We looked closely at this street’s drastic transformation since the early 1950s, unrecognizable from the 1926 aerial photo seen above left. More than half of Wacker Drive’s major commercial buildings completed in the 1950s and 1960s have vanished, including what may be the shortest-lived majo...
6. Open House Chicago, Adam Clayton Powell School: http://www.openhousechicago.org/site/270/ (accessed June 14, 2013) 7. Ameritech Classified Telephone Directory 1988. 8. Historic Aerials of East 79th Street and South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, 2005; http://www.historicaerials.com (...
The directory described Fort Sheridan Army Airfield as having a single 2,400' paved runway,and the photo depicted a small ramp on the north side of the runway with one small building (a hangar?).The remarks said "Emergency use only."A circa 1950s photo of a Beech U-8 Twin Bonanza at...
Left:Chuckman CollectionRight:Chicago History in Postcards As with many aging Loop hotels, the enormous Sherman House Hotel was struggling by the 1950s and 60s.The Sherman House may have been “in the swinging heart of Chicago’s Loop”, but high taxes and maintenance costs, low occupancy rat...
“one of the largest establishments of its kind … fitted out with every modern appliance,” and praised its workmanship as “furnishing the very best telephone cabinets which can be produced.”2.17The early news was not all good for Churchill Cabinet, however; in the summer of 1911, a fire...