Nobody took a photo???
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Jeff_Weiner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone remember the art project, started back > in the 1960's, to repaint all the roof water tanks > in bright colors, and number them consecutively? I > remember some were done in/around Old Town, but > wonder if any have survived. --I seem to remember two "twin" tanks at or near
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Just asked my wife - she says she has particularly fond memories of the veal vino bianco. Didn't the place relocate briefly after it closed on Irving? Maybe I'm dreaming.
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I never had the pizza but my wife and I went there often in the 1980's. I was a big fan of the mussels mariner. My wife liked all of the veal dishes - especially the veal Marsala as I recall. I think the place took a turn for the worse when one (or both?) of the sons took over the ownership.
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"Anytime you're ready, we're ready. 'Cuz anytime is ready time at Al Piemonte Ford!"
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For certain Jeff.
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The prize goes to WayOutWardell. But since you brought Bert Weinman into the discussion Lance, does anyone remember the actual name of his pitchman?
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Anyone remember the name of "Your singing Ford dealer"? ("Rock-a-bye your babeeee!")
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I used to own a 4 flat on the 1600 block of Thome in Edgewater. There was 12 flat across the alley from us that had a large yard with several garages and a big house that the landlord lived in. The house was at the corner of two alleys: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1649+West+Highland+Avenue,+Chicago,+IL&hl=en&ll=41.996548,-87.670719&spn=0.001531,0.002642&sll=39.739318,-89.2665
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Boy, the Park District was a real winner in my neighborhood. They operated out of Senn High School and they had myriad after school programs. Me and my brother did arts and crafts for couple of years until we started delivering newspapers after school. My sister and her friends did tumbling. They had an expansive gym and there was plenty of basketball, volleyball, karate, etc. At Halloween there w
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A few cool pics I bumped into in today's online Trib: http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-130404-edgewater-beach-hotel-pictures/
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I wouldn't worry about it Scott
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You're not nuts murphman, I remember Old Abe well. We lived next door to Egan's Tavern on the corner of Peterson and Paulina. My dad used to run next door to get quarts of Old Abe for special occasions (we didn't get pop on a regular basis in our home). On our regular bottle-hunting rounds, finding an Old Abe bottle meant a 5 cent deposit return rather than the two cents that regular sized bottles
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wags300 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We lived at 5125 N Clark st above Evensons Food > Mart on the corner of Winona. > I used to deliver groceries by bike (my older > brother also) thru out the > neighborhood back in the late 40's & early > 50's..It was full serve with > butchered meat on site, etc....down the block on > Clar
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Bill_Baar Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > re: Also strange is Oak Brook doesn't use 'Cermak > Rd', but 22nd St. Whats the attachment to a > numbered st? --Might be more of an aversion to Cermak. Perhaps Oak Brookians felt no need to honor a Chicago mayor by naming one of their streets for him.
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ambrosemario Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello Mornac, > > I am curious as to the condition of the Tip Top > Tap when you were there 10 years ago. Was it an > empty space of did equipment from its hey-day > remain in place tables, booths, bar, etc.? Well ambrosemario, I'd say it had undergone a re-hab but by no means would I call it
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I was in there once but under particular circumstances. About ten years ago the place was reopening after having been closed for some time and Don Wade and Roma from WLS were doing their morning program from there to mark the occasion. I was one of the listeners who was invited.
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Hey! Look at this:
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BOTH Robert Hall jingles
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I had friends who grew up in a two-flat on Devon just west of Clark street. The house was surrounded by alleys - to the east, west, and south. I just walked by it a week ago and the situation is unchanged. They always lauded the fact that they were never bothered by any neighbors.
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A few local department stores I remember are Winsberg's on the 6100 block of north Clark street and the Crawford (sometimes called simply Crawford's) out on Devon (around California maybe). The Crawford was gone by the 1980's and Winsberg's held on until about ten years ago. There was another neigborhood department store on Clark street somewhere in Andersonville but I can't for the life of me rem
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Several things make me doubt this is Chicago. Aside from the architechture being a little off, the terrain is a little too rural for the area you’re suggesting, the almost handmade wooden sign wood never be something the city would employ in our climate, the “parallel parking” sign would be larger and have “City of Chicago” printed in small somewhere on it, the “Union Street” sign is
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One year a kid moved onto our street from the Taylor street area and showed us how to make what was apparently called a “birthday cake” in the old neighborhood. Basically, you un-wrapped two or three bricks of firecrackers and laid them out end to end into a long strip so that all of the fuses were running up the middle. Next, you re-rolled them very tightly in the form of a two layered cake w
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Happened in our neighborhood in the mid 70's
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Yeah I knew of a similar homemade explosion that may have been a bit risky (I'm not really sure). We'd take one of those one gallon milk bottles used for home delivery. (They were kind if square-ish so that four of them could share a milk crate.) We'd fill it with one element - can't remember if it was water or bleach. After that we'd dissolve some Lewis Lye in it and add little bits of tin foil.
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It’s been awhile since I saw that one but I too thought it was underrated. I was under the impression from some subtle clues in the script, that the story begins in the Quad Cities where Paul Newman was the big boss. After things heat up, To Hanks heads toward Chicago to mix it up with the big boys. When he ultimately heads to the town of Perdition, he makes some allusions to it being in Indiana
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Cuddly Duddly was a Tribune creature.
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This? POLK-A-LAY-LEE
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One fine day in the late 1970's I was exiting the B. Dalton bookstore on Wabash. As I went to enter the compartment of the quickly moving revolving door, I found myself face to face with Roger Ebert who was exiting it at the same time. Never even had the chance to say hello.
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I was born in '58 so my Santa days were in the early '60's and were usually at the Sears on Lawrence. There was always a not-too-long line and I think he was near the staircase. After a few years, they moved the whole affair into their parking lot one block east (probably due to sales floor space concerns). In the parking lot. Santa had a tiny house - undoubtedly to battle inclement weather. The l
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