When I was growing up, my Uncle George had a TV repair shop on a corner, and he and his family lived in an apartment above it. The building fronted on a street that apparently had a median strip, since there was a kind of war memorial with an old M-2 tank (the forerunner of the M-3 and M-5 Stuart) that my brother and I used to play on whenever we visited. As I recall, there was also a gasworks visible from the apartment’s front window, which must have faced west because I can remember watching the Sun set through it.
This was back in the early sixties, and there’s no one left that I can ask about it, but I would dearly like to know which neighborhood this was in. I imagine in the last 50 years it’s changed beyond all recognition, and the tank is long gone, but does anyone have an idea of where it was?
Do you have any rememberance about where in the city this was? I can’t answer your question, but if you could narrow it down a bit, I’m sure others could help.
No idea as to where in the city, though I have looked at some old maps without many of the new neighborhoods that have sprung up since 1960. I remember we used to go to Riverside Park a lot in the summer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was near there.
That could indeed be the tank (it looks like its been given a coat of paint fairly recently), but the bits and pieces of the surrounding area that I can see don’t ring a bell. Maybe it’s been moved to a different site?
I’ll type in Oak Lawn on Google Earth and have a look.
Send me a PM. Include the name of the tv repair shop if you remember it, and the full name of your Uncle George. I have some database access that others may not. Just might help.
