Chicago, ILLINOIS - South Water Market - BIRDSEYE - LINEN - old trucks for Sale

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Chicago, ILLINOIS - South Water Market - BIRDSEYE - LINEN - old trucks:
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Chicago, ILLINOIS - South Water Market - BIRDSEYE - LINEN: Receiving the court order in January 1925, the Market made frantic preparations to move. The architects, B. K. Goodman and Company, worked feverishly on plans for the new buildings. The deteriorated existing houses, then called the Village, a high crime neighborhood, were bulldozed down and replaced by the South Water Street Market. Six months later the merchants took possession of their new quarters, 166 stores or units, built at the cost of seventeen million dollars. The modern market covered eight square blocks, bounded by Racine Avenue on the west; Morgan Street on the east; 14th Street on the north; and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the south. The streets were made 100 feet wide and the alleys 42 feet. Imports from 48 states, Canada and more than 20 foreign countries were melded in the Market to give Chicago consumers whatever they desired. Produce from any point in the United States took between 3 and six days to reach the South Water Market; from overseas it took a little longer-but not much-by air freight. This Linen Era (1930-45) postcard is in good condition. Tichnor Quality Views. Boston, Mass. No. 71964. Published by Charles Levy Circulating Co., Chicago, Illinois.