So I walked by last night after work, but the lamps have been removed. I think the lights were brass or bronze and had big glass globes. I wonder what happened to them.
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Joy, I think you mean Strøget - Stortorget is the main square of Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm (Torg is square in Swedish, Torv in Danish and Norwegian). Strøget is the main pedestrian zone/shopping district of Copenhagen. There are some great photos of Carson's interiors department from the 50's - very chic and high style. I'm going to walk that way tonight to look at them. Carson's us
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Nancy - technically Uptown, but close enough to be Andersonville. Interesting tidbit, Ann Sather var EJ svensk!
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I remember people riding on the bridle path in Jackson Park as a kid in the 70's but haven't seen a non-police horse there in years. It's such a hassle to have to get out to say Morton Grove for that sort of thing.
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YAY! It's so much nicer, and better for night photography.
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All the boulevards aren't uniformly wide and planted and/or with medians (Hyde Park Boulevard or Pratt Boulevard come to mind). I believe all the traffic restrictions apply on Diversey (no trucks, pickups, commercial vehicles, etc).
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If I remember right, incinerators fell from favor due to pollution and increasing quantities of plastics in household trash.
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Doesn't Golf Mill (Ford, etc) still have cheesy locally produced commercials? The last jingle was like; "Do like Stu and push it pull it tow it to Golf Mill Ford" Or something - not as bad as Eagle Man, but twice as forgettable.
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Smelts are readily available at Gill Park, oh, you meant the actual fish.....
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Nice photos. I love how carefully the chain link fences were framed around the openings.
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Nope, they're something new (I just can't, well, couldn't, tell if they were LED or something else).
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I lived 500 feet from there for six years and never noticed the finger before!!! I know people who got married there (Sweden born Swedes, of course).
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I noticed last night that most of the street lights along LSD from Irving north have been replaced with a new, brighter, whiter, yet less glaring (and with a sharper, less polluting cut off) lamping (I think it's the whole head, if not the pole).
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I'm glad the airport is gone.
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What was the name of the small chain (I think) of arcades in Rogers Park that were reputedly burned by their competitor?
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The building I grew up in was built in 1906 and had both gas and electric lighting installed from day one. I think some of it was still live until at least the 1940s when there were gas jets in the maids bathrooms. It's also possible that other parts of the gas lighting system were still active, since they were capped and untouched. There were also lines to the fireplaces, though no one had a work
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Thanks for the link. Totally unexceptional, if nice with a little elbow grase, 2-flat - other than previous occupants.
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StrayKitten - there are lots of HUGE courtyard buildings on the South Side. They are one of the most uniquely (if not purely unique to Chicago) Chicago building types.
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UIC has been redeveloping it (I worked on the West Campus when this started to really accelerate in the mid/late 90's) slowly. There were still a lot of random buildings left around Damen, but to the east there were more buildings, which have all been demo'd since. There were some nice old rowhouses which could have been rehabbed and served as catalysts for redevelopment, but weren't. I was always
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The Rosenwald Apartments are similar to the Marshall Field Garden Apartments (Just south of North Avenue at Sedgewick) and some earlier CHA project (the one's on Diversey and the River, can't remember the name and many other, mostly gone, projects) but these set the standard for medium density housing. Though they are atypical for Chicago, being more than three floors (even though there was, and i
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What a cool article.
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It looks like the Red Line extension will come first and then hopefully the Orange to Ford City (the trains already have the signage for it). And the Yellow to Old Orchard. I'd prefer the mid-city transitway over the circle line, but both would be nice.
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My parents building has those arrow indicators on the passenger elevators. Their cabs are mostly original (late 20's), though the service elevators are new.
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What new line would that be?
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I just drove up the stretch north of here and could have sworn I saw another just past (north) of Devon... I think I'd just forgotten this was south of Peterson across from the cemetery, not Warren Park.
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I thought Weinstein was part of a big conglomerate now.
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Looks too thin to have been from the Trolley bus wires to me, but maybe it could have been...
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My freight elevator is original and 'manually' operated, i.e. you have to hold the up or down button to take you to your floor as well as summoning it. Building was built in late 20's. I was in another 20's apartment building which still had all the original deco accoutrements in the elevator, gold leaf, check, open grill doors, check... There are a lot of smaller residential buildings with 20's e
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That sounds like something John Waters or Svengoolie would have been involved with.
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Wasn't there a Butera at Clark and Wilson where the office supply store is now?
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