When Jerry Jacover was 11 years old, his parents did the unthinkable. Jerry fought it with everything he had, but it happened anyways. In 1956, the Jacover family moved from 5748 N. Christiana to Skokie. More than sixty years ago he moved and Jerry still remembers Hollywood Park vividly, right down to his old phone […]
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 […]
Shelby Kanarish, wrote this comment in a previous blog post. It’s a great list and a great idea.
North of Peterson, south of Peterson, was it so different ?
Those of you who grew up in Hollywood Park during the fifties and sixties will understand how I feel about discovering this photograph.
It’s not just the stop sign that looks so unfamiliar. Where’s the traffic light at the northeast corner of Kimball and Bryn Mawr, the busy crossroads at the heart of Chicago’s Hollywood Park neighborhood?
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 […]
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 […]
In January 1929 Chicago real estate developer Erick Nelson Linn put on the market 50 Hollywood Park duplex homes, more commonly known as two-flats. It must not have seemed like much of a risk. Linn had been putting up the same buildings in the area for nearly ten years.
A week ago I reviewed Hollywood Park, a novel that takes place in a Chicago neighborhood during the Depression. The author, Martin Marcus, and I grew up in that neighborhood during different times, so I asked Marty to share some of his memories. He gave me this recent photograph of his friends from Peterson Elementary […]
