Chicago's Last Farm
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Topic: Chicago's Last Farm
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Subject: Chicago's Last Farm
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 7:56pm
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Where I grew up. I googled a White Castle location at 111th and Halsted where Mom and Dad bought Sliders for my brother and I. There were blocks of stone at the building corners marked 5 cents. Don't remember ever buying any White Castle Burgers for a Nickel. Decided to follow 111th street west to where we farmed the South East corner of 111th and Pulaski Avenue. Glad to see it still is mostly open farm land south to 115th St Was back there just once since moving to Texas in 68
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2019 at 8:42am
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White Castle was founded in 1921 in
Wichita, Kansas. Cook Walt A. Anderson partnered with insurance and real
estate man Edgar Waldo "Billy" A. Ingram to make White Castle into a chain of restaurants and market the brand and its distinctive product. Even though they started in Wichita...don't think there are any remaining in town. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2019 at 5:10pm
 I know we have a habit of getting sidetracked  but this may be a record for how fast it happened. But carry on the both of you, have not put me sleep yet. And I think
I see the connection. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2019 at 9:50pm
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I didn't see any farm,,,,,,,,OR a White Castle......But I know where you're at!! You got out when the gettin was good Ken. There are just TOOOoooo many people around that area. Give me room, lots of room..... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2019 at 7:50am
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Ken, let me know if you ever get back to Illinois in the fall. Maybe I can take you pheasant hunting near where you used to go. Brian
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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2019 at 10:43am
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Perfect Youtube video... two guys, in cold weather camo orange, with shotguns in hand, attended close by their trusty hunting dog... slowly walking, in the wee hours of dawn on a winter Sunday, down the abandoned streets of deep urban downtown financial district... Damn, Earl... walkin' these rows, we haven't flushed out a single pheasant yet this year... ...you think it's coyotes, or 'climate change'... ?? I dunno, Ben... I sure hope deer and turkey season are better... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2019 at 11:09am
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I grew up in two Midwest owns, one has changed little(East Alton IL) except the rail service is all but gone along with most industry. The other was St. Charles MO where we were at one time the last home on a street at the NW corner of town next to the Leverenz Farm where I got salted acquiring some horse corn for other uses!! That point is now Center of town with the limits of all the surrounding small communities interconnected and unable to tell where one stops the other begins anymore. The farms that once lined the shoulders of I-70 and MO94 are all but gone lost to time and subdivisions. Problem with that is city services are outpacing revenues, the small towns are hurting for water sewer, road surface and trash pickup as well fees for fire, ambulance, police services. Scary as the latter are the first to take cuts. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2019 at 1:36am
| Carl Anderson had a farm right smack in the middle part of Chicago, he wouldn't sell it, the city kept waiting for him to die, he lived to be over 100, the city did some eminet domains and paved streets between his buildings and put a round about around his house, he stood strong! lol |