IN MEMORIAM: PRESTON UNEY, MY OLD, GOOD FRIEND – IN HIS LAST YEAR AND A CROP FROM BRADWELL CLASS PHOTO – 1955

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – THE ORIGINAL – WINDSOR PARK – SOUTH SHORE – c1910

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MUTUAL LOAN COMPANY – 79TH AND STONY ISLAND – WALGREEN’S – 1946

PHOTO – CHICAGO – CHRISTMAS STAFF PHOTO – CHARLES RINGER REAL ESTATE – EXCHANGE AVE JUST S OF 79TH – MRS SHACKLEY 4TH FROM LEFT IN BACK – MID 1940s – FROM LARRY SHACKLEY

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – PRIVATE PORTION CALLED NICHOLS – ANOTHER VIEW – c1910

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED MANHATTAN – BUILDING FOREGROUND – REFRESHMENTS – CARS – CRUDELY TINTED -1911

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED MANHATTAN – 75TH STREET – MOST POPULAR ON LAKE – BATH HOUSES ON PIER – 1916

PHOTO – CHICAGO – STREETCAR – CHICAGO SURFACE LINES – ON WINDSOR PARK ROUTE – BETWEEN WINDSOR PARK AND 63RD AND DORCHESTER – c1940

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – 71ST AND SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – WOMEN PLAYING GOLF – SEPIA – 1908

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE BAPTIST – SANCTUARY – MRS SHACKLEY BY ORGAN – LATE 1940s – FROM LARRY SHACKLEY

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE BAPTIST CHURCH – SUNDAY SCHOOL IN PARSONAGE – EVELYN STOLHAMMER IN FRONT – PAT JOHNSON SEATED LEFT – LARRY SHACKLEY RIGHT – LATE 1950s

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE BAPTIST – LARRY SHACKLEY WITH SISTER AND FRIEND – TAKEN BY REV. DONALD E. ANDERSON – STEPS TO PARSONAGE -1959

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 76TH AND SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – APARTMENT BUILDING – BEAUTIFUL BRICK AND TERRA COTTA CONSTRUCTION – FROM CRAIGIN SPRING’S PHOTOSTEAM

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 7855 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – ENTRANCE AREA – WHAT BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS OUR VILLAGE HAD – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 79TH STREET NEAR JEFFERY – SOUTH SHORE – NOTE AVALON WALLPAPER STORE – 1967

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 71ST AND SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – PART OF COUNTRY CLUB ENTRANCE AND HOTELS ON DRIVE – 1971

PHOTO – CHICAGO – UNKNOWN ALLEY – BOY WITH WAGON COLLECTING THINGS IN ALLEY – THIS COULD ALMOST BE ME GATHERING ITEMS FOR A SOAPBOX RACER OR SOME OTHER PROJECT – 1950s

PHOTO – CHICAGO – ALLEY – 7833 PAXTON AVE – WOMEN CARING FOR GARDEN – ELSA AND KAREN JOHNSON AMANDA NELSON EDITH PARKS MARY CULL – 1958

PHOTO – CHICAGO – WHITE CASTLE HAMBURGER RESTAURANT – CERMAK AND WABASH – A 1929 BUILDING RENOVATED – CHEF LUCIANO’S CHICKEN NOW – SURE LOOKS LIKE 79TH AND ESSEX

PHOTO – CHICAGO – EXCHANGE AVE AND 75TH – STREETCAR CROSSING TRACKS – 1908

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED NICHOLS BATHING BEACH – CROWD – NOTE SPELLING ERROR NICHOLAS – 76TH STREET – 1906

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED NICHOL’S BEACH – A PRIVATE BEACH COVERING ONLY A PORTION OF TODAY’S RAINBOW – EARLY

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED NICHOLS BEACH – A PORTION OF TODAY’S RAINBOW – 1909

PHOTO – CHICAGO – FIFTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS – SITE OF ROTC MILITARY BALLS – FORMER GARDINER HOSPITAL – FORMER CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL – NOT THE ORIGINAL CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL OF 1900 VINTAGE – 1946

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – AERIAL – GOLFERS ON LOWER LEFT – 1974

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – 71ST AND SOUTH SHORE DR – ENTRANCE – STREET LEVEL – 1974

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 71ST STREET AND BENNETT – BEAUTIFUL OLD TERRA COTTA BUILDING SAW BETTER DAYS – EDITED FROM LEE BEY PHOTOGRAPHY

NEWSPAPER – CHICAGO – SOUTHEAST ECONOMIST – PAGE FROM MAY 31, 1951 ISSUE

MENU – CHICAGO – BERMAN’S RESTAURANT AND DELICATESSAN – 2012 E 71ST – SPECIALIZING LAZY SUSAN TRAYS – COVER – c1960 – SCAN FROM CARYN AMSTER

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – DELTA MOTEL – 79TH STREET AT SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – THERE WAS A WHOLE SERIES OF THESE CHEAP-GLAMOR MOTELS (LIKE THE THUNDERBIRD) BUILT AROUND LATE 1950s IN THE CITY – c1960

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – 7121 S PAXTON – I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE BUILDINGS BUT THEN THEY ARE NOT IN MY PART OF SOUTH SHORE – EDITED FROM R. MCNEES IMAGE ON MCNEES.ORG

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – 7121 S PAXTON – A VIEW THAT REALLY RESEMBLES FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT – AKA THE MILLER HOUSE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – 7121 S PAXTON – INTERIOR – FRONT HALL – EVEN FURNITURE RESEMBLES WRIGHT – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – 6915 S CHAPPEL – I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE BUILDINGS BUT THEN THEY ARE NOT IN MY PART OF SOUTH SHORE – EDITED FROM R. MCNEES IMAGE ON MCNEES.ORG

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – 6901 S CHAPPEL – I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE BUILDINGS BUT THEN THEY ARE NOT IN MY PART OF SOUTH SHORE – EDITED FROM R. MCNEES IMAGE ON MCNEES.ORG

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – 6731 S BENNETT – I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE BUILDINGS BUT THEN THEY ARE NOT IN MY PART OF SOUTH SHORE – EDITED FROM R. MCNEES IMAGE ON MCNEES.ORG

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – APARTMENT BUILDING 2214 E 69TH – I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE BUILDINGS BUT THEN THEY ARE NOT IN MY PART OF SOUTH SHORE – EDITED FROM R. MCNEES IMAGE ON MCNEES.ORG

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PRAIRIE STYLE IN SOUTH SHORE – SHADES OF LOUIS SULLIVAN – APARTMENT BUILDING 2214 E 69TH – ENTRANCE – I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE BUILDINGS BUT THEN THEY ARE NOT IN MY PART OF SOUTH SHORE – EDITED FROM R. MCNEES IMAGE ON MCNEES.ORG

PHOTO – CHICAGO – STONE MANSION – JACKSON PARK HIGHLANDS AREA OF SOUTH SHORE – 1967

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – APARTMENT BUILDING 7370 S SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – INTERIOR – A TRULY BEAUTIFUL FLAT – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE HOUSE – 7925 KINGSTON AVE – A FEW DOORS TO THE LEFT WAS PRESTON UNEY’S HOUSE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 7500 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – PAT GOLDEN LIVED HERE I BELIEVE ON THE 5TH FLOOR – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

I RAN ACROSS AN OLD NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, IN THE CHICAGO TIMES, ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS BUILDING IN 1951. IT HAD 130 APARTMENTS, AND THE RENTALS RANGED FROM $70 TO $115 PER MONTH.

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE HOUSE – 7558 CLYDE AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE HOUSE – 6930 EUCLID AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE HOUSE – 6911 CONSTANCE AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – EUCLID AVE NEAR 79TH – FROM CHICAGO AND LOS ANGELES FILM LOCATION SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – ENTRANCE – 7745 YATES BLVD – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – 7861 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – 7759 KINGSTON AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – 7538 PHILLIPS AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – 7420 COLFAX AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – 7200 BLOCK PHILLIPS AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT BUILDING – 32 E 70TH STREET – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT – 7603 ESSEX AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT – 7140 COLES AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE PHOTO

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – LAKEFRONT VIEW – FROM 6730 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT BUILDING – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – 7667 COLES AVE – EDITED REAL ESTATE PHOTO

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – 79TH STREET AND YATES – PEOPLE WALKING ON SNOWY STREET – c1960 – FROM DIM BEAUTY OF CHICAGO SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – 78TH E OF YATES – BOY PULLING SLED ON SNOWY STREET – c1960 – FROM DIM BEAUTY OF CHICAGO SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 79TH STREET – BETWEEN KINGSTON AND COLFAX – BOYS WITH SLED IN BIG SNOW – EDITED FROM DIM BEAUTY OF CHICAGO SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – 75TH STREET POST OFFICE – NOW AN EVANGELICAL CHURCH

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – 7501 JEFFERY – EDITED REAL ESTATE IMAGE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE – THUNDERBIRD MOTEL – FROM 75TH STREET – A CHARLES CELANDER PHOTO

JEFFERY THEATER – 71ST AND JEFFERY – REMAINING UPPER STRUCTURE – FROM KATHERINE OF CHICAGO’S SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – JEFFERY THEATER – 71ST AND JEFFERY – EDITED FROM A CHARLES CELANDER PHOTO – 1950s

THE REGENCY ON JEFFERY – EDITED REAL ESTATE PHOTO

7130 JEFFERY – UPPER COURTYARD – EDITED REAL ESTATE PHOTO

PHOTO – CHICAGO – BRYN MAWR STATION ON OLD IC – 71ST STREET AND JEFFERY – LEFT IS WHAT REMAINS OF JEFFERY THEATER BUILDING – FROM KATHERINE OF CHICAGO’S SITE

HAMILTON THEATER – 71ST STREET – INTO ITS DECLINE – 1975

AD FOR SOUTH SHORE MOVIE THEATERS – JEFFERY – HAMILTON – SHORE – SOUTHEAST ECONOMIST – 1951

AVALON THEATER – LOUNGE ENTRANCE – RENOVATED AS NEW REGAL THEATER – NOW CLOSED – FROM REGAL THEATER PHOTOS MY SPACE SITE

AVALON THEATER – AS NEW REGAL THEATER – AUDITORIUM PANORAMA – NOW CLOSED – FROM EVERYWOMAN SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – AVALON THEATER – AS NEW REGAL THEATER – NOW CLOSED – AUDITORIUM FROM UNDER BALCONY – FROM EVERYWOMAN SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – AVALON THEATER – PANORAMA FROM BALCONY – B AND W – EARLY

AVALON THEATER – GRIFFIN BY STAGE – RENOVATED AS NEW REGAL THEATER – NOW CLOSED – FROM REGAL THEATER PHOTOS MY SPACE SITE

AVALON THEATER – SEATS AND BALCONY – RENOVATED AS NEW REGAL THEATER – NOW CLOSED – FROM REGAL THEATER PHOTOS MY SPACE SITE

AVALON THEATER – STAGE AREA – RENOVATED AS NEW REGAL THEATER – NOW CLOSED – FROM REGAL THEATER PHOTOS MY SPACE SITE

MATCHBOOK – PETER PAN SNACK SHOP – INSIDE

MATCHBOOK – CHICAGO – PETER PAN SNACK SHOP – 71ST AND JEFFERY – ONE OF SEVERAL ITERATIONS OF LOGO – THE ONE I KNEW

MATCHBOOK – CHICAGO – PETER PAN SNACK SHOPS – RED VERSION WITH EARLY LOGO

MATCHBOOK – CHICAGO – MIRROR LOUNGE – 1953 E 71ST – SOUTH SHORE

MATCHBOOK – THE CLUB ROOM RESTAURANT – 7611 STONY ISLAND – GINNY LYNN SNACK SHOP – INSIDE

MATCHBOOK – THE CLUB ROOM RESTAURANT – 7611 STONY ISLAND – GINNY LYNN SNACK SHOP

MATCHBOOK – CHICAGO – RON-DA-VU – 2101 E 83RD – BACK

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH CHICAGO – 92ND STREET – ROMA RESTAURANT – NOTE IN BACKGROUND GOLDBLATT’S DEPARTMENT STORE AND GAITY THEATER – 1982

MATCHBOOK – CHICAGO – RON-DA-VU – 2101 E 83RD – FRONT

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – NEAR 75TH – TWO WOMEN PLAYING WITH FLOAT – 1929

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – TWO BOYS SWING GIRL IN WATER – 1963

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – WATER SHOW – SOME OF THE QUEEN CONTESTANTS – 1969

PHOTO – CHICAGO – WATER FILTRATION PLANT – 79TH AND THE LAKE – PARKED CARS – 1945

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – THE 75TH STREET TURNAROUND – FROM REAL ESTATE LISTING

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – NEAR 77TH LOOKING NORTH – RAIN AND EMPTY BEACH – 1962

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – NEAR 77 TH – CHANGE AND WASHROOM BUILDINGS IN PARK – NOTE BIG CROWD IN PARK – 1960

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – FROM NEAR 77TH – LOOKING SOUTH – BIG CROWD – 1960

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – ANOTHER PANORAMA FROM ABOUT 77TH TOWARDS 79TH – TAKEN WITHIN A FEW MINUTES OF PREVIOUS ONE – CROWDS – 1960

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – NEAR 77TH – LOOKING SOUTH – ANOTHER IMAGE OF PARK BUILDINGS – 1960

RAINBOW BEACH – PANORAMA FROM 75TH TOWARDS 79TH – NOTE TREES LINING EDGE OF BEACH – LIGHT TOWERS – FILTRATION PLANT

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB BEACH SCENE – 1941 – FROM THE CHICAGOIST SITE

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – POLICE DEALING WITH A DEMONSTRATION ON THE BEACH – 1961

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – LIFEGUARDS MOVING BOATS – COLD AUGUST – 1963

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – MAN LOOKING OUT AT WATER – LOOKING NORTH – COLD AUGUST – 1963

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE APARTMENTS – HIGH LAKE LEVEL – 1952

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – SOUTH SHORE – LIFEGUARD ON EMPTY BEACH – A COLD AUGUST – 1963

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED WINDSOR BEACH – VIEW FROM 75TH – BIG CROWD – 1912

RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED BEACH AT WINDSOR PARK – THE FAIR BUILDINGS AT 75TH – 1912

PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAINBOW BEACH – 76TH STREET PIER – BIG CROWD – 1913

RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED SOUTH OF 76TH – BIG CROWD – 1926

RAINBOW BEACH – CALLED MANHATTAN – BIG CROWD SOUTH OF 75TH STREET – c1910

RAINBOW BEACH – THEN CALLED MANHATTAN – PIER INCLUDING DOME OF THE FAIR – WOMAN ON BEACH – PEOPLE IN WATER – EARLY

RAINBOW BEACH – THEN CALLED MANHATTAN – FULL LENGTH OF PIER WITH FAIR BUILDING – PEOPLE WADING – CROWD ON BEACH – NORTH OF 75TH – 1916

RAINBOW BEACH – THEN CALLED MANHATTAN – CROWD – TWO PIERS – WHAT BECAME FAIR AT 75TH UNDER CONSTRUCTION – 1906

PROPOSAL FOR CONNECTING 71ST TO 75TH LAKEFRONT – CHICAGO PLANNING SITE

TRAIN – ILLINOIS CENTRAL – STREETCAR – RUNNING PARALLEL ON STREET – LIKELY EXCHANGE AVE – COVER OF FIRST AND FASTEST MAGAZINE – 2000

STREETCAR – 75TH STREET ROUTE

ILLINOIS CENTRAL ELECTRIC COMMUTER – SIGN THAT USED TO BE DOWNTOWN – FROM ILLINOIS RAIL MUSEUM – NOT SOUTH SHORE BUT PART OF THE DAILY LIVES OF MANY

PHOTO – CHICAGO – CHICAGO VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL – WOMAN AT PUNCH CARD ACCOUNTING MACHINE – PRETTY ADVANCED EQUIPMENT THEN – 1960

PHOTO – CHICAGO – CREGIER AND 70TH – SOUTH SHORE – KIDS WALKING UP STREET OF HOMES – 1955

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 70TH AND CONSTANCE AVE – SOUTH SHORE – HOMES ON TREE-LINED STREET – 1955

PHOTO – CHICAGO – FIRE DRILL PEABODY SCHOOL – EXCEPT FOR WARDENS THIS COULD BE BRADWELL -1953

PHOTO – CHICAGO – ECKERSALL STADIUM – POLICE THREE-WHEELERS ON DUTY FOR A GAME – 1959

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – FRONT GATES – 1940

PHOTO – CHICAGO – DELTA MOTEL – 79TH NEAR SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – LOOKING TOWARDS LAKE – THERE WAS A CONTROVERSY ABOUT PARKING LOT TAKING RAINBOW PARK LAND – 1961

PHOTO – CHICAGO – DELTA HOTEL – 79TH STREET NEAR SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – NEXT TO RAINBOW PARK – 1961

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – AERIAL – SEPIA – 1936

PHOTO – CHICAGO – MAN BURNING LEAVES AT CURB – WOODLAWN AVE – HOW I REMEMBER THIS CUSTOM – THE AUTUMN AIR WAS FULL OF THE SCENT – NOTE TRIMMED CATALPA TREE A COMMON DECORATIVE ELEMENT FOR APARTMENT BUILDINGS – 1948

PHOTO – CHICAGO – HYDE PARK THEATER – STREET FRONT – MARQUEE – CAR PARKED -1950s

PHOTO – CHICAGO – FROLIC THEATER – 951 E 55TH HYDE PARK – 876 SEATS – THE RAY ON 75TH WAS A SMALL THEATER LIKE THIS – FROM HYDE PARK ORG SITE

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – PICADILLY HOTEL – HYDE PARK BLVD AND BLACKSTONE AVE – CARS IN STREET – PICADILLY THEATRE ENTRANCE LEFT SIDE – 1930s

PHOTO – CHICAGO – PICCADILLY THEATRE – INTERIOR – HYDE PARK BLVD – 1927

PHOTO – CHICAGO – GEORGE F HARDING MUSEUM – 4853 LAKE PARK AVE – CASTLE-LIKE ADDITION TO ORIGINAL HARDING HOME – AS A BOY I LOVED THIS PLACE – 1948

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SHAKESPEARE SCHOOL – E 46 THE STREET – WHERE I STARTED SCHOOL – A HORRIBLE PLACE ALTOGETHER – 1953

PHOTO – CHICAGO – 4800 BLOCK S KIMBARK – KENWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD – WE LIVED NEAR HERE IN AN OLD HOUSE DIVIDED UP INTO APARTMENTS IN THE EARLY 1950s – 1959

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SIEGEL’S BARBECUE RESTAURANTS – 4 IMAGES – 83RD AND JEFFERY – 47Th AND WESTERN – 232 W GARFIELD

PHOTO – CHICAGO – CART – SIMILAR TO WHAT WE USED TO DELIVER NEWSPAPERS IN THE 1950s – ONLY THEY WERE OFTEN BIGGER AND HAD A HANDLE ACROSS THE BACK – WINDSOR PARK (EXCHANGE AVE) AND SOUTH SHORE (75TH STREET) NEWS AGENCIES

SEE:

THE COLD CHILL OF DARKNESS: A SHORT STORY BY JOHN CHUCKMAN – SET IN SOUTH SHORE NEIGHBORHOOD

SOUTH CHICAGO – STEEL WORKS – NIGHT – 1914

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH CHICAGO – U.S. STEEL – SOUTH WORKS – NEW ROD MILL – 1975

ROSENLUM’S DRUG STORE – 71ST AND MERRILL – WINDOW ENVELOPE – 1933

PHOTO – CHICAGO – JACK AND JEAN ALPERT CELEBRATING AN ANNIVERSARY AT THE CHEZ PAREE – HIS WAS THE FAMILIAR FACE AT ALPERT’S FOOD AND LIQUORS 2459 E 79TH (AT ESSEX AVE) – FROM BOBBY ALPERT

BADGE – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE DISTRICT CAMPOREE – 1952

MATCHBOOK – SHUTTER BROTHERS BALLROOM – 7740 STONY ISLAND

BIKES INC – 7009 STONY ISLAND – MATCHBOOK

E J AND E RAILROAD – MATCHBOOK – THIS WAS THE RAILROAD THAT SERVED THE SOUTH WORKS STEEL MILLS

AJAX AUTO – OLDSMOBILE – 7800 STONY ISLAND – MATCHBOOK

SOUTH SHORE VIEW HOTEL – IN ROOFING AD – 1920s

SOUTH SHORE VIEW HOTEL – 7100 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – KEY TAG

SOUTH SHORE VIEW HOTEL – 7100 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – MAP

SOUTHMOOR HOTEL AND JACKSON PARK – AERIAL VIEW

PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – AERIAL OVER GROUNDS TOWARDS LAKE

SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – AERIAL – LOOKING NORTH – FROM CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT GOLF SITE

PORT DISTRICT CALUMET RIVER – AERIAL – TOWARDS SOUTH SHORE AND DOWNTOWN – c1970

SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – AERIAL – NEAR MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY – LOOKING SOUTH – c1950

COUNTRY CLUB HOTEL – GALLERY RESTAURANT – 6930 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE

COUNTRY CLUB HOTEL – 6930 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – CARS – PEDESTRIANS – c1930

WINDSOR PARK LUTHERAN CHURCH – 2619 E 76TH – INTERIOR – c1960

SOUTH SHORE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH – 2824 E 76TH STREET – NEAR SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – WHERE BOY SCOUT TROOP 594 MET IN BASEMENT – NOW A REVIVAL CHURCH – FROM REALY BORING’S PHOTOSTREAM

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH – 85TH STREET AND STONY ISLAND

SOUTH CHICAGO – ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH – SEPIA – c1910

ST BRIDE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH – SOUTH SHORE CALLED WINDSOR PARK – EARLY

OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH – 79TH AND JEFFERY – DRAWING

SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – PASSEGGIO – 1917

1746 E. 73RD PL – BACK PORCH – EDITED REAL ESTATE PHOTO

CREST HOTEL – 6724 STONY ISLAND – c1930

BENNETT PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES – 1054 E 75TH STREET – EARLY

BOWEN HIGH SCHOOL – CARS PARKED – SEPIA – EARLY

WOMAN ON IC PLATFORM 75TH STREET – LISA DERMAN – 1947 – AMERICAN HOLOCAUST MUSEUM

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – PLANTS AND POND INTERIOR – EARLY

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – VIEW DOWN CENTRAL GARDEN – PARKED CARS – c1910

SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – MATCHBOOK BACK

SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB – MATCHBOOK FRONT

7000 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE HOTEL – MATCHBOOK FRONT

7000 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE HOTEL – MATCHBOOK BACK

PEACH TREE RESTAURANT – 79TH AND SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – MATCHBOOK

THUNDERBIRD MOTEL – ASH TRAY – c1960

PHOTO – CHICAGO – THUNDERBIRD HOTEL – ANOTHER VIEW – B AND W – 1958

THUNDERBIRD MOTEL – 75TH AND SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – NOTE THE LIGHT TOWER BEHIND ON LEFT FOR FIELD AT RAINBOW PARK – 1958

BON-TON RESTAURANT SIGN – THIS VIOLATES MY PRINCIPLE OF NOT USING IMAGES SHOWING DECAY – BUT THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT SPOT – 79TH AND COLFAX – EDITED FROM KNAYDLL’S FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM

POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY – EDMUND BURKE SCHOOL – DESKS AND PHOTO – WE HAD EXACTLY THESE DESKS AT KOZMYNSKI AND SIMILAR AT BRADWELL

CITY CREWS CLEAN UP AFTER THE TORNADO – APRIL 23 1967 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

BILL CHUCKMAN IN COURTYARD OF 7802 COLFAX – DATE UNKNOWN – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

GIRLS SUNNING ON THE ROCKS – 1941 – FROM PSYCHOTHERAPYBLOG

AVALON THEATRE – CORPS OF USHERS IN LOBBY – 1927 – FROM MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE SITE

SOUTH SHORE RESTAURANT – PIERRE’S – 79TH AND SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – NEWSPAPER AD – FROM DIM BEAUTY OF CHICAGO SITE

MONTAGE OF LETTER FROM MR. KAZMIER IN ENGLAND – A MUCH LOVED TEACHER AT BRADWELL SCHOOL

MONTAGE OF CHRISTMAS CARDS FROM MR. KAZMIER’S TEACHER-EXCHANGE CLASS IN ENGLAND

HUGH CELANDER – IN OLD AGE HOLDING A PHOTO OF A YOUNGER SELF – HE HAD A PHOTO STUDIO ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF 79TH STREET NEAR KINGSTON – A HUGH CELANDER PHOTO

RAINBOW BEACH (CALLED MANHATTAN THEN) – PEOPLE TOWING AND IN BOATS – RESEMBLES A PAINTING – POSTCARD – 1909

CROCKERY – CHICAGO – COFFEE CUP – PETER PAN SNACK SHOP – EARLIER VERSION OF LOGO

PETER PAN SNACK SHOP – 7100 S JEFFERY – MATCHBOOK – EARLY VERSION OF LOGO

SHORE POST RESTAURANT – MATCH BOOK

BRADWELL DIPLOMA COVER – 1959

SOUTH SHORE HOME – 7427 MERRILL AVE – FROM 79TH STREET OVERFLOW SITE

SOUTH SHORE VIEW HOTEL – MATCHBOOK

CHUCKMAN KENWOOD CLASS PICTURE 1B 1A 1952 – 53RD STREET BRANCH “COTTAGES” – THESE WERE TEMPORARY WOODEN BUILDINGS IN A PLAYGROUND

IN THOSE DAYS, KENWOOD SCHOOL HAD AT LEAST TWO BRANCHES, THE OTHER WAS IN A JEWISH TEMPLE SOUTH OF 51ST THAT I BELIEVE IS NOW A BLACK MUSLIM MOSQUE.

I’M THE ROUND FACE IN THE DARK T-SHIRT NEAR CENTER WHO LOOKS LIKE A SLAVIC IMMIGRANT.

MOST NAMES UNKNOWN HERE. TALL GIRL, FIRST ROW, IN PLAID WAS GEORGEANN. COFFEE-COLOR GIRL IN SAME ROW WITH PIG TAILS WAS PRUDENCE.

OUR TEACHER WAS MRS. NOLAN, A VERY KINDLY YET STRICT WOMAN.

KENWOOD SCHOOL BRANCH – 3B REPORT CARD MRS NOLAN – JANUARY 1954 – THE DIZZYING HEIGHT OF MY ACADEMIC CAREER – ALL DOWNHILL FROM THERE – A JOHN CHUCKMAN IMAGE

CHUCKMAN BRADWELL CLASS PICTURE – 5B – 1955 – AGNES O’SULLIVAN’S CLASS

I HAD JUST RECENTLY MOVED FROM HYDE PARK AND THE DELIGHTS OF KOZMYNSKI SCHOOL, A TERRIBLE SCHOOL IN HYDE PARK WHICH FEATURED ABUSIVE TEACHERS AND BLACK GANGS.

ALL NAMES ARE SUBJECT TO THE VAGARIES OF MEMORY AND SPELLINGS ARE APPROXIMATE AT BEST.  NAMES GIVEN LEFT TO RIGHT:

BACK ROW:
BRUCE KAUFMAN/ ANN BLITZSTEIN/ GAIL SHAPIRO/ ? ?/ JAY GOLDENBERG/ CHARLEY “FLYING SAUCER CLUB” STREICH/ ? ?/ SARA SHOCKETT/ JOANNE KOZLOWSKI/ ELAINE LOTT/ ANN MARIE SANDBERG/ ? ?

THIRD ROW:
JOHN CHUCKMAN/ DAVE BUFFIN/ JANET “MY MOTHER IS PTA PRESIDENT” MARTIN/ ? ?/ KENT TAYLOR/ BARBARA SCHNITZ/ KARL ?/ SUZANNE ZEHME/ BOB PEARSON/ JUDY LUND/ RICHARD AUSTIN

SECOND ROW:
SHARON ?/ JANICE WELCH/ ? ?/ HENRIETTA “COOKIE” GERSTAL/ JUDY ANDERSON/ LORRAINE BORLAND/ PRESTON UNEY/ GEORGE CADDICK

FRONT:
PATRICK ?/ RONNY BANKS/ JOHN ROSS/ HOWARD SCHLESS/ ARTHUR STOIKEY

CHUCKMAN BRADWELL CLASS PICTURE – 6B – 1956 – WITH THE GREAT MR WALTER KAZMIER STANDING IN

ALL NAMES ARE SUBJECT TO THE VAGARIES OF MEMORY AND SPELLINGS ARE APPROXIMATE AT BEST. NAMES GIVEN  LEFT TO RIGHT:

BACK ROW:
SHEILA HANSEL/ PRESTON UNEY/ RONNY BANKS/ JAY GOLDENBERG/ ? ?/ JOHN ROSS/ GEORGE CADDICK/ ANN MARIE SANDBERG/ ELAINE LOTT/ ARTHUR STOIKEY/ SARA SHOCKETT/ SUSAN LEWY/ RICHARD AUSTIN/ ADRIAN “CORKEY” JONES

THIRD ROW:
ANN BLITZSTEIN/ JOANNE KOZLOWSKI/ GAIL SHAPIRO/ BARBARA SCHNITZ/ FLORENCE “FLOSSIE” CHORLEY/ JILL SHAPIRO/ BOB PEARSON/ BILL HACHMANN/ JUDY LUND/ CAROL BACHENHEIMER/ ? ?/ EUNICE SCHULMAN

SECOND ROW:
JANICE WELCH/ LORRAINE BORLAND/ JUDY ANDERSON/ SHARON FRIEDMAN/ HENRIETTA “COOKIE” GERSTAL/ DAVE BUFFIN/ JANET “MY MOTHER IS PRESIDENT OF THE PTA” MARTIN/ JOHN CHUCKMAN/ CAROL BIERMAN

FRONT:
PAUL “DEUTCH’S PAINTS” DEUTCH/ HOWARD SHLESS/ PATRICK ?/ BRUCE KAUFMAN

RIGHT SIDE:
WALTER KAZMIEROWSKI – SHORTENED AT SOME POINT TO: KAZMIER.

AS HE STOOD IN, MR. KAZMIER PROMISED, WITH HIS WONDERFUL DRY WIT, THE PICTURES “WILL SELL LIKE HOTCAKES NOW.” HE WAS TRULY THE KIND OF MEMORABLE TEACHER YOU HAVE ONLY A FEW TIMES IN LIFE.

NOT IN PICTURE:
SQUEAKY THE DUCK, CLASS PET

CHUCKMAN BRADWELL CLASS PICTURE – 7B – 1957

AGAIN, ALL NAMES ARE SUBJECT TO VAGARIES OF MEMORY AND SPELLINGS ARE APPROXIMATE AT BEST.  NAMES GIVEN LEFT TO RIGHT:

BACK ROW:
CAROL BIERMAN/ JOHN CHUCKMAN/ BILL HACHMANN/ JANET “MY MOTHER IS PRESIDENT OF THE PTA” MARTIN/ MARIAN “I HATE ELVIS” CHAPMAN/ EUNICE SCHULMAN/ DAVID BUFFIN/ JUDY LUND/ CAROL BACHENHEIMER/ BOB PEARSON/ JILL SHAPIRO/ GAIL SHAPIRO/ ANN BLITZSTEIN/ SUZANNE ZEHME/ JOHN REDFERN

THIRD ROW:
KAREN MATTHEWS/ BARBARA SCHNITZ/ RICHARD WILLIAMS /LYNN RODGERS/ FLORENCE “FLOSSIE” CHORLEY/ JOANNE KOSLOWSKI/ BRUCE KAUFMAN/ SARA SHOCKETT/ ERIKA STRAHL/ GEORGE CADDICK/ ELAINE LOTT/ ADRIAN ‘CORKY’ JONES/ HARVEY PLAUT/ JAY GOLDENBERG

SECOND ROW:
SUSAN LEWY/ ANN MARIE SANDBERG/ LORRAINE BORLAND/ SHARON GOLDENBERG/ JUDY ANDERSON/ HENRIETTA “COOKIE” GERSTAL/ SHARON FRIEDMAN/ SHEILA HANSEL/ JANICE WELCH

FRONT:
PAUL “DEUTCH’S PAINTS” DEUTCH/ JOHN ROSS/ RICHARD AUSTIN/ RONNY BANKS

I CANNOT REMEMBER THE NAME OF OUR HOMEROOM TEACHER FOR THIS YEAR. MAYBE BERTHA BLUM?

NOTE: THANKS TO KAREN MATTHEWS FOR A NUMBER OF  CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS

CHUCKMAN BRADWELL CLASS PICTURE – GRADUATING CLASS WITH RIBBONS – 1959 – MRS DENNISON’S CLASS

MRS. DENNISON WAS ANOTHER EXCELLENT TEACHER AT BRADWELL, MUCH LIKED AND RESPECTED. SHE TAUGHT MATH. I DO WISH MOST TEACHERS HAD STEPPED IN FOR CLASS PICTURES AS MR KAZMIER DID.

I WAS GROWING LIKE A WEED, A RATHER SKINNY ONE, AT THIS TIME.

I RECALL AT SOME POINT IN MY FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL HAVING REACHED MY FULL HEIGHT OF 6 FEET-4 INCHES AND BEING 140 POUNDS, JUST ONE OF THOSE ODD FACTS WHICH LODGE PERMANENTLY IN YOUR BRAIN.

CHUCKMAN CLASS PICTURE BRADWELL – MY BROTHER BILL’S GRADUATING CLASS – POOR QUALITY OWING TO BEING FROM BRADWELL LIFE NEWSPAPER – JUNE 1963

BRADWELL LIFE JUNE 1963 – THE ISSUE FOR MY BROTHER BILL’S GRADUATION – PAGE ONE

BRADWELL LIFE JUNE 1963 – THE ISSUE FOR MY BROTHER BILL’S GRADUATION – PAGE TWO

BRADWELL LIFE JUNE 1963 – THE ISSUE FOR MY BROTHER BILL’S GRADUATION – PAGE THREE

BRADWELL LIFE JUNE 1963 – THE ISSUE FOR MY BROTHER BILL’S GRADUATION – BABY PICTURE PAGE

BRADWELL LIFE – SCHOOL NEWSPAPER – JUNE 1958 ISSUE

JOHN AND BILL – SEPTEMBER 1957 – STRIP OF PHOTOS FROM MACHINE AT RANDOLPH STREET IC STATION – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

ONE OF THOSE MACHINE PHOTO STRIPS. THIS ONE FEATURES BILL, JOHN, AND OUR MOTHER’S HAND TRYING TO CONTROL BILL’S MUGGING.

THESE MACHINES WERE IN THE RANDOLPH STREET IC STATION, AND A STRIP OF PICTURES COST TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

GADS, LOOK AT THAT REGULAR-GUY LOOK WITH THE JACKET AND THE HAIR.

BILL CHUCKMAN AT THE EMPTY LOT ON KIMBARK AVE SOUTH OF 51ST HYDE PARK – IT WAS A FAVORITE PLACE TO PLAY – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

THIS WAS TAKEN AT A FAVORITE PLAYGROUND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AN EMPTY LOT ON KIMBARK AVE. THE STONE MUST HAVE BEEN LEFT FROM THE BUILDING THAT ONCE OCCUPIED THE SITE. I LOVED THE WILD FLOWERS THAT GREW IN SUCH PLACES.

JOHN AND BILL CHUCKMAN AT THE SAME EMPTY LOT ON KIMBARK AVE – I’M HOLDING A PLASTIC SQUIRT CAMERA WHICH WAS ONE OF MY TREASURES – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

JOHN AND BILL CHUCKMAN – 51ST STREET – EAST OF THE ALLEY NEAR OUR APARTMENT AT 1311 E HYDE PARK BLVD – EARLY 1950s – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

WE LOOK AS THOUGH THE DRILL SERGEANT HAD JUST BARKED ATTENTION, WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH THE CASE.

BILL CHUCKMAN STANDING NEXT TO HIS UNCLE JESSE, VISITING FROM INDIANA, ON HYDE PARK BLVD NEAR KIMBARK – EARLY 1950s – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

JOHN CHUCKMAN SITTING IN A PARK IN HYDE PARK – EARLY 1950s – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

JOHN AND BILL CHUCKMAN WITH TOMMY SIEGAL (SP?)- 51ST STREET EAST OF 1311 E HYDE PARK BLVD – EARLY 1950s – THE WONDERFUL MRS BEAU’S HOUSE IS IN BACKGROUND – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

TOMMY SIEGAL (SP?), A BOY FROM SWITZERLAND, WAS MY FRIEND IN HYDE PARK.TOMMY DOESN’T HAVE AN ICE CREAM CONE HERE BECAUSE THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN AS WE HAPPENED TO MEET HIM RETURNING HOME FROM BUYING THEM.THE HOUSE IN THE BACKGROUND – PART OF A SET OF WONDERFUL ROW HOUSES ON 51 ST STREET – BELONGED TO MRS. BEAU (SP?), A WONDERFUL OLDER LADY WHO USED TO PAY US AND MAKE US A CHARMING LUNCH IN HER BACKYARD IN RETURN FOR WASHING HER WINDOWS AND DOING OTHER LITTLE CHORES EVERY FEW WEEKS. WE ALSO GOT TO PLAY WITH A STOREHOUSE OF OLD GAMES AND TOYS LEFT BY HER GROWN CHILDREN. SHE WAS THE SORT OF KINDLY DAME YOU USUALLY FIND ONLY IN FAIRY TALES, AND I WILL NEVER FORGET HER KINDNESS.

BILL CHUCKMAN IN AUNT WILMA’S COURTYARD ON PHILLIPS AVE NEAR 77TH – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

I BELIEVE THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN BEFORE WE MOVED TO SOUTH SHORE ON A VISIT TO OUR AUNT’S APARTMENT.

JOHN AND BILL CHUCKMAN IN A PARK IN HYDE PARK – EARLY 1950s – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

MY MOTHER AND AUNT WILMA ON A COUCH IN AUNT WILMA’S ELEGANT LITTLE APARTMENT IN SOUTH SHORE – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

JOHN AND BILL ON A VISIT WITH FATHER AT RIVERVIEW – WHEN JOHN BILL AND MOM LIVED ON UNIVERSITY AVE IN HYDE PARK – ONE OF THE LAST TIMES WE SAW HIM – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

5131 UNIVERSITY AVE ENTRANCE DETAIL – OUR LAST APARTMENT IN HYDE PARK – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN APRIL, 1967

ENTRANCE DETAIL FROM 5131 UNIVERSITY AVE, HYDE PARK. WE LIVED ON THE FIRST FLOOR JUST OVER DOOR.

THIS WAS A BACHELOR APARTMENT WITH NO BEDROOM AND A MURPHY BED IN THE SMALL LIVING ROOM. IT HAD BEEN OUR AUNT’S APARTMENT BEFORE SHE MOVED TO SOUTH SHORE.

DESPITE ITS SIZE, WE WERE HAPPY SINCE OUR PREVIOUS APARTMENT AT 1311 E HYDE PARK BLVD (A BUILDING LONG AGO TORN DOWN) WAS PRETTY MUCH A MENAGERIE OF MICE, WATERBUGS, AND OTHER CRITTERS. THERE WERE RATS IN THE AREA BEHIND THE BUILDING THAT WE SOMETIMES WATCHED FROM THE BACK WINDOW.

THIS WAS A MOVE OF JUST A FEW BLOCKS IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD, YET THE POLICIES OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION THEN SAID YOU ABSOLUTELY HAD TO GO TO A DIFFERENT SCHOOL IF YOU CROSSED ONE OF THEIR ARBITRARY BOUNDARIES.

FOR THAT REASON, MY MOTHER HAD ME KEEP QUIET ABOUT THE MOVE AT SCHOOL (KENWOOD BRANCH IN TEMPLE AT 51ST AND GREENWOOD). BUT THEY SOON FOUND OUT, AND I WAS SHIPPED OFF TO KOZMYNSKI, A TERRIBLE SCHOOL THAT EVEN THEN HAD A BAD REPUTATION.

5131 UNIVERSITY AVE – COURTYARD FROM THE SIDEWALK – OUR LAST APARTMENT IN HYDE PARK – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN APRIL, 1967.

A HANDSOME BUILDING, AN EXAMPLE OF THE BEST OF CHICAGO’S WONDERFUL APARTMENT ARCHITECTURE.

FOR PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT AFFORD A PRIVATE HOME, WITH ALL THE EMOTIONAL CONNOTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORD “HOME,” THESE WONDEFUL BUILDINGS GAVE PEOPLE A REAL SENSE OF PLACE, EVEN A SENSE OF PRIDE.

COURTYARDS HAD GARDENS AND LANDSCAPING THAT WAS PLEASANT AND MAINTAINED BY JANITORS WHO OFTEN SERVED SEVERAL BUILDINGS AND LIVED IN ONE OF THEM. JANITORS ALSO HELPED WITH MINOR MATTERS LIKE LEAKING TAPS.

SOME INTERESTING PEOPLE LIVED IN THESE BUILDINGS – THIS IS, AFTER ALL, THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. AT THIS ONE I HAD A SOMEWHAT OLDER FRIEND, VERY INTERESTED IN SCIENCE, I BELIEVE HIS NAME WAS QUISSENBERYY (SP?), WHO DID SUCH FASCINATING THINGS, WITH ME AS COMPANION, AS LOOKING FOR METEORITES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD – ITS EMPTY LOTS AND THE YARDS OF MANY HOMES – AS MY “YARD” IN THOSE DAYS, PEOPLE GENERALLY THOUGHT NOTHING WRONG ABOUT THAT. IT WAS EXACTLY THAT WAY IN SOUTH SHORE TOO, PERHAPS EVEN MORE SO.

HYDE PARK JEWISH TEMPLE ON 51ST STREET AT GREENWOOD – CLASSROOMS USED AS A KENWOOD SCHOOL BRANCH IN 1950s – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN APRIL, 1967.

THIS WAS NICER THAN THE OTHER KENWOOD BRANCH ON 53RD , WHERE I ALSO ATTENDED FOR GRADE 1A, AND NICER THAN KENWOOD SCHOOL ITSELF, WHERE I ATTENDED 1B.

ONE OF MY FONDEST MEMORIES OF THE TEMPLE BRANCH, WHERE I ATTENDED JUST OVER A YEAR, WAS THE DISCOVERY OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAY OF SUCCOTH. I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE AUTUMN AND HALLOWEEN AND PUMPKINS, AND AT THE SIDE OF THE TEMPLE ON THE SIDE STREET, I DISCOVERED ONE DAY THIS CHARMING HUT CONTRUCTED OF STRAW AND ALL THINGS AUTUMNAL, FILLED WITH SQUASHES, PUMPKINS, GOURDS, AND APPLES. DELIGHTFUL.

I GUESS IT WAS THE END OF THE HOLIDAY PERIOD WHEN THE MAN FROM THE TEMPLE TAKING THINGS DOWN GAVE ME AFTER SCHOOL AN ARMFUL OF SUCH DELIGHTS WHICH I CARRIED HOME, SMILING ALL THE WAY. 

WHEN I FIRST STARTED AT KENWOOD SCHOOL, THEY HAD US ON HALF-DAYS, THAT’S HOW SHORT AUTHORITIES WERE CAUGHT WITH FACILITIES BY THE POST-WAR BABY BOOM. THIS WAS PART OF THE UNDERSIDE OF THE POSTWAR BABY BOOM GENERATION WHICH IS SO OFTEN REPRESENTED ONLY AS HAVING EVERYTHING.

AND THEN THERE WERE THE ATROCIOUS POLICIES OF THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IF YOU MOVED EVEN AROUND THE CORNER, THEY MADE YOU DROP EVERYTHING AND GO TO A NEW SCHOOL.

MY MOTHER KEPT OUR SHORT NEW MOVE SECRET FROM THE SCHOOL WHEN I HAPPILY ATTENDED HERE, BUT THEY FOUND OUT AND SENT ME TO KOZMYNSKI SCHOOL, A MUCH GREATER DISTANCE AWAY – JUST LIKE THAT, DESPITE ESTABLISHED FRIENDSHIPS AND TIES IN THE SCHOOL.

THE POLICY WAS BRUTAL AND RUTHLESSLY ENFORCED AND THIS WAS IT NOT THE FIRST TIME I WAS UPROOTED, JUST THE WORST.

THE NAME ‘KOZMYNSKI’ IN THOSE DAYS RANG IN MY EAR LIKE ‘ALCATRAZ’ WITH THE WHISPERED LEGENDS OF OTHER KIDS. AFTER ALL, I HAD ACTUALLY STARTED SCHOOL AT SHAKESPEARE, NORTH OF 47TH, A TRUE HELL HOLE AT WHICH I WAS ONE OF THE FEW WHITE CHILDREN AND SUFFERED REGULAR RIDICULE AND ABUSE.

I CAN REMEMBER NOTHING ABOUT SHAKESPEARE BUT BEING LAUGHED AT, PUSHED AROUND, KNOCKED DOWN, AND READING THE WORDS ‘BLACKSTONE RANGERS’ OMINOUSLY CHALKED ON SIDEWALKS AND WALLS. YEARS LATER, I UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY WHAT IT FELT LIKE WHEN SOME POOR SOUTHERN BLACK KIDS WENT TO PREVIOUSLY ALL-WHITE SCHOOLS.

KOZMYNSKI WAS LIKE BEING SENT TO THE GULAG, AND INDEED IT WAS ALMOST THAT BAD. BROKEN WINDOWS EVERY DAY,SOMETIMES SHATTERED GLASS IN THE CLASSROOM FIRST THING IN THE MORNING (I HAVE A SLIDE OF THE SCHOOL FRONT FROM ABOUT 1967 WITH DOZENS OF BROKEN WINDOWS AND THE KIND OF MAKE-SHIFT PATCHES THEY DID WHEN I WAS THERE), GANGS RUNNING AROUND KNOCKING PEOPLE DOWN (A BLACK KID NAMED RAYMOND WAS THE TERROR OF THE SCHOOL YARD), THE CHARMING SOUTHERNER, MR. NEWMAN, WHO USED LITERALLY TO SLAP KIDS AROUND, AND THE PRINIPAL, MS. HOTCHKISS, WHO KEPT A BASEBALL BAT IN HER OFFICE AND DEFENDED TO MY MOTHER THE BEHAVIOR OF A SADIST LIKE MR. NEWMAN.

LEAVING HOME EVERY DAY FOR SCHOOL WAS SOMETHING TO BE DREADED – I’D LEAVE AT THE LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT TO MINIMIZE TIME SPENT WAITING IN THE SCHOOL YARD. AH, SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

MY POOR MOTHER, JUST TRYING TO RAISE TWO BOYS ALONE ON A SECRETARY’S SALARY, HAD TO WORRY ABOUT SUCH THINGS. VERY BRUTAL.

SO AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS OF THAT WHEN MY MOTHER WAS ABLE TO AFFORD MOVING TO SOUTH SHORE (A RISING TIDE WAS RAISING ALL BOATS), AND I FIRST ATTENDED BRADWELL, I THOUGHT I HAD DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN. IT SEEMED SO PEACEFUL AND WELL ORDERED.

WONDERFUL OLD STOPLIGHT – HYDE PARK – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN APRIL 1967.

TALK ABOUT A “FRIENDLY OBJECT,” THESE WONDERFUL OLD STOPLIGHTS WERE DISAPPEARING WHEN THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN.

7504 COLFAX AT THE CORNER OF 75TH – OUR FIRST SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT – 2ND FLOOR OVER STORES ON 75TH – MOVED IN 1955 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968

THIS COMMERCIAL APARTMENT BUILDING WAS THE SITE OF OUR FIRST APARTMENT IN SOUTH SHORE. IT WAS A TINY PLACE WITH NO BEDROOM AND A MURPHY BED IN THE LIVING ROOM. I SLEPT ON A SMALL STUDIO BED IN THE DINETTE.

HERE WE GRADUATED FROM CLIMBING GARAGE ROOFS IN THE ALLEYS OF HYDE PARK TO CLIMBING STORE AND APARTMENT ROOFS AS PART OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD “YARD.”

BOY, DID WE ENJOY CLIMBING THE ROOFS OVER 75TH. PLACES LIKE THE ROOF OF THE HIGH-LOW FOOD STORE WERE  SECRET CLUBHOUSES FOR US. MY BEST FRIEND AT THIS TIME WAS ANOTHER BOY FROM SWITZERLAND, NAMED JOHNNY HOEHNER WHOSE FATHER WAS THE JANITOR OF THE LARGEST COURTYARD BUILDING FURTHER UP THE BLOCK ON COLFAX. 

LOOKING DOWN FROM THE APARTMENT ROOF, ACCESSED FROM THE BACK PORCHES,  IN WINTER ON 75TH STREET WITH LARGE FLAKES TUMBLING DOWN AND THE STORE FRONTS GLOWING WITH NEON AND THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ON SWAGS ACROSS THE STREET SWAYING IN THE WIND BELOW MADE AN UNFORGETTABLY CHARMING SIGHT THAT RATHER FIXED IN MY MIND THE IDEA OF URBAN VILLAGE.

AL’S DELI WAS ON THE CORNER OF THIS BUILDING AT 75TH IN THE RIGHT FOREGROUND OUT OF THE FRAME.  THE SAME BLOCK OF 75TH STREET HAD PETE’S BARBER SHOP AND A TOY STORE (I FORGET THE NAME).

THE STORE WINDOW IN THIS PICTURE, TO THE LEFT OF THE DOORWAY, WAS A TAILOR’S SHOP.

THE SHORE THEATER WASN’T FAR WEST FROM HERE. REMEMBER SHORE HILL BEHIND THE THEATER? ACTUALLY A LOADING RAMP, WE USED TO BUILD SOAPBOX RACERS WITH JUNK WE GATHERED IN THE ALLEYS AND ROLL DOWN SHORE HILL. BOYS DID THIS WITH BICYCLES TOO.

THE ALLEYS OF THOSE TIMES WERE GREAT PLACES FOR ADVENTURE, WHETHER SCROUNGING FOR PARTS OF SOME CONTRAPTION WE WERE MAKING OR FINDING POP BOTTLES WE COULD CASH IN AT THE STORE FOR PENNY CANDY OR PRETZELS.

I HAD MY FIRST PAPER ROUTE AT THIS TIME WITH CHUCK’S NEWS AGENCY ON 74TH & EXCHANGE, DELIVERING THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. SOMETIMES MY YOUNG BROTHER RODE ALONG IN THE FRONT OF A BIG YELLOW CART WITH BICYCLE WHEELS. I DELIVERED ALONG COLFAX NORTH OF 75TH, ALONG 75TH, AND DOWN COLES AVE.

ANOTHER ADVENTURE JOHNNY HOEHENER AND I HAD AT THIS TIME WAS GOING TO THE BEACH IN WINTER TO CLIMB ON THE “ICEBERGS.” OFTEN WE BROUGHT A COUPLE OF APPLES OR POTATOES WHICH WE ROASTED IN A FIRE WE’D BUILD IN A HOLE IN THE SAND – FUEL WAS LOOSE SLATS FROM THE BEACH’S SNOW FENCES – NEAR THE LOW WALL AT THE TOP OF THE BEACH.

7504 COLFAX AT THE CORNER OF 75TH – OUR FIRST SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT – 2ND FLOOR OVER STORES ON 75TH – MOVED IN 1955 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968.

THIS WAS ANYTHING BUT A “PRESTIGE” BUILDING, INDEED ITS RESIDENTS WERE DEFINITELY HUMBLE PEOPLE, YET LOOK AT THE HANDSOME DETAIL BUILDERS USED BACK CLOSER TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.

MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – IN ITS HEYDAY – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968.

DEAR OLD MYRA BRADWELL. I BELIEVE THE WINDOWS AT THE CENTER OF THE FIRST FLOOR ARE THE LIBRARY’S.

I ALWAYS LOVED THOSE TALL WINDOWS LOOKING OUT ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD – THEY JUST GAVE YOU A LITTLE LIFT IN THE MORNING, AND AT BRADWELL THEY WEREN’T CONSTANTLY BROKEN AND LEFT HALF REPAIRED AS AT KOZMYNSKI (WHERE THE JANITORS TYPICALLY SWEPT THE GLASS AND PUT A NEW PANE ON THE INSIDE WITH PUTTY, LEAVING THE CRACKED PANES TO COLLECT AS A VIEW).

DO YOU REMEMBER THE TALL HOOKED POLES THAT HUNG IN CLASSROOMS FOR OPENING OR CLOSING THE TOP WINDOW FRAME? TEACHERS TYPICALLY WOULD ASK SOME BOY TO DO THE TASK, AND THE TRUTH IS THAT MOST KIDS LIKE BEING ASKED TO DO THINGS, A FACT OFTEN LOST TODAY.

I’VE SEEN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOS OF BRADWELL, AND OTHER SCHOOLS, AND WHILE SUPERFICIALLY THEY MAY BE SAID TO LOOK THE SAME, ACTUALLY MANY DETAILS HAVE CHANGED.

THE FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS AT BRADWELL TODAY AREN’T THESE LOVELY BIG WINDOWS, THEY ARE DARK SCREEN-LIKE STRUCTURES TO PREVENT BREAKAGE AND VANDALISM.

THE GARDENING AND TREES ARE NOW MISSING TOO. AND THE PLACE HAS BEEN RE-NAMED AS SOME KIND OF ACADEMY, CHICAGO’S FAVORITE TERM FOR FAILED SCHOOLS, USED I GUESS TO FOOL PEOPLE INTO THINKING SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING.

IT’S THE SAME AT SOUTH SHORE HIGH WHICH NOW CONSISTS OF SEVERAL ACADEMIES, AS WELL AS SCHOOLS LIKE BRYN MAWR.

MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – FROM NORTH END – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968.

JUST AROUND THE CORNER TO THE RIGHT – OUT OF THE FRAME – WAS THE FENCED AREA WHERE THE LITTLE KIDS PLAYED.

MYRA BRADWELL AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE – SOUTH END OF BUILDING – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968.

NOTE THE DOORS WITH HANDSOME SMALL PANES OF GLASS. RECENT PHOTOS SHOW THESE MISSING. JUST LIKE THE GRACEFUL WINDOWS ON THE REST OF THE BUILDING, THEY’VE BEEN REPLACED BY HOMELY MORE VANDAL-PROOF STUFF.

MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – THE SOUTH END JUST PAST AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968.

MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – TERRA COTTA OVER ASSEMBLY ENTRANCE – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968.

SPEAKING OF TERRA COTTA, DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE CURVED STRIP OF TERRA COTTA TRIM THAT RAN ROUND THE BACK OF THE SCHOOL? THE BOYS ALL CALLED IT A ‘PENNER’ AND PLAYED A BALL GAME ALSO CALLED PENNER.

YOU USED PINK ‘SKY-HIGH’ BALLS BOUGHT AT THE VERA SHOP (CORNER OF 79TH & BURNHAM), AND IF YOU WERE ‘UP TO BAT,’ YOU TURNED TO THE WALL AND THREW THE BALL AGAINST THE ‘PENNER.’

THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHERS IN THE ‘FIELD’ AT VARYING DISTANCES WHO TRIED TO CATCH IT. THERE WERE OUTS AND THEN SOMEONE ELSE WAS ‘UP TO BAT.’

THIS GAME WAS PLAYED ENDLESSLY AT RECESS, BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL. EVERYONE CARRIED A ‘SKY-HIGH’ IN HIS JACKET POCKET.

I WONDER WAS THIS A STRICTLY BRADWELL GAME? I NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE OR SINCE, AND OF COURSE IT REQUIRED THAT STRIP OF TRIM, THE ‘PENNER,’ TO PLAY.

 

7904 ESSEX AVE – OUR SECOND APARTMENT IN SOUTH SHORE – A ONE-BEDROOM 3RD FLOOR FRONT RIGHT CORNER JUST OUT OF FRAME – OCTOBER 11, 1968 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

7904 ESSEX AVE FROM ACROSS STREET – OUR SECOND APARTMENT IN SOUTH SHORE – RIGHT SIDE CORNER TOP FLOOR – OCTOBER 11, 1968 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

THERE WERE MATURE TREES IN EARLY 1960s ALONG ESSEX AVE. THEY REACHED UP TO OUR THIRD-FLOOR WINDOWS.

BILL CHUCKMAN GIVING ONE OF OUR SNOWMEN A LAST TOUCH – ESSEX AVE SOUTH NEAR THE RAIL TRACKS – FRONT YARD OF SOMEONE ELSE’S BUILDING – THAT WAS OUR URBAN VILLAGE – c1960 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

JOHN AND BILL CHUCKMAN – APARTMENT INSIDE 7904 ESSEX AVE – AFTER CHRISTMAS 1961 IN OUR CHRISTMAS SWEATERS – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

BILL CHUCKMAN – JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS 1961 – BILL STUDYING HARD IN OUR SHARED BEDROOM – 7904 ESSEX 3RD FLOOR – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

OUR MOM – WITH BILL’S PET PARAKEET TIMMY – IN THE DINETTE BY WINDOWS OVERLOOKING WHITE CASTLE – 7904 ESSEX AVE – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

JOHN CHUCKMAN – BY WINDOWS OVERLOOKING WHITE CASTLE – LIVING ROOM (DINETTE JUST BEHIND – 7904 ESSEX AVE 3RD FLOOR – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

ME IN A SUIT, MY FIRST FROM BONDS STORE, WITH CONTINENTAL TIE, NO LESS.

I SUPPOSE MOST PEOPLE WOULD HATE LIVING ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHITE CASTLE. MY MOTHER CERTAINLY DID, BUT I LOVED IT.

WE STILL HAD TREES OUTSIDE THE WINDOWS, BUT I LIKED THE BUZZ AND HUM OF EVENING URBAN COFFEE-AND-HAMBURGER SOCIETY.

SOMETIMES I GOT UP VERY EARLY ON A WEEKEND, AND TAKING A COUPLE OF WHITE CASTLES AND A COFFEE, WALKED DOWN TO THE LAKE WITH MY SKETCHBOOK TO DO A CHALK IMPRESSION OF THE SUNRISE. THE WONDERFUL POPLAR TREES THAT FORMED A WALL AT THE BEACH RATTLED AS THE BREEZE CAME UP. THE PARK CHANGED TONES AND LIGHT SATURATION SUDDENLY. WONDERFUL.

I WAS USED TO GETTING UP QUITE EARLY FROM DOING MY CHICAGO TRIBUNE ROUTE DURING FIRST YEAR AT SOUTH SHORE, 4:30 EVERY MORNING.

JOHN CHUCKMAN – JOHN IN LIVING ROOM – IN ORANGE CHAIR – 7904 ESSEX 3RD FLOOR – WEARING MY SUIT FROM BONDS AND THE RED VEST FROM MY AUNT I USED FOR YEARS – TAKEN AROUND CHRISTMAS 1961 – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

JOHN AND BILL CHUCKMAN – IN AUNT WILMA’S SMALL, ELEGANT PHILLIPS AVE APARTMENT THE DOORS BEHIND ARE THE HID-A-BED – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

THE DOOR BEHIND THE CHAIR IS ONE OF A PAIR CONTAINING THE ‘MURPHY BED.’

THOSE WERE WONDERFUL CONTRAPTIONS – WE HAD GREAT FUN WHEN WERE YOUNGER SITTING ON THE FOLDING HEADBOARD AND MAKING THE BED FOLD US UP IN THE CLOSET OR LEANING AGAINST THE UPRIGHT BED TO SEND IT CRASHING TO THE FLOOR WITH US ON IT. MAYBE IT WAS THAT KIND OF THING THAT MADE MY POOR MOM HAVE TO FIND NEW APARTMENTS SO OFTEN? 

I GUESS THEY’VE MADE SOMETHING OF A COMEBACK IN SMALL DOWNTOWN CONDOS, BUT THEY ARE NOT BUILT-IN AND AS STURDY AS THESE WERE.

JOHN CHUCKMAN – AUNT WILMA’S APARTMENT – ME IN FRANKENSTEIN MASK – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

I DEARLY LOVED THAT MASK, BOUGHT AT A JUNK TRICK SHOP, THE TREASURE CHEST, ON RANDOLPH STREET DOWNTOWN, WEARING IT FOR HALLOWEENS UNTIL THE RUBBER BEGAN TO DECAY.

LATER, I FIXED UP FLASHLIGHT BULBS IN THE ‘ELECTRODES’ WIH WIRES RUNNING DOWN TO MY POCKET WHERE I COULD MAKE THE ELECTRODES LIGHT UP WITH BATTERIES.

PROBABLY WITH MY SIZE, AT 6’4″ BEFORE I WAS 14, NOT EVERYONE THOUGHT THIS AMUSING WHEN I CAME TRICK-OR-TREATING.

OUR MOM, AUNT WILMA, AND BILL CHUCKMAN – AUNT WILMA’S APARTMENT ON PHILLIPS AVE – MY MOTHER IS GIVING ME THE EVIL EYE FOR TAKING SO LONG WITH THE PICTURE – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

JOHN CHUCKMAN – CHICAGO AMERICAN ANNOUNCEMENT – I WAS VERY PROUD OF WINNING THIS – JANUARY 17 1959 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN IMAGE

 

IN THE SATURDAY CHICAGO AMERICAN (LONG-DEFUNCT HEARST NEWSPAPER).
I WAS PRETTY PROUD, ESPECIALLY WHEN SOME TACHERS AT BRADWELL MENTIONED SEEING IT.

I KEPT THIS SET OF BOOKS UP UNTIL MY SECOND LAST MOVE. THEY WERE HOPELESSLY DATED OF COURSE.

MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – AUTOGRAPH MONTAGE FROM OLD REPORT CARDS – A JOHN CHUCKMAN IMAGE

MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL – 8A REPORT CARD MRS. DENNISON – JANUARY 30 1959 – GRADUATION – A JOHN CHUCKMAN IMAGE

OUR THIRD AND LAST SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT – 7802 COLFAX AVE – 1ST FLOOR OVER DOOR ON RIGHT – STILL SMALL (A ONE-BEDROOM) BUT WE THOUGHT THIS BUILDING VERY CLASSY AND LIKED ITS BEING NOT OVER STORES – TAKEN ON VISIT OCTOBER 11, 1968 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

SOUTH SHORE APARTMENT – ENTRANCE 7802 COLFAX AVE – OUR LIVING ROOM WINDOWS ABOVE ENTRANCE – TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1968 – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

COLFAX AVE – LOOKING SOUTH TOWARDS 79TH FROM 7802 COLFAX – TAKEN APRIL 1967 ON A VISIT – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

COLFAX AVE – LOOKING NORTH FROM 7802 COLFAX – A BEAUTIFUL CITY STREET AND A VERY NOSTALGIC IMAGE FOR THOSE WHO LIVED IN SOUTH SHORE – TAKEN OCT 11 1968 ON A VISIT – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

HOW BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED WERE THE SHRUBS AND GRASS AROUND MOST OF THOSE OLD BUILDINGS, ALL THE WORK OF A CLASS OF HARD-WORKING RESIDENT JANITORS.

THE MANICURED COURTYARDS AND BOULEVARDS CONTRASTED SO NICELY WITH THE EXUBERANT GROWTH OF OVERHANGING TREES AND OCCASIONAL LARGE SHRUBS, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS PICTURE.

IT WAS A SPIRIT-LIFTING URBAN LANDSCAPE.

78TH STREET – LOOKING WEST FROM COLFAX – TAKEN OCT 11 1968 ON A VISIT – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

78TH STREET – FURTHER EAST – LOOKING BACK WEST – TAKEN APRIL 24 1967 ON A VISIT – ONE OF THE FEW IMAGES I HAVE OF THE CATHEDRAL-EFFECT OF THE NOW-GONE ELM TREES – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

RAINBOW BEACH PARK PARKLAND AREA – TAKEN APRIL 1967 ON A VISIT – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

RAINBOW GARDEN STARTING A NEW SEASON – TAKEN APRIL 1967 ON A VISIT – A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

BILL CHUCKMAN – BILL IN RAINBOW GARDENS – WEARING A FAVORITE SWEATER OF HIS – TAKEN OCTOBER 11, 1964 – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

BILL CHUCKMAN – RAINBOW GARDEN – CRAB APPLE TREE – TAKEN OCTOBER 11 1964 – A CHUCKMAN FAMILY PHOTO

 

BILL BILL CHUCKMAN IN ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL GNARLED CRAB APPLE TREES THAT STOOD AROUND RAINBOW GARDEN. I USED TO CALL THEM ‘VAN GOGH’ TREES.