Mount Greenwood

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150119/mt-greenwood/mount-greenwood-hardware-remains-closed-with-owner-trapped-by-debt

Woolworth's at 111th and Kedzie back in our day

Mount Greenwood Arch 111th and Kedzie

Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1907

Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1907.

The Dixie Highway in Illinois and Beverly / Morgan Park

The Dixie Highway was a United States automobile highway, first planned in 1914 to connect the US Midwest with the Southern United States. It was part of the National Auto Trail system, and grew out of an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final result is better understood as a network of connected paved roads, rather than one single highway. It was constructed and expanded from 1915 to 1927.

The Dixie Highway was inspired by the example of the slightly earlier Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States. The prime booster of both projects was promoter and businessman Carl G. Fisher. It was overseen by the Dixie Highway Association, and funded by a group of individuals, businesses, local governments, and states. In the early years the U.S. federal government played little role, but from the early 1920s on it provided increasing funding, until 1927, when the Dixie Highway Association was disbanded and the highway was taken over as part of the U.S. Route system, with some portions becoming state roads.

James R. Wright, author of the book, The Dixie Highway in Illinois.

The Dixie Highway was once a main thoroughfare from Chicago to Miami, and was the longest continuous paved road in Illinois when it was completed in 1921. It ran through the Beverly/Morgan Park community on what is now Western Avenue. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Highway

Happy Father's Day

How to Tell the Sex of a Fly

A MUST READ! How to Tell the Sex of a Fly This joke made us think of Dr. Don Martensen MPHS Jan 66 who studied fruitflies in graduate school in California.  He could tell the sex of the flies on the fly. A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter "What are you doing?" She asked. "Hunting Flies" He responded. "Oh. ! Killing any?" She asked. "Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied. Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell them apart?" He responded, "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."