75 years since the State Street Subway opened (October 17, 1943) People wait for a streetcar in downtown Chicago. Newly rediscovered and digitized after 60 years, most of these audio recordings of Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee interurban trains are previously unheard, and include on-train recordings, run-bys, and switching. From north to south, they were Hull House, the Stockyards, Blue Island, South Chicago, East Chicago, and as far as Gary, Indiana. 02. 04. Disc One Copyright 2009-2018, DNAinfo. Those canopies were short-lived after the end of streetcar service, as buses eventually ran into them. This is now the outdoor seating area for a restaurant. White residents in several neighborhoods left the city for suburban areas, and the real estate industry made vast sums by blockbusting. Images of America The interactive map shows that by the 1950s, Black residents had started to trickle into "grade C" or "yellow-lined" European immigrant neighborhoods on the West and Southeast sides. I LOVE this article! Of this, 46.22% are males and 53.78% are females. First, they were all taken in Chicago during the 1950s. [Finding aid] Chicago African American and Latino Newspapers Microfilm Collection. Roger W/Flickr 2. They turned east on 63rd to Union Ave. (700 W.), then south to 63rd Place, then west to alongside (south of) the Halsted L station, then back north on Halsted. 3. With maybe at least a few St.Louis-built cars being included in some of those orders; the Pullman cars were largely gone from the streets by the end of 1955. This corresponds to the white on dark green format of the 54 Illinois plates. The light green paint originally used on these cars faded badly and was hard to match. Chicago Skyline Downtown Chicago Chicago Restaurants Chicago Illinois Chicago Area Chicago City White Castle Restaurant White Castle Hamburgers South Side Chicago 1950s The Neighbourhood Siding Universe T Tom Dudones My Chicago - I grew up on the South Side in the 1950s & sixties. RRCNSLR The University of Illinois at Chicago's digital photo collections . From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. 07. During the 1940s Mercury Records was founded from a Chicago base and emerged as a viable rival to the established major companies. The Second Ghetto Unfortunately, public housing did not solve Chicago's housing problems. 5:07 December 31. 02. Do you recall the L that ran across Chicago Ave near Goldblatts in the 50s it crossed Chicago Ave between Ashland & Wood St. Im trying to find a photo but cant locate one. Last Run of the Hagerstown & Frederick: Between 1925 and 1950, Chicago's black literary output rivaled the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Tenants were promised a right to return to soon-to-be-built housing on the sites and placed on voucher waiting lists, but many residents struggled to meet the bureaucratic requirements to be considered. Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. 3:45 Box motor #5 There were 300 Pullmans in all. This is one reason why the CTA began repainting these cars with a darker green around 1951-52. In my book Chicago Trolleys (page 107) there is a picture of track work being done at this location on July 17, 1954. The ease of getting around that city is amazing. Displaced The Dearborn-Milwaukee Subway The YMCA Hotel, seen in the background, opened in 1916 and closed in 1979. 4:45 Car 5727, January 16, 1954 06. By 1964 most of the large packers had disappeared. Price: $15.99 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 6142 at Clark and Archer on November 9, 1953, running Route 42 Halsted Downtown. 4:34 PCCs #1708, 1752, 1727, 1739, December 6, 1953 A man walks down Clark Street in Chicago in 1940. In the mid-1950's Chicago suffered its first post industrial crisis as the major meatpacking companies began to close their production facilities. The Watch for Reopening sign in the window, visible just above the newsstand in the Humboldt Park L photo, makes me think this was taken in early 1954. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4008 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. You can see the shadow of the now-gone Ogden Avenue viaduct at the bottom of the photo. Where to begin? the loop theater chicago past | the last mcvicker s theater building was owned by the S Sonny Furmanek Lost Stores in Chicago Chicago Fire Department Fire Dept Vintage Architecture Minecraft Architecture Chicago Chicago Chicago Bears The Blues Brothers Old 1887 Chicago Firehouse | Shared by LION Total time (3 discs) 215:03. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 7057, a product of the St. Louis Car Company, is at Waveland and Halsted, the north end of Route 8. 1454 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605. The rest of Madison was bussed. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4389 is southbound on Western near Leland Avenue, having just passed under the Ravenswood L (todays Brown Line), where a train of wooden cars are in the station. Maps of Chicagos early ethnic composition show that immigrants and their descendants lived in clusters. 18. Note the dark areas where some touch-up painting has been done on the PCC. During the 1950s, Puerto Ricans began to arrive in the city of Chicago. To replace workers at local factories, business brought in w. In the twenty years from 1890 to 1910, Chicago's African-American population increased from 15,000 to approximately Effectively acting as sundown towns, suburbs such as Cicero utilized police and mob violence to draw a line in the concrete. In the 1960s, then-Mayor Richard J. Daleys administration began to address the dilapidated housing conditions of the citys poorest and signed off on the construction of 165 high-rises managed by the Chicago Housing Authority that would house mainly Black Chicagoans. South Side Weekly partnered with WTTW and the Invisible Institute to co-publish text and visual reporting and analysis covering the impact racial divisions have on individuals, the city, and our region. 16:26 sounds recorded on board a PCC (early 1950s) Technology advances enter the classroom and Chicago schools now have projectors, microscopes and early computer kits. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4108 is westbound on Madison at the Chicago River, running on the Madison-Fifth branch of Route 20. They were simultaneously subject to predatory practices such as contract selling, in which realtors would deceive buyers into signing contracts to buy marked-up houses on installment with high interest rates and no guarantee of title. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 7271 is northbound on Clark at Roosevelt. Up until the 1940s, Black residents were confined to this corridor, better known as the Black Belt, which ran along State Street roughly between Roosevelt Road (12th Street) and 79th Street. Constructed over alleys through the South side, the Alley "'L" opened for regular service on June 6, 1892. . Railroad Record Club Traction Rarities 1951-58 4:13 Loco #12 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7236 is at Archer and Western on November 17, 1954. These segregated communities maintained a tense coexistence until 1919, when racist white hostility bubbled over. This bar is well-known by DePaul University students who frequent here on the weekends, and god knows also the weeknights. It costs money to maintain this website, and to do the sort of historic research that is our specialty. Many thousands gathered to celebrate the starting of work on the subway. This portion of the old Humboldt Park line was not demolished for another decade, and the story goes that it would have been used by Chicago Aurora & Elgin interurban trains as a midday storage area, if service on that line could have continued after 1957. This northeast corner was originally occupied by the long defunct Becker-Ryan Dept. But by then, the Pullman PCCs were systematically being retired and shipped to St. Louis, where they were scrapped and parts were reused in rapid transit cars. So the suburban bus line went as far as 63rd Place and Halsted (next to the L station). At the end of Shameless, Lip has decided to sell the Gallagher house for a mere $75,000 a far cry from the $250,000 he was offered by a developer before he pushed too hard and lost that deal. Some southbound Additionally, 7.68% of the population is represented by non-citizens. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 153 is northbound at Halsted and Congress on October 5, 1953. Immigrants typically lived in inadequate housing near railroads and industryin bunk houses, boxcars, and section houses. The color pictures were taken by the late Bill Hoffman. (Wien-Criss Archive). 4:00 Master Unit car #74, August 8, 1953 16. Public housing was intended to house a mix of working-class and poor families and was welcomed and enjoyed by new residents, according to early testimonies. Native American tribesthe Potawatomi, Odawa, Sauk, Ojibwe, Illinois, Kickapoo, Miami, Mascouten, Wea, Delaware, Winnebago, Menominee, and Mesquakiewere forced out of what is now Chicago by early French and British settlers. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Coverage spans 1839-1928 but no directories are available for 1840-1842, 1918-1922, and 1924-1927. A 1920s map by sociologist Frederic M. Thrasher placed the Polish and Bohemian enclaves throughout the entire West Side, including the Lower West Side near Halsted Street; Germans occupied the northern lakefront, with Jewish people settling north of Madison Street and also along the southern lakefront. The City of Chicago broke ground on what would become the Initial System of Subways during the Great Depression and finished 20 years later. 04. The Southeast Side is a description that the city itself continues to resist, including this neighborhood with all of Chicago's South Side communities. Another treasure trove of photos thanks to the Wien-Criss Archive. For a few months, Madison-Fifth continued as a shuttle operation between Madison and Pulaski, using older red streetcars. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicagos South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4102, a Pullman PCC, is heading west at about 500 W. Madison, operating on the Madison-Fifth branch of Route 20. Order your copy today! With all the different types of people Chicago attracted at this time, the entertainment industry became a powerful force to be reckoned with. 4:17 Car 306 (ex-AE&FRE), September 27, 1953 13. (Wien-Criss Archive), Passengers are getting off northbound CTA 7192 at Western and Van Buren on October 10, 1952. 06. During the 1940s to 1960s, the second ghetto is driven with tensions over housing and the dynamics of neighborhood change due to the rapid growth of black community. The lack of such a track indicates that any Western car ending its run and heading to the 77th and Vincennes barn had to start at the 79th and Western terminal, go north on Western, then turn east on 69th. These were stipulations written into deeds of sale that prohibited Black residents and non-whites from buying, leasing, or inhabiting property in a determined parcel. Back then, you could live that close to the steel mills. From the beginning, Chicagos demographic makeup was segregated by race and ethnicity along neighborhood boundaries and the physical features of the built and natural environment. South Side Chicago. This move included the expansion of popular music styles, bringing jazz to Chicago and the rest of the country. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic544.jpg (The Census Bureau didn't begin to identify "non-Hispanic whites" as a separate category until 1980, when that group accounted for . It radiates and lies south of the city's downtown area, the Chicago Loop . By the 1960s, Black residents had moved into grade B (blue) communities in the South Side, such as Roseland and Beverly. 5:17 This picture was taken on June 17, 1955 at Western and 71st. Title Building Chicagos Subways Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have created clear lines of division between racial groups. PCC 7151 is a two-man car, and passengers are boarding at the rear. Western Ave. cars had used the carbarn at 69th and Ashland until it closed. The materials include articles, correspondence, flyers, news clippings and reminisces. They were concentrated in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the North Side and are credited for pioneering the fight against displacement due to gentrification spurred by the expanding DePaul University campusa fight they lost. This is our 241st post, and we are gradually creating a body of work and an online resource for the benefit of all railfans, everywhere. The station was closed in 1952, probably just a few months before this picture was taken. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4039 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. Note the circa 1953 Cadillac at left. 4:47 Cars #1797, 1759, and 1784 at 59th Street, December 31, 1954 The neighborhood surrounding the East 63rd Street L lost more than 83 percent of its population over the next 30 years. Through a century of discriminatory strategies from the City and the real estate industry, in addition to antiquated attitudes toward Black residents and people of color, Chicago continues to be a city of neighborhoodshighly segregated neighborhoods. Potomac Edison (Hagerstown & Frederick): The original objective was to treat basic illness and to train nurses and interns. From the 1910s to the 1920s, thousands of Mexicans were recruited by industrial contractors to work seasonally in the Midwest, in some cases as strikebreakers in the steel mills. Cincinnati Street Railway: 07. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4050 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. Includes both Electroliners, standard cars, and locomotives. Join us in looking back on three swanky nightclubs from the '60s. Toledo & Eastern: https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic568.jpg The University of Illinois at Chicago's digital photo collections archive has about2,300 black-and-white scans of photos of various intersections and notable outdoor areas throughout the city from the 1920s-50s. On the northeast corner, the 1933 art deco Sears store building with its tenant, the Hillmans Pure Foods grocery store are partially obscured by the Arthur Murray sign and the one in back of it. All those seem to date between 1952 and 1954. Photo 530 is at the south end of the Vincennes Ave. private right-of-way segment at the 10800 block of Vincennes (108th St. did not go through to Vincennes, there were no intersections along Vincennes between 107th St. and 109th St.). There is no shoo-fly yet, meaning construction had not yet started on the Western Avenue bridge that would eventually go over the Congress Expressway. 17. # of Discs- 3 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 687 is at Division and Larrabee on May 17, 1954. These demarcations were shaped by racist sentiments toward Black residents and non-whites and manifested through urban planning, housing policies, discriminatory banking, and other practicesall effectively confining people from different demographic groups to certain parts of the city. These restrictive covenants were outlawed in 1948, allowing Black residents to begin to spread out beyond the Black Belt and to pursue a middle-class life in better-resourced communities. Illinois Terminal: John White/U.S. The shots of Chicago will surprise you. It would have made Chicago a much more commuter friendly city. The photos come from the Illinois Department of Transportation and appear to have been made for the Chicago Park District's Engineering Section, according to the university. The streetcar is running on the Halsted/Vincennes/111th St. line, heading northeast on Vincennes. And this photo is at 69th and Western, showing a northbound Western car turning east on 69th to head to the 77th St. barn. Geographically, it is the largest of the three Sides of the city that radiate from downtown-the other Sides of the city being the North Side and the West Side.South Side, Chicago. US-born citizens make up 85.22% of the resident pool in South Side Chicago, while non-US-born citizens account for 7.1%. In the background, you can see the viaduct which is now part of the 606 Trail. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic534.jpg 09. Chicago Youth Organize Townhall for Mayoral Candidates, Op-Ed: Chuy Garca Isnt Running as a Progressive This Mayoral Bid, Chicago Rapper 8MatikLogan Gives Himself A Second Chance, IRS Approves Federal Nonprofit Status for South Side Weekly NFP, Mayoral Debate was a Poor Night for Chicago, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Streetcar Waiting Room at Archer and Western on November 15, 1954. Look at this classic car in Rockford back in 1956. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4393 is on Western at 21st on July 6, 1950. https://chicagology.com/wp-content/themes/revolution-20/century/194063rdhalsted.jpg. Looking back at Chicago in the 1960s and the racial tensions that divided Blacks and Whites, I decided to write a book about that experience. White Flight, which I titled "Midnight Flight: One family's experience of White Flight and the racial transformation of Chicago's South Side (an online novel)" which you can read here for free . Rear View of Apartment House with Wood Staircase, South Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, April 1941. Total time: 79:30 (David Sadowski Photo). The CTA Pink Line runs there now, although there arent any stations on this segment. They were not all taken at the same time, however. After Chicagos incorporation by Yankees in 1837, European immigrants flocked to the city through the early 1900s; Irish, Jewish, Polish, German, Italian, Czech/Bohemian, Swedish, and Lithuanian immigrants among them. It is very unlikely that he will ever be able to recoup his investment, but we support his efforts at preserving this important history, and sharing it with railfans everywhere. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western-Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4262 is on 77th, by the car barn at 77th and Vincennes. 02. Baltimore Transit: (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7160, viewed from the Douglas Park L (todays Pink Line), is operating on Western at 21st on June 15, 1955. IND Subway (New York City): There are different types of segregation beyond the Black-white binary that normally, and rightfully, comes to mind. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 6154 is southbound at Halsted and Congress on October 5, 1953. Chris Goes of Goes Lithography Co. had a plant at 61st Street beside the Dan Ryan. So we're diving into that jet-setting, Mad Men time when Michigan Avenue became the "Mag Mile.". (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7123 on Western at 66th on July 9, 1950. Burned in 1980s and in what was a real mindblower, the reporter on scene actually called it an old CTA facility. The suburban bus company had two routes into Englewood one north along Western, then east on 63rd (this was the Harvey bus), the other north along Halsted St. from the south (this was the Chicago Heights bus). (Wien-Criss Archive), A CTA prewar PCC is on Western at Congress on June 11, 1956. I was born on the south side then raised in Logan Square. Pullman post-war PCCs did not disappear in one fell swoop. Length 128 pages (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 601 at Halsted, Grand, and Milwaukee on May 17, 1954. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7284 is on Western at the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on October 8, 1953. The introduction to Polk's Chicago Directory 1923 provides a brief history of Chicago directories and a list of published volumes. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7238 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on April 22, 1955. For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4208 is southbound on State Street at 64th, just a few blocks south of where car 7078 was involved in a horrific crash with a truck on May 25, 1950. The highest ratio of discriminatory acts to race-related tests occurred in the Near North Side neighborhood, where over half of the tests involved race discrimination, the Chicago Commission on Human Relations and the Chicago Lawyers Committee found. During its heyday, there was Soft Sheen Products, a $100 million-a-year. 11. It appears that the street has already been made a one-way, which did not happen until November 16, 1953. The New York Times - August 2, 1964. Appearing to rise above the L platform is the corner tower of the Sears Building, looking carefully on the enlarged view, the SEARS name can be seen. Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Re: pic508, car 4008 on Wabash Avenue. 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The first order to build rapid transit cars from PCC streetcars was in June 1953 for 150 cars; followed by a 100 car order in Feb. 1954, a 20 car order in Dec. 1954, an 80 car order in June 1955 and a 50 car order in Dec. 1955. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic530.jpg So, my best guess is this picture was taken during the summer of 1954. CHICAGO, Saturday, August 1, 1964 Four bombings this week raised to 46 the number of bomb or arson attacks on Chicago area businesses in the last 18 months. There were three subway anniversaries in 2018 in Chicago: Perhaps there was a parade on State Street that day (between 1939 and 1949 there was no State Street bridge, and this would have been the regular route for 36 then). 17:34 Car #172, February 20, 1954 as broadcast on WJEJ, February 21, 1954, with host Carroll James, Sr. A bit of detail on photos (pic571.jpg & pic572.jpg) at 71st & Western, the temporary facing crossover was installed without a corresponding crossover overhead wire. Note that the platforms have been moved to the east and no longer extend over Halsted St. What makes this picture so interesting is the road sign, Keep left of tracks. Thats because, precisely at this spot, the streetcar tracks moved off the street and onto private right-of-way between Vincennes Ave. and the main line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad. 1950. 10. An Irish mainstay, Kelly's is one of the oldest family-owned pubs in Chicago, opening just after Prohibition was repealed and the alcohol flowed freely again. #535 looks north on Halsted from the L station, this was the main crossroads of the Englewood shopping district. One day I got off at Damen and walked under the tracks to see where they went. Much of the promised housing failed to materialize, and its uncertain whether the CHA will ever build new housing for the 40,000 families currently on their waiting lists. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. ISBN 1467129380, 9781467129381 Their numbers fell off during the Depression amid intensified immigration crackdowns, according to researchers. While Chicago Housing Authority was right on target for claiming the programs of urban redevelopment, urban renewal and public housing which . Late 1950s. Disc Two But folks are also going back to the South, citing a lack of well-paying jobs and resources, as well as steady gun violence and a rising cost of living, as their main reasons for leaving the city. While the Gallaghers are said to live on Wallace Street, the house is actually located on Homan Avenue. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4096 is westbound on Madison, crossing over the Chicago River. ), Now Available On Compact Disc What I would also love to see is pictures of what the Chicago neighborhoods and its residents looked like during that specific time period. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7042, in the distance, is about to clear a temporary switch so that the car on the right can cross over to that side during track work. Southern Iowa Railway: Southside of Chicago Capital of Black America By Carla Punla Suffered its first postindustrial crisis as the meatpacking industries began to close Robert Taylor Homes was known to be the largest housing project. Chicago, city, seat of Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. With a population hovering near three million, Chicago is the state's largest and the country's third most populous city. I lived in Portland, OR for 6 years and they still have street cars. 03. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 453 and 190 are on Halsted at 63rd Place on May 21, 1954. Capital Transit: The date is June 16, 1954. A wooden Garfield Park L train is nearby, on temporary trackage. In the mid-1950s Chicago faced its first postindustrial crisis as the major meatpacking companies began to close their production facilities. . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4028 is on Western at 27th on November 20, 1955. Chance The Rapper Will Host 'Saturday Night Live' Next Month, How To Look Like Svengoolie: Sven Shows You How To Do The Makeup (VIDEO). 09. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7227 is on Western at Bross on October 15, 1954. Tom. Take a trip underground and see how Chicagos I Will spirit overcame challenges and persevered to help with the successful building of the subways that move millions. A few years later, the CHA placed a light-skinned Black woman named Betty Howard in the previously all-white Trumbull Park Homes. The South Side experienced a population shift during the move to suburbs following World War II. St. Louis Public Service: Third Avenue El (New York City): The Union Stock Yard finally closed its doors on August 1, 1971, after nearly 106 years of operation. and African Americans were also denied access to white areas by means less violent, but no less destructive. (Really! (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4027 (at left) passes a postwar car on Western at 24th on June 7, 1956. 12. Once a separate community, South Chicago began as a series of scattered Native American settlements before becoming a village. I always knew about racism growing up in the 70s, recall seeing the hippies in Old town. But the largest group of projects was the Street State corridor in the former Bronzeville Black Belt, which had a total of 7,938 units. Nob-Hill Club 5228 Lake Park Avenue 1950's Lefty Bates CD Oct. 10, 1953; Ben Webster and Miles Davis CD Dec. 5, 1953 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago 1156 E 59th Street Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts, CD Sept. 25, 1967 St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 55th and Kimbark Count Basie, CD Jan. 22, 1975 (Wien-Criss Archive), An unidentified CTA red car is on Halsted at 63rd Street on September 16, 1953. At this time, the temporary Van Buren trackage was still under construction, and this picture was taken from the Garfield Park L station, then still in use. For Shipping Elsewhere: Yusay beer stands out on a lot of the photos. Located in what used to a Buick showroom, it features a large taproom with a BYOF policy that encourages delivery. These 10 Photos of Illinois In The 1950s Are Mesmerizing Let's take a look back at some of the golden years of Illinois. Potomac Edison (Hagerstown & Frederick), Capital Transit, Altoona & Logan Valley, Shaker Heights Rapid Transit, Pennsylvania Railroad, Illinois Terminal, Baltimore Transit, Niagara St. Catharines & Toronto, St. Louis Public Transit, Queensboro Bridge, Third Avenue El, Southern Iowa Railway, IND Subway (NYC), Johnstown Traction, Cincinnati Street Railway, and the Toledo & Eastern CHA admitted they lost track of thousands of displaced people as they moved to other Black neighborhoods. Notice the Yellow cabs waiting for L passengers. Altoona & Logan Valley/Johnstown Traction: But when industrial employment dried up in the 1950s and '60s, it descended into poverty and crime. Under the Plan for Transformation, the City began to knock down the projects one by one like dominos. Englewood Hospital that served the South Side of Chicago for nearly a hundred years was founded in 1894 as Englewood Union Hospital and was located at 426 West 69th Street. Order Our New Book Building Chicagos Subways Why not mention that the Panama Ltd and the City of Miami operated there on the tracks nearest to Cottage Grove; not to mention IC freight activity and such trackage rights New York Central trains as the James Whitcomb Riley and the Twilight Ltd? Subways Since 1960 10. # of Discs 1 [/caption], RRC-OMTT Railroad Record Club Traction Rarities 1951-58 We thank him for his generosity. The sign indicates that this bridge is going to be converted to one man operation, meaning that it will be operated from only one tower instead of two. South of the large packers had disappeared basic illness and to do the sort of research. For Shipping Elsewhere: Yusay beer stands out on a lot of the Ogden. 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