Years ago I drove with some friends up to Milwaukee to see a Sox game at County Stadium. We (characteristicly) got into to some sort of trouble after the game and Milwaukee’s finest took us to the station where we were told to empty our pockets upon arrival. A cop picked up a piece of paper that one guy had among his pocket junk. It had some driving directions on it. The first item on the top:
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Was there ever anything that amounted to a "Danish neighborhood" in the city?
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Wow. Smaller world than I could’ve guessed. I started working for LaManna the same week I started high school in September of ’72 and I left for pretty much the same reason you did. Joe started me at .90 an hour and raised me to a buck around Christmas time. (He also made me go over to the Social Security office on Lawrence to get a SS card. I still have it with my name typewritten across it a
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--I had some cousins who owned a German shepherd named Sam. They lived on Paulina in the last house next to the “dead end” wall against Rosehill Drive. That may well have been him you saw roaming the alley. I also knew a guy from the aforementioned Edgewater News Agency who quit when he was hired at the ACE. Maybe you know him. His name was Mark. Later he worked at the Edgewater Bank that open
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My dad grew up in one of the apartments above the ACE and my grandmother was still living there into the 1970 with a couple of my aunts. I remember the gravel alley well. We used to play on that wooden loading dock. The bike shop across the street was called Smitty’s . There was a locksmith right there too. Most of the stuff on that side of the street has been acquired, razed, or renovated by Ge
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That bike was a Sears Huffy I bet! I think that > was the brand they sold back then. The name came > to me now, Auto Flywheel Welding. Than there was > Red's Frame shop accross the street I believe. > > I lived at Balmoral and Winchester from 67 to 71. > But I still hung around there after I mo
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There absolutely was! The name of it escapes me right now, but in the late 60’s I bought a cheap “Sting-ray” style bike at the Sears on Lawrence with my Christmas tips. I had it for about a month when part of the frame cracked. I took it into that welder and he put it back together for me and told me that it was some worthless crap and I shouldn’t expect it to last too long. He didn’t ch
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There was one at the intersection by our school at Granville and Glenwood. There was a crossing guard there on school days and I believe she (or another city employee) used it, probably to make sure the intersection was ready for scool traffic in the event the plows and spreaders didn't get to it in time. I think it disappeared in the mid 70's.
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I delivered the afternoon Daily News out of the Edgewater News Agency on Broadway near Ardmore (5800 North) starting in 1966. The ENA also carried the Tribune, Sun-Times, and few smaller circulation things like the Wall Street Journal and the Forward. I had an early morning route from 1971-73. The American was delivered out of an agency on Ridge Ave. near Senn High School until the paper folded in
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jak378 Wrote: The number means nothing other than that it is a > sequential number assigned by the Motor > Maintenance Division as a means to identify the > vehicle. ------------------- Kinda like the four digit number on taxicabs then? There used to be some four number sequence that cops used to identify their car and district though. Maybe it was on their license plates. I
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Berwyn Frank Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1971 Tribune Photo On E-bay Thanks Berwyn Frank. I'm well aquainted with that model from the back seat perspective. If I remember correctly, the 5613 on the door tells us that it is car #56 from the 13th district.
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frostyplum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's one I forgot that I pass by almost every > day. On the border of Andersonville and Edgewater, > right by the fountain on Clark, there's a > headstone that simply says "Peaches." It's got a > covered picture on it of a middle-aged lady. I > think she passed sometime in her 40s. Don
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I was still in the cradle when the tragedy struck but a few short years later I was in school being taught by Sisters of the BVM which was the same order that taught at OLA. Our Sisters were very uneasy about the subject of that fire in particular and fire in general. It wasn’t until years later that I put two and two together and came to realize that some of them had taught there and that they
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Meehan's?
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I'm afraid I can't help you parmour, but I was amused by the fact that Sheehans had a "family entrance". I suppose it had a dinning room and allowed diners to enter directly without having to traipse through the barroom.Western civilization was such a wonderful thing.
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Keith? Teddy? Mea culpa for all of my past transgressions (which were minimal in comparison to those of some of my confreres). You still live in the Chicago area?
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My dad’s family came from the neighborhood immediately south of there that was once known as “Little Sicily” or “Little Hell”. My grandparents always referred to it as “Smokey Hollow”. In my day it was more commonly known as Cabrini-Green. Today it seems to be leveled and waiting for Old Town to grow into it (although I don’t see that happening in this economic climate).
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adgorn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I didn't see any mention of old Kroger's > locations. We had a Kroger in our neighborhood on Broadway a little south of Granville. When Dominick's bought the local Krogers and converted them into Dominick's, that particular one suffered the irony of being a half block away from an already esatblished Dominick's (wh
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I remember when they televised bowling. That was > a very popular passtime in the 50's. There used to be televised bowling at Ridge Bowl on Ridge Ave. between Clark Street and Peterson. I lived right near there and remember seeing the TV trucks parked nearby on television days.
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I think I found a back door into the "Marmons". Try this.
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zorchvalve Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > WayOutWardell,Captain54 and Rusty Muscle, You are > looking west on the postcard.The facing building > to the right was a bank with the safety deposit > vault in the basement. There was a gas station > where Terrys now stands. Across the street to the > left was fischmanns liquor store and bar. Nex
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Really cool Brian! I only had a few minutes to browse, but I'm sure going to spend some time with it later. I think I identified this one: I believe it's along the cemetery on Irving Park just west of the L (which you can see in the background). Can anyone back me up on this?
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When I was real young chicagopol, we had to go to the 8:00 “Children’s Mass” on Sunday and sit with our class. Our parish (St. Gertrude, Edgewater) dropped the practice about the time I was in second grade but they had another ruse to check on attendance. At the beginning of the school year they passed out boxes of little “Sunday Offering” envelopes. Each set of envelopes was numbered an
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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’d be experiencing something the polar opposite of what I had to go through: The restoration of architecture to i
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gglow, I’ve been a parishioner at St. John Cantius since 1988. It was in pretty bad shape back then and was getting close to meeting the wrecking ball. Things have gone in an entirely different direction since then and we’ve had loads of structural work done on both the church, rectory, and convent (including restoring the bells in the tower). The school has been rented out to the Academy o
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Hey, I just found a pic of the aforementioned Devon theater (along with its aforementioned water tower). The second story windows are those of the dance studio (aforementioned).
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My mom’s uncle spent some time as a patient there when he was young. When I was growing up in the 60’s I remember passing the place at night and seeing the brightly lit yellow neon sign over the entrance at the NE corner on Peterson. Here’s what it looked like in daylight: In recent years my daughter belonged to the Park District tumbling team that uses this building: It looks
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logansquare60647 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a kid growing up in Peterson Park in the 80s, I > think we were the very last generation to actually > have neighborhood pharms. There were two in my > neighborhood, Crane's, on Peterson and Bernard, > and Mels, off of Pulaski and Devon. For years I took note of Tarpy's drugs on the NE corn
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Fluky’s also had a yellow “Maxwell St” sign. I always assumed that’s where they got their start. In any case, ya have to wonder what the value of a sign like that might be today. Aside from its history, Maxwell is a notoriously short street with maybe eight intersections, hence eight signs at best.
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Kchi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a kid I was > fascinated by the old fashion Lifesavers display > with all the rolls I'd forgotten about those things kchi. Seems that every drugstore, dimestore, newstand, or anyplace that sold candy had one of those. On the north side we had a 24 hour pharmacy called "Muskett & Hendrickson&quo
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