Hello Natalie and John. I must say I truly enjoyed reading your comments. I lived on Edgebrook for approx. 5yrs from 77-82 during my early childhood. I too attended George M. Pullman. It’s very exciting to be able to get the perspectives from people of diffrent eras on the transition of what was truly a fun and safe place to live.
It’s funny how I came to find this site. I was simply trying to settle a bet between my wife (who lived on 112th and Indiana and graduated from Pullman and Julian High) and I. We were in Chicago this weekend and were riding through Roseland. Niether one of us could remember exactly where The theater was located. She thought it was between 113-114th, and I 117-118th. I guess she won. :) Thank you Cinema Treasures for clearing this up, lol. I could have sworn that there was a theater south of the railroad tracks on Michigan?
We live in Champaign, IL now. We both attended the University of
Illinois. She is a K-teacher and I am a General Sales Manager of large auto dealership. Anyway, I was excited to read your dialogue becasue it brought back so many fond memories for me. My wife lived there just about all her life until college (coincidentally this is where we met). Because her parents home is still there we get to visit the area often when we are in town.
Some of my fondest memories of the area, and Natalie can probably attest to this, are the Hoagy shop (Taurus Ice Cream palor on the hill), the Texas Doughnut shop (the biggest and best tasting doughnuts I have ever eaten) and Gatley’s. I remember, my friends and I would take our little pocket change and buy pomegranates( red fruit with the little red seeds). We would walk down the street happy as can be while we devoured them. After closing time Gately’s really meant a lot to us. Because the parking garage became our playground. We played tag and raced our bikes and skateboards down the ramps. We were kids and we had lots of fun.
Natalie, if you ever spent any time at the park? Then you had to be introduced to Mrs. “Grants Candy Corner”. Mrs. Grant sold all kinds of goodies from her home. She had candy, cookies, ice cups ,soda, chips, hot dogs, everthing. She was the neighborhood mom. All the kids knew and loved her. Hot pickles and pepermint sticks were my flavor of choice.
Thanks for taking me back guys. I could go on forever talking about Roseland.
Hello Natalie and John. I must say I truly enjoyed reading your comments. I lived on Edgebrook for approx. 5yrs from 77-82 during my early childhood. I too attended George M. Pullman. It’s very exciting to be able to get the perspectives from people of diffrent eras on the transition of what was truly a fun and safe place to live.
It’s funny how I came to find this site. I was simply trying to settle a bet between my wife (who lived on 112th and Indiana and graduated from Pullman and Julian High) and I. We were in Chicago this weekend and were riding through Roseland. Niether one of us could remember exactly where The theater was located. She thought it was between 113-114th, and I 117-118th. I guess she won. :) Thank you Cinema Treasures for clearing this up, lol. I could have sworn that there was a theater south of the railroad tracks on Michigan?
We live in Champaign, IL now. We both attended the University of
Illinois. She is a K-teacher and I am a General Sales Manager of large auto dealership. Anyway, I was excited to read your dialogue becasue it brought back so many fond memories for me. My wife lived there just about all her life until college (coincidentally this is where we met). Because her parents home is still there we get to visit the area often when we are in town.
Some of my fondest memories of the area, and Natalie can probably attest to this, are the Hoagy shop (Taurus Ice Cream palor on the hill), the Texas Doughnut shop (the biggest and best tasting doughnuts I have ever eaten) and Gatley’s. I remember, my friends and I would take our little pocket change and buy pomegranates( red fruit with the little red seeds). We would walk down the street happy as can be while we devoured them. After closing time Gately’s really meant a lot to us. Because the parking garage became our playground. We played tag and raced our bikes and skateboards down the ramps. We were kids and we had lots of fun.
Natalie, if you ever spent any time at the park? Then you had to be introduced to Mrs. “Grants Candy Corner”. Mrs. Grant sold all kinds of goodies from her home. She had candy, cookies, ice cups ,soda, chips, hot dogs, everthing. She was the neighborhood mom. All the kids knew and loved her. Hot pickles and pepermint sticks were my flavor of choice.
Thanks for taking me back guys. I could go on forever talking about Roseland.