b]Steve B. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the Back of the Yards neighborhood, there was a > Goldblatt's on the southeast corner of 47th and > Ashland. At some point (in the 1940s?) they moved > across the street to the southwest corner to > occupy four floors of a much larger building. I > believe they had furniture and appliance
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Our plant was called Englewood Plant 068. The west side of Western was the Gage Park area.
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Does anyone remember the following street vendors back in the 50's 1) The old man with his horse & wagon that drove through the alleys calling out for rags & iron. 2) The photographerand his pony that walked the strret looking for kids to take their picture. Can't remember the cost, however, my wife and I still have our pictures. 3) The old truck that sold produce in the neighborhood.
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I worked in the Englewood district from 68 to 91 at the American Can Co. "CANCO" the big white elephant building at 6017 Western Ave.
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SS. Cyril & Methodius. Posted by: Richard Stachowski () Date: January 21, 2015 07:00PM Anybody fron st cyrils @ 50th & Hermitage? Hey Rich, St Cyrils & his brother Methodius fest day was February 14th.
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South Ashland and South Halsted was our Downtown back in the 50's. Most Sundays we would window shop because most stores were closed on Sundays. Now stores are open 365 days. Families can't even spend the holidays together, especially on Christmas. Someone always has to leave to go to work. What have we become!!!
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I think Lilly White restaurant supply company was there at one time. I believe it was a block of wholesalers.
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Anyone remember Maurie Mages Sports Store on Halsted? We bought most of our sports equipment there. Our 16in. Clincher sofballs, hardballs, bats and our bowling balls. Wonder if it's still there.
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How about dese dose and dem. LOL
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The sisters at St Michael's were always working on my TH sounds. I'm a Polish/Slovak from the front of the Yards. LOL
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Rich, You have a good memory. I don't remember the candy store, however,I remember all the homes that surrounded the park. I too delivered the Journal around Oakley for a friend of mine.
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Anyone growing up in the yards would probably know Eddie Surma. He probably be in his 80's now, however, he was a great softball player. He would play 2 games a day and maybe 5 games over the weekend on many teams. He was also known as "Champ". He played at Cornell Park, Gage Park, Kelly, Grant Park, 47th Damen or anywhere there was a league. I'm glad that 16in.is still around. When I s
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Another park that Oakley Playground traveled to in the 50's was Destiney Manor Playground. It was located in an unlikely spot that very few knew that it existed. It was in the middle of a neighborhood around 52nd and Levitt. There were no signs on Damen pointing to this park. Any Back of the Yarders know about this park?
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I lived three doors/houses east of the playground. Town Club Tavern was down the street from the pumping station. The front entrance to the pumping station was on Western Ave.
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I don't recall the name. In the late 80's we were downsizing.
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Anyone remember the good old windy city 16 in softball games and parks? I started playing in the 50's at Oakley Playground league. We traveled to different playground parks every week. Hermitage, Kostner then Strawhacker,Lawler, Murray,Hale. In 1956 Oakley Playground we took third in the city. Our St Michaels League we usually played at Cornell 58 & 59 we took first place. As we got older we
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I'm a southsider and SAASAGE is correct. LOL However, I sometimes slip and say SAUSAGE
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e: American Can Company 6017 S Western new Posted by: rjmachon () Date: February 13, 2015 04:52PM @Swede, do you remember a guy named Jim Hamilton at American Can? Do you know when and what department he worked in or what job function.
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It sure does exist. I'm from the the southside 50th & Oakley the front of the back of the yards Ha! Ha! However, people ask me whatever state I'm in they say are you from Chicago and my wife grew up around 69th & Laflin and they think she is from the UK. I'm Polish and she's Sicilian. A good mix LOL
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I believe that they were almost $1.00 back in the 50's, however, they were good. It took alot of bottle returns to get $1.00. Thanks for the info about being on line.
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Back in the 50's I remember Green River, cherry and chocolate cokes, chocolate phosphates all in paper cone shaped cups that fit in a stainless stand and then they switched to glasses sometime later. We would go to the corner drug store and soda fountain on 51st and Western Ave "Yandas". Does anyone remember malt pills that came in a bottle? You could eat them direct or put them in a g
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Tha last time I heard anything about that area, they built strip malls where CANCO once stood.
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Jack In the box just opened a place in Indianapolis at the boarder of Greenwood Indiana.
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Leo's had great hamburgers. We couldn't eat meat on Fridays, being Catholic, so we waited for our dad to come home from work at 1am and he brought us hamburgers from Leo's.
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Does anyone remember the Leo's Castle Hamburger stand a couple blocks east of Cornell Square Park. It was next to a liquor store/tavern. Later in the early 60's they built a sit in hamburger place, still called Leo's Castle.
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Do you remember a DeMays barber shop on Loomis?
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Longford, this is SWEDE again. This is a small world. My wife said all the places you mentioned she remembers and that you made the best banana split LOL Was the bakery next to the firehouse? In the ValueLand Dept.store they had some kind of mechcanical horse for kids to ride.
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Thanks Longford. You never know who knows who on the forum. It's a fun thing to do and to remember the good old days.
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We're Polish and Slovak so we went to Michaels, however, we loved the inside of St Josephs. My folks use to eat Syrena's. Do you remember the greasy spoon as us kids called it right on 47th a chili joint. We use to go there for chili instead of eating lunch in the basement at St Michaels. There was a hobby shop couple doors down.
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Does anyone remember Delcos Ice Cream Parlor?
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