A reader of the
"Uptown Chicago History" blog made a great find. Check out this photo, that might still be available for purchase on E-Bay, of the corner of Lawrence and Broadway in 1964. Notice the tan siding was already covering the now restored Riviera building back then.
Check out UCH for one more great photo of this stretch of Broadway.
"WOW" those were really the good old days as I remember it. I sure don`t see the usual bunch of low-lifes that would be in the same pictures if taken today. These pictures really bring back the memories of when I came with my parents to shop on weekends....To bad they are gone forever other then the pictures they are in.....
ReplyDeleteAwesome - and not that long ago. Look how bustling the area was in 64. The 70's and early 80's just kicked the living daylight out of Uptown.
ReplyDeletei love the building next to the bank building... you can hardly see it but i presume it looked better than the big open space it is now... continuity of urban fabric...
ReplyDeleteThis picture pretty much destroys the theory that Uptown died during the 1950's. You can tell there are several more years of life in the Uptown streets of 1964.
ReplyDeleteWhy does it seem to be so damn important to the Shilleristas to spread propaganda that Uptown has been a dump since the late forty's and early 1950's, when it's obviously not true? I mean, who really cares?
Zesty--My family lived in and around Uptown until the early seventies, when my parents moved us out to the suburbs. (I moved back 30 years later!) It had its seedy parts, from what they tell me, but was hardly a dump. I wish I could find more pictures from that era.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks to UU for the shout out to the history blog.
Zesty, it just shows the "organic matter" their political machine runs on...
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