POSTCARD – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE AVE AND 46TH STREET – BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDINGS – STRIPED AWNINGS (NOTE: THEY HAD NO AIR-CONDITIONING THEN) – TREE-LINED STREET – NOTE THE WOODEN CHAIRS ON THE FRONT LAWN NEAR BOTTOM OF IMAGE – IT WAS COMMON PRACTICE TO SIT OUT FRONT ON EVENINGS FOR COOLNESS AND NEIGHBORLY EXCHANGES – THIS GAVE SUCH NEIGHBORHOODS QUITE A BUZZY EVENING ATMOSPHERE – THE PRACTICE REMAINED INTO THE 1950s AS I REMEMBER FROM THE SOUTH SHORE OF MY YOUTH – 1910