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Post by JobGuest on Mar 17, 2006 8:59:55 GMT -6
Dave, you talk more about trains than a country and western singer. I ride the South Shore, last interurban train in the country, whenever I am too lazy to drive into Chicago.
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Post by DumDave on Mar 17, 2006 11:41:07 GMT -6
My oh My. Somebody wrote a real nice article about Mackey Cemetary in the Unionville news letter put out by the Streatorland Historical Society. If any of you are interested in Streator History, you need to join the Society or just stop by the museum on Vermillion St just South of Bridge Street. -Dave
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Post by JobGuest on Mar 17, 2006 16:18:13 GMT -6
If you want to know weird Chicago history, check out the thread on the Hangout.
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Post by BlueStar7 on Mar 17, 2006 19:42:15 GMT -6
If you want to know weird Chicago history, check out the thread on the Hangout. DD, go check it out! Job's doing a fine job...(pun intended!).. ;D I usually go and spend at least 2 weekends a night in Chicago...1 for the taste and 1 near Christmas to window shop and relax with good food and music...after I'm finished really shoppping... Now, I'm planning an extra trip...for....in search of ...Chicago History...Thank You Job!... ;D
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Post by DumDave on Mar 18, 2006 11:34:15 GMT -6
He can't help himself BS7......
"And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?"
-Dave ;D
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Post by DumDave on Mar 18, 2006 11:44:26 GMT -6
Dave, you talk more about trains than a country and western singer. I ride the South Shore, last interurban train in the country, whenever I am too lazy to drive into Chicago. Right! On April 2nd Mom & I are going to be on the train for about a month. Mostly East of the Mississippi & in Canada. We will come home via Chicago - New Orleans & San Antonio in time for the Festival de los Flores. Ahhh spending some R&R from the train trip along the Riverwalk. Sipping a Corona, eating great Tex-Mex & watching the tourist boats flow by....sweet. -Dave
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Post by Job on Mar 18, 2006 12:14:14 GMT -6
We spent most of February in Georgia: Savannah and the coastal islands.
We are driving out to my brother's place on Long Island in late May. His son has promised to take us out to the end of the Island for shark fishing. From Long Island we are going to Gettysburg where we plan to stay for a week or so.
After Gettysburg, we are going to see the places in southwestern Penn. where my ancestors lived in the 1700s. On the way back, we may stop at the pro football hall of fame in Canton.
I wil have to check when my fraternity reunion is being held this year. It is always at Starved Rock. I hope to be able to do the same thing I did last year: a few days with friends in Peru and a week or so in Streator.
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Post by Job on Mar 18, 2006 14:56:59 GMT -6
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Post by gwrs on Mar 18, 2006 17:02:53 GMT -6
The simple fact that there was a "barn" on Penn Street is more telling than the clothes they're wearing. I can't even imagine Streator without an east side.
One of my ancestors owned the 640 acres at one time from Otter Creek Road east to Airport Road on the north side of Main Street, where Circle Drive and Thomas additions would be today. Imagine what that land would be worth now!
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Post by DumDave on Mar 20, 2006 19:06:23 GMT -6
My grand parents in Chenoa had a barn until about 1960. It just got too old & started leaning too much. It was not that unusal after all we are less than 100 years away from the horse & buggy days when you needed a barn in town. (For your horse(s) & buggy.) -Dave
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Post by FD on Mar 25, 2006 21:53:46 GMT -6
Does anyone have any picutures of the fire department?
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Post by History Major on Mar 26, 2006 10:51:06 GMT -6
FD, Go to the Streator Fire Department website at streatorfiredepartment.com. They have lots of pictures and information.
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Post by Stephanie on May 2, 2006 20:12:59 GMT -6
This house on Penn Street has really changed since 1905. My grandparents and great grandparents would never recognize it. The trees have really grown. They have even torn down the barn in back. Remembering these pictures, I drove by this house the other day. I'm so glad you posted these because it does explain why the house sits on the lot the way it does. The way the road (or whats supposed to be a road?) goes in front of it (or what had been the front), you can imagine how it used to look back then with the barn and all.
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Post by Job on May 2, 2006 21:06:12 GMT -6
They even took away the railroad tracks.
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Post by John on Dec 5, 2006 21:02:12 GMT -6
The Christ Episcopal Church in 1910 And in 2006
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