[Magdalen] oldest restaurants in Chicago

[Joseph Cirou]

My mother would have worn a  hat and gloves on certain occasions. I don't think going to the Walnut Room for High Tea at 4:45PM when we would meet my father was one of them. I think she would have thought it too much trouble. She was not a stay at home mom, but an elementary school teacher. However, those meals were probably in the mid 50's. I was in high school and college afterwards and we moved to the suburbs in 1962. My mother had lots of gloves which she must have used. We took the train down to LaSalle St Station and then walked to Fields; I don't even remember taking the bus. By the time I was in High School, if I didn't want to walk to the Station, I would take the IC and then the bus. It still kind of groused me having to pay both trainfare and busfare, but it wasn't that expensive. The CTA used to have half fare for students. I don't know whether it does now; there may be a discount on Breeze Cards' for students.

Joe

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>From: "Mahoney, W. Michael" <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
>Sent: Jan 5, 2016 11:05 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] oldest restaurants in Chicago
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>My wife, then my fiance, and I had lunch at The Berghoff in 1963, right
>after we got our marriage license at the Cook County offices a few blocks
>away.  We had lunch there again in 2010 when we were in Chicago for a week
>long course at the Art Institute, also a few blocks away.  Didn't seem to
>have changed much.
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>I think my mother took my sisters and me to the Walnut Room once.  As I
>recall, she and the other women there all wore hats and gloves.
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>I don't recall hats and gloves in the others I visited, which included
>Italian Village and Valois, possibly also Daleys, though one didn't readily
>go to that part of town.
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>Mike M.
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>On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I enjoyed reading this list and was surprised at how many of these I have
>> enjoyed,
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>> 1. Schaller's Pump, *3714 S. Halsted St.*
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>> 2. Daley's Restaurant, *809 E. 63rd St.*
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>> 3. The Berghoff
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>> http://chicago.everyblock.com/news-articles/jan04-chicagos-oldest-restaurants-have-changed-but-not-much-7281994/?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=digest
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>> , *17 W. Adams St.*
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>> 4. The Walnut Room
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>> http://chicago.everyblock.com/news-articles/jan04-chicagos-oldest-restaurants-have-changed-but-not-much-7281994/?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=digest
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>> , *111 N. State St.*
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>> 5. Pompei, *1531 W. Taylor St.*
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>> 6. Valois Cafeteria, *1518 E. 53rd St.*
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>> 7. Green Door Tavern, *678 N. Orleans St.*
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>> 8. Lou Mitchell's, *565 W. Jackson Blvd.*
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>> 9. Lindy's Chili, *3685 S. Archer Ave.*
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>> 10. Italian Village, *71 W. Monroe St.*
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>> *Numbers 2, 3, 4, 6,8 and 10.*
>> --
>> Judy Fleener, ObJN
>> Western Michigan
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