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Our Elmhurst Then and Now

Walgreens for comic books, soda fountain, etc.
Walgreens Drug Store...The Original

When bread was 10 cents...take a number please
Weber's Bakery, Soukup's Hardware, & Mannebach Foods

 
 
 
Getting "close to you" once again, Elmhurst....

Fannie Mae replaces Walgreens at York & First St.
Candy only...no comic books, no sodas, etc.

And here's what you look like today...

 

Walgreens at corner of York and Schiller Streets
Walgreens moves to where old blacksmith's shop used to be at York and Schiller Street

York Street looking north as we once knew it to be
That's Walgreens Drug Store at York & First St.

Woolworth's---where 5 and 10 cents bought a lot
Woolworth's with Champain's Sporting Goods (left) and John M. Smyth Furniture (right-not pictured)

 

 

Some things just never change...
York Theatre, Monday July 5, 1999
Remember Saturday afternoons here for 11 cents ?

Soukup's at left replaced by asphalt parking lot
York Street on Monday, July 5, 1999
Updated view between First and Schiller Streets

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