Global magazine - Time Out list with Chicago RANKED HIGHLY. Among the BEST IN THE WORLD.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by edsg25

no doubt in your Red Flyer Classic that has been lovingly refurbished to its 1950s form, the same way your Corvette and T-Bird were.

I was still in love with Mavis Brown

That was the night Hank Williams came to town

[DavePa]

Originally Posted by edsg25

no doubt in your Red Flyer Classic that has been lovingly refurbished to its 1950s form, the same way your Corvette and T-Bird were.

Awww the Red Flyer Wagon. A Chicago classic.

My first full time job in Chicago was a Radio Steele & Mcg Co (is name then) 6515 West Grand Avenue

They recently renovated the old manufacturing facility it continues to maintain as its headquarters. It was a assembly line style assembly. The founder as a Italian immigrant had Italian immigrants (old Italian men then) as its workers for much of its history. They made wheel barrows then too. Sears its biggest customer then .... Till the 70s bought minority hiring minimums that had all new hires then being minories, but for me. A Greek worker friend of my Aunt got me hired. I just turned 18 and only a few months in Chicago.

Was a Union Company and had the best in-house full breakfast kitchen where employees had 20-minute breaks for breakfast (was 15 but 20 was allowed).

Good money for a 18-year old then late 70s very early 80s. But 80s recessions had me laid off. Of course all manufacturing is in China now. I worked on the line stenciling the white-painted lettering onto the small steel wagons .....

But at least the old faculty was kept and houses its headquarters, a toy testing room, a mini museum and prototype shop.

Its exterior on streetview with a giant red flyer wagon outside.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/65...!4d-87.7893986

[Master Jay]

DavePa, what an awesome story. Thank you for sharing! I'll bet those were the days!!- Master Jay in Milwaukee

[the topper]

L.A is the best city in the world, not Chicago in my book.

[prhill]

Originally Posted by the topper

L.A is the best city in the world, not Chicago in my book.

According to people I have met who have lived or been to LA it is not even a city but just a large suburb.

[personone]

Originally Posted by the topper

L.A is the best city in the world, not Chicago in my book.

Not true. Chicago ranks way higher than LA. Chicago is definitely not the best city in the world, but is better than LA.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by prhill

According to people I have met who have lived or been to LA it is not even a city but just a large suburb.

Maybe. But it is metropolis on steriods compared to San Jose which is, I believe an LA suburb. Or is it of San Francisco? Nope. I think it is actually a suburb of Palo Alto. Where Stanford got this whole Silicon Valley thing going.

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[the topper]

Originally Posted by edsg25

Maybe. But it is metropolis on steriods compared to San Jose which is, I believe an LA suburb. Or is it of San Francisco? Nope. I think it is actually a suburb of Palo Alto. Where Stanford got this whole Silicon Valley thing going.

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Correction: P.A. is a suburb of SJ