I read an interview online with Lee Marvin from around the time M-Squad was being filmed and I remember him saying that they came into Chicago only twice a year to film exteriors...no permits, nothing...so with that being said, its questionable as to whether they would be able to use the interior of the Superior/Racine station
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jak378 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I remember teh Holiday Inn, and in > fact remember when it was built. I don't remember > what was there before it though. I > believe that State Farm was the first to use the > site after the building was demolished. > > I remember, vaguely, KiddieLand being called > Doolan's. I also recall
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jak378 Wrote: > > Now a Jewel and Portillo's Restaurant. I remember > ging to the kiddieland when I was little, in the > 40's and I also remember taing my first 2 kids > ther in the 60's and ealry 70's. I don't know > exactly when it closed, but probably early in the > 70's. It was a clean quiet place. The Jewel/Osco had already been around for more than 10 yrs o
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speaking of Olds dealers in the southwest suburbs, there was Jack Thompson Olds on 95th and Pulaski, from the late 50's when it was across from the old Kiddeyland Amusement Park, until about 10 yrs or so ago...
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last I saw it was moved to the park a few blocks west on Grand
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chicago Lawn, not West Lawn...right, my bad. not sure about what occupied 63rd and Homan, where the new station is located..Historic Aerials shows a sort of gas station like structure at that corner throughout the 60's and 70's..but I can't be for 100%... there is an interesting feature on this webpage on abandoned and disused Police stations that is somewhat related to this thread... als
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Good call..the 9th District 35th and Lowe station exterior brick work in the CN 777 screenshot looks identical to the present view of the station, minus the mounted lighted "Police" lantern. And judging from the 1939 pix, the New City facility looks a bit older, thus not matching the CN 777 faux "New City" facility. Also, in the present view, you can see the parking lot on the
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"New City" police station exterior..."Call Northside 777"...the address was more than likely 1700 W 47th, not 4700 W <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5755322369/" title="&quot;Call Northside 777&quot; exterior police station by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5064/5755322369_0cf2584
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jak378 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just came across this thread and find it > interesting. Weren't the interoir scenes in the > police station shot in what is now the "old" > Deering station, which in later years was the 9th > District at 35th and Lowe? There were numerous > shots of the des, an office, later the watch &g
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Not that this is at all related, but I couldn't help but point out that another interesting landmark in the same general vicinity (SE corner of Pershing and Western, 2323 W Pershing), now McKinley Park Lofts, was once a warehouse for the Ronco/Popeil line of products made famous on late nite TV ads in the 60's and 70's
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13 Neighborhood Parks, not to mention the harbors and lakefront areas that are part of the Chicago Park District Auburn Park Calumet Park Columbus Park Douglas Park Garfield Park Gompers Park Humboldt Park Jackson Park - site of Worlds Fair 1893 Lincoln Park South Pond Marquette Park McKinley Park Sherman Park Washington Park A majority of the "lagoon" parks w
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I spent at lot of summers at the "Free Fair" as we called it. The "Free" part was actually referring to "free admission", but I always remember paying for rides, games, etc. It could possibly have been totally free at one time or another, I'm not sure. The demise of the "Free Fair" was due in large part to increased gang activity in the area, pretty m
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nancybc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My Guess is that is the old Chicago Armory > Building. > > Nancy If you're referring to the E Chicago Ave Armory Building, it wasn't constructed until 1907
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PKDickman Wrote: > I don't know what building that is, but William > Selig shot "Tramp and the Dog" here in 1896. So > but the police parade may not be the first thing > filmed in Chicago. > > Paul K. Dickman "Chicago Police Parade" was filmed in September of 1896.. The footage was taken from the "Cinematographe" and invention of the Lumini
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this is presumably know to be the first thing ever filmed in Chicago... Chicago Police Parade - 1896 <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tt9aaIgm_P8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Can't quite identify the building in the background...my guess is the Bride
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jasontinkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been uploading like an obsessed maniac for > the past couple weeks. Blanketed the northwest > side with anything I could find. Somebody else > needs to step up and fill in the rest of the city, > I'm exhausted. I noticed the "northside 777" still where Jimmy Stewart exits the subway
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I found footage here of the big snowstorm from January of 67'
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5500871776/" title="Chicago Public School Map 1912 by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5217/5500871776_bf8ac101d3_b.jpg" width="1024" height="518" alt="Chicago Public School Map 1912" /></a>
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no, can't recall a Dr. Kraft's office, but I do remember Trost Hobby Shop @ 63rd and Albany...man, what a place for a kid!! especially when they installed the slot car tracks....
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Prior to the 80's the area was heavily Puerto Rican...gentrification in the late 70's pushed the commmunity further west toward Humboldt Park.. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5473031388/" title="Armitage and Kenmore - Lincoln Park - 1971 by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5017/5473031388_885221b8d4_b.jpg&q
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tseals Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the 70's I played there often in bands. I can't > rememeber if it was on Lincoln or Halsted. wow...I practically pinpointed the Lincoln Ave location in a previous post...it was 2464 N Lincoln..next to Somebody Else's Troubles...Kingston Mines was about a a block south of Fullerton on Lincoln.. <a href=&qu
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there was Nick's on the SE corner of Halsted and Armitage...one of the best bars in the city...the Candy Store and Beaumont's down the street...Otto's, with a stuffed gorilla near the entrance (now Cafe Ba Ba re ba). An old auto supply near the NE corner of Halsted and Webster was turned into a very swank Italian eatery, "Carluccci's" that never made it. Halsted between North and A
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here's a little blurb I found to maybe ease the thought of what happened here in Chicago when they built the Kennedy "In Boston, one of the country's oldest cities, almost a third of the old city was demolished—including the historic West End—to make way for a new highway, low- and moderate-income high-rises (which eventually became luxury housing), and new government and commercial bu
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Some interesting history of the Irving/Narragansett intersection...currently Merrimac Park <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5408303019/" title="Kolze's Electric Park by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/5408303019_be376ff667_z.jpg" width="598" height="431" alt="Kolze's Electr
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hey Cap'n, you will dig this (if you haven't seen > it already)! > > Big Bill Hill WOPA 1967 OH yeah....this is GOLD....! Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" still gives me chills.... all I gotta do now is find some old B&W footage of "Red Hot and Blues" ...(or "Red
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Obscured mostly by the red truck and under the main lettering looks like "LINOLEUM" or maybe "& LINOLEUM"
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Does anyone remember an old local WCIU dance show called "Red Hot and Blues"? It was kids dancing to R&B, and the host of the show was a DJ named "Big Bill Hill"...this show is widely know to be the inspiration for "Soul Train" As white kids, we were riveted on Friday nights, mainly for the cheesy..ultra low budget commercials..."ZIP Deparment Store....ba
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5327775959/" title="Peter Pan - Belmont Narragansett - Chicago by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5285/5327775959_90a5dffb56_b.jpg" width="672" height="483" alt="Peter Pan - Belmont Narragansett - Chicago" /></a>
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ghidorah2003 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- glassed wall on the Narragnsett side is a bit > longer and the facade above the window areas is a > little taller too the glass frontage looking to the left of the main entrance, and on the Narragensett side, is a perfect match ot the current structure on the NE corner of Irving and Narragansett....the Belmont
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The fire hydrant missing on the Belmont/Narragansett pic, and the trim above the building, differing between vintage Mr.D's pic and the current Belmont/Narragansett pic are the biggest giveaways to it being Irving and Narragansett. I blew up the vintage gidorah2003 pix, and lightened it. You can see the street signs with a pretty clear "Narragansett" on one side of the post, and on t
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