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Girl on a Chicago Porch

Girl on a Chicago Porch

This is young Florence Gantwerker, who was Mrs. Saper to me when I lived on North Central Park Avenue back in the sixties and early seventies. If you read my recent post you’ll know she was undoubtably photographed in Chicago–the back porch gives it away. You may also recognize the left-hand edge of the National sign over a [...]

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A Sense of Place: Did Google Goof on Chicago?

It’s fascinating finding old landmarks on the Google map of Chicago. When you see, for example, Herzl Junior College, well, that’s a whole chapter of Chicago history.

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