Hey Cap'n, you will dig this (if you haven't seen it already)! Big Bill Hill WOPA 1967
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That's a great photo. It looks like the sign says 'USED & SAMPLE RUG MART', in part.
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Johnny Sauganash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cleanup ... The hospital at Rockwell and Montrose, > featuring the hand sculpture made of chrome car > bumpers, was Forkosh. Excellent, thanks for that Johnny!
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I can't believe it, but I found it! The pointing finger is on the top of the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1500 W. Elmdale. It's clearly visible in Google Street View. The family members I asked couldn't remember the pointing hand...and the ones who would remember are now dead. Ah, the wonders of the Internet!
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Deluxe! That's it, thank you!
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I absolutely remember that store you're talking about - can't remember the name, but I bought some albums there in the early 90s. They had an old neon sign hanging out front. Did the costume shop expand into that space? A lot of the record stores by 'my time' were national chains, but I did go to Rose Records a lot (Milwaukee & Golf, Ashland & Belmont and the one on Wabash before it b
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There's a fantastic book titled Black Metropolis, by St. Clair Drake & Horace Cayton, that deals with the extension of the Black Belt and racial transition, with lots of coverage of the Washington Park neighborhood. It's a huge and dense book, filled with history, information and insight, first published in the 30s but amended through the late 60s.
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I came across a rather grim interior photo of the Mecca on eBay: Inside The Mecca, 1950
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At around 4:20 in this old film, the camera passes by the Wieboldt's at Meadowdale Mall: Come With Me To...Sleepy Hollow
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222psm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very cool wayoutwardell, try purchasing a car now > a days with 2 dollars down. There was a Ford > dealership on the corner of W Irving Park and N > Hoyne, I don't think it had a outdoor lot, I'm > pretty sure it was all in doors. Does any one know > what it was? It looks like by Google maps the >
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Thank you! That does help narrow it down. I have a few more family members to ask; hopefully I can at least pin down the neighborhood.
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Here's the bill of sale for my father's long-gone '65 Mustang. Johnson Ford - Bill Of Sale
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Harry Schmerler, your singing Ford dealer - 'rock-a-bye your baby...'
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Hopefully, you great folks can help. I have a faint memory from early childhood (during the mid 1970s) of a north side church that had a steeple or belltower on which was mounted a statue of a hand with an index finger pointing upward. I seem to remember passing by it a lot, so must have been in the neighborhoods we lived in around then (Granville & Clark, then Keeler & Montrose), and I a
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Cicero Ray Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > From what I can recall on driving to > downtown:Michigan ramp was closed in 1994/6 then > removed before 2000.Once they raised the toll, I > also remember see drivers enter the Skyway driving > up the exit ramps. Pretty scarey. Yeah, that is scary for sure. Thanks for the info. There were a coup
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Offhand, does anyone know when the Skyway ramps for Michigan and Indiana Avenues were removed? The roadways still remain widened where they used to go around the ramps (similar to the Stony Island ramps). I wonder if the property owners whose land was taken for that project are entitled to getting it back since it no longer exists. Har har.
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I came across this fantastic photo of a funeral (for the mother of Archbishop Sheil) at St. Columbkille's, 1936: Funeral for Rosella Bartley Sheil, 1936
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On Montrose and Tripp, there used to be a place called Biel's Bakery. It was small but still had the cakes in the display cases, etc. We lived on Keeler, so it was just a short walk up the alley to get bread or a coffee cake.
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Thanks, I kinda figured I had the name wrong! Billy Boy Arnold wrote a song called 'I Ain't Got You', where he brags that he has a 'charge account at Goldblatt's', among other things. When the 60s British bands like The Animals and The Yardbirds later covered the song, they butchered the name since I'm sure they'd never heard of it. In the version by The Animals, it sounds like they're sayin
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I'm pretty sure there was a Goldblatt's on Waukegan Road and Dempster Ave. in Morton Grove, next to where Par King used to be - there's a Bally's Gym there now. My old man used to go there to get David Berg hot dogs, in links twisted together.
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If you're going east on 35th, you'll pass De La Salle Institute, where the Mayors Daley went...and if you get a chance, stop into Meyer Ace Hardware on 35th and Calumet. It used to be a popular black-and-tan known as the Sunset Cafe (later the Grand Terrace) and there are still remnants of its nightclub days inside. The Chicago Chicken & Waffles is actually in the building that used to conta
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Does anyone have any memories of the Kiosk Sphinx, formerly at 40th and Lake Park? I don't, because it was gone long before I was born. However, I came across a photo which unforunately didn't show it in great detail, so I was hoping that perhaps some of you would remember it or even have photos. Web searching turned up very little, except this: 'Kiosk Sphinx was the name given to an unusua
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SuperCFL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The former Bowman Dairy building in Evanston is > now part of a public storage facility, and I > remember the one on S. 1st Avenue in Maywood, > which came down sometime in the 90s. Was the one on 1st Ave. a red brick building adjacent to the railroad tracks?
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Is the area around Roosevelt & Damen considered The Valley? There's a small cluster of houses around 13th and Oakley - they used to be obscured by a grey industrial building that's since been demolished. Interestingly, there's another small group of identical houses around 41st and Lake Park (built by the same developer).
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There's an apartment building on Tripp Ave., just north of the Keeler on-ramp to the Kennedy that strangely looks as though a corner was shaved off in order accomodate the ramp. The 'main' part of the building is in yellow brick, then there's a red-brick facade that's on an angle, parallel to the ramp. Also, the 'back' section of the building (now painted white) has what looks to be porcelain &a
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There's also the Overton Hygenic Building, which was built during the heyday of The Stroll (but not for entertainment purposes), but yeah, there's not much left of State Street to show. Over the years as the Black Belt expanded, the center of entertainment and commerce shifted from there to 47th, and then later to 63rd. One of the last remaining nightclubs from The Stroll days is now an Ace Ha
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The trolleycoach website will come in quite handy on days when work is slow! By the way, is it my imagination or are the front doors to St. Columbkille really close to the street?
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I was looking at photos on a website dealing with old Chicago trolley-coaches and stumbled across this: Grand & Paulina, 1969
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captain54 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > web searches reveal that Dr Jazz was on > Montrose..there was another one in Evanston down > the street from Amazing Grace, the famous folk > music venue @ Chicago and Main, across from the > 24/7 "newspapers from around the world" stand The book that the photo is in has many wrong location
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I came across this in a book about Chicago jazz, although the caption says this location is on Wilson...is this the same place? Dr. Jazz, unknown date
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