Good Lord, I've never been happier to see a post here than yours. It's cleared up a lifelong mysterious memory. I was afraid I'd go to my grave without ever finding out. Somewhere around 1960, give or take a few years, I was with my parents downtown. I was somewhere around ten years old. I've had this vivid memory of going down the stairs at this very location under the el tracks: as we we
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There was one on Roosevelt just east of Cicero Ave. I lived across the alley from there. One hot summer in the 50s the thing must have undergone a thorough clean-out, cause it was surrounded by chunks of ice and piles of 'frost.' I made snowballs from this stuff and threw them at people, dead of summer, 90-degree weather. Big fun.
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HFCS is a standard substitute for sugar in soda these days, and became standard in the late 70s. I recall that I drank about as much Coke as anyone else at the time; and one day I got a Coke that had a sickly-sweet flavor to it. My first thought was that I'd somehow 'outgrown' soda, so I stopped drinking it. In fact, it was the HFCS that gave it this flavor. Probably why Green River today
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RE the Kopper Kettle scene...there was one on the north side of Randolph, one or two doors east of Dearborn. In that screencap, I believe you can see the marquee of the Woods Theater just west of there.
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