Another Tuesday, another snow storm.

     Main and Curtiss and snow and slush.

In 1907 a little girl sent this postcard to a friend. She told a dumb joke in her communication. It still makes me chuckle every time I read it.

As long as I'm doing this snow thing I might as well include this card too. It says Downers Grove is pictured here. Can anyone tell me where this photo was taken?

It snowed on Tuesday

It snowed on Tuesday. It wasn't particularly cold but it was a serious snow. I went out and took some pictures. This is one of them.
There must have been more warmth in Downers Grove at one time. I had to go back to 1962 to find it.

                                                   Somebody came out here to rest!?
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Hear Muffs!

When I came across this add on eBay I just couldn't pass it up. One day watching WGN in the morning odd adds were featured. Yes! This add made the cut!

Last Word Restaurant

Before The Omega was the long standing restaurant in Downers Grove, the title probably belonged to The Last Word. This restaurant stood about where Sears hardware stands today on Ogden Ave. I hear that the fried chicken there was excellent. Before the building was torn down I seem to remember it being the R Place restaurant. I might be wrong though.
I have to dig up my Last Word matchbook covers. I'll post them here when I find them.

Some paper things from the DG past

            In 1908 Downers Grove got a new resident. She sent this card to an old friend.

                                    There was a drug store in Downers Grove.

If the local food caused her a few digestive problems she might have purchased some Apricot Pills.

This was mostly before the automobile so she might have had a horse. If so, she must have visited the corner of Maple  and Main.

The horse shoe is the only hint of what business this was. Does this explain why this business no longer exists?

Intreeg - The puzzle

I came across this puzzle on eBay a while ago. It is called Intreeg and it was made here in Downers Grove by a company named Rite Rite. Smart people have difficulty solving this puzzle because smart people know that nobody would make and sell a puzzle that can't be solved. The smarter they are the longer they take to give up.

The Greatest Toy Story Ever!

During World War II the Frank Curran Company of Downers Grove supplied hand grenades for the US Army. When the war was over, rather than discard the remaining grenade parts, through a stroke of entrepreneurial genius, the remaining pieces were turned into a child's toy. The Curran Company created the Howie Cannon. The barrel of the cannon was once a hand grenade detonator. The trailing leg was once the "Spoon". Where the axle passed through was once where the grenade pin would have been.

The toy came in a least 2 styles of boxes and came with wooden artillery shells. The shells are dropped down the barrel. The spring loaded crank at the end of the barrel is turned. When it reaches the drop in the cam the powerful spring shoots out the shell. I have used steel brads as shells and there is a real danger of putting ones eye out.
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