Enjoy these highlights from a Jewish History Walking Tour of Albany Park.
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Book Review: All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed
In 1972, Rus Bradburd attended Von Steuben High School. He played for one year on the Frosh-Soph basketball team, until his family moved out of state. Rus is the author of several books, some related to basketball. All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed tells the true story of a tragic event in the life of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Celebrate the Old Neighborhood at Max and Benny’s Albany Park Night
We know very well how much fun it is to tell and hear stories about the old neighborhood. That’s why we’ll be attending Albany Park Night on Wednesday, May 16, from 5 pm – 8 pm at Max and Benny’s in Northbrook. Enjoy those wonderful tastes of Jewish Albany Park while listening to stories that recall the […]
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 […]
Citizen History: Remembering Neighborhoods Together
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, […]
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 […]