PHOTO - CHICAGO - PARADISE THEATRE - 231 N CRAWFORD (NOW PULASKI) - ROOF DETAILS - OVER 3500 SEATS - SAID TO HAVE POOR ACOUSTICS OWING TO HUGE DOME - BILLED AS WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL - BUILT 1928 - DEMOLISHED 1956
A LARGE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS ABOUT CHICAGO. MUCH OF THE BUILT-ENVIRONMENT OF THE EARLIER POSTCARDS SURVIVED INTO THE 1950-60s, THE TIME OF MY GREATEST INTEREST.
INCLUDED ALSO ARE MENUS, MATCHBOOKS, AND OTHER ITEMS REFLECTING CITY LIFE IN THE 1950s AND 1960s. IT IS HOPED THESE PRESERVE SOMETHING OF THE SENSE OF WHAT A SPECIAL PLACE THE CHICAGO OF THAT TIME WAS IN WHICH TO GROW UP.
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