Friday, January 25, 2019

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - UPPER MICHIGAN AVE - OLD WATER TOWER AND PALMOLIVE BUILDING - NOTE STREETCAR - GROUND LEVEL LOOKING N - AIRPLANE DRAWN IN - 1933 WORLD'S FAIR SERIES - NICE VERSION - TINTED


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - THE MARBLER - MARBLE DEALERS' HEADQUARTERS - DREXEL BLVD AND SOUTH CHICAGO AVE - LODGING AND TWO GOOD CLEAN MEALS - ONE DOLLAR PER DAY - INTERESTING ODDITY - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN BLVD (CALLED THAT) AND GRANT PARK - LOOKING S SOMEWHAT ELEVATED - PLANES DRAWN IN - DOUBLE-DECK BUSES - THE IMAGE IS OF A VERY VIBRANT PLACE - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE BRIDGE AND LONDON GUARANTEE COMPANY - FROM DOWN NEAR WATER LEVEL - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE BRIDGE - NORTH APPROACH - PEDESTRIANS - COURTESY OF CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE AND MONROE - LOOKING W GROUND LEVEL FROM GRANT PARK - PEOPLES GAS BUILDING - LAKE VIEW BUILDING - ILLINOIS ATHLETIC CLUB - MONROE BUILDING - UNIVERSITY CLUB - REMARKABLY HANDSOME GROUP OF BUILDINGS - TINTED - 1915


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LOOKING TOWARDS MICHIGAN AVE FROM FREIGHT YARDS - SLIGHTLY ELEVATED - WAGONS LOADING - MICHIGAN AVE SKYLINE IN DISTANCE - c1905


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LAKE MICHIGAN FROM JACKSON PARK BEACH - GROUND LEVEL VIEW E - WAVES - TINTED - 1908


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - EUCLID AVE AND 70TH STREET SOUTH SHORE NEIGHBORHOOD - LOOKING DIAGONALLY ACROSS STREET TOWARDS SMALL HOTEL-TOURIST HOME - WOMAN WITH BABY CARRIAGE ON SIDEWALK - c1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - FIRST CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH - DREXEL BLVD - THREE-QUARTERS GROUND LEVEL - FROM THE NUMBER OF CARDS I'VE SEEN OF FAIRLY LARGE CHURCHES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MUST HAVE BEEN A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE IN THE EARLY 1900s - TINTED - 1908


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - HOME FOR AGED JEWS - 66TH AND DREXEL AVE (CALLED THAT) - FRONT FROM STREET LEVEL - TINTED - 1908


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - DREXEL BLVD - TWO WOMEN IN LARGE HATS WALKING IN PARK WITH FLOWER BEDS - NOTE: DREXEL BLVD WAS ALWAYS A ROMANTIC URBAN ICON IN MY MIND AFTER I FIRST SAW IT IN THE EARLY 1950s - IT WAS THEN NOT FAR FROM BEGINNING ITS SAD DECLINE - TINTED - 1906


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - DREXEL BLVD - FROM COTTAGE GROVE AVE - FLOWER BED - HORSE AND BUGGY - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY - WASHINGTON AND MICHIGAN AVE - GROUND LEVEL LOOKING N W FROM GRANT PARK - CARS BUS PEDESTRIANS - NOTE PUBLIC SIDEWALK CLOCK LOWER LEFT - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO COTTAGE ORGAN COMPANY - RANDOLPH STREET - AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY BECAME THE CABLE PIANO COMPANY WHICH OPERATED FOR ABOUT A CENTURY - STRIKING GRAPHIC DESIGN - 1890s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BERNARD HOTEL - DREXEL BLVD AND 42ND PLACE - THREE-QUARTERS VIEW GROUND LEVEL - TINTED - 1927


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BEAUTIFUL COURTYARD APARTMENT BUILDING - THE PATTINGTON - IRVING PARK BLVD NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDING - SE CORNER HAZEL AND GALT AVENUES - NOTE THE HEAVY GLASS-PANED DOORS FOR THE BALCONIES UPPER LEFT - LIKELY THE PANES WERE BEVELED AND CREATED PRISM EFFECTS INSIDE - SO TYPICAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL TOUCHES IN THE APARTMENTS OF THIS TIME - c1910


PHOTO - CHICAGO - PCC STREETCAR IN CHICAGO SURFACE LINES LIVERY - ON DISPLAY AT AN UNKNOWN MUSEUM - CTA (CSL SUCCESSOR) STOPPED USING STREETCARS IN 1958 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET AND RANDOLPH - NIGHT - LOOKING NW GROUND LEVEL - TWA SIGN - SCHLITZ SIGN - SHOPPERS CORNER - STATE LAKE THEATER - 1957 - EDITED FROM A WILLIAM ARTHUR IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM W SIDE - NIGHT - CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS - FIELDS - WALGREENS - CHICAGO THEATER - MARTIAN STREETLIGHTS - POLICE THREE-WHEELER IN FOREGROUND - 1964 - EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


PHOTO - CHICAGO - NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN CROSSING ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRACKS - BEHIND IS LARGE BUILDING WITH BEATRICE FOOD PAINTED SIGN FOR MEADOW GOLD BUTTER - A TRULY ARTISTIC IMAGE - 1965 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


PHOTO - CHICAGO - GROUP OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR TRAIN ON CTA ELEVATED PLATFORM - FULLERTON STATION - 1988 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


PHOTO - CHICAGO - GRANT PARK SCENE - AFTER HEAVY SNOW - 1962 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


Saturday, January 19, 2019

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CITY HALL - LA SALLE CLARK RANDOLPH AND WASHINGTON - BUILT 1885 AND MUCH ADMIRED - REPLACED IN 1911 AFTER FOUNDATION FAILED - FOUNDATION PROBLEMS WERE COMMON THEN ON CHICAGO'S OLD LAKE BED LAND - TINTED - c1905


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SHERIDAN ROAD N FROM WILSON - HOMES AND APARTMENTS - WOMEN WALKING ON BOTH SIDES OF STREET - ONE OF MY FAVORITES OF THE OLD REAL ESTATE AND STREETSCAPE CARDS - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - RIVER AND BRIDGES - AERIAL - WACKER DRIVE FROM MERCHANDISE MART - LOOKING E - 1940s


PATCH - CHICAGO - BOY SCOUTS - CHICAGO COUNCIL SOUTH SHORE - LIGHTHOUSE AND SKYLINE - 1950s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - DRAGON IN PARADE - WENTWORTH AVE CHINATOWN - 1977 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHIAM RESTAURANT - 2323 S WENTWORTH AVE - NEW BUILDING WITH PARKING LOT - 3 DINING ROOM IMAGES - 1972


PHOTO - CHICAGO - ARBANAS STUDIO - 1147 W 18TH AT MAY - STUDIO PORTRAIT OF UNKNOWN PRETTY BRIDE IN FLAPPER- INFLUENCED WEDDING GOWN - 1920s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STUDIO IMAGE OF YOUNG BOY WITH CHICAGO EVENING AMERICAN (1914-1939) NEWSPAPER CARRIER BAG - BAGS JUST LIKE THIS (FOR OTHER NEWSPAPERS) WERE STILL USED IN THE EARLY 1960s - I ASSUME THE STAR IS AN OFFICIAL IDENTITY BADGE


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BELDING SCHOOL - 4257 N TRIPP - I LOVE THE SCHOOL YARD FULL OF KIDS - CHANGE THE FASHIONS AND THE PICTURE COULD BE HALF A CENTURY LATER - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BENNETT AVE - N FROM 70TH GROUND LEVEL - BIG HOMES - NEW TREES - SOME EMPTY LOTS - 1911


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CORNELL AVE - N FROM 54TH - APARTMENT BUILDINGS ON TREE-LINED STREET - NOTE CHILDREN ON GRASS LOWER RIGHT - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - HANDSOME APARTMENT BUILDING - 1140-42 MORSE AVE ROGERS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD - A SHORT WALK TO THE BEACH - 1912


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - KENMORE AVE - S FROM MONTROSE - HANDSOME APARTMENT BLOCKS AND TREES FROM ACROSS THE STREET - 1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LARGE HANDSOME APARTMENT BLOCK - PINE GROVE AND WAVELAND AVES - S W CORNER - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL - 7710 S BURNHAM (DO NOT REALLY KNOW WHETHER ADDRESS WAS THE SAME AS THE LATER BUILDING WHERE I WAS A STUDENT AT THIS ADDRESS) - THREE-QUARTERS VIEW - 1907


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SHERIDAN ROAD - S FROM SUNNYSIDE - APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND TREES - BEAUTIFUL STREETSCAPE - BOY ON PARKWAY - 1908


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - DREXEL BLVD AND 40TH - LARGE STONE CHURCH ACROSS FROM SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD PARK - CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES TENDED TO BE "ESTABLISHMENT" CHURCHES AND THIS LARGE STONE ONE TELLS US WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE LIVED IN AN AREA MANY WOULD BE AFRAID