I doubt it's the traffic, I live on North Ave which sees a lot more heavy trucks. There is a worn Elec vault cover that the westbound bus hits every half hour at night. It rings my building like a bell and I don't see that much trouble. Frankly, that block of Kedzie is much less potholed than the same one on California. They're on the fringe of the 1872 corps of engineers map, but it shows it a
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nordsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cragin Spring Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Flat iron house in Wicker Park. Behind the > > buildings on Milwaukee Ave. and the elevated. > 1275 > > N. Hermitage Ave > > That is a most unusual building! > > https://maps.google.c
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p.s. Don't click on the menu files. Those will give you the same problem. Open the letter you want.
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I cannot get that directory anymore. I don't know > how to get it back. There is something wrong with their menu screens. The buttons don't click in Chrome but they work in my vintage Internet Explorer. Try this instead. Back door to Polk Directories Don't forget to bookmark it.
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I've seen the mark on photos before, but don't know where they were. I tried to check around but came up with bupkis. Other than that they seem to have been a big player in that sort of burlesque lobby card photo. Perhaps Rustymuscle's 1950 phone book, or perhaps advertisements in old issues of Variety.
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fstaniec Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a question I hope someone can answer. I > grew up at 525 Armitage which was Hollerbach > Funeral Home (corner of Armitage and Mohawk). > When I was a kid we used to go to La Hacienda Del > Sol a lot at 1945 Sedgwick. My mom and I were > trying to remember the owners name in the 60's. I &g
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bob427 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > back in the late 50s eary] 60s i went to grammer > school > named Moose..it was around Californiand Wabansia. > When i tell > my friendsi went to Moose school, they dont > believe me.. > Anyone hurd of this school? It is still there, but it is the Moos school. Specifically, "The Burnhard
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Ellis S. Chesbrough who figured out how to raise the streets so the sewers would work. As well as Pullman, Brown, Hollingsworth and all the other engineers who figured out how to jack up the buildings to match.
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MisterDrexciya Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Speaking of this intersection: > > what used to be in the -ugly grey painted- > building in the northwest corner (between Grand > and Milwaukee)? It has been boarded up for at > least 15 years. All that property, and the bulk of the land across Green st., has, for dogs years, belonged to
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zorchvalve Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I vaguely remember a beer called Brau Meister. I > thought that it was funny because we had a brand > called Meister Brau. Anyone out there that can > tell me that I am not imagining this? When Peter Hand brewing went out of business, the Meister brau name was sold to one company,Miller, and the brewery
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mikbasile Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hudson 3 2700,,,,,,,, do any of you folks remember > that one? That is Bouschelle carpet cleaning. They are still in business out in Stone Park and still have the same number.
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1935 Sanborn map lists it as apartments built in 1928. Just some wacky architecture.
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According to the 1906 Sanborn map these were apartments. The Historic resources survey also lists its original use as multiple dwellings.
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How old is the sign? In the twenties there was a road house by that name around Mannheim & St Charles. In the forties, there was a tavern and trailer park by the same name at Roosevelt and Wolf.
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Mercer52 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hahaha! I knew my question felt familiar! Thanks > for putting up with my senioritis. No, sweat. We all seem to have some form of dementia. My form involves standing in the bathroom wondering why I came.
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You asked this about a year ago. Other thread It used to be part of the Otis Elevator works.
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Jeff_Weiner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PKDickman Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > My building, ca 1909, was built when > electricity > > was new fangled. So was indoor plumbing and > > central heat. > > > > All the ceiling boxes had a gas pipe in the > center >
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My building, ca 1909, was built when electricity was new fangled. So was indoor plumbing and central heat. All the ceiling boxes had a gas pipe in the center and rigid conduit around. The building meter had a line to a manifold on the basement wall. I was checking the lines and opened one of the valves. The gas meter started whirring like a helicopter. When I tracked it down, the third
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Ya, but his water tower isn't there any more. It is an extremely cool atrium apartment building, though.
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QlassiQue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting - thanks for sharing. I did see a > mention that Laemmle also opened a theater > somewhere on Halsted, but information has been > elusive on that location. > > It's possible that the White Front theater on > Milwaukee could have been sold, changed its name, > or closed by 191
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QlassiQue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FC did a presentation on Chicago's lesser-known > movie theater history for nearly 200 people on > July 15, and discussed a 1906 Nickelodeon in the > 1200 block of North Milwaukee owned and operated > by Carl Laemmle, who less than 10 years later > would build Universal Studios in California. >
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If you check the Plat maps, they show some of the old rights of way. Where the road bends at at the tracks, it used to travel in a straight line. It also used to go west of Cicero with a bend to the northwest at least as far as Lavergne but that was vacated in 1956. (as far as the map goes) It is along the abandoned ROW of the "Old St. Charles Air Line RR" which I suspect shoul
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A quick check of the Plat maps showed that it has been there a long time (A on the subdivisions list). It also shows that it was called Barry Point Road (as well as Colo.) Early home Chicago turns up this: Barry Point Trail also Berry Point Trail. One of the major Indian trails of early Chicago, it left the Chicago settlement in a west-southwestern direction, passed the point – nine miles f
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There is a photo in the Trib Historic archives. It is in an article from the 50s about theaters being repurposed. OLD THEATERS CONVERTED FOR VARIOUS USES: Become Club Halls and Synagogs Dec 9, 1956
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There was a neighborhood zoo at Indian Boundary park(Rockwell & Lunt), but no trails and not much in the way of woods. I suspect that you are thinking of the the Hal Tyrrell Trailside Museum. Somewhat farther south (Chicago & Thatcher) in River Forest. They used to care for injured wildlife and always had chicken wire cages of wacky animals. You would park by the Thatcher Woods pi
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Some other findings. A feb 3 24 article lists the developer as a Michael P. Morrissey. '23 city directory lists only 1 Michael P. Morrissey. Pres of Utah sulphur, Residence 1358 Thorndale. A Jun 26 '25 article says the Minuet plans revived, New owner Walter J. Spangler, New Architect Fridstein & Co.
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Can't speak for the '70s I moved into wickerbuck parktown around '83. Back then, the nearest supermarket was that Jewel. A few years later they opened the Jewel at Milw and Division. It was a shorter walk.
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The more I think about it the more I think your right about the Jewel Osco being up at Washtenaw, I think they tore down the Osco building and made the parking lot bigger. Perhaps the Osco operation moved down to Maplewood where the CVS is now
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The things I'm speaking of can be found on > exterior factory walls, which line up with the > floor level of the building. > If you look at the Schoenhofen Brewery building on > Canal & 18th via StreetView, you can see one of > these on every space between window bays on all > floors of
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The Jewel Osco I remember (1980's) was farther down at Maplewood. I used to buy my groceries there when I lived on Damen. They tore it down and rebuilt it as just an Osco. The 1938 aerial has the same footprint right down to the clipped corner on Lyndale at the alley, but in both of those shots, it's hard to tell if it is a building or a fence. The Congress wasn't built until '26 I think.
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