While looking at a business map of 63rd Street from Cottage Grove to Stony Island in the 30s, I counted fifteen shoe stores, eighteen drug stores, 22 millnery/hoisery shops and four florists. There's also numerous meat markets, mens clothing shops and bakeries. Some stores selling the same things were across the street from each other, some were right next door. They all seem to be separate, dist
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I came across a photo of a matchbook cover for Esquire on the fantastic Chuckman's Blog once...now, of course, I can't find it.
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Here's a photo of Tucker #1043, when it sat in front of the Bel-Air Driving Range in Bellwood (50th & St. Charles): Tucker #1043 It has since been restored to its original glory. Sold for $495,000 in 2004.
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captain54 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > there are a few photos posted here taken at the > time (1910) of an "explosion" at Kavanaugh > Woodlawn Cafe. > > There is other info about Harry Kavanaugh that I > dug up that might reveal what the "explosion" was > all about. > > 1) Harry Kavanaugh owned the "
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Here's a token from Kavanaugh's Woodlawn Cafe, 63rd & Cottage Grove, that showed up on eBay: Kavanaugh's Woodlawn Cafe Token Here's a postcard of the cafe itself - Woodlawn Cafe Amazing how things like this survive...the cafe itself was replaced in the early 20s by the Washington Park National Bank building.
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If you go to Historic Aerials, use 6000 S. University as the address and 1952 as the year, you can see them everywhere!
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There is (was?) a Legion hall at the corner of Montrose & Western, next door to Jeri's Grill, and a classmate of mine had his 8th grade graduation party at the VFW hall on Higgins & Canfield in Park Ridge. Here's an Legion cap from Woodlawn Post 175 that I found in, of all places, Petaluma, Ca. Legion Garrison Cap
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There's quite a bit of fishing at Jackson Park Lagoon, mostly from the Hayes Drive bridge. I don't know what the folks are fishing for, though.
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This negative is for sale on eBay: 1961 WWII Memorial Flowers Planted, Archer & Leavitt
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From the Chicago Trolley Coach website: Armitage & Fairfield, 1966 The 2735 building is barely visible on the left side of the photo.
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I believe 2735 W. Armitage is the Heineman factory built in 1913. In 1915, Oscar Heineman and some others were sued 'to recover the value of services rendered in the sale of a certain realty at the southwest corner of Armitage and Fairfield Avenues'. Heineman won (the case lists his address as 2960 N. Lake Shore Drive). The company apparently grew quickly in the early 1900s - in 1908, there'
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You're probably right about the buildings being connected...I found the following through Google Books: In a November 1913 issue of 'The Iron Age', which appears to be a building trade publication, 'the Oscar Heineman Company, silk manufacturer, Chicago, has had plans prepared for the erection of a four-story factory, 98 x 119 feet, at Armitage and Fairfield Avenues, the estimated cost being $15
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There's a remaining Miami Bowl marquee sign on Pulaski near Archer, in a parking lot between Roberts Auto Repair and Family Dollar. Some of the letters are still in place advertising open bowling anytime.
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It sure looks like downtown Los Angeles to me...the northwest part of the area, around Broadway, has an uphill incline as you approach the 110 freeway.
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My pals and I used to bowl quite a bit in high school (late 80s-early 90s). We weren't very good but it gave us an excuse to get out of the house during winter. We hit Turner Lanes a lot, and a place called Bieg's Bowl, an upstairs alley (like Lincoln Square Lanes) that has since burned down, I think. There was Sim's and another tiny alley both in Des Plaines, Habetler on Northwest Highway, a
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I went there once during its last week of operation and it was kind of grim, but I saw a concert there in 1995 that was pretty grand...they had the stage set up on the roller-skating floor and the crowd just filled in around it. My dad said that a common insult among his classmates at Jenner School in the late 40s was that 'your momma's as big as Rainbo 'rena'.
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Meant to add, the sculpture visible at 3:06 is now located on Ohio & Orleans.
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Grace Slick worked for them briefly (in San Francisco). Whatever happened to them?
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Interesting stuff - I wonder if Chicago Rawhide was still in the leather business or was just being sued for past transgressions...their company website says they started out making industrial leather drive belts but moved to bearing and seal manufacturing by the '20s. My uncle worked for CR as a tool & die maker and then moved with them to their Elgin factory. I read on a website that Lib
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If I'm reading it right, the street name database on the Chicago History Museum website shows changing to Hubbard St. Street Name Database - CHS
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A relative worked at one of those tanneries (possibly Guttman?), I think; my father once mentioned that right after the war, all the neighborhood kids were wearing bomber jackets that came straight from the factory, since they were now surplus.
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Are you talking about the Yasuhiro Ishimoto book?
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Welcome, kgamb! Re: Sam's/Yondorf...I was a kid so I don't really remember much about the building aside from the upper windows having torn plastic flapping around in the breeze. We'd often visit my aunt who lived nearby on Burling until the mid '80s. Here's a photo of the old Yondorf Hall: Sam's Liquors, North & Halsted
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Elf Odin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm familiar with the c.1909 street renumbering > (I've got a PDF of a book listing the old/new > house numbering), but where can I find a list of > all of the streets that have been renamed? I'm > particularly interested in the north/south streets > along Midway Plaisance, after the 1983 Columbian
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Yondorf Hall on the corner of Halsted/North was creepy when it was Sam's Liquors and all but left for dead.
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The movie is based on one volume of comic book series - 'Road To Perdition' is the first volume; 'Road To Purgatory' and 'Road To Paradise'are the others.
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222psm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have been trying to dig up more info, but have > not had much luck. I did find on historic aerials > that there was some type of warehouse or shop at > Damen where the overpass is wide. That is curious...the factory building in the aerial photographs just south of the shop at Damen is the old Ludwig Dru
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Passed by the camp today...it's on the north side of Higgins just east of the Des Plaines River. The entrance has a yellow gate and is overgrown now.
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The entrance is on Higgins Road, just east of River Road. My dad used to talk about camping there and pointed it out to me whenever we passed it. Up until a few years ago, the Camp Fort Dearborn sign was still over the entrance, but I think it's gone now, although it looks like it's still Forest Preserve land. I'm headed that way this morning, so I'll check for you.
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For some reason, I remember a seafood restaurant being around there, too, might have gone there as a kid...perhaps where the empty Burger King is now?
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