NEWSPAPER:

Lerner Lincoln-Belmont Booster (Maier)

Remember the "Sur-prize-o" cash prize game? (Harold)

DEPARTMENT STORES:

Hoffing’s

My mother worked at Hoffings on Roscoe.  (Bailey)

Goldblatt’s

I remember the visit to Santa and the cartoon movie machines where you put your eyes up to a visor to view a cartoon for a nickel and the jelly candies at the candy counter. (Harold)

BAKERIES:

Dinkels/Phillips/Star/Hecks/Kruse's

How about the log cakes on Washington’s birthday with the little hatchet on top? (Harold)

What about Keippels Bakery? (Cathy)

DRUG STORES:

Kogens/Bangerts/Meyers/ was there one at SE Belmont n Hoyne????/

Miller’s Pharmacy 2004 or 2006 Roscoe (Glen worked there), Campbell’s on Roscoe & Oakley (Maier)

My first job was at the Drug store (can't remember the name) on the southwest corner of Belmont and Wolcott. I was the "Soda Jerk" and cleanup guy. I think I made twenty-five cents an hour. I quit after about three weeks. The butcher shop next door (or perhaps two doors west) to the pharmacy knew me well as I was in there often. Right across the street was a store. I seem to remember it was called "Skips". They were like a small five and dime. We would buy soda and gum and look at the magazines (Jarnecke)

I used to get a nickel coke and a nickel bag of chips at Kogan’s. The straw case could be shot across the room or if you wet the end, it could be sent to the ceiling and stick there. (Harold)

JEWELRY:

Jewelry store on Lincoln just south of Belmont.  They had 'Mason's' rings in the window.  Brian Klug told me someone in his family had one and explained some of it to me.  Had no clue what he was talking about. (Carol) (Klein Jeweler's, 3168 Lincoln, ref-Booster)

Also a jeweler on the corner of Lincoln and Belmont, Dennis bought my Engagement and Wedding rings there, we would stand and wait for the bus and I would get excited looking at all the rings when we were in High School. (Mary)

Belmont Jeweler's was at 3204 Lincoln and Robert's was at 3327(ref-Booster)

FACTORIES:

Stewart Warner:

We lived 8 doors west of Stewart Warner and I used to play there. The sidewalks were great for skating (the metal skates on your shoes). A friend actually climbed on top of the Stewart Warner clock tower! (Harold)

Appleton Electric, 1701-41 Wellington:

Played there too….the blocks of sand (from the castings) that we found in the yard were used by us to carve pretend grenades. The railroad tracks between the factories were used to “press” pennies. (Harold)

New Era Potato Chip factory at the southwest corner of Belmont & Paulina. You could get a just-off-the-conveyer belt, warm bag of chips for 5 cents. (Harold)

Wonder Bread/

The dairy at Barry n Ravenswood (Harold)

The place that sold Dairy/Eggs on Ravenswood (east side) & Melrose (Maier)

Eversharp on No. side of Roscoe btwn Wolcott & Ravenswood, now condos called “The Pencil Factory Condos”(Maier)

At that same location there was an outlet for Christmas Cards. I used to buy boxes for about 15-20 cents and sell them door-to-door for a quarter or 35 cents (Harold)

Cook Electric Southport and something. Both Mom and Dad worked there during my Jahn Years. (Barry)

RADIO-TV REPAIR:

We used to have a repairman come to the house to fix the TV. He would put a mirror in front of the TV and refer to it while working on the back of the set. I remember a Radio-TV repair shop on Nelson and Damen. (Harold)

DELICATESSENS:

Meyers/ Kuhn/Paulina Market 

Joe’s Delicatessen on Roscoe-the first store east of Hoffings (Maier)

The prom dress store was May Son's.  (3160 Lincoln) (Lynn)

Manhattan tab collar shirts bought from Hirsch. Sam Rudy the sales guy was dating my sister so I got good service. My Jahn graduation suit bought from Robert Hall on Ashland for $29. All wool and itched like crazy. (Barry)

SHOE STORES:

R & S Shoes, 3256 Lincoln, Father & Sons/

O'Connor and Goldberg shoe store.  Expensive shoes to me in those years, but once I started working full time needed good, comfortable shoes (4 inch heels) for that trip downtown. (Carol)

Remember looking into the x-ray machine to see how your feet fit inside of new shoes?  Little did we know that the x-ray dosage was too high.  Thankfully, the machines were removed after a short while. (Bailey)

Flagg Bros. Remember the flip front shoes no laces but a spring loaded flip tab? (Barry)

I think that they were called “Flap Jacks”. I had ‘em also as well as white loafers and couldn’t figure out if I should wear white or black socks with them. (Harold)

RESTAURANTS:

Math Iglers w/ the singing waiters-Chgo Pub Library now there/ Europa House (originally was Johnnie Weigelts (Maier)/ Zum Deutchen Ech/name? at north-west corner of Lincoln and Belmont/Ma’s/Shortie’s/Wimpy’s/Belmont Theatre Cafe (1624 Belmont)/Pete's Pizza 2407 Belmont

Heidelberger Fass-Lincoln & Cornelia, Henry’s on Western across the street from Riverview, Restaurant (can’t remember the name) @ 2010 Roscoe, only open for breakfast & lunch, Mar (Maier)

Wimpys at Ash n School, Greasy spoon on Ashland Aven. just north of Belmont (but then again, I thought Gus's ice cream place was on Irving and Damen).  Went there for french fries (lots of ketchup) and coke after school when we were at Lakeview. (Carol)

DIME STORES/LUNCH COUNTERS:

Woolworths/Kresge's (2 locations, 3141 and 3300 Lincoln)/Walgreens (3213 Ashland)

all had lunch counters, good for BLT’s and soda fountain (Harold)

…….and a hot dog and root beer (Maier)

Walgreen’s featured pints of ice cream at 5 for $1 (Harold)

and a bottle of 100 asprins for only 7 cents in 1958 (ref-Booster)

PET STORES

Lincoln Pet Shop, 3050 N. Greenview (just south of Lincoln)/ Ashland n Henderson

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Central Camera

Remember the rolls of 127 film and the plastic cameras? How about the View-Master Stereo reels? (Harold)

CHURCHES:

St Lukes/St. Boniventure/St. Alphonses/St. Andrews/ Galilee Baptist/

Don't forget the Ascension Lutheran Church at Wolcott and Cornelia. (Bailey)

Belmont Gospel Church. Belmont east of Phillips bakery on the south side. Real evangelists/(Barry)

Christian Fellowship Evangelical Free Church corner of Damen & Newport (Maier)

MOVIE THEATERS:

Belmont-Closed on October 2, 1958 after 33 years (TV-blamed) /Bugg/North Center/Century/Music Box/Biograph/Covent

Roscoe Theater, 2042 Roscoe St.(Maier)

I used to sneak into the doors on the Damen side of the North-Center (Harold)

 

GROCERY/CANDY STORES:

Jungs-Wolfram & Damen/NW Hoyne n Barry/just west of Wolcott on N side of Belmont/SW Barry n Wolcott/"Super Food Market"

located in Wiebolts/also groc in Goldblatts/SW cor Barry & Wolcott/north-west corner Wellington & Wolcott/ NW George and Wolcott

Saturday evening visit to the corner grocery store for the Sunday newspaper and a Dixie cup-with the movie star picture under the lid (Harold)

Andy’s Groceryland corner of Roscoe & Damen, Fruit/Vegetable market NW corner Roscoe & Lincoln,  grocery store S.E. corner Melrose & Wolcott, and another N.W. corner School & Wolcott (Maier)

How about Kroger, was it on Damen?. (Mary)

Damen & Clybourn  (Maier)

CANDY: Andies candies/Wiebolts and Goldblatts candy counters

Fanny May candy store on Lincoln just North of Belmont on the west side. (3208 Lincoln) Mom worked there every Holiday.(Barry)

The Booster lists: Marzipan Candy Company at 2051 Melrose. Anyone remember it?

NOVELTY STORES:

East side of Lincoln north of Greenview/Wolcott rear lot of tavern at George

Man-Jo-Vins/Garden on a bun(Diversey n Clybourn)/ Hot dogs from cart, Linc and Greenview @ 20 or 25 cents (love those steamed buns)/there was a place just south of Andies Candies on Lincoln, next to a currency exchange

Someone spoke of the Hot Dog Cart. He was my neighbor., Mr. Umbragus (sp?). He lives about 1830 or 32 Fletcher. (Jarnecke)

Man-Jo-Vin's was short  for Manny, Joe, and Vince. Three good old Italian boys.(Barry)

Hot dog vendor with a cart that he pushed. Hot dogs at 10:00 PM every Friday night after Mom washed the kitchen floor on her knees. Dad and I would walk and buy 5 for a dollar for our family of 4.(Barry)

VISITING MERCHANTS:

Fuller Brush/rag man/fruit and veggie man/knife n scissors sharpening cart (ding dong)/ I do remember ice n milk deliveries (Harold)

How 'bout the eggman and the Superior coffee deliveryman? (Cathy)

MISC:

Atlas radio, 3140 Lincoln

I used to go to a little store at Leavitt nr Barry to get my ice skates sharpened (Harold)

Jackie’s news-stand at Roscoe & Damen Service (3349 N. Damen)(Maier)

Hook and Ladder or Truck #21 at 1501 School  St at Greenview. I hung out there and actually rode on the rig once. I remember Truck 21 coming through the LBH intersection at such an angle that the tiller man and the driver of the tractor were almost side by side. Engine company #56 on Barry avenue west of Levitt. Spent a lot of time there also (Barry)

The Grebe shipyard at Belmont and the Chicago River makers of custom cabin cruisers $1,000 per foot. They made nothing smaller than 65 feet. $65 K in those days. Wow (Barry)

Western Tire and Auto at school and Ashland NE corner. (Barry)

Eggerts Bike shop on Belmont east of Greenview. Motorcycle shop Ashland North of School south of Addison. Saw my first BMW Isetta there. They also sold Cushman Scooters and DKW motorcycles as well as the original NSU Mopeds (Barry)

Polk Brothers warehouse on Belmont north side at Ravenswood (Barry)

Other furniture: L. Fish Furniture, 3036 Lincoln/Nelson Bros. Furniture, 3045 Lincoln/Wolfson's 3121 Lincoln

Lumber yard on Belmont, just west of Damen.  I think it was Hill-Behan. (Carol)

Two locations for Hohmeier Lumber, Belmont just west of Damen on the south side and  Charles A. Hohmeier, 1711-25 Belmont, on south side of Belmont just west of Paulina. Family feud (Barry)

Dances at the YMCA (Harold)

Music Instrument shop, violins, Belmont north side just east of Wolcott,near where Mary lived. Remember selling advertising for the Jahn Journal to these two OLD German folks that owned it.(Barry)

Kaspers School of Music on Belmont Avenue almost across from one another, close to  Clybourn. And the used items store.  A good place to buy 'used' books etc. (Cathy)

House on Fletcher had a coal furnace when we moved in and I remember 2 black men driving a Bulldog chain drive Mack truck delivering coal by the bag carried on their shoulder one bag at a time and dumped into our coal chute. (Barry)

My mother used to clip coupons out of the news papers that were only worth 2-3 cents, walk all the way to Lincoln and Belmont to redeem them, and carry two heavy grocery bags home….and we lived at Wolfram and Damen. If you include the walking around at the stores….that would total well over 2 miles.(Harold)

HAMLIN PARK:

Summer (Was it called the Water Carnival?) event with water ballet, Miss Northside contest, etc, poolside every July...and....remember the Parade on Wheels where the kids dressed up their bikes and wagons? (Harold)

And of course there was Hamlin Park, so much of my ages 10 to 16 was spent there doing whatever. In fact just the other day I heard a warning to parents of a dangerous game being played by kids today. Taking several deep breaths and chocking themselves or having someone else do it. They pass out and feel the high when they come too. Do you remember doing a variant of this in the park. Do you remember what we called it? We would crouch down, take several deep breaths, take a last deep breath - stand up quickly - and someone would give a bear hug from behind. The same effect, pass out and come too feeling weird. One of the MANY stupid things we did as kids. If you ever really think about it, we are rather lucky to be alive. (Jarnecke)

I wonder how many of us did that dangerous forced-fainting stunt??(Harold)