Jeff, I see what you mean re signal problems in cold weather...the electromechanical one at the end of my block has been stuck on a green light for N/S traffic for the better part of two hours.
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The 1954 photo of the deportation to Brownsville is interesting to me. When my father's family arrived here from Brownsville in the '20s, they first settled near 47th & Ashland, where there was a small enclave of Mexicans and Tejanos. My grandfather worked as a skinner in the stockyards. On weekends, my grandmother and her older kids would make food (baskets of tamales, etc), hike it all
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In 1964, there's a listing for Commonwealth Plumbing at 5910 N. Western. Wonder if it has something to do with that. Is that a finial on top of the pole or is it part of the tree?
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1957
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There's been a push to make Pullman a national park, which, I assume, would aid in getting the Florence finished. Here's a construction update from 2013: Hotel Florence
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davey7 Wrote: - > > Isn't there a shop further east on Addison (like > between SoPo and Clark) which leans like nobody's > business? Yep, the Yesterday shop just east of Racine.
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Maybe intended as a visual warning of merging traffic lanes?
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone remember the USS Submarine, The > Silversides? Before it was at Navy Pier, I > remember it along the lake in the mid 1960's. My > Dad took me on a tour of the submarine then. That > was pretty neat. Sure do, it was still there, open for tours, in the '80s when I was a kid. I think it's
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The Google Street View doesn't really show how significant they lean (the one on Oakley is partially blocked by trees), but if you look at the facades of both that face Addison, you can see where vertical cracks in the masonry near the windows have been repointed.
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I've always noticed the two noticably-leaning red-brick apartment buildings on Addison east of Western. One is on the NE corner of Addison & Bell, and the other is a block west, on the NE corner of Addison & Oakley. I seem to remember there being a third one nearby, possibly a cream-brick building of the same shape. So, what's the deal with these? Engineering flaw? Substandard gro
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I did some searching in Google Books and kept seeing the Kool-Aid name associated with the Perkins-SOS Company, at 7123 W. 65th Pl. A lot of the mentions are from packaging trade magazines from the early '60s, which also list Perkins-SOS as a division of General Mills. They also apparently had a research lab at 74th & Rockwell.
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Those were mostly gone by the time I was born. However, I have a photograph of one of my cousins playing with a group at The Place Lounge, 63rd & Evans. It's not well-documented by any means - seems to have been in a storefront. Apparently Mike Bloomfield played there early on. The old Checkerboard on 43rd was a hole in the wall, to be sure. In fact, the east wall eventually collapsed
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Somewhat tangent - Phil Everly, who passed away today at 74, was born in Chicago during his family's tenure here as part of the Barn Dance.
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Hi Red, I speak on occasion with Tom Crane, the person who posted above about McGinty's. He sent me a photo of Jean Shanley and Phyllis Miller in front of the Shanley house on Ingleside which you can see here: Jean Shanley & Phyllis Miller, Ingleside Ave. He also passed along his thanks to you for your response!
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I assume that St. Adalbert's expanded west hence the reason Newark bisects the current layout of the cemetery?
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Or take a virtual tour: 913 W Willow
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Is it by chance Byrneville? A public library in Darien has a Flickr page with a few photos of the Byrneville train station: Byrneville Photos
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Strange! The Stockade story shows up in a few places, but only mentions it being in DuPage County, with nothing about Birneyville. I wonder if it was just a local term for the area, not an actual name. My mom's hometown in So. Il. has a sparsely-populated part everyone calls 'Shakerag' (and has for over 100 years), but it still falls under the actual municipality name.
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Domino's pizza guy? Used to be into FLW and was > building that modern subdivision outside Ann > Arbor. > > Actually, there is plenty of land around > Washington Park for a "house zoo". Or we could > just sell them off cheap and give loans to > rehabbers or something. Lots of ideas
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The Cavaliers are still a championship outfit, based in Rosemont. I remember when they used to occasionally practice on the then-empty point of land at Higgins & Devon, next to the school I went to at the time. The Ludwig Drum company was a big supporter and endorser of drum corps groups, as was Slingerland. Bill Ludwig I and II were collectors of antique rope snare marching drums.
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If you check the Cook County Assessor's site with the Buhl house address, there's a photo of it (abandoned and boarded up) from 2007.
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I read somewhere that he remodeled his cab garage into the show lounge in 1957, then later remodeled the show lounge into a bowling alley - all the same building.
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I'll have to pick it up - my father & family lived on Throop just off North Ave. in the '50s, which couldn't have been idyllic.
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It was designed to reference the Avalon Theater but aside from that they're not otherwise related. Lee Bey had a piece about this building a few years ago in one of his columns.
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Excellent! He's gotta be in his 90s at this point, yes?
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I was looking at maps posted in a link here on the forum in a different topic (Sanborn Maps) and noticed something maybe some of you can answer. In the 1907 George Cram Map Of Chicago, there seem to be two distinct rail lines off of the Illinois Central line. One heads west along 61st Street and terminates at the Washinton Park Race Track, and the other also heads west, along 67th, inside the
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Thanks for that link!
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Never seen any as strange as those! My aunt had a gas meter on the porch just off her kitchen. She draped a pothos vine around it.
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Beautiful, thanks! I really like the etching of Park Row, which was adjacent to the Illinois Central Station and not often depicted in photos or otherwise.
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If you check Historic Aerials in 1973 for the corner of North Ave. and Throop and pan slightly east, there's a gas holder just east of the river on the north side of North Ave. across from what was then the Proctor & Gamble plant (now Home Depot). I wonder how many of the houses destroyed in that freaky gas-pressure accident in the '90s around Racine/Milwaukee were brought down by gas still
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