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More Classic Hollywood Park

Guest post by Barbara Goldsmith Burkel Although Alan Myer is older than I am, “Classic Hollywood Park” describes my experiences perfectly as a Peterson / Von Steuben graduate (1960 and 1964).  It took a “village,” and that’s what we had. My friends ranged from Larry and Eileen Mermelstein and Bobbie Bagel on Spaulding to Harold […]

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Classic Hollywood Park

Guest post by Alan Myer I grew up in a one-bedroom apartment at 5550 N. Spaulding, third floor, with my four-years-younger sister Barbara (Bunnie), from 1942 until 1956. I attended Peterson School from kindergarten under graduation in 1953, then Von Steuben High School in 1957.  Chuckie Bosworth lived on the second floor, and Cary Katznelson […]

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Images of Albany Park 1968

Ravenswood Terminal at Kimball and Lawrence Roosevelt class of 1966 alum and former Roosevelt Review photographer Marc Klowden shared four of the many, many photos he has taken in Albany Park. The photos in this post all date from 1968. Can someone explain the huts pictured outside the Ravenswood (i.e., the Brown Line) station house? I remember […]

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A Look Back at the Roosevelt High School LDFs

Circa 1956. Courtesy of Janet (Fensin) Klee. TOP ROW (from left): Phyllis Schwartz Miller, Lillian Hoffman _______, Judy Cohen Kaiman, Beverly Stern Dolin, Alyce Cogan Ransom, Sherry Annex, Rozzie Zensiper Grossman FOURTH ROW: Maxine Kozlov Hyken, Rochelle ________, Rella Silvers, Marlene Absler Kaplan, Natalie Mann ________, Phyllis Freeman Geren THIRD ROW: J. Carole Atkin, Barbara […]

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Champions of Albany Park

For decades, the building that housed the former Deborah Boys Club on Kimball and Ainslie was home to the Albany Park Community Center (APCC), an organization that carried on Deborah’s mission to support the community through social services. Recently, APCC consolidated all its programming into another landmark Albany Park building, the former location of Arie Crown Hebrew Day School, […]

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Goodbye to a Neighborhood Landmark

WTTW has posted a video segment about Bill Tong and his family, who owned Hollywood Park’s long-lived Chinese restaurant Tong’s Tea Garden, located at 3411 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue. Bill’s mother still lives in the apartment above the restaurant, where Bill and his sister, Dolly, grew up. They no longer own the restaurant, now called Hunan […]

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Lincoln Village Shopping Center Revisited

Thanks to contributor Chris for pointing me in the direction of these classic Lincoln Village images. They can be found on the Andrew Dunham’s blog , which is a treasure trove of mostly Skokie photographs dated 1970-75, photographer unknown.   Bain Hardware on the left-hand side was an early tenant; they are listed in a June 21, […]

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Looking for Albany Park Photographs

Here’s a photo request from Andy Romanoff, who has contributed to this blog on many occasions in both posts and comments. Hi all, I’ve written stories about Albany Park before.  You may have already read some of them: Albany Park Cool, Bob & Ikey’s Wedding, and Ghost Chicago: Looking for Things No Longer Here. I’m writing […]

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