Friday, May 24, 2019
POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N FROM RANDOLPH GROUND LEVEL - CROWDS - TAXIS - LOOP AND STATE LAKE AND CHICAGO THEATERS - NOTE: THE CORNER OF STATE AND RANDOLPH WAS JUST SUCH AN EXCITING PLACE THEN - WITHOUT THE BUZZ AND HUM FROM THE DEPARTMENT STORES AND ALL THE BIG MOVIE THEATERS WITH THEIR CROWDS LINING-UP PLUS ALL THE BUSINESSES SUCH AS SNACK SHOPS THAT SERVED THE MOVIE CROWD IT HAS BECOME SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT - NICE VERSION - 1962
POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N FROM ADAMS SLIGHTLY ELEVATED - CROWD BOARDING MULTIPLE-UNIT CABLE CARS - NICE PERSPECTIVE DOWN THE STREET - BEAUTIFUL IMAGE - TINTED - NOTE MARSHALL FIELD'S HAS FIRST HALF OF NEW BUILDING WITH THE OLD BUILDING ON SW CORNER - SO DATE IS 1903 OR 1904 BETWEEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO HALVES OF NEW BUILDING
POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N FROM ADAMS GROUND LEVEL - HUGE CROWD OF WAGONS AND PEDESTRIANS - NOTE THE FAIR DEPARTMENT STORE AT CORNER OF ADAMS AND STATE - C D PEACOCK JEWELLERS ON THE RIGHT SIDE (THEY DIDN'T HAVE THEIR FAMOUS STYLISH CLOCK YET) - NOTE: WHEN THE FAIR STORE OPENED IN 1897 IT WAS CALLED THE LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE WORLD - PRE-1910
Sunday, May 19, 2019
POSTCARD - CHICAGO - FANNY'S RESTAURANT - EVANSTON - CANDLE-LIT DINING ROOM - I NEVER WENT HERE BUT I LOVED THE CORNY OLD CHIANTI BOTTLES WITH CANDLES AND CHECKERED TABLECLOTHS - MY FAVORITE LITTLE ITALIAN PLACE OF THE TIME WAS MANZO'S ON IRVING PARK ROAD, A FRIENDLY LITTLE FAMILY PLACE WITH GOOD FOOD - LATER I BASED MY OWN SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS ON THEIRS WHICH FEATURED MEATBALLS TWO OR THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF MOST PLACES - I MAY HAVE THE RECIPE IN CHUCKMAN'S MISCELLANIA OF WORDS - THERE CERTAINLY ARE OTHERS - c1960
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