# Question for long-time Chicago residents.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108 "2013-05-11T23:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/1 "2013-05-11T23:02:27Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/2 "2013-05-11T23:26:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/3 "2013-05-11T23:45:45Z")
Is [this the tank?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8jS3JNye0) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/4 "2013-05-12T00:33:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/5 "2013-05-12T01:48:54Z")
Right [here](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sproat+Avenue,+Oak+Lawn,+IL&hl=en&ll=41.720029,-87.746512&spn=0.00087,0.002064&sll=41.719973,-87.769323&sspn=0.000866,0.002064&oq=sproat,+oak+lawn&t=h&hnear=Sproat+Ave,+Oak+Lawn,+Cook,+Illinois+60453&z=20&layer=c&cbll=41.720029,-87.746512&panoid=WTZI2QUOgyM9DpzkZ6iR6w&cbp=12,319.92,,0,-8.2). It’s where the railroad crosses W 95th St, near S 51st Ave. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/6 "2013-05-12T02:01:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/7 "2013-05-12T02:28:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Right [here](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sproat+Avenue,+Oak+Lawn,+IL&hl=en&ll=41.720029,-87.746512&spn=0.00087,0.002064&sll=41.719973,-87.769323&sspn=0.000866,0.002064&oq=sproat,+oak+lawn&t=h&hnear=Sproat+Ave,+Oak+Lawn,+Cook,+Illinois+60453&z=20&layer=c&cbll=41.720029,-87.746512&panoid=WTZI2QUOgyM9DpzkZ6iR6w&cbp=12,319.92,,0,-8.2). It’s where the railroad crosses W 95th St, near S 51st Ave. Don’t think that could be it. Too far from downtown, too residential, too close to a railroad and highway. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/8 "2013-05-12T13:52:32Z")
You might want to post this in the Chicago forum. Please note that I give you permish to double-post. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-long-time-chicago-residents/658108/9 "2013-05-12T18:21:08Z")
(not a Chicago resident, but) what about [this](http://i.imgur.com/xReNq.jpg)? (found [here](http://forgottenchicago.com/forum/1/5886/9219/_subject_) ) [The neighborhood](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Grand+%26+Western,+Chicago,+IL&hl=en&ll=41.890394,-87.686463&spn=0.001398,0.002642&sll=32.678125,-83.178297&sspn=4.539618,10.821533&oq=grand+%26+western,+Chicago&hnear=Western+%26+Grand&t=h&z=19), for your reference .