tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-700192481160437156.post1604953630349333253..comments2024-03-28T07:09:42.242-05:00Comments on Uptown Chicago History: A Note on Uptown Chicago HotelsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-700192481160437156.post-9969471247876413612021-07-09T17:01:34.188-05:002021-07-09T17:01:34.188-05:00I lived in the sheldrake hotel from about 1955-196...I lived in the sheldrake hotel from about 1955-1968. Had a lot of great people ther. <br />When you stood in the lobby facing the street there a small grocery store ther called franke & johnnies. My friends and I would get penny candy there, including squirrels, malted milk balls, sixlets , etc. As teenagers we used to read the magazines about the Beatles and all the other bands. <br />There were 2 ladies who lived to the left side of the lobby, they had a beautiful apartment and a grand piano. They used to play the most beautiful music. <br />On the northeast corner, there was a cleaners. A family who escaped from Cuba. Everyone was like family to us.<br />River view amusement park used to have the poor deformed or strange people there in the summer, sometimes I was scared to death.<br />In about 1966, the hotel was sold to Greek investors and the hotel deteriorated rapidly. They closed the 9th floor, leaving all the windows open.it became a pigeon haven filthy dirty. They made the two ladies from the lobby move, Frankie & johnnie’s closed. The cleaners closed. And people moved out almost everyone who had been there for a long time either moved away or died.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17669220130167903089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-700192481160437156.post-18005498766396522392019-01-27T22:56:13.261-06:002019-01-27T22:56:13.261-06:00I also lived at the sheldrake hotel in 1968 apartm...I also lived at the sheldrake hotel in 1968 apartment 326 I also worked at Lakeshore Hospital 4848 North Marine Drive I wss an elevator operated there I married a woman that already live there who had two kids she was a private duty nurse.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883466741707001395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-700192481160437156.post-42508933632428948602014-03-24T07:38:30.322-05:002014-03-24T07:38:30.322-05:00I also lived in the Sheldrake Drake in 1968 apt.32...I also lived in the Sheldrake Drake in 1968 apt.326 work at what was then Lake Shore Hospital,4848 N.Marine Dr.I would also like to know some more history of this building l do know it has been renovated since then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-700192481160437156.post-4039003596272331182013-04-12T02:43:26.763-05:002013-04-12T02:43:26.763-05:00I'd also like to learn more about the Sheldrak...I'd also like to learn more about the Sheldrake. My great-grandparents, George & Antoinette Lipshulch are listed as living there in the 1930 US Census. George was a prominent physician and former Illinois State Assembly representative.Louis Lomenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-700192481160437156.post-85938240282598096652010-07-28T20:54:26.278-05:002010-07-28T20:54:26.278-05:00I'll see if I can dig up anything else for you...I'll see if I can dig up anything else for you. ;-)Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17374925727669703513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-700192481160437156.post-63211668776358027562010-07-28T20:04:20.871-05:002010-07-28T20:04:20.871-05:00I used to live in the Sheldrake Hotel in the late ...I used to live in the Sheldrake Hotel in the late '60's through the early '70s. At that time, the address was 4520. Would be nice to know some more history of that building.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com