OK, I see it now. Part of the ghost house was in what is now the middle of the street, and the garage part is partly under the new house. Got it! We had a "ghost" house in our neighborhood, it still was fully furnished, but someone had ransacked it. The calenders in the place had the date of July 1971, and it was 1982! We called it a ghost house because it was abandoned, but we never sa
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Thanks for posting the historic aerials Bruce, that cleared up a lot. The sub-division on Graystone Ct is were the ghost used to be, I just thought the ghost house was closer to the road, but it was way back. It looks like one of the houses is almost in the same spot as the old house: <iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marg
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This is the "outhouse" <a href="http://s994.photobucket.com/albums/af68/HafhandNation2/Grimes%20Sisters-German%20Church%20Road/?action=view&current=100_5926.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af68/HafhandNation2/Grimes%20Sisters-German%20Church%20Road/100_5926.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket&quo
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I've been looking for pictures of the house online, but all I can find was pictures that seem to be the gate by County Line Rd. It looks like a lot of people have got the wrong place. this is the gate by County Line Rd: <iframe width="562" height="314" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://
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jclillig Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I drove down Armitage the other day. I am pretty > sure the bar was located at 7009-7011 W. Armitage. > Now there are 2 houses at those addresses that > were built in 1988, according to a few different > online sites. That was about where I remember the > bar being located, and those are the only new
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I remember the milk man, he delivered milk in the glass bottles, that was in the early 70's. And of course the good humor truck. Those were the times!
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That would be awesome, please post what you find out.
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Thanks bwalsh.
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Bruce, you mentioned a "MSD cop" in one of your posts, What does MSD stand for?
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Bruce Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No that is not correct. They were found on the > North side of German Church Road along side the > guard rail at that ravine I gave the coordinates > of. > > This web site has the best and most accurate > account of the Grimes murders I have seen. The > ghost house is even mentioned. >
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Wow! That thing is huge. I would hate to think the devastation they would cause if one blew up.
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Very cool Bwalsh!
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We ate at that White castle the last time I was in Chicago, for my aunt's wake at Fortuna funeral home. I remember a liquor store and a tavern across the street.
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Ours was just like b.a.hoarder describes, it was in the rear of the building off to the side. As a matter of fact the lid on ours broke when someone threw a heavy object off the 3rd floor porch. I remember ours had a clog one time, and the plumber came out to fix it. The pit was six feet deep, and I recall him pulling out large chunks of mustard yellow-black play-dough looking stuff. The plumber c
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Those pictures are so sharp! Very cool thanks Artista.
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captain54 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ballinger exiting the Vogue Ballroom - 3810 N > Broadway, near Grace and Broadway -view south on > Broadway toward Grace - 1958 > > The Vogue Ballroom was once part of a huge complex > which included the Vogue and Chateau > Theatres...the complex contained movie theatres, a > ballroom, bowl
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That is strange, our building had one (built in 1922) but did not have that extension. Like bwalsh I also don't recall seeing one like that.
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A demo permit? Boy they really want to get every single penny out of you! That is the most up thing I have heard of.
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That pic of the corner of Grand and Oak Park is amazing, It was literally "out in the country". Now I know why they called the Dunning Hospital the country farm, I assuming the view is west on Grand. here's it is today for those of us no longer in Chicago. <iframe width="562" height="314" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0&qu
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very cool pics Artista, I just love those old buildings. And like Berwyn Frank I love late 50's and 60's cars. Two of my uncles had 59 Impalas, they were both 2 door hard tops. My dad had a 61 Ford Galaxie, later on my uncle that lived in pilsen had a 75 Buick Electra 225 2 door, those cars were like tanks!
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Wow! It looks like it took out at least 3 or 4 buildings. Artista do you know how the fire started? From google maps it looks like it's still a vacant lot today.
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Hi, Artista! haven't seen you on the forum for a while, welcome back! When I first saw the black paint on the door, I thought to myself "it's only a mater of time before some punk hits that with spray paint"
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Nice pics, thanks for sharing.
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Man, I had long forgotten those ANNOYING! Long Chevy commercials, Thanks a lot captain. Now I can't get that out of my head! LOL!!
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Wow! Big difference 100 years makes! Very cool that you got the bus in the today pic.
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We had phone booths on Montrose between Richmond and Sacramento next to the milk vending machine.
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Rustymuscle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Captain, my apologies for not being able to offer > the episode title of the location shot at Catalpa > and Clark. The episode (going from memory here) is > the one where in the beginning a guy in a drug > store station wagon witnesses a shooting. The > witness is followed and killed inside the dr
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That is an interesting theory captain, it is plausible that building was abandoned and ready for demolition. I would assume most of the buildings in that area had been bought or gone though eminent domain by then. That building does look like a police station especially sine it had 2 garage doors, a lot of the old police stations had two bays, one for a patrol car and one for an ambulance. But of
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I wonder why they only tore down half the building, strange.
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Oh, my bad! I wish I had first hand accounts but that's a little before my time! LOL! But it would be cool if someone could chime in, and share some memories of when the express ways where put in.
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