Anyone ever check this out?
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I was looking at this, and remembered that there were a bunch of television antennas on that tall part of the building in the 60's. The gas station on California was, at the time, a Martin Oil one, and my grandfather would stop there on occasion.
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Anyone else for honoraries?
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The traffic signals along Cermak in this stretch are interconnected to the railroad's track circuits, and one location has to gates or flashing lights, but the signals go into preemption just the same. I think it's Throop, but I can't say for sure.
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Worth repeating.
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Oh, and originally the operators were going to use steam to propel the carriers throught the tubes, but that resulted in damp mail!
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The City maintained some of it's own electrical system in the early days of electric street lighting. There are still a number of them around on the South Side.
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My cousin-in-law's mother lived on Goose Island. They had a frame cottage that was near the old Ogden Avenue viaduct.
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There were actually three railroads paralleling each other on the Shore Line: the CNS&M, the C&NW, and the Milwaukee Road. The CMSP&P eventually cut back and abandoned service, turning their R-O-W to the L, and the suburban service to the CNS&M.
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Thought I'd post this again, and see if anyone else remembered it.
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Reminded me of an old brochure for Brookfield Zoo that my grandmother had. You took the Garfield Park L to the end of the line and then transferred to the West Towns streetcar. The simplified graphics seemed to imply that there was a physical connection. Interestingly enough, the CTA contemplated buying the Chicago and West Towns after it was formed, but decided against it.
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Spooky!
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Look familiar to anyone?
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Anyone know if it's still there?
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Worth another look.
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I wonder if Bubbly Dynamics has tried to get space in the tower. They've taken over some of the buildings. http://www.bubblydynamics.com/
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Wow! That's a big chunk.
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Not Hyde Park, but Marquette Manor, right across from the park, was Howie's. He had so little business he closed it down when I was about 7 or 8. It was a block or two east of Kedzie on the north side of Marquette Road. The was another on 63rd, south side of the street, about a block and a half east of Kedzie. Polansky's, I think.
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So it appears there never was a bridge?
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Btt.
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Dunning1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think it was, but I was really a little kid back > then. I know later they moved to 71st Street and > have heard that they subsequently moved their > manufacturing down south. The Wendel State Bank Building, Locally it was referred to as a flatiron building.
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Btt.
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Well, it was as far as anyone in Chicago knew!
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I remember when they tore down Continental. Lot of equipment standing out in the open on what was left of the second floor. It's all a storage yard for some contractor now.
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Btt.
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That restaurant at Elston and Montrose is still vacant, and so is the dollar store that was located behind it.
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I went to IIT in the mid- to late 70's, and we were always told NOT to go into the projects.
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Btt.
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