There was a Happy Foods on the southeast corner of Clark Street and Granville into the 1960's. It was across the street from Winsberg's dept store. It became a Certfied around around 1970 and stayed in business until about 2000 when it closed it's doors and sold the building to the Raven theater (which still resides there).
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I can't remember if that one got > bought by like Jewel. --It was bought by a small independent, Cermak Fresh Market, which apparently has six other stores in the city. I don't know when they will open on Ridge.
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The one on Central north of Devon. And not only was it a Dominick's - it was one of the early ones in the expansion. Store number four or five.
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mikbasile Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yardbirds 63 st, and Troy, on the southside, near > Marquette Park, It was filled with milk creats > full of recored albums. --You just reminded me mikbasile, that there was nothing more accommodating to a record collection than a wooden orange crate. Everyone I knew kept their records in one (or more). Whe
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In my Edgewater neighborhood the milk was delivered by the Twin Oaks Dairy. Don't know where it was located or what became of it, but I do remember the gallon bottles that were vaguely cube shaped so that four of them could fit snugly in a crate. The company mascot was imprinted in red on each bottle. It was a squirrel named Tod (Twin Oaks Dairy) and there were a couple of acorns as well to drive
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I delivered the Daily News as a kid and I was always under the impression that it was published by Sun-Times (in the same way that the American was owned by the Tribune). Maybe the 56th street location was - as you suggest - strictly a printing operation. Oddly, the News was only a weekday afternoon affair with a "weekend" edition that came out on Saturday morning - no Sunday edition.
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Here's a clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08fCLurn-g
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Questions about Mayfair: I seem to remember it being one of the early City Colleges of Chicago, yet the building looks an awful lot like a CPS high school. Was there a "conversion" at some point? I also remember it being somehow tied to Amundsen High School. Maybe it was some sort of night school thing? There must be someone her a little older than I who would remember something.
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It's a good thing that Rome fell before the advent of electronics. I'd hate to see how our calculators would work with that mess on 'em.
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Splendid insight Brian - thanks for that. I went to Catholic school in the 60's and 70's. At the time, CPS was deteriorating and in my neighborhood it was something of a stigma to attend one. However, there were those older than me who spoke well of the glory days of the public school system and said that the only thing that a Catholic didn't get by attending one was catechesis. It's local legend
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There was a drum and bugle corps called the Nisei Ambassadors that were often at events in my area (Edgewater) in the 1970's. They were mostly Japanese kids. (I think the term "Nisei" has something to do with second generation Japanese immigrants). I haven't heard anything about them lately, but I always enjoyed seeing them in their heyday.
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Paul Petraitis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perry Duis, the dean of chicago historians in his > intro to The Gem Of The Prairie sites Liebling's > book as the source as well and I never argue with > Professor Duis! --I took one of Prof. Duis' classes at UIC back in the 80's. He's a fountain of Chicagoana.
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here is it as the Bowman Dairy milk sign as in > 1937 from the IDOT Chicago Traffic Photo's. > http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/item_vi > ewer.php?CISOROOT=/uic_idot&CISOPTR=301&CISOBOX=1& > REC=6 --Great photo find rj! I just spent 15 min. devouring it with the "zoom in&quo
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I can state with certainty that the sign was still there as late as 1973.
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My local place was Round Records on Sheridan Road in Rogers Park very close to Loyola U. They had new records available on the first floor and "second hand' collection upstairs. They closed around 1990.
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You may be on to something Sit. In the second to last photo, that looks like the south wall of the Art Institute over Sousa's shoulder which would make that building across Michigan Ave. the Santa Fe building. The bottom photo seems to be looking south on Michigan from the corner of Van Buren. Anyone concur?
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I attended St. Gertrude grammar school in Edgewater (class of '72). It closed in the '80's and became part of the Northside Catholic Academy - a sort of collective school of several parishes who could no longer operate on their own due to decreasing numbers. I attended high school at St. Gregory's - one of the few parish high schools on the north side (along with St. Benedict's). It was near Bryn
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b.a.hoarder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- He developed a number of products and > innovations in plumbing, ultimately having > factories in many cities. --Would that be the same "Crane" I have been seeing for years imprinted on urinals when I have nothing else to read?
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bowler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My only suggestions are maybe the county archives > the old records for defunct hospitals or I know > many of the old sanitarium buildings became > Peterson Park of the Chicago Park District: > > http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fusea > ction/parks.detail/object_id/433b5e34-bd4e-4fe5-a
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Kchi, you didn't say what intersection the one you knew was at.
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I went to the Mass at Grant Park. I remember buying a salami sandwich at the Thorndale Deli before hopping on the L. I'll never forget the atmosphere that day. It was a rather atypical for Grant Park.
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Passed the building today...it looks like they > wisely decided to keep the look of the original > building and replaced some missing stone in the > process! --Yeah, i noticed that too. I catch the bus across the street from there some mornings and I've been keeping an eye on it. It looks like the
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Very cool. Historic Aerials shows it still operating in 1962 and in 1973 the base of it was still in the river although the bridge itself had apparently been detached by then.
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Well, my home is on the tour. It's the second one down in the first column of photos. Be sure to say hello if you come by.
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Roughly my high school years. I attended Harry Truman College when it opened in the fall of 1976 and I spent quite a bit of time exploring the neighborhood. These photos are giving me a memory rush. Thanks 222.
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Rustymuscle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I used to post here a lot as well but stopped and > went over to the FC group on Facebook. It's much > easier to post photos there than here. I don't do Facebook myself so I feel a bit left out. I agree though, that posting photos and other stuff on this site is less than an easy task. That's unfortunate s
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Don't remember the band, but the Salinger piece is one of my all-time favorites.(Coincidentally, I believe I first read it in 1974).
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daveg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wonder if LA Fitness will keep the look of the > original building. Hope so. --Well...um...actually:
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So I've lived in Edgewater all of my life in the area around Clark Street and Peterson. When I first knew the building at 6001 N. Broadway, it was home to Midwest Carpet. It had large aluminum "awnings" covering the upper floor of the building so it was impossible to figure out what the place was historically.From the visible part of the structure and it's location, I always assumed it h
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About ten years ago the city did a major overhaul on the stretch of Clark Street where it marries Ashland for the few blocks between Andersonville and Devon. Part of the facelift entailed pulling up the long-buried streetcar tracks that ran down the middle of the street. One of the happy consequences was the yield of large granite paving stones that apparently made the bed for the tracks. People s
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