additional Masonic Temple information.

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This photograph was taken in 1939....just before it's destruction.

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Who the hell signed off on this? What a tragedy.

What was built in its place?

I found a great book at the library called Chicago, City on the Move by Williams, Cahan and Moffat. It's 250 pages of prewar Chicago. There's some stuff I've never seen before. The ones I find most facinating are ones of transit lines being run out into flat open prarie - the very beginings of some neighborhoods. There's a picture of 79th and Cornell in 1915, and the land is just empty.

There's also some great pictures of subway construction.

The answer to that is posted right above your comment. It was a two story art moderne-esque structure that housed a Walgreen's I believe it's entire history until it was demolished very recently for the steel and glass mixed-use tower MoMo, aka Joffrey Tower.


I've been wanting to get my hands on this book since it came out a few months back. It's not carried through Amazon, so it has to be purchased at a bookshop like Prairie Avenue or checked out at the library of course. If I understand it correctly the book is an authorized publication of the photo archives of the CTA and CSL before it w/any unseen and unpublished scenes. Sounds like gold.

I did not know there was an EL in front of the Civic Opera Building! When was that torn down?

One of the greatest blunders in Chicago history. At least we have a nice building there now.

One of the best threads. Comparable to the "old pictures of new york" thread on SSC. Amazing how much Chicago has changed.

A rare photo of 1st National (now Chase) under construction in 1968.

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amazing photos.


just think, at the time those 1938 aerials were shot, the cubs hadn't won the world series for 30 years.

big deal. they were saying the same thing when God parted the waters of the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to pass through.

CONTRACTORS stink, tear down the most beautiful buildings and in there place they build black boxes silver boxes and black and sliver rectangles:hell: :hell: :hell: :hell:

:banana: wow these are amazing photos of the windy city, keep up the good work!!!:banana:

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33 N. LaSalle in 1929

^^^ Wow, the City looked a lot cleaner before the Great Depression than it did in the shots from the 40's after 11+ years of depression and war...

Old Michigan Avenue, when the Allerton was the tallest in the Water Tower area...

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The shitty Walgreens has been replaced by...

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I just posted these in the demolished thread.
I thought I'd add them here as well.


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Morrison Hotel l 46 floors l 526 ft. l 1925-1965 l R.I.P.

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