Archive for January 2019
PHOTO – CHICAGO – MADISON AVE – NIGHT – ELEVATED LOOKING E – LIGHTED SIGNS FOR MORRISON HOTEL – MCVICKERS THEATRE – BOSTON STORE – BASS CAMERA – STREETCAR TRACKS – 1920 – VERY ATMOSPHERIC IMAGE – EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – CHICAGO RIVER – LOOKING E – WRIGLEY BUILDING – PART OF TRIBUNE – EQUITABLE BUILDING – NIGHT – APPEARS TO BE CHRISTMAS SEASON WITH WREATHS ON BRIDGE PYLONS – LATE 1960s – EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BROOKFIELD ZOO – SOUTH GATE – CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL PARK – BROOKFIELD ILLINOIS – TINTED – LINCOLN PARK WAS THE SMALL AND CONVENIENT IN-CITY ZOO – BROOKFIELD IN A SUBURBAN LOCATION WAS THE REALLY SERIOUS ONE – 1941 1 comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY – AERIAL PANORAMA – THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT AS AN ART MUSEUM FOR 1893 WORLD’S FAIR, THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION – IT HAD EXTRA-THICK WALLS AS FIREPROOFING – AFTER THE FAIR IT BECAME THE TEMPORARY SITE FOR THE FIELD NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND IT WAS CALLED THE FIELD MUSEUM – THEY MOVED IN 1920 – JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS THE HEAD OF SEARS AND HAD SEEN A SCIENCE MUSEUM IN GERMANY HE WANTED TO COPY – THIS BUILDING WAS BY THEN IN BAD SHAPE (WORLD’S FAIR BUILDINGS ARE GENERALLY MEANT TO BE TEMPORARY) AND REQUIRED A LOT OF WORK – IT OPENED IN 1933 IN TIME FOR CHICAGO’S SECOND WORLD’S FAIR, THE CENTURY OF PROGRESS – THIS CARD LIKELY DATES TO THEN – I WORKED AS A WEEKEND GUIDE THERE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL AND WE RECEIVED A HISTORY LESSON AS PART OF TRAINING Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – OAK STREET E FROM RUSH – ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL COMMERCIAL APARTMENT BUILDING AND TREE-LINED STREET – THE CHICAGO VERSION OF PARIS, A PLACE MUCH IMITATED THEN IN THE CITY – 1909 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – AMERICAN IRONING MACHINE COMPANY CHICAGO – SIMPLEX 603 – FREE TRIAL OFFER AD – 1909 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – ART INSTITUTE SOUTH END – LORADO TAFT’S FOUNTAIN OF THE GREAT LAKES – CREATED BETWEEN 1907-1913 – TAFT WAS A NATIVE OF CHICAGO AREA – HE SPENT MANY YEARS WORKING ON THE FOUNTAIN OF TIME ON THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE – HE LIVED ON THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CAMPUS AND HIS HOME IS A NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE – c1940 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BEAUTIFUL TREE-LINED STREET – S ON 42ND AVE NEAR BELLE PLAINE – I DO LOVE THAT STREET NAME, “BELLE PLAINE” – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – FIFTH CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE – 4840 DORCHESTER – THE CITY HAD A NUMBER OF THESE VERY ESTABLISHMENT-LOOKING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES AT THE TIME – 1910 1 comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – THE CLARENDON – BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDING SW CORNER CLARENDON AVE AND EDGECOMB PLACE – HAND-WRITTEN WELCOME TO 3RD FLOOR – 1906 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – UPPER MICHIGAN AVE – OLD WATER TOWER AND PALMOLIVE BUILDING – NOTE STREETCAR – GROUND LEVEL LOOKING N – AIRPLANE DRAWN IN – 1933 WORLD’S FAIR SERIES – NICE VERSION – TINTED Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – THE MARBLER – MARBLE DEALERS’ HEADQUARTERS – DREXEL BLVD AND SOUTH CHICAGO AVE – LODGING AND TWO GOOD CLEAN MEALS – ONE DOLLAR PER DAY – INTERESTING ODDITY – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN BLVD (CALLED THAT) AND GRANT PARK – LOOKING S SOMEWHAT ELEVATED – PLANES DRAWN IN – DOUBLE-DECK BUSES – THE IMAGE IS OF A VERY VIBRANT PLACE – TINTED – 1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE BRIDGE AND LONDON GUARANTEE COMPANY – FROM DOWN NEAR WATER LEVEL – TINTED – 1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE BRIDGE – NORTH APPROACH – PEDESTRIANS – COURTESY OF CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION – TINTED – 1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE AND MONROE – LOOKING W GROUND LEVEL FROM GRANT PARK – PEOPLES GAS BUILDING – LAKE VIEW BUILDING – ILLINOIS ATHLETIC CLUB – MONROE BUILDING – UNIVERSITY CLUB – REMARKABLY HANDSOME GROUP OF BUILDINGS – TINTED – 1915 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – LOOKING TOWARDS MICHIGAN AVE FROM FREIGHT YARDS – SLIGHTLY ELEVATED – WAGONS LOADING – MICHIGAN AVE SKYLINE IN DISTANCE – c1905 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – LAKE MICHIGAN FROM JACKSON PARK BEACH – GROUND LEVEL VIEW E – WAVES – TINTED – 1908 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – EUCLID AVE AND 70TH STREET SOUTH SHORE NEIGHBORHOOD – LOOKING DIAGONALLY ACROSS STREET TOWARDS SMALL HOTEL-TOURIST HOME – WOMAN WITH BABY CARRIAGE ON SIDEWALK – c1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – FIRST CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH – DREXEL BLVD – THREE-QUARTERS GROUND LEVEL – FROM THE NUMBER OF CARDS I’VE SEEN OF FAIRLY LARGE CHURCHES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MUST HAVE BEEN A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE IN THE EARLY 1900s – TINTED – 1908 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – HOME FOR AGED JEWS – 66TH AND DREXEL AVE (CALLED THAT) – FRONT FROM STREET LEVEL – TINTED – 1908 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – DREXEL BLVD – TWO WOMEN IN LARGE HATS WALKING IN PARK WITH FLOWER BEDS – NOTE: DREXEL BLVD WAS ALWAYS A ROMANTIC URBAN ICON IN MY MIND AFTER I FIRST SAW IT IN THE EARLY 1950s – IT WAS THEN NOT FAR FROM BEGINNING ITS SAD DECLINE – TINTED – 1906 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – DREXEL BLVD – FROM COTTAGE GROVE AVE – FLOWER BED – HORSE AND BUGGY – TINTED – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY – WASHINGTON AND MICHIGAN AVE – GROUND LEVEL LOOKING N W FROM GRANT PARK – CARS BUS PEDESTRIANS – NOTE PUBLIC SIDEWALK CLOCK LOWER LEFT – TINTED – 1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO COTTAGE ORGAN COMPANY – RANDOLPH STREET – AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY BECAME THE CABLE PIANO COMPANY WHICH OPERATED FOR ABOUT A CENTURY – STRIKING GRAPHIC DESIGN – 1890s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BERNARD HOTEL – DREXEL BLVD AND 42ND PLACE – THREE-QUARTERS VIEW GROUND LEVEL – TINTED – 1927 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BEAUTIFUL COURTYARD APARTMENT BUILDING – THE PATTINGTON – IRVING PARK BLVD NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDING – SE CORNER HAZEL AND GALT AVENUES – NOTE THE HEAVY GLASS-PANED DOORS FOR THE BALCONIES UPPER LEFT – LIKELY THE PANES WERE BEVELED AND CREATED PRISM EFFECTS INSIDE – SO TYPICAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL TOUCHES IN THE APARTMENTS OF THIS TIME – c1910 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – PCC STREETCAR IN CHICAGO SURFACE LINES LIVERY – ON DISPLAY AT AN UNKNOWN MUSEUM – CTA (CSL SUCCESSOR) STOPPED USING STREETCARS IN 1958 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER 1 comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – STATE STREET AND RANDOLPH – NIGHT – LOOKING NW GROUND LEVEL – TWA SIGN – SCHLITZ SIGN – SHOPPERS CORNER – STATE LAKE THEATER – 1957 – EDITED FROM A WILLIAM ARTHUR IMAGE Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – STATE STREET – LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM W SIDE – NIGHT – CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS – FIELDS – WALGREENS – CHICAGO THEATER – MARTIAN STREETLIGHTS – POLICE THREE-WHEELER IN FOREGROUND – 1964 – EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN CROSSING ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRACKS – BEHIND IS LARGE BUILDING WITH BEATRICE FOOD PAINTED SIGN FOR MEADOW GOLD BUTTER – A TRULY ARTISTIC IMAGE – 1965 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – GROUP OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR TRAIN ON CTA ELEVATED PLATFORM – FULLERTON STATION – 1988 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER 4 comments
PHOTO – CHICAGO – GRANT PARK SCENE – AFTER HEAVY SNOW – 1962 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CITY HALL – LA SALLE CLARK RANDOLPH AND WASHINGTON – BUILT 1885 AND MUCH ADMIRED – REPLACED IN 1911 AFTER FOUNDATION FAILED – FOUNDATION PROBLEMS WERE COMMON THEN ON CHICAGO’S OLD LAKE BED LAND – TINTED – c1905 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SHERIDAN ROAD N FROM WILSON – HOMES AND APARTMENTS – WOMEN WALKING ON BOTH SIDES OF STREET – ONE OF MY FAVORITES OF THE OLD REAL ESTATE AND STREETSCAPE CARDS – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RIVER AND BRIDGES – AERIAL – WACKER DRIVE FROM MERCHANDISE MART – LOOKING E – 1940s Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – DRAGON IN PARADE – WENTWORTH AVE CHINATOWN – 1977 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHIAM RESTAURANT – 2323 S WENTWORTH AVE – NEW BUILDING WITH PARKING LOT – 3 DINING ROOM IMAGES – 1972 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – ARBANAS STUDIO – 1147 W 18TH AT MAY – STUDIO PORTRAIT OF UNKNOWN PRETTY BRIDE IN FLAPPER- INFLUENCED WEDDING GOWN – 1920s Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – STUDIO IMAGE OF YOUNG BOY WITH CHICAGO EVENING AMERICAN (1914-1939) NEWSPAPER CARRIER BAG – BAGS JUST LIKE THIS (FOR OTHER NEWSPAPERS) WERE STILL USED IN THE EARLY 1960s – I ASSUME THE STAR IS AN OFFICIAL IDENTITY BADGE Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BELDING SCHOOL – 4257 N TRIPP – I LOVE THE SCHOOL YARD FULL OF KIDS – CHANGE THE FASHIONS AND THE PICTURE COULD BE HALF A CENTURY LATER – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BENNETT AVE – N FROM 70TH GROUND LEVEL – BIG HOMES – NEW TREES – SOME EMPTY LOTS – 1911 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CORNELL AVE – N FROM 54TH – APARTMENT BUILDINGS ON TREE-LINED STREET – NOTE CHILDREN ON GRASS LOWER RIGHT – THE IMAGE CAPTURES AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE CHICAGO I KNEW AND LOVED – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – HANDSOME APARTMENT BUILDING – 1140-42 MORSE AVE ROGERS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD – A SHORT WALK TO THE BEACH – 1912 1 comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – KENMORE AVE – S FROM MONTROSE – HANDSOME APARTMENT BLOCKS AND TREES FROM ACROSS THE STREET – 1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – LARGE HANDSOME APARTMENT BLOCK – PINE GROVE AND WAVELAND AVES – S W CORNER – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – 7710 S BURNHAM (DO NOT REALLY KNOW WHETHER ADDRESS WAS THE SAME AS THE LATER BUILDING WHERE I WAS A STUDENT AT THIS ADDRESS) – THREE-QUARTERS VIEW – 1907 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SHERIDAN ROAD – S FROM SUNNYSIDE – APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND TREES – BEAUTIFUL STREETSCAPE – BOY ON PARKWAY – 1908 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH – DREXEL BLVD AND 40TH – LARGE STONE CHURCH ACROSS FROM SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD PARK – CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES TENDED TO BE “ESTABLISHMENT” CHURCHES AND THIS LARGE STONE ONE TELLS US WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE LIVED IN AN AREA MANY WOULD BE AFRAID TO WALK THROUGH TODAY – 1908 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE AND WASHINGTON – LOOKING N – HUGE CROWDS AROUND MARSHALL FIELD’S WINDOWS – TINTED – NICE VERSION – 1909 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE AND WASHINGTON – SLIGHTLY ELEVATED LOOKING N W – BIG CROWD – MARSHALL FIELD CLOCK – EARLY 1940s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BEAUTIFUL STREET SCENE – WOODLAWN AVE N NEAR MIDWAY BLVD – WOMAN WALKING – AWNINGS – DELIVERY WAGON – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STONE-FRONTED THREE-FLOOR APARTMENT BUILDING – WABASH AVE AND 55TH STREET – THE DECORATION ABOVE SECOND-FLOOR WINDOWS SUGGESTS LOUIS SULLIVAN INFLUENCE – 1909 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – VERY HANDSOME APARTMENT BUILDING WITH ROOM-SIZED COVERED BALCONIES – N E CORNER OF SHERIDAN AND MORSE AVE – c1910 1 comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDING – S E CORNER WILTON AVE AND KING PLACE – NOTE TWO GIRLS ON SIDEWALK – c1910 – GENERAL NOTE: THIS KIND OF LARGE APARTMENT BUILDING TYPICALLY HAD A LOBBY INSIDE THE STREET DOOR, SEPARATED FROM THE STAIRS TO THE APARTMENTS BY A LOCKED DOOR – THE LOBBY WOULD BE STYLISHLY TILED AND MAILBOXES WERE BRASS BUILT INTO THE WALL – OFTEN THERE WAS A FAUX FIREPLACE WHOSE MANTLE WAS USED TO PUT THINGS ON AS MAIL TO BE FORWARDED – ALL THE WOODWORK OF DOORS AND BANISTERS WAS TYPICALLY VERY HEAVY DARK-STAINED HARDWOOD – THE STAIRS WERE THICKLY CARPETED WITH GOOD STUFF OFTEN ORIENTAL IN MOTIFF – THE GLASS IN THE DOORS WAS HEAVY AND OFTEN HAD BEVELLED EDGING AROUND WOOD AND A SECTION OF STAINED-GLASS INSERT – BUILDING NUMBERS WERE HEAVY BRASS AS WERE DOOR HANDLES AND KICK-PLATES – ALTOGETHER MAKING A HANDSOME AND HOMEY PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO COME HOME TO – SERVICES SUCH AS GARBAGE COLLECTION WERE FROM THE ALLEY BEHIND THE BUILDING WHICH ALSO CONTAINED THE ELECTRICITY AND PHONE POLES, KEEPING THEM OFF THE STREET – THERE WAS SOME SERIOUS URBAN PLANNING AT THAT TIME IN CHICAGO – THE ROWS OF TREES UP AND DOWN THE STREET PROVIDED A BEAUTIFUL SCREEN FROM NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS ACROSS THE STREET AND PROVIDED COOLING EFFECTS IN AN ERA WITH NO AIR-CONDITIONING – THEY JUST LOOKED MAGNIFICENT AT MATURITY – THEY WERE TYPICALLY AMERICAN ELMS WHOSE CHARACTERISTIC VASE SHAPE CREATED A CATHEDRAL-CEILING EFFECT FROM THE SIDEWALK Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDING – N E CORNER SHERIDAN ROAD AND HOWARD STREET – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – EGGLESTON AVE S OF 77TH STREET – AUBURN PARK – HOMES AND TWO-FLATS ON TREE-LINED STREET – SOME PEDESTRIANS – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – 7546 SAGINAW AVE – HOUSE FRONT WITH GINGERBREAD PORCH – 1912 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – 7611 CREGIER AVE – BRICK HOME – NEAR SOUTH SHORE HIGH SCHOOL – BACK OF CARD SAYS OWNER BOUGHT IT FOR $8500 AND HAS BEEN OFFERED $12000 – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – JEFFERY AVE – N FROM 72ND STREET – LARGE HOMES – TRICYCLE ON SIDEWALK – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – 74TH PLACE – W OF COLES TO RR AVE (CALLED THAT – MAYBE EXCHANGE ?) – NEW HOMES AND TREES – 1910 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – WABASH AVE – AERIAL – TELEPHOTO-FORESHORTENED – ELEVATED TRAIN TURNING ONTO LAKE STREET – NOTE STOUFFERS RESTAURANT – BLACKHAWK RESTAURANT – PART OF WIMPY HAMBURGER SIGN (LOWER LEFT) – NICE VERSION – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER – c1960 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE – GROUND LEVEL LOOKING N – PEOPLE WALKING – FLAGS – PRUDENTIAL BUILDING – SNAPSHOT – EDITED FROM SITE: EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHICAGO IN THE 1960s Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – UNKNOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING STREET – YOUNG MAN STANDING WITH A CARTON OF POP – SNAPSHOT – I LIKE THIS BECAUSE IT REALLY CAPTURES THE FEEL OF A NUMBER OF THE CITY’S NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING STREETS OF THE TIME – EDITED FROM SITE: EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHICAGO IN THE 1960s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CORONADO APARTMENT BUILDING – 44TH AND WABASH – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – EGGLESTON AND WINNECONNA – AUBURN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD – LAGOON – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RACINE AVE – S OF WILSON – TREE-LINED APARTMENT STREET – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SHERIDAN ROAD – APARTMENT BUILDINGS – AWNINGS – ONE CAR PARKED – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SUNNYWOOD APARTMENTS – S W CORNER WINCHESTER AVE AND SUNNYSIDE AVE – AN AMAZINGLY MODERN-LOOKING BUILDING FOR ITS TIME AND A VERY HANDSOME ONE WITH TOUCHES OF LOUIS SULLIVAN – 1909 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – THE BON AIR APARTMENTS – WINTHROP AND LELAND – WITH AWNINGS – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – THE MONTVILLE APARTMENT BUILDING – (SOMETHING) LAKE AVE AND WOODLAWN AVE – WOMAN WALKING IN FOREGROUND – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – YALE AVE S NEAR 72ND STREET – BEAUTIFUL TREE-LINED APARTMENT STREET – 1911 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – 7710 S BURNHAM – 1908 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – HARVARD SCHOOL – HARVARD AVE AND 75TH – AUBURN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SHERWOOD SCHOOL – 57TH AND PRINCETON AVE – 1908 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – STATE STREET – TOWARDS THE LAST OF ITS SHOPPING HEYDAY – GROUND LEVEL LOOKING S IN FRONT OF MARSHALL FIELDS DEPARTMENT STORE – CROWDS – c1960 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – CHANDLER SHOE STORE – STATE STREET – PEOPLE LOOKING IN WINDOWS – NICE VERSION – 1950s – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER 1 comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL – E HYDE PARK BLVD AND THE LAKE – ADDITION BUILT E OF ORIGINAL IN 1921 – ORIGINAL RAZED 1927 – LATER 5TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS – TINTED – 1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (ORIGINAL BUILDING) – E HYDE PARK BLVD AT THE LAKE – TINTED – 1907 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (ORIGINAL BUILDING) – E HYDE PARK BLVD AND THE LAKE – GROUND LEVEL – PART OF I WILL SERIES – TINTED – 1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (ORIGINAL BUILDING) – E HYDE PARK BLVD AND THE LAKE – GROUND LEVEL LOOKING E TOWARDS LAKE – BUILT IN 1892 FOR COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WORLD’S FAIR 1893 – c1900 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (THE ORIGINAL) – HYDE PARK BLVD AT THE LAKE – GROUND LEVEL VERANDA VIEW – TINTED – PRE-1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – NORTH AVE BEACH – VIEW LOOKING W FROM WATER – BIG CROWD – 1600 N LAKE SHORE DRIVE – NOTE THE FAMOUS SHIP-LIKE BEACH HOUSE – TINTED – 1949 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – EDGEWATER BEACH YACHT CLUB COCKTAIL ROOM – EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL – 5555 N SHERIDAN ROAD – TINTED – 1941 Leave a comment
POSTER – CHICAGO – NORTH AVENUE BEACH – STYLIZED DRAWING OF WOMAN IN BATHING SUIT HOLDING ARMS UP TO SUN OVER WATER – 1920s Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL – SHOWGIRL POLLY PARROTT AND BARTENDERS – 1944 – EDITED FROM A CHICAGO HERALD AMERICAN IMAGE Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL – TWO SHOWGIRLS USING OFFICE TYPEWRITERS – BETTY LEE FOOTE AND EILEEN MCDERMOTT – 1944 – EDITED FROM CHICAGO TRIBUNE IMAGE Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL – DANCER ELITA CLEVELAND AT SEASON OPENING OF OUTDOOR POOL – 1962 – EDITED FROM A CHICAGO TRIBUNE IMAGE Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL – BABE RUTH AND HIS WIFE CLAIRE IN THEIR ROOM – IN TOWN FOR 1932 WORLD SERIES – EDITED FROM A CHICAGO TRIBUNE IMAGE Leave a comment
POSTER – CHICAGO – DRAWING OAK STREET OR HYDE PARK BEACH (NOT SURE) – AERIAL – DRAWING OF BATHING BEAUTY WITH PARASOL – THE VACATION CITY – ILLINOIS CENTRAL POSTER – NICE VERSION – NOTE: IN THE 1910s AND 1920s CHICAGO WAS A BEACH DESTINATION FOR MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY – IT WAS THE TIME OF THE BIG LUXURY VACATION BEACH HOTELS IN THE CITY – I SUSPECT FLORIDA DEVELOPMENT EVENTUALLY ERODED THIS STATUS – 1929 Leave a comment
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: CHICAGO NOSTALGIA AND MEMORABILIA 