Flickr: Brule Laker's Photostream

Former Metropolitan L Bridge

View to the southeast of the bridge for the former Metropolitan L line over the Metra tracks between...

Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012

Former Metropolitan L Bridge

View to the north of the bridge for the former Metropolitan L line over the Metra tracks between W....

Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012

Commonwealth Edison Carroll Avenue Substation

The Carroll Avenue substation, designed in the Prairie Style by Herman von Holst. was completed in 1924 at 1708 W. Carroll Ave.

Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012

Commonwealth Edison Carroll Avenue Substation

The Carroll Avenue substation, designed in the Prairie Style by Herman von Holst. was completed in 1924 at 1708 W. Carroll Ave.

Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012

In the Army Now

The brothers enlisted in 1942. My father became a 1st lieutenant after OCS and was combat-exempt for...

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

She Raised Them to be Soldiers

My grandmother with my father and uncle. My father became a 1st lieutenant and was combat-exempt for...

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

The Brothers

My father was very slim in his younger days (he played on the lighweight basketball team at Hyde Park...

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

The Brothers

It's my father's turn with the paddle, Paw Paw Lake, circa 1919.

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

Paw Paw Lake

The Nachmans and Wolfsons shared a summer cottage on Paw Paw Lake in Michigan. There were...

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

The Brothers

My father watches his brother Adolph hamming it up in Paw Paw Lake, Michigan. They were five years apart.

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

Family Minus Dad

My uncle Adolph was born in 1912, five years before my father.

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

Grandma Helen

The Nordens came to Chicago from Germany in the 1880s. Helen was born in Chicago in 1888. She was an...

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

Grandpa Jim

My grandfather, Isadore, was born in Iasi, Romania, in 1885. Called Jim, he came to Chicago at the...

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

Bull Durham Ghost Sign

On the side of 2313 W. 24th St., 1883.

Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012

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2151 W. 24th Street

Small house, 1889. Entry must be in the back.

Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012

Alley and Church

The impressive St. Paul Roman Catholic Church looms in the background of the alley running north of W. 23rd Place at 2100 West.

Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012