I found this historic photograph from the 1970 Free Fair Carnival in Chicago's "Back of the yards" neighborhood, at the Chicago Tribune Newspaper's website http://www.chicagotribune.com/

One of My happy if now somewhat vague memory I have from My childhood when I was a little

boy growing up on the near southwest side of Chicago during the 1960's, was visiting the annual

Free Fair Carnival at West 47th Street and South Damen Avenue.

This neighborhood summer festival, was held every summer I believe in June, on a large vacant piece

of land with a baseball field, on the northwest corner of West 47th Street and South Damen Avenue.

This photograph could have possibly been taken at the final Free Fair Carnival, as I seem to recall

that the neighborhood had ceased holding this event by the early 1970's era.

Seen here, is a then popular if not huge 1970 Cadilac Coupe on display at the Free Fair. This car

may have been one of the festival's raffle prizes.

After an absense of about a decade or so, this neighborhood  festival  was revived for a couple

of years at this location, but was now known as "The Back Of The Yards Carnival. The Free Fair

days were long over, as You had to enter the fairgrounds through a gate and pay a costly admission.

By the mid 1980's, the vacant land was sold for redevelopment, and would soon become an outdoor

reatil strip mall.

Chicago's Back of the yards neighborhood was a much different place back then inthe 1960's.

Thanks.

Eddie K.