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Here's a contest:
That picture Ted posted, where was it taken from?

I win! From the roof of the building at the NE corner of Crescent and Main, looking NW.

So the contest becomes... what was the business in the building at the NE corner of Crescent and Main from which the picture was taken, c.1960? Hint: Yes, it used to be -- and later was -- a bank. But not when the picture was taken.

I WIN!!! I WIN!!!

It was the first Jamba Juice in the U.S.

Not so fast. I think the roof is too high for that angle. It looks more like a second story job, or maybe third, from a window. There appears to be a ledge in the lower right corner.

If that's a Mustang, then the earliest date is '63? Walgreen's had the corner shop.

Isn't that the old Hardware store in the pic? That was torn down earlier than '63, wasn't it?

I don't think that's a Mustang (the light colored car driving, not parked, in front of "Toys"?.) Not that I know what it is. ..

I don't think it's a Mustang, either. But is that an Austin-Healy behind it?

If you look closely, you'll see a bunch of Jamba Juice cups in the gutters and overflowing out of the garbage cans. So, that's where I got my answer.

New contest. Extra points for year.

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The parked car in the lower left looks like a Thunderbird. The car driving behind the pickup looks suspiciously like a Corvair (unsafe at any speed?). Could be an AH behind the Corvair, but maybe a Triumph? Would be nice to see the picture at full resolution.

Overall, it looks like maybe 1965, but the cars don't give me a real solid clue.

Was this taken with the jaywalker-cam or the "walk your bikes in downtown"-cam?

No way that picture is from the mid-60s. Its got late 50s written all over it.

Sorry to say that's the highest rez pix I have... I scanned it in from a print they had at Firstar Bank. Identified only as "c. 1960" -- I'd say give-or-take a year, at most.

I do have more from the 50's and 60's I'll get around to posting one of these days...

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Originally posted by Lionheart:
New contest. Extra points for year.

The 1st Corvair was made in '60.I'll guess #1=1959 Ford Thunderbird,#7=1960 Chevrolet Corvair,#4 might be a 1959 Chevrolet truck.The others a pretty fuzzy,maybe early '50s Piecosts or Henways.

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Let me get this straight...NONE OF YOUI HAVE ANY MEMORIES??? AT ALL???

I don't recognize any of the cars...and if it was the fifties, I wasn't born yet so I stayed out of that one.

I do remember (in the late 70's)walking from Glenbard West all the way down to the end of Crescent through town to work at the Glen Ellyn News agency. I remember passing Cee Bees Finer Foods, the Glen, Karlee Flowers, Dean Olsen's , Horsley's, Yankee Doodle... Jim Bracewell was my boss and I met alot of nice people who worked there and yes I worked with Mike who still rides his bike around town). After that job, I worked for a while at DuPage Bank & Trust at the corner of Crescent and Main. Joe D'Agostino was President of the Bank at that time and Mason's Department store was down the block a little further No on Main. Paul's Shoe Service was there and so was Hallmark. I remember having lunch at the Tea Room in the Little Shops and visiting the Banyan Tree Mall. Sears catalog store was on the corner of Pennsylvania and Main.

I also remember the start of a teen center at the Civic Center. I think a man named Gary was running the show.

I don't remember much about the South side of the tracks except that my brothers and their friends all worked at Tiffany's at one time or another. Then they all did a stint at Barone's. We all started out at 15 at the A&W on Roosevelt then graduated to Topps Big Boy. I miss the Big Boy hamburger! Flips was a cool place to hang out after swimming at the "Y"...Wolfman Jack (his look alike) managed the place.

I have alot of memories of skating at Lake Ellyn and just cruising the downtown area. The quaintness of the town remains the same only the characters have changed.

Very cool, my2cents...Although I am not from here originally, I can kind of picture what it was like back then. All kidding aside, I do think it's a firkin' great town. No place is perfect, but I really like it so far....although it'd be even better if I didn't live in GE Fan's garage

Where are you from Jen...and if I may ask, what age bracket do you fall into...20-30, 30-35, 36-40, over 40? I get the impression you may be around 30...but then again I thought GEFan was around 40-45...but low and behold he just got his braces off.

Topps! Anybody remember the gearheads rolling thru with the 60s hot rods [high priced muscle cars now].Yes ,it was in the 60s and I met Mrs A there.

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but then again I thought GEFan was around 40-45...but low and behold he just got his braces off.

Yes! Probably because of my well thought out, probing and intellectually stimulating posts!

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Where are you from Jen...and if I may ask, what age bracket do you fall into...20-30, 30-35, 36-40, over 40? I get the impression you may be around 30.

Good guess my2cents...31 actually. I'm from the south side originally - Beverly area. And you?

Jen..you are a Beverly girl eh? Is it Beverly or Evergreen Park? What parish?

Nevertheless, I should have known by your sence of humor.

We probably have several mutual friends....

Actually, I am also a Southsider...100th St and Torrence Avenue in Jeffrey neighborhood. Not far from where Speck killed all those nurses (that was a typical south side claim to fame back then). My family moved out in 1970 and we stayed on the Southeast side at 114th and Avenue "O" for 6 months with my grandmother until my parents found that place called Glen Ellyn way out west. They thought Elmhurst was as far as they would go, but the realtor talked them into something a little further west. This was a bold move since all our neighbors, friends and family migrated South to Hegwisch, Lansing, Glenwood, Dolton, etc. We moved in in 1971 during a terrific snowstorm, topped off by a "100 year" flood later that summer. (There was another "100 year" flood a few years later.) We went to Glen Ellyn Junior High (the middle schools didn't exist yet).

I like Glen Ellyn alot and often brag about the downtown area to friends and family...with places like the Firkin, who wouldn't.

GEFan you are priceless and your posts and cyber friendships have grown tenfold...if you are a south sider also, I take back everything I've said about ya'!

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Jen..you are a Beverly girl eh? Is it Beverly or Evergreen Park? What parish?

Hopefully not Steffie...LOL! Wow! I had no idea the Fan was a south sider. Grew up in EP - Holy Redeemer. It's so funny how south side is defined on a parish by parish basis. Most recently I was in St. John Fisher parish in Beverly...in my pre-GE days. What parish is the Fan from?