Thanks, and did you see the Weiboldt's sign as well? I'm going to do a followup on Monday, more pictures came my way.
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Thanks, Dave.
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In my search for information on Hollywood Kiddieland I track down a guy who worked there as a teen in the 1970s, during the two years prior to the park's closing. His father also worked there and did the demolition job in 1975. He led me to some photographs of the park from the late 1960s and I've posted them on my blog. The last owners (five brothers) also owned Roma's Pizzaria in the DePaul neig
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I've been looking into the history of the Swedish settlement of North Park. When I blogged about one of the first houses built in the area, in 1894, the first comment to the post corrected an error I had made and provided a fairly complete history of the start of the Swedish settlement in the area. I also learned that the Swedish settlement of North Park was completely unrelated to the Anderso
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Thanks for the update. I learned that Peterson has been overcrowded several times. First, overcrowding at Peterson was the reason Solomon school was built. In the early baby boomer years, Peterson seventh and eighth graders were sent to the Von Steuben Upper Grade Center. Not sure when that ended but by the late sixties when I was in seventh grade we were back at Peterson. We had around 40 in a cl
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Older Ogden from the Cushman collection. Ogden at Halsted, looking north east. shame it isn't looking southeast so we could see the 1958 skyline.
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S.E. Gross was the original purchaser of the land that became the Villa District, however, he lost the land before he developed it. This article on the Villa District website has more information about him and a block map of the subdivision.
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Here's an interesting followup to the Stege Brewery story we learned about on the Pilsen Little Village Tour. If you scroll about a quarter of the way down, to the paragraph beginnning "The Stege house was so called because it was .....owned by Mr. and Mrs. Stege..." The author of this online memoir lived in a flat in the Stege family home, which was located a block from the brewery itse
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I remember Camelot. Thanks, I'll add it to the list. It does have a different name.
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I've been researching my childhood neighborhood and have this list of stores, business and institutions that were located on Bryn Mawr between Kedzie and Bryn mawr. It spans late 1950s through the end of the 1970s. There are couple that go back earlier, and two are still operating at the same location. Nearly all have Bryn Mawr addresses but some have Kedzie or Kimball right off Bryn Mawr. I'm
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I vaguely recall that there briefly was some kind of eating place in the gray building in the early/mid-1980s, and I think I remember ice cream being sold there. Does that ring a bell with anyone? Across the street from Emmitt's (going west was a Greek joint that was boarded up for about ten years before they tore it down. On Google maps it looks as though there's a building there now, South S
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They're listed as the developers of the Kimball Blvd subdivision where the house I grew up in was located. I believe this may be the parcel of land that was sold around the late thirties by the son of Pehr Peterson, owners of the Rosehill Nursery. On Google the firm's name comes up as developer of several subdivision in that area, mostly for houses built in the early 1940s, but nothing comes up ab
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This, via Lee Bey's blog, site has some very clear stills from the movie, but even more info about Marina City
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I'm writing a blog post about smelt season in Chicago and would like to get some information from someone who knows something about this. In particular, I'm writing about my first time learning about smelt season, back in the early seventies at Montrose Harbor, but I'm not picky and I'll take an experienced smelter from any Chicago habor. I'll send you questions by email and you have to be willing
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Although it doesn't mention the building in discussion, this article about the history of Andersonville has background on some commercial buildings and churches in the neighborhood.
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I just discovered this thread and it is wonderful. Thanks for so much interesting information and photos. Back to your very first post, where you talk about the "contract selling," I read an interesting book on that subject last fall by Beryl Satter. It was about her father, who owned one of the buildings on the West Side. Heart-breaking story and tried to fight against the prevailing co
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I don't think we've mentioned Como Inn. When did that come on the scene? Also, Greek Village was around back in 1950. Others: Adolph's, on N. Rush, Kungsholm, Meson del Lago, La Tour (not sure of the spelling but it was on the outer drive, I think), London House.
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More great stuff from the 1950 book, Chicago Confidential. I guess this needs to go under another heading, but it is a continuation of the earlier conversation and I supposed you'd get something to drink at these joints. One of the authors, Jack Lait, wrote for the Chicago Herald and later for the Chicago Tribune,where he wrote a column, "In the Wake of the News." The book has all
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Came across Chicago Confidential by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (1950) at the library today.tongue-in-cheek and offensive in parts, but lots of info. here for example are their dining list,all with addresses listed in book and in some cases the maitre d' names. All these were loop or near north except where noted.More than a few of these lasted into the sixties. DINE WITHOUT ORCHESTRAL DIN: Biny
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There was another Polk Brothers on Belmont, farther east. Maybe near Paulina. Does that sound right? Shekkaago--Turn Style! totally forgot about that one. How about Shopper's World? There was one on McCormick between Lincoln and Devon that later became a Community or vice versa. Then it was a Zayre, now Home Depot. Chas. A. Stevens was another dept. store. It was at 17 North State Street. Here's a
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Thanks for posting the information about the u of c. map website. The 1914 city school map is great.
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I remember an elevator garage in the loop but I can't remember if it was across from City Hall. There was another one in the Rush Street area,around Rush and Delaware, a southeast corner but I may have the wrong cross street.
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captain54 Wrote: > > Are there any remnants or architectural reminders > of any of > those Jewish institutions and businesses?? > > Where was Kaufman's Deli? Is the Kaufman's Deli > on Dempster > near the Skokie Swift in Skokie a descendant of > the original? There are tons of remnants. The Jewish Home for the Blind is still located in Albany Park, on
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The thing I liked about Lockwood Castle was they put sparklers on your ice cream sundaes.
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> tseals Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I was in the old neighborhood (California & > > Montrose) today and trying to remember the old > > haunts. > > Kaufman's Bagels & > > Ada's delicatessen. The N/E corner of Kedzie & > > montrose was a drug store. The National T > grocery >
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There's also the Swedish American museum on Clark St. I've been there but can't recall if they have a library. You'd think. http://www.swedishamericanmuseum.org/ Frances
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Thanks for confirming the location. Where can I see a pre-1972 aerial photograph of the location?
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Anyone recall this place? located near Jersey (Kedzie) and Peterson during the 60s? Any information appreciated.Thanks, Frances
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MIKETOUHY Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Karrols's actually existed up untill sometime into > the 90's. One of Sam Karoll's grandchildren is a blogger who mixes family history with Chicago history. This post of his has photos of the three Karoll brothers who founded the business, Sam Karoll riding in a convertible with Jack Brickhouse in a State Stre
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Thanks for the full name to Hollywood Kiddieland.I vaguely recall the batting cages, but I do remember the cotton candy stand. They offered free tickets in exchange for the cardboard tops from milk bottles so we always had a huge bag of them when we went to Kiddieland.
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