1902 Chicago Tribune
8x11 Lithograph Inserts
via Ebay
doll cut-outs - Ebay image
part of my private collection
... also located at 1800 W Fullerton Avenue
Apparently their administrative/storage buildings were located on Racine Avenue
the plant on Fullerton Ave

image - 1950 Sanborn Fire Map
Rutter Coal Company
property was north & south of Belmont
matchbook - part of my collection
a 1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
images - Ebay

image - Ebay
a 1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the location
Rutters Coal near Belmont and again at School Street
and its products ...
image - Blue book of Commerce 1940
image - Chicago's Sweet Candy History
1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map - X marks the spots
the buildings were located on both sides of Fletcher Avenue

photo - Chicago Switching
images - Ebay
below image - Ebay
Some Testimonials - LakeView Historical
Curtiss Candies Lake View's Own
image - Official Referance Book 1922 1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map below
images above - Chicago Sweet Candy Factory
their various & earliest products
images - Ebay
one of the favorite products
image - Craig Lost Chicago
their office building on Diversey/Broadway
1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
an invoice from the main office on Diversey/Broadway
This invoice is part of my collection
Their office location was on northeast corner of Diversey and Broadway within their own building that was simply called the Curtiss Building according to this 1950 Sanborn Fire Map
with another location on Belmont/Seminary. More than likely the location was a warehouse as well as the main office.
Their letterhead stationary - part of my collection
zoomed view of the address
4 images - Ebay
The warehouse location was at 3636 N Broadway
a window display that indicates the location on Broadway
The display is part of my collection
Advertisements:
1933
1943
1947

1962
established in 1893?
Lake View's Own
1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map once located along the Evanson branch of Chicago Milwaukee RR
photos by Ebay
patties candy jar and across the tracks ...
photo - Layman Guide to Beer
1923 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
zoomed belowThis building listed in the National Registry of Historical Places as of 1987. Several brewers operated in these building(s) from 1885 either as a beer producing plant or brewery until its demise in 1961. This historical building is located at 1315-1317 West Fletcher within the Belmont & Sheffield area of Lake View. Why is this a landmark - Chicago's initial growing dominance in brewing beer.
a sample of their products
images - Ebay

photo - Garry Albrecht
photo - Garry Albrecht
photo - via Christopher Brandt,Forgotten Chicago-Facebook
photo - via Christopher Brandt,Forgotten Chicago-Facebook
”Chicago is the most important railroad center in North America. More lines of track radiate in more directions from Chicago than from any other city. Chicago has long been the most important interchange point for freight traffic between the nation's major railroads.” - Encyclopedia of Chicago
One such railroad was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company - Evanston Branch that had its beginnings in 1872 twenty-eight years before commuter elevated tracks were built by the North Western Company (Redline and Brownline). The CM&P delivered freight to and from Chicago manufacturers that once included Lake View. Lake View in the 19th and mid - 20th centuries was referred to as a blue collar manufacturing area that included coal yards, metal works, meat storage warehouses, greenhouses and a well-known Chicago brewery.
a 1923 Sanborn Fire Map view
part of my personal collection
The Best Brewing Company of Chicago was located along the CM&P so to economically transport their product to market. The building was originally owned by breweries Klockgeter & Company in 1885 and then Kagebein & Folstaff one year later. The buildings occupants were many but all related to brewing beer. Their beer products of this company were the ‘Hapsburg Bock’ (1933-1962), ‘Hapsburg Beer’ (1933-1962), and ‘Best Ale’ (1937-1962). Currently, the building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and used for residential space. Most of the buildings of the former manufacturing area are physically gone but not completely forgotten thanks to Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Google maps of its day) that were created in the 19th century for primarily for property insurance, fire protection.
Lakewood has a tree and shrub barrier at this point
photo - Garry Albrecht
View north of the barrier on Barry Avenue
photo - Garry Albrecht
crumbling of the street due to the covering of the tracks
photo - Garry Albrecht
tracks are on the left of the map below
Tracks begin to appear as late as 2012
- view north and south on Diversey Parkway
photos - Garry Albrecht
a candy company in
Community of Lincoln Park
established in the District of Lake View
1914-2007
photos - Ebay
photo - Ebay
photo - Chicago: ChiTown/My Town-Facebook
images - Ebay
C&E heading towards Peerless Confection - 2000
photo - Chicago Switching
their tin of candies - Ebay
The most popular company along its route was
Peerless Candies once located at Lakewood and Schubert in Lincoln Park along with Finkl Steel once located further south. Read and view more about the Evanston Branch that link downtown Chicago with the Township of Evanston that was routed geographical though old Lake View with this link.
1906 photo - Chuckman Collection and
bottle caps - Ebay
6-50 One Gallon Cream Can for Butter Fat - Ebay image
Thomas Moulding Brick Co
and
Zipf Brothers Coal Company
J.C. Deagan Railroad Dining Car Chimes
from Lionel Train Locomotive
4 images - Ebay
a 1962 ad below
image from Ebay
photo from Ebay
image - Western Trade Journal 1928
This company provided an electrical [metal] tonearm that sat on the cabinet of
wind-up record players that allowed sound to be transferred to
a volume control and then was connected to a table radio with an adapter that
slipped between the detector tube and base of the radio.
Shipman & Ward Manufacturing
manufacturer of Underwood typewriters
Schweitzer & Conrad. Inc.
and some unrecognizable or unknown manufacturers
and Lincoln-Boyle Ice
their Ravenswood Plant - storage
image - Ebay
Manufacturer of bakery equipment, commercial use
dish-washing machine parts, food & beverage dispensing equipment, cookware
& kitchen tools, tabletop & serving equipment, and restaurant
furniture.
The Dartnell Corporation was one of the earliest
companies to deliver easy-to-access business training for salespersons
J. Milhenning & Company
engravers for jewelry
text - Metal Industry 1922
Cummings Perforator Company
producer of 'cancel' machines for checks
Holmes Electrical Manufacturing
(based in New York)
and
Barco Manufacturing Company
Portable gasoline hammer; plug valves; flexible ball
joints; car connections; swivel joints; 3V type engine tender connections for
steam, air, oil and water;
valves and joints for direct steaming systems
images below from Ebay
N. A. Strand Company
producer of wood making machinery
manufacturer of commercial, vehicle & industrial
hardware
photos - Made in Chicago Museum
McDonald Ledger & Loose Leaf Company
and
Drying Systems
a producer of the dye method machinary
images - Ebay
photos - Made in Chicago Museum
Chicago had emerged as a major wholesale lumber market
shortly after the Civil War in the 1860's because it possessed a number of
natural and man-made advantages. Because it was located on Lake Michigan, it
could receive raw material by boat from the region's teeming forests. In
Chicago, the lumber would be milled and then delivered by train to the major
eastern cities, as well as to Minneapolis and the Dakotas and as far west as
Denver. As the railroad expanded into the treeless prairie states,
the Chicago lumbermen were able to serve these growing populations with the building
materials they needed. Trainloads of Chicago lumber were also delivered to such
growing Texas cities as San Antonio and Houston. While Mr. Hines served his
apprenticeship at Martin Company, there were approximately 125 lumberyards in
Chicago, most of which were involved in the wholesale shipping business. As a
result of its lake location and excellent railroad facilities, Chicago became
the largest lumber receiving and shipping center of the world.
and
with a sample below
headquarter in Proctor, Vermont
manufacturer of equipment for stone-cutting
providers of homeopathic treatment
a group of 'no-name' companies near Rosehill Cemetery
Quality Hardware & Machine Company
an atomic weapons employer
located near Rosehill Cemetery
In 1944, Quality Hardware had a contract to support the
University of Chicago. The company canned experimental non-bonded uranium slugs and may have canned all of the slugs used in the Hanford reactors during World War II.
no companies shown along this segment of RR
this map only highlights St. Henry's church & graveyard as well as the adjacent Holy Angel Guardian Orphanage
no manufactures shown - Devon Avenue northern border of the old township/city and District of Lake View
Other Companies of Interest
another company located along a railway
Once located at 3701 N East Ravenswood Avenue between 1950 - at this location; until 1992 in Niles Illinois.This company produce electric instrument panels, dial scales - tuning controls & knobs for radio's. Apparently, the company tired to make a market in the defense industry during the Korean War (1950-53) per this brochure ... (from Ebay)

A pinball company 1932 - 1977
a division of Chicago Dynamic Industries
Crazy Ball 1948
Once located in Chicago, Illinois, the center of the pinball and arcade game industry since the early days of the coin operated amusement industry. The Chicago Coin was formed in 1931 by partners Sam Gensburg, Lou Koren and Sam Wolberg. Chicago Coin, more so than its main competitors, tended to be a general purpose arcade amusement company. The company made products such as shuffle bowling games, electro-mechanical car driving games.

image - Pinterest
a postcard mailer - Ebay
Around-the-World Trainer 1955 - Ebay
all images above - Ebay 1972 pinballs
was located at 1725 W Diversey Parkway
photo - Craig's Lost Chicago
Flipper Unit Brackets for their machines - Ebay
all images above - Ebay unknown date
'In 1973 Chicago Coin attempted to get in on the Pong craze by releasing 2 arcade game consoles; TV Football & Hockey. The company manufactured a unique arcade video game item in 1975 called Super Flipper, which was essentially a video game simulation of pinball with a display monitor housed in a miniature pinball cabinet. In spite of these efforts, Chicago Coin was in financial trouble, by 1977 the company's assets were sold.' - Wikipedia

postcard - Chicago History in Postcards
'In 1909, when Congress passed the new Payne-Aldrich tariff—imposing an import duty on all view cards coming in from Germany—the American printing houses all celebrated their good fortune. Only one, however, was truly in prime position to fill the production gap that the Germans were leaving behind. “It takes one to know one,” as they say, and nobody knew the latest German printing methods quite like Curt Teich.Teich’s increasingly eye-catching designs and growing fleet of offset presses (soon able to print 100+ cards on one sheet and roughly 500,000 cards per day, per machine) sent his business blazing into the 1910’s. A team of 10 print shop workers back in 1901 had grown to 80 by 1906, and 190 by 1911, when the company purchased an expansive new headquarters at 1745 W. Irving Park Road. Many of the employees making the move to the new building were fellow German immigrants and uniquely trained artists, specializing in photolithography, as well as drawing and retouching.

The decision was made to
invest in several new high-speed, offset rotary presses—massive machines that
could rapidly print 32 different card designs, in full color, on one sheet. As
an added wrinkle, Curt also devised a cost-saving hybrid method that was
inspired by German trends, but still uniquely his own. It essentially involved
combining traditional letterpress printing (with a black halftone base) and
offset lithography, which could overprint four-color inks. When the “golden age” of
postcards ended, i.e., when the initial bubble burst on sales slowed just
before World War I, hundreds of publishers either folded or counted their
losses and moved along to the next trend. Curt Teich & Company was one of
the exceptions; not only surviving, but thriving. Yes, machining and technical
prowess had played a large part in the firm’s emergence as the standard-bearers
for the trade, but mass production only mattered if you also had the orders to
fill, and Teich mobilized client acquisition better than anyone else.

By the 1910’s, Curt Teich
& Company was producing about 150 million postcards annually, a large
percentage of which were being purchased at so-called “five and dime” stores,
such as F. W. Woolworth, where racks of local interest cards were routinely
picked over and restocked. Teich saw this development early on, and became an
exclusive supplier to Woolworth and other similar retailers. “One of the important
things about the Teich company is that they printed whatever came through their
doors,” says Katherine Hamilton-Smith, who presided over the Teich postcard
archives when they were housed at the Lake County Discovery Museum [they have
since moved to Chicago’s Newberry Library]
– Excerpt from an article published
by Made in Chicago Museum
both postcards - Chuckman Collection

The Curt Teich & Company, Inc. building is of heavy timber and masonry loft industrial structure. It consists of an original three story (west) section and a five story (east) addition. The building is located on the southeast corner of Irving Park Road and East Ravenswood Avenue, along the industrial corridor next to the railroad tracks in the neighborhood known at the time as Ravenswood. Listed on the National Registry of Historical Places since 1990. Per the Registry, ' The Curt Teich and Company, Inc. building is a heavy
timber and masonry loft industrial structure. It consists of an original
three story (west) section and a five story (east) addition.' The building is
located on the southeast corner of Irving Park Road and East Ravenswood,
along the light industrial corridor next to the railroad tracks in the
neighborhood known as Ravenswood. The building faces north on Irving Park
Road. It was known as the world's largest volume printer that manufactured postcards. The company operated from 1898 to 1978. In fact, most of all of the postcard images in this blog are from this manufacturer and collected from various collections such as Chuckman Collection, Chicago History in Postcards, and Ebay. Read more about their world-known postcards with this link.


the company before at the same location - images - Ebay
'The earlier west section [of the building] sets on property purchased by James McDonald about 1891 and built a second plant?? -
produce loose-leaf ledgers. It was then purchased by Curt Teich in 1910. Though the exact date and the architect of this building are unknown, it bears resemblance to the Dearborn Street station at Polk and Dearborn, built in 1885 and designed by architect Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz. It is built of red pressed brick in a Romanesque design.' - National Register Nominations For Chicago
page 2
images - Ebay
tri-image postcard with a linen surface
from Hip Postcard
From the 1920's to the 1940's, Curt Teich & Co., the company that originally occupied this northside address, churned out more postcards than any other printer in the world. Over its 80-year history, the company produced cards featuring more than 10,000 towns and cities in North America and 87 foreign countries. According the publication 'Hidden History of Ravenswood & Lake View' by Patrick Butler
(p 116) "salespeople would take pictures of local landmarks or businesses and try to get those businesses to order postcards to promote the local attractions".
Welcome to Chicago
part of my collection
a 1910 Booklet

images - Ebay
Stationary - part of my collection
photo of Postcard Place - Wikimapia
The location of the building is on the corner of Irving Park Road and Ravenswood Street. Currently, the building houses residences and is now called Postcard Place as of 1996.
The finest mallet percussion instruments
ever created in the United States
J.C. Deagan succeeded in transforming the rough pieces of metal into a set of perfectly tuned bells which soon became standard orchestra equipment. He began to manufacture these bells in 1880. Later he developed many other musical instruments, including the xylophone, organ chimes, aluminum chimes, aluminum harp, Swiss hand-bells, and orchestra bells. The marimba he developed from a novelty from the jungle into an accepted musical instrument.
from Chuckman Collection
photos - Century Mallet Instrumental Service

Watch a video about their instruments
Manufacturers of
Southeast Ravenswood Community 1950
from Irving Park Road to Belle Plaine
The Manz Corporation
once an engraving business
now owned by Hayes Properties
Sample of their products
images from Ebay
from Belle Plaine to Berteau Avenue
once created weight & recording systems
Per Wikipedia, a ‘watchclock’ is a mechanical clock used
by security guards as part of their Guard tour patrol system which require
regular patrols. The most commonly used form was the mechanical clock systems
that required a key for manual punching of a number to a strip of paper inside
with the time pre-printed on it. (photoS below from Ebay)
from Berteau Avenue to Cullom
Pacific Flush Tank Company
a sewage and treatment company
image - Stor
Cullom to Montrose Avenue
F.W. Steward Manufacturing Company
image - Popular Science
photo - Antique Fans Collectors Association
all images - 'Everything But The House'
Union Linen Supply Company
image - State of Illinois Biennial Report of 1912
While the company no longer exists the building as of 2019 still stands and remembered on its red brick exterior
2018 Google Earth view
2018 Google Maps view
a 1928 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map view
with a zoomed view of the building below
located Belmont Avenue since 1902

photos - Yo Chicago
2018 Google view east of tracks
'Among the dozen or more binderies of the day, his alone survives, at 1751 W. Belmont Ave., where the bindery's success over 128 years stands as a monument to shrewd adaptation to changing times.'
a sample of their craftsmanship
images - Elston Press
'The Decameron' printed in 1887 - Ebay
Founder died in 1936
an article in 1984
(click on segment of this article to enlarge)
Read more from this 2007 article online and
Charles A. Hohmeier Lumber Company
1705-39 W Belmont Avenue/at Paulina
This company was established before
Lake View became a township
location in 1923 above
advertisement postcard below
THE NON-MANUFACTURE INDUSTRIES:
The Greenhouses & Hothouses
of the Township/City of Lake View
Greenhouses and hothouses were used for growing fruits,
vegetables and floral plants/flowers.
Budlong Pickle Works
est. in Jefferson Township
1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
Chicago Neighborhoods & Suburbs: A Historical Guide
This 1894 Sanborn Fire Map shows the location of the
Beginning in the mid 19th century ‘truck farms', a term used for the transportation of farm produce to market, were mostly owned and operated by German speaking folks, called Luxembourgers who used the historically regarded first settler of Lake View Township, Dr. Conrad Sulzer, business practices. The truck farmers would drive their product in horse-drawn wagons down the Old Little Fort Road known today as Lincoln Avenue to City of Chicago. Celery was the chief crop with pickles as important. This crop gained such broad distribution throughout the Midwest and East Coast, the legend is told, that local growers proudly called the area the nation's celery capital. The most well known if not the most successful of the greenhouses and hothouses of the this area was the J.A. Budlong Company located in Jefferson township community of Bowmanville with the boarding house and plant office located on Lincoln Avenue north of North 59th (Foster Avenue) blocks west of Western Avenue. (Western was the border of Jefferson and Lake View Townships)






The Budlong Brothers opened a successful pickle factory in 1857 and expanded into the commercial flower business with the opening of Budlong greenhouses in 1880. The farms were noted not only for pickles but for cucumbers and onions. They are regarded by locals as the original guardians of Budlong Woods as well as Bowmanville community.
The Chicago Daily News 1903 article below highlights the farms features and its workers as well as a Native American burial sight located in that area
According to Jennifer Sherman Yonesawa via Living History of Illinois and Chicago-Facebook "the Budlong Pickle Company began in the late 1800’s on a 500-acre
farm around the area that is now Foster between California and Western. The
area is still known as Budlong Woods. In 1908 it was sold to my aunt’s family.
When her father, George Hathaway retired in the late 1950’s he sold the company
and it was eventually absorbed by Dean Foods."
Below is a Chicago Tribune article about school revisiting their namesake and honoring a man who was
one of the first to settle in the area.
Lynn Budlong: A Memory in 1965
page 2
The Albert Fuchs Greenhouses
Lake View
This 1894 Sanborn Fire Map depicts the location of one of his properties on Halsted Street
Rokeby = Fremont
This 1894 Sanborn Fire Map depicts the location of one of his properties on Evanston (Broadway) Avenue between Addison and Waveland Avenues
Mr. Fuch was noted for his prized Cycas revoluta
The American Florist: A Weekly Journal for the Trade in 1900
Fuch would replace his greenhouses
with flats (apartments) called the Chateau
and created a theater of the same name on Grace at Halsted Street. The article below highlights this fact.
George Wittbold & Company
Lake View
greenhouse and nursery
with a Buckingham Place Shop
an advertisement that appeared in the
1931 Lake View Yearbook
text - Directories of Director in the City of Chicago 1902
- The Tales of a Traveler:Reminiscences & Reflections 1916
George Wittbold arrived in Chicago in 1857 on the heels of Dr. Conrad Sulzer, the grandfather of Lake View Township and at the same time of J.A. Budlong. George Wittbold was apparently the former gardener of King that governed the Principality of Hanover (Germany), King Ernest Augustus who died in 1851. Upon Mr. Wittbold's arrival the rural German population in the township were general known as farmers or commercial gardeners. He followed suite and later would create a multi-generational business that would last well into the 20th century by adding a nursery/retail shop on Buckingham Place. Wittbold & Company grew tropical plants that included ferns and palms as wells as roses and chrysanthemums in the family greenhouses located on the corner of Halsted and School (Aldine) Streets. The family business would sell their product in their store located in the pre-1909 address of 1657-59 Buckingham Place (745 West Buckingham) currently luxury condos.

The Buckingham Place building was renovated from a storefront to condo units during the 1990's. I remember the store as an expanse, independent floral store when I moved to LakeView in 1993 as highlighted in the article below.
(click on article to enlarge)
Most of the earliest greenhouse were located near cemeteries of the old township much like J.A Budlong properties near Rose Hill Cemetery.
The Sanborn Fire Maps of 1894 highlights most of them located in the newly formed district of Lake View in Chicago.
Greenhouses
Near Rosehill Cemetery
Front = Ravenswood Avenue
Armin Avenue = Thorndale Avenue
Commercial = Ashland Avenue
Cemetery Road = West Rosehill Drive
1894 Sanborn Fire Map
Ridge Road = Bowmanville Avenue
1894 Sanborn Fire Map
Ridge Road = Bowmanville Avenue
1894 Sanborn Fire Map depicting hothouses
Ridge Avenue = North Ridge Boulevard
Pratt = West Pratt Boulevard
Other Greenhouses
Further South
1894 Sanborn Fire Map depicting Chicago & Evanston RR tracks for easy transport to market
Evanston = Broadway Avenue
1894 Sanborn Fire Map depicting a location at top of image
Commercial = Hermitage Avenue
1894 Sanborn Fire Map
(Perry = Greenview Avenue)
(Cosgrove = Warner Avenue)
Below is a 1894 Sanborn Fire Map
(Dunning = Altgeld Avenue)
The Clay Pits, Ice Ponds, & Brickyards
First, The Clay Pits
‘Fired clay brick’ is a type of brick that has been used as a primary building material before the United States became an independent nation. Clay and shale are the important ingredients in the manufacturer of bricks and are dug original from earth pits then fired in a kiln at up to 2,000 degrees. By going through a chemical-transforming, verification process in the kiln, the minerals in the clay/shale unit fuse together and become a material that looks great, lasts an incredibly long time and needs practically no maintenance. With its modular-unit size dimensions and built-in design flexibility, brick has always been a material of choice for this country's residential and commercial structures.
- text fromThe Brick Industry Association, edited
‘Clay pavers’ are another type of clay brick that have been used in the United States since colonial times. A company called Indianapolis Motor Speedway installed over three million clay paver's in 1910-1911, and they are still residing under the asphalt surface of many urban areas.
The Ice Ponds & Clay Pits
once 'brick' manufacturing locations
The ice ponds were sold off to ice companies that cut the ice for consumer 'ice boxes' - a precursor to refrigerators
Where a majority of the ponds were located
per this 1887 Sanborn Fire Map south of Diversey
When clay pits satisfied or nearly satisfied their usefulness, most often, the earth pits would be allowed by the owners to be filled-in with water (naturally?) so that an ice pond would be created for winter fun. But as the articles below indicate the summer months tell a different and much less fun story of the unhealthy conditions of the pits when the brick manufacturers abandoned the useless pits. The article mentions that the pits were allowed to filled with garbage and other waste products in the humid and hot summer months some of the pits located near schools. Some of the pits would be covered during the summer months the odor was repugnant to bare.The Chicago Tribune article below is dated June 17, 1892.
map 1
map 2
below is a zoomed view of the above map
map 3
the building on the lower right is Prescott School
map 4
Below is a short history of the clay pits and its relationship to manufacturing of bricks from Lake View Saga 1837-1985
Death Pits & Health Issue in 1892
An Ice Pond on Nelson Avenue
The Clay Pits on Paulina
with another view from 1887
The Clay Pits on Perry (Greenview)
along with their kiln storage sheds
The Ice Ponds on Clybourn
with their kiln & sheds
The Ice Ponds on Wrightwood Avenue
(Wrightwood Playground)
continues from above map
The Ice Pond and Clay Pit
at Belmont & Robey (Damen Avenue)
The Ice Pond along the Chicago River
as early as 1887
The Clay Pits at Western & Grace
with kiln, kiln sheds and drying racks
The Clay Pits on Western & Warner
kiln, kiln sheds, drying racks
The Brick Yards
The making the bricks types of kiln design
Labor Troubles in 1884
The Tools of the Trade
The tools used to remove ice blocks from the ice ponds to be stored in the precursor to electric refrigerators - ice boxes
2 images - Ebay
All the green/hot houses and clay pits/ice ponds have been replaced by dwellings that mirrored the technologies and/or usefulness of an era that is now mostly forgotten.
This post reminds the reader/viewer what once was in our neighborhood area. When you walk down a street shown above ... pause and remember with some regret for these pits could have been natural reservoirs or lagoons.
When you can't fool with Mother Nature
before the Big Tunnel in the 1970's by Lance Grey
"Interesting how they took advantage of the ancient lake beds in the swath from Fullerton to Belmont. - Not only for brickyards, but in the Winter months for small artificial Lakes centered near today's Wrightwood Park, to build Ice Houses & Kilns (per Chas. Rasscher 1887 maps) - And the role the clay plays in recurring flooding problems in the area- as experienced near this Quonset Warehouse known as Majestic Screw & Bolt where I worked in the '70’s just south of Diversey on Greenview. [Shown in a May-1955 photo]"
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