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Book Review: Good Old Neon | Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. Book Review: Good Old Neon. December 4, 2014. Photo by Nick Freeman. While the Hollywood Park neighborhood on the North Side didn’t offer much in the way of Culture when I was growing up, a few blocks over on Lincoln Avenue what may have been one of the largest and best collections of neon signs in Chicago was always on display. Photo by Nick Freeman. Good Old Neon: Signs You’re in Chicago,. A book of photographs by Nick Freeman. [...
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Books - Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. Book Review: Good Old Neon. December 4, 2014. While the Hollywood Park neighborhood on the North Side didn’t offer much in the way of Culture when I was growing up, a few blocks over on Lincoln Avenue what may have been one of the largest and best collections of neon signs in Chicago was always on display. Take Me to the River. January 9, 2014. Haunted or not, Graveyards of Chicago Well Worth Exploring. October 25, 2013. As The Middles...
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Take Me to the River | Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. Take Me to the River. January 9, 2014. Call me clueless, but I’ve always associated the city with a single body of water, the lake. I don’t even call it Lake Michigan. First it was Foster beach, later North Avenue beach and Oak Street beach and Montrose Harbor, and eventually just. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. By Libby Hill and. The Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed Its River and the Land Beyond. I’ve co...
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Where I Grew Up: the Hollywood Park Neighborhood on Chicago's Far North Side - Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. Where I Grew Up: the Hollywood Park Neighborhood on Chicago’s Far North Side. ONE NEIGHBORHOOD … SEVERAL GENERATIONS … MANY STORIES. That’s me in the photograph below, with my mother and my younger sister. It was 1963, the year we moved into our perfect house on one of the loveliest streets in Chicago, North Central Park Avenue in Hollywood Park. You can leave a comment to individual posts or email me using the contact form. Shelby Kan...
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Personal history - Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. Can you smell the salami? April 4, 2016. Before big supermarket chains took over, stores in my neighborhood specialized in one thing. On Bryn Mawr Avenue, our main commercial strip, for example, there was an egg store, a fruit and vegetable store, two fish stores and three Kosher butcher shops. (See my Bryn Mawr Hall of Fame for a complete listing.) Most Bryn Mawr Avenue shops, […]. 23 Memories of Hollywood Park. January 26, 2015.
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Bryn Mawr Business Hall of Fame - Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. Bryn Mawr Business Hall of Fame. A Chicago Neighborhood Commercial District. On Bryn Mawr Avenue, between Kedzie and Bernard, there were 4 gas stations, 4 newsstands, 3 barbershops, 3 drugstores, 2 hot dog stands and 2 college bookstores, to name just a few of the businesses I remember from the early sixties. All these businesses, spread across just four city blocks. As one friend commented,. Let me know if you remember a business and ...
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A heart as big as Albany Park | Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. A heart as big as Albany Park. November 11, 2013. Ever since I first heard about former Roosevelt High School basketball coach Manny Weincord,. I’ve wanted to meet him. He’s known by everyone I’ve ever talked to about Albany Park way back when. Coach Manny not only grew up in Albany Park, he worked there as an adult. Who better to tell me how things used to be? 8220;Hey, you’re back in the old neighborhood,”. I say “. Manny’s fam...
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When living in Hollywood Park meant living on the prairie | Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. When living in Hollywood Park meant living on the prairie. January 13, 2015. All the posts (and your great comments) on this blog connect in some way with where I am from and the experiences of others who also grew up in Hollywood Park and surrounding neighborhoods, but some posts have closer connections to Hollywood Park than others. This guest blogpost, written by Howard Korengold, really hits close to home. As a kid walking back and...
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Chicago history - Me & My Shadow
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Me and My Shadow. A Life in Chicago. North Park Neighborhood History. A Centennial Commemoration of the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. March 28, 2015. Event: Talk and walk the former Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. November 1, 2012. Join me for a talk and walk about the history of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium–a hidden city within the city. Frances O’Cherony Archer writes this blog. Much-loved home of the Bryn Mawr Avenue Business Hall of Fame. Remembering a Chicago neighborhood.
