Omertà: Reaping Whirlwinds

The 1929 Kirsch book : a stylebook of window and door draping treatments.

Leonard Potts in The Tatler, January 30, 1929 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.

The Sketch, England, October 28, 1931

Art Deco Cocktail Bar & Restaurant, 1932

Looking SW at Michigan Ave and Congress, 1897, Chicago

Looking northwest from the 11th St. bridge, Grant Park, 1956, Chicago.

The Graphic, England, July 20, 1929

NW corner of Clark and Balmoral, Andersonville, 1933, Chicago

Looking east on Polk from Wells, 1900, Chicago

Late 1920′s to early 30′s pair of green and pink lounging/beach pajamas. From Kerry Taylor Auctions.

Kittyinva: 1920′s Boue Soeurs little girl’s embroidered net dress. Cream tulle having a series of tiny tucks to the collar, yoke and cap sleeves, floral embroidery, the lower skirt having embroidered swags with bows above an insert of fine cotton lawn, the hem edged in filet lace, over a pink silk underdress. From Whitaker Auctions.

All of these buildings are now gone, save the building with the Cremo Cigars sign which still stands. It’s the one to the right of the taller building.

Built in 1892, the Masonic Temple Building was the world’s tallest at 302 feet. It would be demolished a mere 47 years later in 1939. The reason? Aside from depression-era financial woes and being serviceably obsolete, the City engineers decided that it would be too ambitious to replace the building’s floating foundation with caissons as subway construction began, so it came down.