Pick Fisheries
Can't ya JUST smell it??!!
Chicago used to have (some say it still exists - but I beg to differ!) an amazing outdoor
Flea Market, called Maxwell Street. One Sunday morning, I came across a mans table- filled with bound binders filled with stacks of these Black&White images of Chicago buildings. When I asked how he came of these- and what they were/where they were from- he explained that his Father, was a Photographer, for The Citys' (maybe County) Assessors Office- and that these documented exactly "what" was at that particular address.
I guess for "Tax Purposes"?!
The photos showed a certain disregard for the people in them- but VERY clearly show what that era was all about. Sadly - I only picked thru them- buying the ones that I felt had more "interest" at that time(and also- close to a place that I used to work at)...."shoulda/Woulda/coulda"...Man- I just wish I had bought 'em
A L L!!! The fella musta had over 300 of these images, maybe a 1,000.
FYI - Pick Fisheries is still an ongoing business- supplying many of Chicago's Fine restaurants! They (Pick Fisheries) usta occupy the building above The Kennedy Expwy.- that is now "Carnivale!", right where the Hubbards Cave begins- on Fulton.
Pick Fisheries
Can't ya JUST smell it??!!
Chicago used to have (some say it still exists - but I beg to differ!) an amazing outdoor
Flea Market, called Maxwell Street. One Sunday morning, I came across a mans table- filled with bound binders filled with stacks of these Black&White images of Chicago buildings. When I asked how he came of these- and what they were/where they were from- he explained that his Father, was a Photographer, for The Citys' (maybe County) Assessors Office- and that these documented exactly "what" was at that particular address.
I guess for "Tax Purposes"?!
The photos showed a certain disregard for the people in them- but VERY clearly show what that era was all about. Sadly - I only picked thru them- buying the ones that I felt had more "interest" at that time(and also- close to a place that I used to work at)...."shoulda/Woulda/coulda"...Man- I just wish I had bought 'em
A L L!!! The fella musta had over 300 of these images, maybe a 1,000.
FYI - Pick Fisheries is still an ongoing business- supplying many of Chicago's Fine restaurants! They (Pick Fisheries) usta occupy the building above The Kennedy Expwy.- that is now "Carnivale!", right where the Hubbards Cave begins- on Fulton.