Elevator grille from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/10003627?rpp=20&pg=4&ft=chicago&pos=61 Elevator panel from the Manhattan Building http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/10003629?rpp=20&pg=2&ft=chicago+architecture&pos=39 The Manhattan Building is a 16-story building a
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WayOutWardell, Good detective work! That certainly looks like the same streetcar tracks and building design.
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WayOutWardell, You may be correct, or very close. I just used Google Maps street view of the intersection of Harrison and Wells, photo September 2012. My guess too, was a location close to a railroad station. Maybe the photograph was taken near the LaSalle Street Station. I would like to find a 1950s vintage map that will show two intersecting streetcar lines at an acute angle, near the statio
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Where in Chicago? http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190017930?rpp=20&pg=3&ft=*&who=Harry+Callahan&pos=47
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Photographs from The Chicago Daily News 1902 - 1933 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/ Search: Entrance to a saloon in the sidewalk at South State Street and Van Buren Street
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I've read, that on the northwest corner of Halsted Street and Exchange Avenue (4136 S), is an abandoned old hotel, for people who brought cattle to the Union Stockyards. On the site of the Transit House. And possibly may have been given a fictional name in the Upton Sinclair book The Jungle? http://www.domu.com/chicago/history-map/upton-sinclair-the-jungle Chicago, IL Transit House Fi
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At Trader Vic's, in the Palmer House, a friend and I saw Martin Luther King with his wife and another man pass by our table.
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Photographs from the Chicago Daily News 1902 * 1933 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/
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Many fine, old, Chicago photographs. http://chicagopast.com/
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I don't have an answer regarding the Long Branch Tavern, but it is an interesting name; and I wonder if all Chicago taverns/saloons now, and in the past, have/had a required specific name documented for city tax, etc. My great uncle was the owner of a Chicago saloon in 1918, and I know the address but would like to know the saloon's name, if it can be found somewhere in an old document.
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Bungalows sometimes had a second story built into a sloping roof, usually with dormer windows, which would provide additional rooms or bedroom.
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Several photographs of Chicago bowlers and an interior view of Mussey's Bowling Alleys, located at 100-108 (now 67) West Madison, in 1902; and also, the interior view of J. R. Thompson Bowling Alleys, 1903; Aurora Turner Hall was located at North Milwaukee Avenue and West Huron Street, 1905; the Dexter Park Pavillion 1929. Photographs from The Chicago Daily News --- 1902 to 1933 http:/
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Leo's Castle @ 51st & Hermitage. Syrena's @ 47th > & South Wood St. How about my hotdog stand at 51st > & Wolcott across from Cornell Park where I sold > hotdogs? Surely, they were Chicago style hot dogs; a Vienna sausage with lots of mustard, onions, relish, tomato, pickles, cucumb
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This topic is interesting; I had to read this well researched article to bring me up-to-speed regarding the Schoenhofen Brewery. http://forgottenchicago.com/articles/schoenhofen-brewery/ I would like to know where the "large Schoenhofen Hall" was located.
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jak378 wrote: "Over east was Alexander's with great onion rings and a place called the Esquire on 63rd near Stony Island." Tell me more about "Alexander's"; I suspect that I was at the restaurant sometime in the mid 60's; was it in Hyde Park?
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According to the book --- Oldest Chicago by David Anthony Witter --- the oldest bakery (still a bakery) Roeser's Bakery 3216 W. North Avenue (1911).
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According to the book --- Oldest Chicago by David Anthony Witter --- the oldest bowling alley is Southport Lanes at 3325 N. Southport Avenue. Opened in 1922, and is the only bowling alley to still employ pin boys.
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According to the book --- Oldest Chicago by David Anthony Witter --- the oldest hotel, the Palmer House, rebuilt immediately after the Fire of 1871, featured a "vertical steam railroad", the first elevator.
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Also, you can search Nelson Algren at: Studs Terkel: Conversations with America http://www.studsterkel.org/
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mkasprzy, You may be interested in this: I recently purchased an old movie (DVD), made in 1963, called "Goldstein". Nelson Algren "makes an appearance in the film which he recounts the tale of Lostball Stahouska." I wouldn't have known about this old movie had it not been for the Forgotten Chicago feature: The Extension And Removal Of Ogden Avenue. Two photographs in th
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I could not resist this off-topic comment: Tad Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, in 1866, attended the Brown School on Warren Avenue between Page and Wood Streets; about two bocks east of the home at 2024.
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I'm trying to imagine what the view of the Fire of 1871 was like from the windows of this house. The Fire did not reach the house; and raged east of the Chicago river, but the view must have been frightening.
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I have read -- in Old Chicago Houses (1941) by John Drury -- that in the 1930s there was an Historic American Building Survey undertaken by the W.P.A. federal architects' project in Chicago. And also, their plate drawings, detailed sketches of the interior and trim, are in the permanent files of the Library of Congress and the Burnham Architectural Library of the Art Institute. For an example,
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It looks like it began life as Chicago's GREEK REVIVAL STYLE, ca. 1850 - ca. 1865.
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The one and only pizzaria that I've been in - back in the mid 60s, in the Rush Street area, at Ohio and Wabash - the Uno Chicago Grill, for "Chicago-style deep dish pizza."
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One of my favorite Chicago mystery authors is Robert Goldsborough and I thought some FCF readers may be interested in reading Goldsborough's Snap Malek Mystery series, especailly his Death in Pilsen and Shadow of the Bomb. The mysteries take place in the 40s; and the main fictional character, Steve Malek, was a member of a Sokol for awhile growing up in Pilsen. I didn't know what a Sokol was unti
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zorchvalve,Those were interesting places and people. We should start a new topic, about North Avenue in the 40s and mid 50s, from Clybourn to Astor.
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zorchvalve, You must have biked past old St. Joseph's Hospital at the corner of Dickens and Burling. I don't remember however, the hot dog stand. By the way, I do remember, once being in St. James church -- that you mentioned earlier -- with my mother, but not for a Sunday service. Also, in an 1892 Rand - McNally Standard Map of Chicago, Dickens was then named Garfield (before Garfield it wa
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