What's The Worst That Could Happen?

[Rick A]

How do they perform maintenance on the machinery when they are all running on the same ceiling shaft? Do you have to shut down the whole floor if a belt needs changing or slips off? I'd bet maintenance could be more dangerous than operation.

No, there's enough slack in the leather belts that you can restrap the pulleys and stitch the belt while it's running. To engage the machine you kick in the idler wheel to take the slack out and power the machine. One of my duties in the millwork shop I worked in.

[Tin Can]

Do you remember the Drive In Theater and Bell and Howell before the Mall

A friend remembered Skokie mud roads

Elliots Pine Lodge

and did you watch Deep Tunnel be made, the Sculpture Garden

The Movie 'Thief' blew up a house in Lincolnwood, aka Mafia central

I lived and/or worked in Skokie from 1973

Yep. But now it is called “DRiV”. I go past frequently going from Chicago to Evanston on McCormick.

[r_a_feldman]

Do you remember the Drive In Theater and Bell and Howell before the Mall

Before my time. My father was born in Chicago in 1913, but I grew up elsewhere and moved to Chicago in 1976 to work at the Field Museum. Lived in Wrigleyville until 1986, then moved northwest to Bryn Mawr/Kimball area, where I still live. My memories of McCormick Blvd are more U.S. Robotics (modems and Palm Pilot). It’s also too bad the Kline Tools moved away and that factory was torn down.

and did you watch Deep Tunnel be made, the Sculpture Garden

Deep Tunnel, yes. The Sculpture Garden is all ripped up now to install new ~2’ waste piping to/from the MWRD facility on Howard.

[Tin Can]

On nice nights, I would picnic and short nap in the clean grass as break from work at the factory

Just North is a spot for rowers and small boats to get in the river

Some would go North and some all the way to the Loop

I love the cheap Water Taxi downtown, shot this from Water Taxi

Water Taxi by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr