Friday, February 22, 2019
CHUCKMAN'S PLACES - POSTCARD - SOUTH SHORE - CHICAGO - 74TH PLACE - W OF COLES TO RR AVE (CALLED THAT - MAYBE EXCHANGE?) - NEW HOMES AND TREES - 1910 - A NOTE ON OLD REAL ESTATE AND APARTMENT CARDS: THESE WERE THE MLS LISTINGS OF THEIR DAY - PEOPLE USED THEM TO DECIDE WHICH PROPERTIES TO VISIT - THEY WERE ALSO MADE PRIVATELY BY PEOPLE TO SHOW DISTANT FRIENDS OR RELATIVES WHERE THEY LIVED - THERE WERE KITS YOU COULD BUY TO CONVERT PHOTOS INTO POSTCARDS - THE PRIVATE ONES EXPLAIN THE OFTEN POORLY-WRITTEN LABELS
CHUCKMAN'S PLACES - POSTCARD - CHICAGO - HYDE PARK - CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL - DRAMATIC GROUND-LEVEL VIEW - RED CAR IN DRIVEWAY - TINTED - ONE OF THE LAKE-FRONT GLAMOUR SPOTS OF ITS DAY - THERE WERE MANY IN THOSE DAYS BECAUSE CHICAGO'S BEACHES WERE A BIG DRAW FOR AFFLUENT PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER BEFORE FLORIDA BECAME DEVELOPED - THIS IS NOT THE SAME BUILDING AS THE ONE WE KNEW IN THE 1950s AND 1960s - THAT WAS AN ADDITION IN THE 1920s WHICH LATER BECAME THE FIFTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS - THIS ONE WAS BUILT IN TIME FOR 1893 WORLD'S FAIR AND WAS RAZED AFTER THE NEW ONE OPENED - PRE-1910
CHUCKMAN'S PLACES - POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SOUTH SHORE - RAINBOW BEACH - CALLED WINDSOR BATHING BEACH - AERIAL PANORAMA FROM JUST N OF 75TH - HUGE CROWD - RESEMBLES A BRUEGEL PAINTING - ANOTHER VERSION - TINTED - c1910 - NOTE WHAT BECAME RAINBOW BEACH LATER WAS THEN COMPOSED OF SEVERAL SEPARATE BEACHES - THE BEACH HOUSE IN THE DISTANCE TO THE RIGHT WAS A PRIVATE BEACH CALLED NICHOLS - ANYONE COULD GO BUT YOU PAID - FURTHER UP THE ARC OF THE BEACH WERE OTHER STRUCTURES AND IT ENDS AT A SOUTH-END PARK CALLED ROCKY LEDGES (SOUND FAMILIAR? THERE'S CARD FOR IT ON THE SITE) - WHAT BECAME RAINBOW WAS THEN SAID TO BE ONE OF THE NICEST AND THE LARGEST OF THE "NATURAL" BEACHES (SOME BEACHES IN THE CITY BEING ARTIFICIALLY EXTENDED OR CREATED)
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