The meat cutter’s, butcher’s, union was one of the most powerful in the city during its prime (pun intended) and the no meat after 6 PM was all their doing. As mentioned they would unroll butcher paper across the top of all the meat displayed in the refrigerator cases/displays until the next morning. But as was also mentioned small, usually family owned, groceries would still sell meat after
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Re: time capsule property on 33rd & Hoyne I grew up down the block from this building in the 1960s. This building housed our neighborhood grocery store, it was called Horaschi’s (spelled phonetically) after the family that ran it. It was run at that time by two elderly sisters and their brother; the sisters ran the main counter and the brother the meat meat counter at the back of the st
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I lived on the other side of the Damen Avenue Overpass in the McKinley Park neighborhood. We went to the “Free Fair” every summer after we moved into the neighborhood. Sometime in the late sixties the name was changed to “Fun Fair”, allegedly because of a lawsuit, and it did fit better since, as mentioned in an earlier post, the only thing free was admission. It was easy to blow weeks o
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One more thing, Wrigley Field is in the Lakeview neighborhood, so here is the link for the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce http://www.lakeviewchamber.com/ maybe they can tell you which restaurants around Wrigley date back to the time frame you mention.
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“Check, Please!” http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,49,1 WTTW’s restaurant review show just ran a program on long lasting restaurants… http://blogs.wttw.com/checkplease/2011/02/18/a-look-at-long-lasting-restaurants/ The original Billy Goat Tavern is still there at 430 N. Michigan Ave. (lower level) as well; "Cheezborger! Cheezborger! No fries, cheeps! No Pepsi, Coke!"
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@b.a.hoarder: Who is your wife's aunt? I grew up on the 3300 block of Hoyne and my cousins (the Skarupninski family) were living there, right next to The Coffee Nook restaurant, long before we moved in. @captain54: A classmate and friend of mine's father worked at Ronco on 39th. Rumor was his dad actually created the Pocket Fisherman, but their contracts gave the rights to anything they deve
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billyfrank & b.a.hoarder, OK, we're talking about two differnet viaducts here, not unusual for the neighborhood. 3710 S. Western would put it just south of the viaduct the CTA Orange Line uses today, just north of Burger King. The lumber yard I was speaking of was just north of the viaduct at 39th (Pershing Rd.) and Western, across from the McKinley Park tennis courts and pool. By the ti
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The Archer Theater was actually not on Archer and Damen, (where the supermercado is located in the old Osco Drugs building) but, from what I have read, on 35th street just west of Damen. There is a refrigeration company there now, that I think was there in the 60s when I was a kid. The facade of the refrigeration company is much newer than the building itself, so it may be the skeleton of the old
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The Midwest Theater was demolished in 1965 as the Cinema Treasures site notes… http://cinematreasures.org/theater/2724/ I remember it as a very sad day for us kids who lived in the neighborhood. The Midwest’s entrance was on Archer between Leavitt St and Hamilton Ave, a little closer to Hamilton. It was demolished to build a new A&P grocery store, which lasted only about 5 years an
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