WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Going back to the '65 photo...the old YMCA would > have been just to the right of the guys in the > photo, out of the frame, correct? I'm not sure of the exact address, WayOut, but I know that the old Y was on the west side of Larrabee between Weed and Blackhawk..actually, the west wing was directly ac
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Rustymuscle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Don't forget there was a gas station at > North/Ogden/Larrabee...or we should say, there was > a building standing there. BTW, it appears > Fischman's liquors has had several locations and > is probably the same one in business today. Hard to say if the current structure (Terry's) would have
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BTRIPP Wrote: > Regarding the postcard ... given the tracks > crossing above the street in the distance, my > guess would be that the view is west down North > toward where the Brown Line tracks run north-south > across North Ave. by Halsted. oh yes, Wayout's postcard is a view west down North, across Larabee...and by the old-style address (73 North avenue) it pre-dates 1909
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Rusty nailed it...wow 555 W North is the NE corner of North and Larrabee, and Fishman's was fronted on North Avenue and the east side of Larrabee. Like Wayout said, Terry's wasn't around in 65' to obstruct the view across Larrabee, so if you were standing on Weed and Ogden looked east you would get a clear view of Fishmann's... Great job, Rusty!
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kgamb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Look! Is this? Could it be?? Yondorf!? > North/Halsted, looking East. 1909. > > I have a feeling this pic is earlier than 1909 because you don't get a view of the Brown line crossing North Ave just east of Halsted. The Brown Line was erected in 1907
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cap'n, you have a good point as far as the depth > perception in the '65 photo...is it possible that > '...chman's' is actually on Larrabee and the view > is unobstructed? If you had an unobstructed view of the east side of Larrabee street, from the corner of Weed and Odgen in 1965, this is what you'
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part of the problem is that the depth perception is difficult to ascertain in the 65' photo. is the "...chman's" establishment a bit north of the CTA overpass? or is it somewhat underneath the overpass? it's entirely possible that the gas station sign standard remained after the gas station closed up shop and after the Terry's building was put in place and just largely ignored.
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Out of sheer chance, I just found this: > > Ogden/North/Larrabee Standard Station > > Also...wasn't there an Amoco station just east of > the subway station, where the Apple store is now? > Maybe Terry took over the old gas station when the > new gas station location opened. cool f
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good calls on spotting both the service station standard and the "LIQ" on the facing of the establishment in question. I pulled up the pic in Photoshop and sure enough, the first three letters are "LIQ".
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So sometime between 73' and 81', the current angled wall structure which is now Terry's was erected, disproving the theory that the current structure dates back to the 50's Couple other possibilities: 1) after 62', the North and Ogden Service Station changed hands, and became "....chmanns", suggesting that the establishment in the background of the 65' pic is a service station, and no
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kgamb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Check this out! 1988 photo of Terry's Red Hots. > > Terry's Red Hots with Ogden Ave In that pix, looks like Ogden wasn't used, but not quite paved over yet. The question is whether the current structure is the same basic one as is shown in the 65' view. The current address of Terry's is 1554 N Larrabee. The o
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kgamb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Would the ...achman's hot dog stand be near where > Terry's Red Hot stands today (or near the old > Larabee L stop)? Now I'm curious!! I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the ,,,achmann's Drive-In is in the exact spot of where Terry's Red Hots is today, maybe even be the same structure, altered in some
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Thought I would re-post this photo from 1965. Might give some flavor as to what the area was like back in the day. Weed and Ogden is shown to be the intersection by the street signs above the youths. Weed Street disappeared east of Halsted in the late 70's, 80's, as did Ogden in the stretch. This intersection would have been about a 1/2 block south of North Ave and 2-3 block or so east of Ha
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from Wikpaedia.com In the 1950s,the majority of this area was an enclave to the first Puerto Ricans to emigrate to Chicago. They referred to this area as part of "La Clark" until commercialization decorated late 1960s shop signs with the name of Old Town. In 1927, sculptors Sol Kogen and Edgar Miller purchased and subsequently rehabilited a house on Burton Place, near Wells Street,
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From the research I've done, Old Town in the 60's was heavily Puerto Rican/Latino. My best guess is that the area become attractive to the artsy types because of cheap housing in the late 60's, and then little by little became gentrified into the 70's and beyond.
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I think the area around Halsted and North Avenue has undergone one of the most dramatic transformations of all the transformed intersections/areas of Chicago. I've searched high and low and can't seem to find any visual reference or looks from the 50's, 60's, 70's to compare. I know that the Sam's Wine house was on the NE corner of North/Halsted, and the Golden Ox was up the block south, but th
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wow..great find, as usual the article you linked mentioned it was Midget Racing, (midget cars, not drivers), which would explain the short track. I found that the Lane Tech stadium was built in 1940 by the WPA. If the racing track ran until 1942, I'm assuming it closed when the stadium was completed and in use by the HS. interesting to note that the 52' view of the stadium shows a basebal
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that's not a parking meter, its an old vending weight scale
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Historic Aerials shows what looks like a driving range extending all the way west to the river in 52' and 62'. The 62' view looks like indeed there was a mini golf section closer to Addison. By 72', the range was gone and a restaurant-like facility was in place, with what looks like a newly built road to its immediate west. Hard to say, but it looks like the restaurant vanished either mid or lat
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JLSii Wrote: It was NOT called the BCBS > building. > > It was the Hibbard, Spence, Bartlett and Company > Building (1926) 14 floors. > Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. > @211 East North Water Street, Chgo. later named > Mandel-Lear (1970-1989). > It was demolished in early 1989. thanks for the follow-up. Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett and Company
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How about Monarch, Hamms, Blatz, Meister Brau?
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adgorn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looking west at Wrigley Bldg before the plaza on > the east side of Michigan Ave was built. Alan that's Pioneer Court .. along with the Equitable Building, went up in 65' approximately the site. too, of the original home and trading post of Point DuSable...1770's
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From the fabulous Cushman Collection <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5815248757/" title="Mr. Kelly's-Chicago-1960 by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2537/5815248757_f75fc475db_z.jpg" width="510" height="416" alt="Mr. Kelly's-Chicago-1960"></a> Mr. Kelly's was onl
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Chipast Wrote: > > Chop Suey was more Americanized than authentic > Chinese anyway, So therefore......The transition > seemed somewhat suitable. Up the block (south) and across 63rd on Cottage was the Tivoli Theatre/Grand Ballroom complex, which was formerly the "Cinderella Chop Suey Restaurant and Dance Hall"
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WayOutWardell Wrote: > By the way, I fail to see what's so Dutch about > the 'Dutch Room', unless everyone seated there had > to pay their own way. Also, how does an Irish gent like "Kavanaugh" open a "Chop Suey Cafe"?
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WayOutWardell Wrote: > By the way, I fail to see what's so Dutch about > the 'Dutch Room', unless everyone seated there had > to pay their own way. Also, how does and Irish gent like "Kavanaugh" open a "Chop Suey Cafe"?
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there are a few photos posted here taken at the time (1910) of an "explosion" at Kavanaugh Woodlawn Cafe. There is other info about Harry Kavanaugh that I dug up that might reveal what the "explosion" was all about. 1) Harry Kavanaugh owned the "Hammond Beach Inn" a resort just across the Illinois/Indiana border, around the turn of the century. 2)In 1916, out
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looks to me like one of those penny vending machine weight scales..someone either dragged it out of an establishment, or it was already setup outside for some reason. http://www.gameroomantiques.com/RmBScales.htm
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When the niehborhood changed so did everything > else just like other parts of the city. You don't see entire blocks obliterated like this on the north side
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When the niehborhood changed so did everything > else just like other parts of the city. You don't see entirely blocks obliterated like this on the north side
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