The Fountain by Night, the lagoon fountain at A Century of Progress; at the time - 1933 & 1934 - the largest fountain in the world; 670 feet long and illuminated at night by colored lights. http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/uic_cop&CISOPTR=852&CISOBOX=1&REC=12 http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/uic_cop&am
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Thanks Richard, A long oil painting of a river; and possibly still exists, somewhere.
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Richard, Was the picture above the bar a painting of the river? Sounds interesting, I would have liked to have seen it.
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This may be helpful, for research Adoption Research, at the Newberry Library: http://www.newberry.org/adoption-research
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At the Newberry Library: Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town " Through photographs, illustrations, published texts, and manuscript sources, this website tells the story of Pullman in all of its complexity." http://publications.newberry.org/pullman/
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Diogenes9561, I agree, it is scandalous. I found this photo and house plan of the Wright building. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=Photograph:%20il0060&fi=number&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co%20=hh&st=gallery&sg%20=%20true Also, I want to correct what I wrote earlier, regarding houses in John Drury's book; I only suspect that many of the houses no longer exist; since
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Before the 1909 street number change, 637 West 26th was 519 East 26th.
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Diogenes9561, John Drury also wrote the book Old Chicago Houses, a resource for homes most of which, no longer exist. An interesting man. http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/DruryNeville.xml
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Dining in Chicago by John Drury. published in 1931 http://www.archive.org/stream/dininginchicago00drur#page/n5/mode/2up I didn't expect to see the chapter "An Old American Custom" pages 11 to 17, about various cocktails, in a 1931 book, during Prohibition. ;-)
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Jim, Also, a Google Map view of the intersection off Kostner & Argyle: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=+Kostner+%26+Argyle,+chicago&hl=en&ll=41.971783,-87.738179&spn=0.001165,0.002714&sll=39.739318,-89.266507&sspn=9.863297,22.236328&t=h&hnear=N+Kostner+Ave+%26+W+Argyle+St,+Chicago,+Illinois&z=19&layer=c&cbll=41.971786,-87.738047&panoid=DASB1Nl-ZQw
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The Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain "During the dedication in August of 1927, John Philip Sousa conducted while his band played “Pomp and Circumstance” before an audience of 50,000 people." http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/clarence-f-buckingham-memorial-fountain/
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A fountain that changed the City's obscenity law before it could be dedicated in 1913. The Fountain of the Great Lakes, located near the Art Institute, forced the Mayor, Carter Harrison, Jr., to propose an amendment to the City's law, because of objections to the nudity of the fountain's female figures. http://www.cpdit01.com/resources/planning-and-development.fountains-monuments-and-sculptur
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b.a.hoarder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > David, I wonder if you saw the program on H2, the > History Channel's other outlet, about the > Waubansee Stone. Scott Wolter is a researcher that > travels around looking to debunk, or prove history > as we know it. The name of the series is "America > Unearthed" and Wolter also has the
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And also, a mysterious part-time Chicago fountain; the Waubansee Stone. In 1865 the stone was located Dearborn Park--east of Wabash between Washington and Randolph. It was "drilled and tunnelled for the water-pipes," making it into a fountain that symbolized Lake Michigan. http://www.earlychicago.com/monuments.php?letter=W
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This fountain may be of interest - - The Rosenberg Fountain, A fountain at the south end of Grant Park, was inspired by a newsboy's thirst on a warm day, and his failure to convince any his customers to offer to him a drink of water. http://www.cpdit01.com/resources/planning-and-development.fountains-monuments-and-sculptures/Grant%20Park/Rosenberg%20Fountain.pdf
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One of the highlights of my weekend walks with my parents in the early 40s, was to stop and admire the Eli Bates Fountain in the Lincoln Park Conservatory Garden. At the age of three or four, I would often see people fishing in the lake at the North Avenue pier; and I guess, that it inspired me to try my luck fishing in the Bates Fountain. I thought I had seen on one occasion, gold fish swimming i
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View of Bubbly Creek crusted with sewage at West 39th and South Morgan Streets. http://chsmedia.org:8081/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1420H6N8L3832.6331&profile=public&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100046~!101642~!38&ri=2&aspect=subtab114&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=south+branch&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subt
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bowler and rjmachon, Thank you both for the information. It is surprising that the building still exists, considering that many buildings have been demolished around it.
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bowler, Thank you for the information; and reminds me that I should reread my copy of Bob Hill's book.
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changed in 1936 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~itappcnc/pipcnstreetfind.htm
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The street name has been changed http://www.chicagohistory.org/documents/research/resources/streetNameChanges.pdf Edgecomb Pl., Cuyler Ave. 4114N 800 to 999W. Cuyler Avenue - 4032 N from 800 W to 6358 W
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I first noticed this building at 6462 S. Central, at the NW corner of 65th Central; in an a 1923 aerial photo that bowler had posted on an earlier Clearing topic. bowler wrote: "Where the rail yard tracks all meet is about Central Ave. (5600 West), 65th St begins in the lower right of the photo." http://www.flickr.com/photos/34126404@N06/8642997359/in/photostream Here is a Goog
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Three photos I have found in the University of Chicago Photographic Archive - the Michelson- Gale experiment in Clearing, http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf1-04509.xml The two men in the photo were: possibly astronomer Otto Wilhiem Struve (1897-1963) or Fred Pearson (optician) ; and astrophysicist Henry Gordon Gale (1874-1942) http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=
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This may explain the location of Chop Suey restaurants in the Loop. My source: the book Chinese Chicago by Huping Ling. http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Chicago-Transnational-Migration-Community-ebook/dp/B006L6TTG8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418920469&sr=1-1 When the Chinese first arrived in Chicago in the 1870s, they established a small downtown loop business district - in the
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Photos with Chop Suey, 1905 to 1929 - enter the search words Chop Suey http://chsmedia.org:8081/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1418866J5M8H8.1307&profile=public&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100046~!98683~!3&ri=6&aspect=subtab114&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=+Chop+Suey&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab114&menu
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mishadoc, I graduated from LT in '56, and two names are unfamiliar to me.
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