank!
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So sad, I also enjoyed the story behind this one, glad you got it before it was gone! Thanks Frank.
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