Amazing find, Way Out....thanks for posting
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there are a number of former bakery buildings that are now used for other purposes...the storefront layout of a bakery and a jewelry store always seemed very similiar to me here's one @ 4533 N Kedzie. Now a jewelry store and boutique. this may or may not been a former bakery, but the window and display layout/configuration is classic Chicago bakery <a href="http://www.flickr.com/ph
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the 4700 S Ashland store is not listed, and the 3161 S Ashland location was a warehouse, not a store, according to this blurb from 1954 "Goldblatt owns and operates a chain of 14 retain department stores. Of these stores, 10 are in the city of Chicago and one in each of the cities of Joliet, Illinois, Hammond, Gary, and South Bend, Indiana. It has a central office in Chicago, Illinois, w
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I remember a shooting and robbery in the mid 80's at the Zephyr because I lived not too far from there, but I don't remember anyone being murdered. I know one of the employees was paralyzed, because I remember the fundraiser.
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It was "Ratso's"...a jazz club on Lincoln, north of Fullerton, on the west side of Lincoln between Altgeld and Montana...also on that strip was Orphan's, Wisefools, No Exit, Alice's Revisted, and (south of Fullerton) Kingston Mines... After Old Town had started to become gentrified in the early 70's, the hipsters moved north on Lincoln toward DePaul and started to displace the Hispani
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noteworthy is the comment at the end of the narration "Marina City stands on the still blighted north branch of the Chicago River" I remember reading that Marina City was built on an abandoned railroad yard
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I've wondered about the weird curve brfore the Kimball exit....there doesn't seem to be anything there that I'm aware of that causes the xpressway to almost veer due west <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5206741713/" title="Kennedy Expresway Weird Curve - Kimball Exit by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/52
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > By the way, is it my imagination or are the front > doors to St. Columbkille really close to the > street? there is sidewalk separating the steps from the curb, but your right, it doesn't look like much clearance. I had a discussion once about this area with a relative who was very familiar with
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Berwyn Frank Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Capt. I got a TON of Western Electric shots if you > ever need any! that would be great, Frank...I've always been intrigued by that area...I'm sure there would be others interested as well...maybe you can post a couple on the board
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was looking at photos on a website dealing with > old Chicago trolley-coaches and stumbled across > this: > > Grand & Paulina, 1969 Amazing find....great job. the old trolley site has quite few really interesting vintage views...literally hundreds....including a completely intact Hawtho
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found some info that said Dr. Jazz was @ 1605 W Montrose some interesting info on the Pickard Building, 4557 N Ravenswood, which housed Zephyr Ice Cream from 1976-2006 http://www.talestavernsandtowns.com/2010/03/erin-go-bar.html
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web searches reveal that Dr Jazz was on Montrose..there was another one in Evanston down the street from Amazing Grace, the famous folk music venue @ Chicago and Main, across from the 24/7 "newspapers from around the world" stand there was "Zephyr" on Wilson and Ravenswood that had been around since the late 70's...they had the gigantic "Titanic"...
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I've driven by this building many, many times and have never gotten a chance to really see it up close until I was in the area the other day. Its the site of the old Chicago Commons settlement, the forerunner to the Hull House, It was a settlement for immigrants, mostly. It housed a gym, library, auditorium and had one of the first kindergardens ever in the US. It seems to be in remarkable shape f
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's an article in today's Tribune about the > 50th anniversary of the Kennedy, with a small > section of photos: Kennedy Expy Article the most interesting thing about the Trib article to me is that, although thoroughfare to the NW burbs had been in talks for decades, it wasn't until the early 50's wh
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the Congress was up until recently used as a concert venue. The Admiral is a strip club. The Tiffin on North Ave is long gone. The Portage has been rehabbed and is used for a variety of functions. not included in the list is the Davis on Lincoln and Wilson, and is still in use. there was a movie house/performance/vaudeville house near Irving/Lincoln/Damen, on Damen but the name escapes me now...
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Steve B. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the Back of the Yards neighborhood, we had > Eudikis Funeral Home on 46th and Hermitage > (serving Lithuanians - Holy Cross Church), and > Wolniak Funeral Home on 46th and Wolcott (serving > Polish - Sacred Heart Church). They are both > gone, at least from those locations. As a kid growing up
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Matchbook Cover from the Cushman Collection..probably 50's or 60's..doesn't say anything about a fishing hole on the matchbook..unless the girl on the cover is a mermaid <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5119974776/" title="KILDARE LOUNGE - 4300 WEST 26TH STREET - MATCHBOOK by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/
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this is fascinating...leave it to Berwyn Frank to come up with something this cool
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there are a few looks at the Rush Street Isbell's here http://forgottenchicago.com/forum/2/2929/even_more__goldstein__1963 BTW. the Diversey Pkwy Isbell's in the 47' review has the wrong address..it was 590 Diversey Pkwy...
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WayOutWardell Wrote: it passes by St. > Anne's and the former St. Martin of Tours at 59th > St. quite nicely... I dug up a re-route map of Ryan that shows the initial and revised route...the two red dots would be St. Martins and St Annes...St. Martins didn't seem all that affected, but its interesting to note that St Annes was smack in the middle of both the intial and revised routes
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just curious as to whether or not they rerouted part of the Dan Ryan to avoid the path of St.Annes'...like was the case with the Kennedy and St Stan Kostka and Holy Trinity...would be ironic if that was the case, seeing that it is now gone
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we have grandma and grandpa and a few aunts and uncles buried at St James and the "SAG" cemetery....the cemetery is a very creepy place..
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not old enough to remember riding in Dan Ryan Woods, but do remember quite a few stable along Kean in Willow Springs and Hickory Hills...there was one at 95th and Kean that I know was open into the 80's, maybe even the 90's...I remember an old timer telling me a few years back that he remembers riders riding east on 95th down the middle of street all the way up to Cicero...that was probably 30's a
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From the Daily News Archive...courtyard of St. Anne's Church...possibly school in background, church to the right, and rectory or convent to the left. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5087935185/" title="St. Anne's Courtyard 1920 by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/5087935185_c3e09f7426.jpg" width=&qu
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that's a tough one....I know the Chi Public Libary has an Englewood archive and I'm sure there are some St. Anne's references there.
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the same thing happened to A&P and National, Kroger, Certified..etc...that happened to the mom and pop neighborhood independents they replaced....price and convenience. in the case of A&P and National, they couldn't keep up with Jewel and Dominick's foray into the suburban market in the late 50's, 60's and 70's...Jewel especially, began to really expand the idea of the "one stop&qu
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daveg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for posting the Stark's ad and the > "everything home made by women cooks and bakers" > menu captain54. also "our prices are not only pre-War, but .......... the restaurant industry" pre WW I? Civil War?
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Mail Order Ad from Popular Mechanics - 1954 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/5075251109/" title="Stark's Popular Mechanics Ad - 1954 by captain54_01, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5075251109_f01da55f8a.jpg" width="360" height="279" alt="Stark's Popular Mechanics Ad - 1954" /><
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212 W Madison would be between Wells and Franklin, on the north side of the street...There's nothing on that block now even remotely close to what existed there in 1960...My father owned a business with an office @ 169 W Madison in the 1970's, and most of the buildings west of where he was were old 3 and 4 story office/warehouse type buildings. Back in the day, the area roughly from Adams to La
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thanks for digging up that info, interesting... the Hinchliffe Building is listed as being built in 1926. It's actually at the NE corner of Carroll and Damen...1946-60 W Carroll...If it was built in '26, it was more likely a garage for trucks rather than horses. Interesting also to find a number of lawsuits against Hinchliffe, one by a lady who sued Hinchliffe and the Chicago Railways Co. A
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