Comments on: Postcard Collection: Chicago

By: GrannyJ

GrannyJ — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:37:34 +0000

That really takes me back to my previous life! For years, I worked in an old mansion at the corner of 18th & Prairie Ave. (talk about lost buildings!) Thanks for a wonderful visit to a past that preceded me!

By: Ray M.

Ray M. — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:59:26 +0000

Thanks! Glad you like it!

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:16:45 +0000

Ray –

Your site is so good, it hurts.

By: Ray M.

Ray M. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:54:57 +0000

Check out my website of old and many “lost” Chicago buildings. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

chicagopc.info

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:29:57 +0000

I’m surprised they can find anything.

By: Steve H.

Steve H. — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:30:26 +0000

Here is a link to a story in todays Chicago Tribune about a lost Louis Sullivan building just “discovered” on S. Wabash in Chicago’s loop;

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/arts/chi-1014sullivanoct14,0,4938535.story

How you “lose” a building is hard to figure out…weird timing considering this postcard collection…

By: Steve H.

Steve H. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:28:52 +0000

Chicago has great history and much of it is being torn down, but the Congress is still there. I stayed there in 1985 when I went to Bluesfest to see Stevie Ray Vaughn as he was either getting back on his feet or they were buckling undeneath him. I forget which. Pouring rain. At the Congress the rooms are very,very small. Typical of rooms before the supersize me era. And there has been a strike at the Congress for the past several years. Here is an address to the strike website:
http://www.congresshotelstrike.info/. I thought that would segue nicely with the Haymarket card. And lastly, (sorry Derrick) my dad worked at the stockyards in the 1950’s as a carpenter and said it was very bizzare, as the Armour and Swift building shown in the cards, actually had freight elevators the size of football fields and they would be full of Texas steer, that rise up 7 or 8 stories to holding pens, and from the pens you could see the Loop. Oops, and I forgot the old Stadium…Blackhawks hockey is not associated with the counter-culture, but the few games I went to…the hallways reeked of reefer smoke between periods. Young Archie Bunkers getting high.
“Won’t you come to Chicago..” Nice cards by the way. Social history rocks!