bstrdrt Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone remember the name of the record store > by Curie High School? Used to go there at lunch > period and pick up Triad magazine. It was on the > corner just down the street across from the > funeral home. Wow - Triad magazine! What became of it. I always picked up my copy at Round Records on S
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Berwyn Frank Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mornac, the U.S. Marine hospital was located at > 4141 North Clarendon Avenue, Chicago. Here is a > circa 1908 image of it from the collection of > poster frworksonpaper. > > --GASP!!! I work two blocks away from there and I drive by that address every morning. These days it's a privately ow
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Anyone know where the U.S. Marine Hospital was located?
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nordsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have read -- in Old Chicago Houses (1941) by > John Drury -- John Drury the news guy?
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Do you know how much it sold for?
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Wow! Late Appalachian Italianate. You don’t see many of those anymore.
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shoreline Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you remember the fabulous Pie Pan restaurant on > Cicero ave at Peterson? --I was never in it shoreline, but I remember it well. We passed it in our car driving home from Grandma's on many Sunday evenings. Kids had to look at it because there was a fair sized plaster-like ice cream cone attached to the corn
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Berwyn Frank Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I am glad that I documented this story > and took the pictures when I did. --I'm also glad you did Frank. I enjoyed following this one. Thanks.
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There was a Community north on Clark street in Rogers Park into the 1970's. It too became a Zayre.
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Mornac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > More than you can possibly know daveg. I watched > the parish church that I grew up in being > destroyed piece by piece like so many other > Catholic churches in the city that suffered from > the mass wreck-ovation of the 1960’s and 70’s. > I’ve been very pleased to tell my kids that > they�
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There was an issue with the beacon on the Palmolive building when the John Hancock center went up. Since the beam broadsided the new building there was either a shield constructed to block it or the beam was reset to stop short of hitting the JHC and reverse itself stopping short on the other side as well. Anyone remember exactly how this was resolved? I remember seeing the beam pass overhead f
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Just found this on Flickr: Elsie's Beauty Salon Part of an 1891 apartment building at 2144 W. Montrose Ave.
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I heard ya fine.
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I was born in ’58 and grew up in Edgewater where I still live. The “palaces” within my grasp through the 60’s were the Granada, the Uptown, the Riviera, and the Nortown. The more modest houses were the Howard and the Adelphi. The smaller, more dumpy places were my favorites – cheaper, within walking distance, and just more intimate. These included the Bryn Mawr, the Devon, and the 400.
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I was just talking with a friend yesterday who works for Dominck's and he said that Jewel has been having some problems lately that are causing them to re-size. There's also a new chain moving into town called Meriano's (sp?) that's supposed to give the long-timers a run for the money. I think it's part of Roundy's out of Wisconsin.
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I remember a sort of "sweet shop" in the middle of the 6000 block of Glenwood directly across the street from Senn High School (the main source of its clientele). It was the only commercial storefront on Glenwood between Ridge Ave. and Devon. It closed around 1970 and the plate glass window was sided over making (presumeably) a residence. About ten years ago, someone acquired the propert
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Thanks for the info everyone. I was thinking about this because I took the Red Line downtown recently - something I used to do daily but now do infrequently. As I was gazing out the window I noticed that not one grey porch remained between Edgewater and the subway whereas 30 years ago there used to be nothing but. When you see one these days, it almost has an antiques feel to it. Wonder if they'll
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I submitted this question to Cecil Adams about a year ago and I was told it was being closely considered by the Master for a public response but to date I’ve heard nothing. Then today I saw a photo in the news that brought it back to memory so I thought I’d ask it here: Does anyone know why the back porches on Chicago apartment buildings have been historically the same shade of grey and nothin
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I remember a guy named PJ Hoff who was something of a cartoonist. He would "illustrate" the weather (with drawings of icicles, snowmen, people sunning or swimming, etc.) on a large paper pad that he would either tear away or flip over. I don't know what channel he was on.
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Ya might have a look at this.
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coffeemom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My Parents had a Mom and Pop grocery store in > Riverside in the 1950's. I remember my Dad would > sell Meister Brau Boch. It only was available once > a year. He said it was the strong beer at the > bottom of the kegs. > > Was he pulling my leg? I remember my dad buying Meister Brau Bock in
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coffeemom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Oh beautiful for spacious skies, > for amber waves of grain > For Purple Martin gasoline..." > > (I can't be the only one who sang it that way.) I certainly would have had I known that version. Kids have always had a way to spice up convention though haven't they coffeemom? Anyone remem
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I remember buying cans of Montreal for eleven cents a piece at the local Bell Liquor store in the early '70's. Their lemon-lime variety was called "Talk-up" which I guess was some cheap wordplay on "7-up". Bell also sold a local brand of root beer called Filberts. They had their address and phone number printed right on their label (It was somwhere on Ogdon or maybe Archer). Th
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St.Gertrude - Edgewater.
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Our family doctor was August J. Durso. He delivered 6 out of 10 of us. (#7 was a cesarean and Ma had to use specialists from there on out). His office was above the General Camera store on Devon and Western and also entailed a long flight of stairs. He was also the team physician for the Loyola Ramblers basketball team – a position he held when they won the 1963 NCAA National Championships. Onc
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Circa 1971 I went to the Ampitheater on an altar boy outing to see the livestock show/rodeo. I remember that it was sponsored by Jewel and a Jewel eighteen wheeler pulled into the arena with an open trailer in tow featuring "The Jewel Country Singers" (whatever happened to them?). Mayor Daley and a bunch of old cigar chompers were there to annoy everyone with some pointless blather and t
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My recollection (and this is strictly from late night TV ads) is that "Toys R Us" was a originally a slogan that Bargain Town used. The announcer always ended the script by chanting, "Bargain Town! Bargain Town! Bargain Town!". I remember during the transition that he would say "Bargain Town! Bargain Town! Bargain Town! is now Toys R Us! Toys R Us! Toys R Us!" It was
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The only product I ever knew that carried the name Durkee was those crunchy french fried onions in a can that are a necessary ingredient for the mushroom soup green bean casserole that became an American classic in the 1960's. They're still made by French's in a similar looking can. Perhaps French's bought them out at some point.
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great pics Rusty! I think the Eagle is still there > as the fabric store (or is it the "Chicago's > Discount Cleaners/Walgreen's" building just to the > north which that canopy implies. Or is it where > the current Dominick's is? > > Not quite in the same league, but Michael's Fresh &g
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jak378 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Armour and Co. also made Dial soap. Presumeably soap was a byproduct of meatpacking? Wonder why Dial never exploited this aspect? Ya don't suppose a commercial featuring a parade of Dial Deoderant Soap trucks pulling out of a slaughterhouse would have a negative impact on the consumer - do ya?
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