Monday, March 16, 2009

Where South Olden Avenue Meets Hamilton Avenue, Villa Park



Where South Olden Avenue meets Hamilton Avenue, Villa
Park. I enjoy good street scene pictures:)
Places we walked or rode by in days long ago:)

7 comments:

SJBill said...

If you pan to the hard right, was there not the Olden Theater and Maruca's Tomato Pies?

Anonymous said...

Bill: The building on the corner if I'm right is Rittman's Bar and to the right was a liquor store, than Tracy's 5 & 10. The Olden Theater and Maruca's was further down Olden between Greenwood and E.State. St.

Anonymous said...

OOPS, wrong side of the street, Rittman's across the street on left side of photo. Sorry.

Tom Pass said...

Greenwood Theater around the corner at Cuyler and Greenwood Aves. Marucas and Olden Theater was two blocks up on Olden Ave.

Anonymous said...

SJBill...Joe Z (punk kid) is too young to remember the duck-pin bowling alley over top of Maruca's. Do you remember?

SJBill said...

Yes I do, though I never bowled there.

I did set pins for a dime a game at Heils, though. Rolled a games there, at Curtis Lanes on S. Warren St., White Horse Lanes before they grew huge.

Wasn't there a single bowling alley inside the Aurora Club?

JoeZ said...

Barb P and SJBill, Punk Kid Barb P?
LOL. I really don't recall the bowling alley on top of Maruca's, but do you remember bowling at the Polish Falcons Club on Olden, use to set the pins by hand only 4 lanes.