Back in the 50's most of your VFW's and American Legion's had one arm bandits or slot machines as we call it in those days. I still have my 5cent machine from the 40's we used it as a bank when we were kids. Still can't remember the Blue Goose. There wern't many restaruants on Archer in those days.
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Rich, Your probably right that it was on Rush St and not the south end of Michagan St. It was 52 years ago Ha! Ha!
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Hey Rich, I remember Playland. Went there in the 60's not sure when it closed. The trailer park was called Sterling Estates owned by Joe Testa who was killed in Florida in a car explosion. Mob??? as we were told at his funeral. His nephew survived. There were only two restraunts that I remember. Why Nots hot dogs was on frontage road going into Sterling Estates and some tavern/restraunt betwe
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In the early 50's my Dad and I would ride through China Town many Sundays. It was very interesting to see how different cultures lived. My eight grade tour was through China Town and then downtown to the Prudential building.
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Jim, I can relate to your cold winter mornings. I was a St Rita man in the early 60"s and now Quigley is St Rita. It's a small world. I enjoyed your memoriesof atime.com
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Any can makers out there? Anyone work for Continental Can, National Can, Crown Cork & Seal or Campbells Soup? At American Can we made any can you can think of: food cans, beer and soda cans, varnish cans,every size paint cans, aerosl, coffee, lard cans, anti freeze cans, small as 1oz oil cans to 150lb lard cans, solder side seams, crimped side seams, welded side seams, pear shaped ham cans,
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Cragin, I know what you are saying. My brother & I had a nice collection of baseball cards in the 50's. When we got alittle older my mom said maybe you would like to give your cards, bikes and my scouting equipment to our younger cousins. We did. I know that those cards are worth something today.
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No one mentioned the the guy on a bike with the hot ice freezer selling ice cream bars, creamsciles,push ups and popsciles. If he had a good business he may have had a Cushman scooter to ride. Later in years there was the Good Humor Man.
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My buddy said that he was not familiar with the name. We still had 360 employees when we closed in 1991.
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Jd 6716 wrote: Does anyone remember Carr's ice cream at about 60th and Kedzie. Terrific malts-I'm talking 1950's.Across from Gerties was the Pioneer Tavern and a cigar shop on the corner and Jim's coins on the other side.I lived at 58th and Springfield from 1940-1969, Marquette theater 25 cartoons for a quarter. Little eddies for hamburgers, On 60 th and Pulaski there was a record shop NW corne
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How about the erector set. We use to make carnival sets. It had a little motor with reverse capabilities that we would set up a pulley with a string and send messages down to the basement.
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I know that my grandparents, my dad and his brothers and sisters lived on 47th and Justine and sometime in the late 30's they converted to inside toilets when they built a second floor on to the house.
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How many of you remember the splits or stretch. You would throw your pocket knife and stick it in the ground and your opponent would stretch one foot to the knife and so fort until one of you couldn't stretch any further. How about pitching pennys, nickles, quarters to make some money to buy candy. Crap games in the school yard and keeping an eye out for the nuns. Hide n seek. Roll over roll ove
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Our Monarchs were red and cream. The guys in the neighborhood would ride our bikes from 50th and Oakley to Midway Cicero and 59th St. and stop in all the terminals and pick up badges and stickers. It was an all day trip. Your right we use to go to the "DUMPS" Cornell show on a quarter and watch 20 cartoons and buy a bag of popcorn out of a popcorn dispenser. Those were the days.
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My brother and I had Monarch bikes with all the chrome, horn box, head lights and after a few years it sure looked good stripped down, just like you said. That pot metal cap holder was like a torpedo. How about the bean shooters? What about the jumping beans?
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I knew Ron Kittle personally. He helped with our youth group at church in Lakes of the Four Seasons. My wife still has his auotgraph and game card #42. He was good people! Do you remember the old cattle ramps for the fans to enter and exit the park. Mooooo!
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Anyone remember the Bazooka rifle that shot ping pong balls? You would place the ping pong ball into the head and push the handles together. How about electric football and electric baseball? How about the spring loaded table top basketball game that shot ping pong balls into the hoops? How about the glidder planes made of balsa wood or the little cardboard man hanging from the parachute that yo
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Our corner store was Franks 50th Oakley (Southside)across the street from Oakley Playground. Dinamite business from kids buying penny candy Ha! Ha!
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I'll ask one of old buddies this weekend if he remembers a Jim Hamilton
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I'll ask one of old buddies this weekend if he remembers a Jim Hamilton
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How about Princes Castle on Cicero Ave.
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Swede was my nick name growing up, it soon became Curly when I worked there. Who was your colleagues mom? I worked there from 1968 - 1991 when it was demolished. We made alot of coffee cans. Continental Coffee Co had their own brand, however, I'm sure they packed for many companies. We made Stewarts, Chase N Samborne, Hills Bros., Chock full of nuts, Kroger, A & P, Folgers, Jewels, Piggly Wig
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Michagan Ave had a great club called the Blue Angel
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I worked for American Can Company "CANCO" South Western Ave and we made millions of Continental coffee cans. Thank you for the business.
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I believe it burnt down in the 1968 riots
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I never here of anyone talking about the old Comiskey Park. Talk about the good old days. Their slogan was the Good Guys wear black. I grew up when Nellie Fox, lou Apprecho were the great players. When they tore down the park I made sure to get a rememberance brick. I had my wifes name posted on the score board for her birthday for all 40,ooo fans to see. Also, back in the 80's Golden Box sea
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I'm from the southside and we had the Nabisco Company by Marquette Park. We would going fishing at the park around 6am and eat our lunch by 8am just because of the cookie smell. Those were the good old days in the 50's
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Didn't poor John Coleman almost lose his job for a bad prediction of the great snow storm in 1967? He said a chance of little snow. He was funny.
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Kelly Park had Big money games.
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Living on the Southside (Back of the Yards) candy shopps and ice cream parlors were the places to go after taking your date to the show.
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