Jefferson used to also provide dry ice (I assume Home may still). We purchased a block of that to rpop up an ailing refrigerator until the new one was delivered. Knocked off a small piece to go in the freezer, and the rest went in the main compartment.
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Interesting. I remember quite a bit of traffic on it back in the 1960's. What I heard around CDOT when it was closed was that there was no money to repair or replace it, and most of the tracks were gone. That latter claim seems like a lot of hooey, looking at Google Satellite recently, but I guess cutting back CTA bus service, and the twilight of the CMD, probably helped its demolition along. It s
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Thanks, b.a.! I wonder what the future holds for what's left of CMD's buildings? They all appear to be abandoned. I also wonder who was the idiot who decided to tear down the Damen Avenue Viaduct over CMD's yards. That would have handled the local traffic driven off Ashland is that bus "rapid-transit" operation is built. Should have figured about the water tank...
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There's a shot in the Flickr feed of the elevator shaft inside the Central Manufacturing District's clock tower that inspired my next question. Does anyone know if the tower had some other function, aside from being a clock tower and ostensibly an advertisement for the CMD? It's not connected to the other buildings above street level, so being an additional elevator doesn't seem to be its function
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wasn't there a Hillman's in Block 37 too? Dunno about Block 37, but the Sears store on S. State Street had a Hillman's. My mother used to visit there after taking my sister to her ballet lessons at the Chicago Music College in Roosevelt University.
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can see the enclosed stairs up to the platform > too, as well as the tower, which I assume was a > signal tower. But commuter service to where > exactly? The loop? Seems like a circuitous route > to me, and then to Valpo? Has anybody ever been up > the stairs? Anybody here I mean... Elevator? I
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If I had to guess why the restaurant failed, I'd have to say it may have been a lack of off-street parking. Too bad.
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I have a vague recollection about the doors being locked back around 1969, when we moved out of the neighborhood. Sometime in the 90's I happened to be back there on my way to do some field work, and that was when I noticed it had been turned into a restaurant. I was back again sometime between 2005 and 2010, and noticed the restaurant had closed. Since I was on the clock in both cases, I didn't s
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Chistorian51 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anybody have any info on this building, looks like > it was last called "Traxx Cafe". > https://maps.google.com/maps?biw=1229&bih=845&bav= > on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.76802529,d.aWw&wrapid=tljp141 > 262002277920&um=1&ie=UTF-8&fb=1&gl=us&q=6300-6328+ > S+Ce
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R. Buckminster Fuller.
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Mr.D Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In response to Jeff_Weiner's November 14, 2013 > 10:31PM post: > > Actually that Hi-Low food store was east of > California. It was on the southwest corner of the > intersection of 63rd Street and Talman Ave, facing > 63rd Street. My mother would frequently send me to > that store as a small b
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bob427 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > do you remember at Armitage and cicero ? on the > n.w. corner was a big company(carpet) on the > outside you coould walk up to a water fall that > goes all the way down. i remember you had to walk > up the size of a 6 story building this > wass late 50s early 60s. > > bobby Olsen
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nordsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff, > > I believe that the reason for building the plant > is seriously flawed. One prime example is to bury > "sequester" carbon dioxide anywhere, including > the proposal to first pipe it from the plant at - > Burley Avenue around 116th Street, between Lake > Calumet and the
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nordsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff, > > This forum should steer away from political > controversy; I prefer scientific facts . . . time > will tell. Carbon dioxide. Coal tar. Ammonia. Cyanogen. All by-products of coal gas production, along with producer gas and various grades of coke. And thanks to heavy crude, we have tons of
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nordsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A new coal-to-gas plant may be built on Chicago's > southeast side. > > http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110713/NE > WS02/110719950/quinn-signs-bill-boosting-leucadias > -coal-to-gas-plant# What could go wrong?
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I just remembered an interesting feature that existed in an old courtyard building I lived in briefly in East Rogers Park. The base had a bunch of old gas rings which I suspect were for laundry boilers. They looked like they may have still been connected, too.
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PKDickman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My building, ca 1909, was built when electricity > was new fangled. So was indoor plumbing and > central heat. > > All the ceiling boxes had a gas pipe in the center > and rigid conduit around. > > The building meter had a line to a manifold on the > basement wall. > I was checkin
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was working in an very old apartment building > years back (1993) around Sheridan Road and North > Shore installing a ceiling fan in the kitchen and > I found a active gas line in the same junction box > as the electric. Plus the gas was leaking a little > as well. It turns out that this building h
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trainutlen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I used to go to All Nations on lunch in the late > 1960's. Also don't forget Hobbymodels at Devon and > Western Avenue. Downtown Hobby was at State and > Randolph on the second floor and later moved to > the arcade at First National Plaza before moving > out to Northwest Highway. Ah, how could I
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Then there was Downtown Hobby, which was located in the Subway Arcade in the Loop. The owners moved up to Edison Park on Northwest Highway. And of course there was All-Nations Hobby Shop on the west side of the Loop, now long gone.
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Any idea when the plant was closed and demolished?
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>That wasn't hydrogen. It was liquified natural gas and it was back in '96. >Although they had hopes of public use it pretty much only was used for Peoples >Gas's fleet of CNG powered vehicles. I sit corrected! I had been told it was for hydrogen, at the time.
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Does anyone remember the "new" hydrogen filling station that was built on the southwest corner of Damen and Fullerton? I seem to recall that it went up without much fanfare in the early 2000's, then was gone by 2005. I never saw any cars or trucks there, and wondered if anyone else knew anything about it.
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rjmachon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have seen these tracks torn out on Clark Street > years back when they repaved the streets. They can be removed when they are found to be unconnected to the current return, like in areas far from the el, or where the CTA put in cables as part of an upgrade to the power distribution system. Another reason to le
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Mikey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The AP branch at Kimball? Unreal! I just drove > past that intersection a month ago, and hadn't > noticed! Thanx for the info. Sad to see the place > go. When I was growing up in AP, I'd go to the > location prior to that one, which was on the north > side of Lawrence ave. halfway bewtween Drake and &
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How would they act as returns for the el? > > Jeff_Weiner Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- The return circuits for the traction current on the el must be isolated from the ground. A lot of the substations that serve the el system also provided power for the streetcar
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How would they act as returns for the el? > > Jeff_Weiner Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- The return circuits for the traction current on the el must be isolated from the ground. A lot of the substations that serve the el system also provided power for the streetcar
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I repeat, American Science and Surplus.
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American Science and Surplus.
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Last Arf & Barf I remember was in Waukegan, just east of Green Bay Rd.on Belvidere, when we moved there in 1969. It closed, and then they built a Dunkin' Donuts in front of it on the lot, then tore it down.
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