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Post by Job on Apr 12, 2007 7:06:06 GMT -6
It's sad to see a lot of the old trades die out, as the children are no longer interested in taking over. This also goes for housewives. Very few still can their own garden vegies or know how to cook from scratch. Growing up on a farm, I had to learn how to butcher, make sausage, smoke meat, even milk cows and make butter, cottage cheese and ice cream! If you really want to step into the past, go into some of the old buildings on Wabash, just north of Randolph in Chicago. The elevators are still run by an operator, and the little shops in the buildings run the gamut from jewelry to shavers. For years, I would buy my wife's Christmas presents here. (jewelry not shavers) The jewelers actually make the jewelry using equipment that looks like it belongs in a blacksmith's shop.
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Post by galsal on Apr 12, 2007 7:22:26 GMT -6
I have not been to Chicago in years, but would love to go back and explore again like I used to. Trouble is now I'm not familiar with any of the areas, and do not know which to avoid.
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Post by Job on Apr 12, 2007 7:56:52 GMT -6
You might check with Field Museum for their tours. At one time, at least, Irving Cutler, used to give full day bus tours. Each tour would focus on a specific side of Chicago: waterways, neighborhoods, etc. Cutler is the author of a number of books about Chicago and has seen Chicago from a variety of vantage points: cab driver, Army Corps of Engineers, and local professor.
The Chicago Architecture Foundation has a number of walking tours both in the City and in the suburbs.
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Post by BlueStar7 on Apr 12, 2007 9:38:50 GMT -6
It's sad to see a lot of the old trades die out, as the children are no longer interested in taking over. This also goes for housewives. Very few still can their own garden vegies or know how to cook from scratch. Growing up on a farm, I had to learn how to butcher, make sausage, smoke meat, even milk cows and make butter, cottage cheese and ice cream! If you really want to step into the past, go into some of the old buildings on Wabash, just north of Randolph in Chicago. The elevators are still run by an operator, and the little shops in the buildings run the gamut from jewelry to shavers. For years, I would buy my wife's Christmas presents here. (jewelry not shavers) The jewelers actually make the jewelry using equipment that looks like it belongs in a blacksmith's shop. I absolutely love that area, Job...ahhh the Jewelry stores are sooo quaint! One of my walks with my Dec. Chicago shopping trips, to wrap-up Christmas shopping!....
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Post by DumDave on Apr 12, 2007 14:13:15 GMT -6
I was in Chicago twice last year. We wanted to take the tour of the Chicago River or a tour of Frank Loyld Wright buildings. But we just did not leave ourselves enough time between trains. -Dave
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Post by DumDave on Apr 12, 2007 14:22:22 GMT -6
He fixed a purse of mine once, too. I'm lucky enough to be blessed with an uncle who has a huge garden and loves to share. We have had no luck with a garden in our yard. As for canning, nothing beats my mother's lime pickles. I never have to buy store bought. They are the best! My grandmother in Chenoa had a huge garden. When I was a squid, I would visit her for a week in the summertime. She would put my sorry butt to work in the garden @7 A.M. every morning. The rewards were wonderful. Fresh peas from the pod, sweet corn, homemade grape juice/jelly from the grape arbor. Back in Streator, I feasted on wild berrys (black & red), grapes, pears or sit in an apple tree with a salt shaker with my fellow boy squids eating green apples & telling lies to each other. Hopeful that school would never start up again.......... -Dave
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Post by John on Nov 29, 2009 10:47:14 GMT -6
We had some nice looking filling stations back in the 50s. These two were right across the street from each other. Keens on North Bloomington Gould's on North Bloomington
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Post by galsal on Nov 29, 2009 16:37:49 GMT -6
Just out of curiosity, I wonder if the buildings were all built all at the same time. They go together so well that they must have, but it seems odd to build apartments and a dealership connected together.
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Post by John on Nov 29, 2009 17:02:18 GMT -6
I don't know if they were all built at the same time or not, but the buildings were not connected physically. The motel building did match the filling station building, but I believe the dealership building was built at a later time. Amongst the buildings was a wood cabinet shop that was in a 4th separate building behind the filling station.
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Post by BlueStar7 on Nov 30, 2009 8:58:21 GMT -6
The coloring of the trim is more brown and the roofs are different, so I'd have to agree they were built at later times too. Great pictures John! Do you know when the filling station closed? I don't quite remember that bldg. there, but as a young child, we don't pay that much attention to some things.
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Post by hawk on Nov 30, 2009 9:45:25 GMT -6
wasn't the Student Prince named "Ivy" or "Iva's" after keens changed over to it's newer station?
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Post by John on Nov 30, 2009 16:19:13 GMT -6
Do you know when the filling station closed? I don't quite remember that bldg. there, but as a young child, we don't pay that much attention to some things. The filling station was last operated by Howard Lopeman. He closed it when the building, which was owned by Helen Pickworth, was sold to Dale Wurmnest in the late 70s, who used it as a detail shop for his auto dealership.
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Post by John on Nov 30, 2009 16:23:31 GMT -6
wasn't the Student Prince named "Ivy" or "Iva's" after keens changed over to it's newer station? In the late 50s, the old Student Prince was called Maid-Rite.
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Post by galsal on Nov 30, 2009 16:58:51 GMT -6
I know in the 60's when I was in high school it was called Iva's. I went to school with the daughter of the owner.
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Post by John on Nov 30, 2009 20:51:55 GMT -6
You're right galsal. Sometime between 1959 and 1961 it changed from Maid-Rite to Iva's. Then in the mid 60s it was gone.
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