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Yup. The police station was in the old village hall on Pennsylvania, which was just to the west of the old fire station, which was just west of the present fire station. The buildings still stand.
Posts: 1342 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL USA | Registered: March 21, 2003
Wasn't one of those buildings (now fire department?) the high school? Jr. High? for boys?
How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
The big (former) bank building on the NW corner of Main & Crescent housed the original high school on the 2nd floor before the castle-on-the-hill was built some 80+ years ago. Might that be what you're thinking of?
Posts: 1342 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL USA | Registered: March 21, 2003
Sorry, doesn't ring a bell. (But then I left G.E. in June of '62.) Sounds like a woman's clothing store? Although my (now) wife doesn't recognize the name either, and she was here through '66. —Ted E.
Posts: 1342 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL USA | Registered: March 21, 2003
I remember someone telling me that Jr Village was at one time in the Klein's home on the south side of Crescent almost to the river. However, I only lived here when it was on Geneva Rd.
Originally posted by Gus: OK, was your "vintage" or so. Great guy.
Do you remember the dirt oval behind the McDonalds where everyone brought their motorcycles and cars and raced around, with or without helmets, mostly? What a riot, an insurance nightmare and an ambulance chasing attorney's dream but boy did we have fun! It was carved out of mother earth where the links currently sits.
The last thing I remember about the Aurora & Elgin Railway was a metal attachment to one of the rails. I was just a little kid then and I had no knowledge of exactly what it was, but if I had to give a name to it I would call it a de-railer. The trains had long since stopped running, in fact I have no memory of the A&E trains. With this device on the tracks, nothing was going to run on them.
Posts: 105 | Location: Now in CA | Registered: April 07, 2003
Yes, something very similar to that. I tried googling derailer to find an image, but even when I included railroad I still got bicycles. What's that called and what does it do and why?
Posts: 105 | Location: Now in CA | Registered: April 07, 2003
How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
