Cragin Spring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We use to play Pinners behind the school. Throw a > rubber ball at a high wall behind the school and > others tried to catch it on a fly.If you caught > the ball on a fly it would be one out.If caught on > one bounce the thrower would get a single etc.. --I could never figure out why, what every
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Other street names in Edgewater taken from the Philadelphia Main Line: Rosemont Ardmore Wayne Devon
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tomcat630 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I remember not knowing how to pronounce it when > learning the street names as a kid. "Brian Mawr"? MisterDrexciya Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It sounds Gaelic/Welsh to me. What does it > actually mean? --Near the end of its existence, the Bryn Mawr
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You can check nearby churches for baptismal records. If she was a Catholic, she would have been baptised at one of these three parishes. You might try local schools also.
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Not to get too far off topic here, but being from Edgewater, I'm more familiar with the east extremity of Bryn Mawr. Edgewater Beach Apts., A-B CTA station, Bryn Mawr Theater (admission was still 60 cents through the 1970's), Hellas Gyros (still there, still the best), and Stoyas Pharmacy. Here's a photo circa 1970 looking east across Broadway:
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My link doesn't seem to go further than the title page: http://www.chsmedia.org/househistory/polk/start.pdf
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Cragin Spring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not to get off the subject about Polk Brothers > stuffed toy. But Polk Brothers for many years gave > away at Christmas season if you bought a appliance > a big plastic Santa Claus or Snowman. You had the > choice of one or the other. They always displayed > them in their windows right after Tha
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Dunning1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My first real job was slinging hot dogs in the > Cafe Brauer refreshment stands in Lincoln Park. > Man, that was years ago! --I had some friends who lived on my street - all the guys in the family worked for Cafe Brauer from about age 13 through high school. They worked mostly at the boat house on the lagoon
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Mornac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At Mass this morning, the priest mentioned that > St. John's was part of the Open House Chicago tour > and that they had over 500 visitors yesterday. It > then occurred to me that I never came back to this > thread with photos of our restoration (which more > or less finished last year). There's plenty
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The old Edgewater Hospital is starting to be torn > down now. --Little known fact: Birthplace of Hillary Clinton
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A church across the street from another church? Let me guess: Ss. Cyril & Methodius is Orthodox (or Eastern rite) and Nativity BVM is Roman Catholic.
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I remember Dr. Jazz being there for years but sadly, I never actually went into the place. I'm a little more familiar with it's sister outfit, Sally's Stage, because I had a cousin who was one of the roller skating waitresses there. Doctor Jazz/Sally's Stage
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Chop Suey at Lincoln and Ashland in 1917. (See top of the building right under the Edelweiss sign) Also, get a load of the shingle for the Hall Bros. Dentist across the street.
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Check out the ad on this 1941 photo somewhere on Wabash:
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My first job was with the Edgewater News Agency delivering the Daily News in the afternoons and eventually the Sun-Times and Tribune in the mornings. In high school I worked for Mid-West truck and trailer rental on north Clark Street. Then LaManna Pharmacy (apparently a short time after rjmachon was employed there). When I was 15 I was hired by the Dominick's at 6009 N Broadway and I stayed there
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celticjunker1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you can imagine your grandmothers cupboard for > a minute...Durkee thyme, sage, parsley, cinnamon, > etc came in small tin cans only about 2 1/2 or 3 > inches tall. My mom lined hers up in alpha order > on a shelf over the stove and I still have a few > of hers that I put on the xmas tree. I
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I understand that the Cards used to play the Bears on Thanksgiving for many years.
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Somewhat off-topic (well, entirely off-topic I guess), I remember when Johnny Carson would make jokes with not-so-vague references to organized crime, he would often cite a fictional place called "Vinnie Abruzzi's Little Touch of Newark".
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At Mass this morning, the priest mentioned that St. John's was part of the Open House Chicago tour and that they had over 500 visitors yesterday. It then occurred to me that I never came back to this thread with photos of our restoration (which more or less finished last year). There's plenty of photos of both the interior and exterior on the parish website. For some nice shots of the re-painted v
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In the 60's there was a candy store near our school called "Roy's Corner" (unofficially, I think) at the corner of Granville and Greenview. Once a year the Duncan yoyo guy would show up there to show off his stuff and hawk yoyos. A few years later, I met a friend of an older guy in the neighborhood who had been a Duncan yoyo champ. (I think all the demo guys wore the designation "ch
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone remember the Pie-Pan Restaurant that > use to be at the south west corner of Cicero and > Peterson were the Edens Office Plaza is now? --I remember that place largely because of the large scale ice cream cone that adorned the corner of it. When I was a kid, we often drove out that way on Sunday ev
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Mzzzdiva Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > She told me about > the man that put his wife's head on the bar and > said "Give this B a drink." That happened in 1946 > or 47 at Zoo's lounge. --Geeze, I hope no one else at the bar pushed an empty glass toward the bar tender and said, "Put a head on this."
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genes3@comcast.net Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > does anyone remember a bar called Edna's Place , > maybe on sheridan ? --The only Blues joints I knew of on Sheridan were Biddy Mulligans at Howard street and Minstrel's Pub in the Granada theater building by Loyola. Minstrel's wasn't exclusively Blues - they also had Folk and Rock nights.
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When I was a kid ours was BRiargate 4. We took it with us when we moved a few blocks away and my parents had it until they retired and moved out of the neighborhood. The common ones in our area where ARdmore 1, LOngbeah 1, RAvenswood 8, HOllycourt 5, and ROgers Park 4. I remember an occasional BIttersweet and UPtown as well. I always wondered what the location scheme was. They seem to be area spec
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the late 1970's where the Millionaire's Club in > Edgewater on the > southwest corner of Granville and Broadway was a > 'all you can eat' restaurant for a couple of years > also. I don't recall the name. > > Mornac, I believe that the Millionaire's Club > Restaurants were all tied togeth
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The one bona fide famous person from Edgewater is Clayton Moore of Lone Ranger fame who grew up on Glenwood near Devon. Other "one time" residents include Johnny Weissmuller who's family lived on Granville near Broadway for a time when he was young, and Jim "Fibber McGee" Jordan who was living near the same intersection when his radio career took off in the mid 20's. Gloria Swa
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't that a gas station now? --I remember that it lay fallow for a few years in the 70's until Wag's built a diner there. That was short-lived and may have become independant at some point. Eventually it closed and was torn down to make way for a Del Rey Farms grocery which was eventually transformed into an Osco.
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There was a Millionaire's Club in Edgewater on the southwest corner of Granville and Broadway into the early 70's. Was it related to the other two spoken of here. Was the Millionaire's Club some sort of chain or gimmick of some sort?
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Gary's Cycle Shop on the 6100 block of north Clark Street has been family owned and operated since 1948 and has a steelr reputation among all who patronize it. It's a super small store front that has served my Edgewater neighborhood since a decade before I was born. The current owner bought it from Gary in the 50's and assumed the name "Gary" himself for the sake of continuity (few peopl
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Mikey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > tooling around in the California - Devon area. > Adam's Apple, which opened around 1969 (just about > the last time I was in there) is STILL IN > BUSINESS, with the SAME OWNER since '69. He > carries bell-bottoms, rock clothing, and assorted > > other hippie stuff. I thought I'd faint when I saw &
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