This 1892 map shows the "Kinzie St Station" at the NE corner of Kinzie and Canal, next to the north branch of the river. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chi1890/G4104-C6-1892-R3-NE.html
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The the general location: Chicago's first railroad depot, the Galena & Chicago Union, stood on Kinzie Street just north of the Chicago River. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/6376.html See also the upper right-hand map insert: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chi1890/G4104-C6P3-1899-R3.html
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A person you may also be interested in researching; Chicago's Bertha Palmer; she collected Impressionist paintings and displayed twenty-nine Monets and eleven Renoirs in her mansion on Lake Shore Drive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Palmer Also the books: Silhouette in Diamonds by Ishbel Ross (published in 1960) The Jewel of the Gold Coast: Mrs. Potter Palmer's Chicago by Sally Sex
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I've also read that immigrant men from Naples Italy pushed homemade carts by Taylor and Racine, selling pizza as early as the 1890s: the carts equipped with copper washtubs with small bits of charcoal underneath. See: Oldest Chicago by David Anthony Witter
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bowler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just as a follow up. Got a copy of the "Master of > Light" book from the library and there isn't > really anything more than what you can read on > Google Books. Thanks for the post. I'll try a > little more digging and see if there is any more > info on this subject. Thank you for the
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Vincent (Jimmy) Bruno Giovanni opened the first Pizzaria in "The Loop" in Chicago at 421 S. Wabash Ave, the Yacht Club. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
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"The Hub at 294 W. Madison Street in Chicago was a favorite watering hole of blue collar working men of the city." http://www.illinoishauntings.com/tomb.html And converting the pre-1909 street address to the current number --- 1023 West Madison Street.
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According to the "History of Chicago, Volume 1" by Alfred Theodore Andreas, "The Hub" had been in existence before Lytton's store. In 1857: "pavements were tested and stamped with the approval of The Hub". See: http://books.google.com/books?id=wP0TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA630&lpg=PA630&dq=wolf+point+taverns+history&source=bl&ots=EV8Vaes-bf&sig=pVMYbaUxdzy
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jak378 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Old Town Ale House is in there, under Old Town > South of North Ave. What I did not find was > "Chances R." Maybe the did go broke. It is not the orginal Old Town Ale House that was orginally located at 227 West North Avenue. . . and is the only real Chicago bar that I know of that had a brief mentio
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I see the Old Town Ale House, that was located at the southwest corner of Wieland and North Avenue is not on the list?
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The "Golden Lady" is most impressive and unexpected when viewed for the first time in Jackson Park. http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/attractions/park_district/statue_of_the_republic.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_the_Republic . . . and a far cry from the Marilyn Monroe Statue/sculpture that was located in the city's Pioneer Court. :)
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jak378 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have always been partial to "The Fountain of > Tim," by Laredo Taft, at the Midway and, is it > Stony Island or Cottage Grove? The Fountain of Time is located in Washington Park, just west of Cottage Grove Avenue, immediately west of the Midway Plaisance; midway between 59th and 60th Streets.
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What Chicago outdoor sculptures do you like, or dislike, and why? One of the sculptures that I like is "The Bean" in Millennium Park, although unfortunately, I haven't viewed it in person, it appears that it would give one an interesting close-up portrait photographs. ;-) The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial was always visible to me in Lincoln Park, when I was a kid in the '40s.
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According to the book: Hidden History of Old Town by Shirley Baugher, The Steak Joynt (no longer in existence) at 1610 North Wells --- "is said to be one of the city's most haunted locations." My opinion: Extremely doubtful. ;-)
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bowler, I understand that a detailed description of the Clearing experiment can be found in the book: The Master of Light: A Biography of Albert A. Michelson by Dorothy Michelson Livingston, pp. 308-309 (Published in 1979) and is available at the Chicago Public Library. or search: clearing illinois http://books.google.com/books?id=j5RYAAAAYAAJ&q=The+Master+of+Light.&dq=T
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I remember mentioning Albert Michelson and his apparatus in a conversation I had with Clearing historian Robert Milton Hill. That conversation was 20 years ago; and although he was interested in it, had I known then about the more than a mile of 12-inch pipe, and he being a plumber by trade, I suspect that I would have really piqued his interest.
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A bit of off-beat Clearing history: In the winter of 1924, Albert Michelson, a physicist at the University of Chicago, performed an experiment to measure the speed of light. Somewhere in Clearing, he sent light beams through a 12-inch water pipe in the form of a rectangle with the dimensions 2010 x 1113 feet.
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murphman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently I am related to the "Terrible one" on > my fathers side through marriage. Everyone I > broached the subject to was suspiciously mum. > Except of course his daring escape from CCJ which > I don't believe I have to recount here. If memory > serves there was an auction in the late n
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Informative books: To Die in Chicago - Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862-65 by George Levy (Published in 1999); and available at the Chicago Public Libraries. Bygone Days In Chicago: Recollections of the "Garden city" of the sixties by Frederick Francis Cook (Published: 1910); and also available at the Chicago Public Library -- HWLC Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the C
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See: Cable Car Remnants http://forgottenchicago.com/features/cable-car-remnants/
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The description of this photograph (1940s-50s) is given as: "Possibly Chicago", showing a street sign "Union St". If this is a photograph of a Chicago location, where in Chicago? There is a Union Avenue 700 W, from 630 N to 12937 S . . . and where would the pedestrian bridge be, shown in the background? http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190037843?
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Mr Downtown, Thank you for the location. I had zoomed into the photo and saw the 418 and suspected the location was somewhere just west of Sedgwick. When I look at the far end of Fern Court in the photograph, which must be the intersection of Ogden Avenue, and probably Menomee Street --- according to a 1938 map --- I see a multi-story building that puzzles me. The Forgotten Chicago feature
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bowler, Thank you for the interesting photographs. The old shack that I commented on, seems to be shown in the 1930s photograph. What a radical change of environment Garfield Ridge was for me in '52, as compared to my old homes in Lincoln Park.
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The Bancroft school is shown located on Artesian Avenue in this 1914 School Map: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chi1900/G4104-C6E68-1914-C7.html
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b.a.hoarder, I lived on Merrimac,just south of 52nd, from 1952 to about '65. An old dilapidated shack stood mid block, on the east side of Merrimac, between 52nd and 51st, with the open prairie surrounding it. Despite its run-down appearance -- it probably had been in existence since the earliest days of Garfield Ridge -- a man lived in it alone. One day, sometime in '53 or '54, it was myster
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Where was this photograph taken in 1950? http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190018833?rpp=20&pg=22&ao=on&ft=chicago&pos=434
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Do people still skate at the Midway Plaisance in Hyde Park? Long-distance skaters would have been delighted had the Midway "Venetian" canal linking the lagoon systems of Jackson and Washington parks been buildt, as once planned.
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b.a.hoarder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We skated at the local parks and sometimes on the > Des Plaines river. One year in particular (1962?) > was special. Conditions were perfect, very smooth > ice, with no snow cover on the river and we skated > from about 4800 S., just off Harlem Ave. all the > way into Riverside. b.a.hoarder, S
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Rustymuscle, I agree with your camera location; the original 1953 photograph must have been taken facing west with the train shed of the Grand Central Station's "self-supporting glass and steel train shed" in the background. Photograph From The Chicago Daily News 1902 - 1933 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/ Search: tower of Grand Central Station
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Where did you ice skate when you were a kid? I skated on the Lincoln Park south lagoon near to the Cafe Brauer, in the 40s; and if my memory still serves me, horse drawn plows cleared the snow cover . . . and also, I skated on the tennis courts next to the Fullerton L station,however, Google Maps street view shows a Dominick's store now on the site.
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