If you only know from what Lincoln Village Shopping Center looks like today, then E. G. Shinner’s 1950 vision of a pleasant shopping environment makes no sense at all.
A look back at Lincoln Village Shopping Center
by Frances Archer on 29. Jan, 2012 in Chicago neighborhoods
A few things
by Frances Archer on 30. Dec, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
In a previous post I recalled Chicago Daily News (and Sun-Times) columnist Sydney J. Harris and my fondness his weekly columns titled “Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things.” I’d like to close out 2011 with a post in a similar vein, without elaborating on the fact that now we all learn things “While Looking Up Other Things” on the Internet.
This was Deborah
by Frances Archer on 10. Nov, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
For more than 40 years I’ve been passing this building. How did I not see, not admire, those sharp, clean lines and angles jutting outwards from the corner of Kimball and Ainslie?
The Bungalow
by Frances Archer on 28. Aug, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
Guest blogger Charlene (Powitz) Gelber recalls Central Park Avenue in Hollywood Park. It was really like the country, because we had the TB sanitarium on one side and the Boys Parental School across the street. There were no houses across from us and it was beautiful.
When Ray Kroc Came to Hollywood Park
by Frances Archer on 21. Aug, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know milestones of this magnitude are few and far between in the history of Hollywood Park.
Nighthawks in Old Albany Park
by Frances Archer on 05. Aug, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
It’s not New York, it’s not a diner, it’s not an image of urban loneliness, but Allan Zirlin’s photograph of Segal’s Shoes at the corner Lawrence and Sawyer reminds me of Edward Hopper’s painting, Nighthawks. Zirlin shot this photograph out a car window sometime in the 1950s.
Meet some Regular Fellas
by Frances Archer on 18. Jul, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
Social athletic clubs like the Regular Fellas had all but disappeared by the time I started my freshman year at Von Steuben High School in the fall of 1970. Many of us, especially if you were the oldest child in the family like I was, had no idea these clubs had once made up a vast and vibrant social network.
Two for two
by Frances Archer on 23. May, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
I love how this photo captures the way seventh-grade teacher Mr. Wahle always was at the center of our attention.
Back to School
by Frances Archer on 16. May, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
In my memory, the walls were painted a pale institutional green and the lockers were milk chocolate brown. To a first grader, the hallways of Peterson Elementary School were like a cave, dark and endless with voices and footsteps echoing in the distance.
Grounds for Play
by Frances Archer on 08. May, 2011 in Chicago neighborhoods
In the sixties and seventies, if little kids didn’t get hurt running around the gravel and asphalt playground at Peterson Elementary School, they had a good chance of banging up theirs knees or noses on the metal play equipment.
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Hot Dogs and Baseball: An Albany Park Boyhood
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Mom and Pop–Part Two
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They wore jackets
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Hollywood Kiddieland
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A look back at Lincoln Village Shopping Center
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A few things
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