Tag Archives | Hollywood Park neighborhood

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Then and Now: 3346 West Bryn Mawr Avenue

For those of you who grew up in Hollywood Park before 1970, no explanation necessary. For everyone else, the photo on the left is dated 1968, and the one on the right was taken in 2018. The Hollywood Bowl sold penny candy, and at lunchtime it was jammed with kids buying grape gumballs, licorice records, […]

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The Bungalow

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.

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2010 in Review

I’m running a little behind on my year-end review, but what’s a few weeks when most my posts cover a Chicago neighborhood during the fifties and sixties? At least I’ve got some new photos to go with the most popular subjects of the past year.

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Interior Landscapes

This survey of course proves nothing. The sampling was way too small, the subject way too complex. I can’t tell you why Hollywood Park failed to achieve the ranks of legendary Chicago neighborhoods, or why it sometimes seems to be on the verge of being swallowed up by North Park.

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