I took this photo at work one day in May of 2007.This is a picture I had taken, of a picture behind the service desk, at the Market Place on Oakton store in Skokie Illinois. (Sorry, time machines weren't invented just yet folks. Dang it!)
This photograph, is believed to have been taken at the six corners shopping district. Six corners is located in the Cragin neighborhood community on Chicago's northwest side, at the intersections of west Irving Park Road, north Milwaukee Avenue ,and north Cicero Avenue. 1920's era automobiles share the street with Chicago Surface Lines electric streetcars, in what is still a very congested Chicago shopping district today.
If anybody has any information on this photo or location, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
Eddie.
2 comments:
Hey Eddie.
This is called Whiskey Point. Grand Ave. heads off into Chicago on the right, Armitage on the left. Leclaire Ave intersects them about where the photographer was standing.
This area is named for the Whiskey Point Hotel of 1862. It was built on the point, but replaced in the 20's by Cragin State Bank seen in your photo. Today, a gyros stand is on that spot.
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Hi Tom.
Thank You for the correction. Although a few older Chicagoans I had shown this to had thought it was six corners, I personally thought this street scene wasn't wide enough to be six corners, as there is a former Wiebolts store at the intersection of Milwaukee and Irving today being remodeled into condominiums.
I drive by this "Whiskey Point" area every week at work. I will further study this and maybe submit a photo of this intersection how it looks like now.
Thank You.
Eddie.
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