From the August 26, 2016, Chicago Tribune "Quiz guarantees to rate knowledge of original names" by Mary Schmich.
"Life, as they say, is change."
Comiskey Park is receiving that new name and now I see that Tribune Tower has been sold. Can it be long before that name, too, is changed.
Of course, I don't change names of structures from what I grew up with.
ANSWERS ARE BELOW.
1. JAYS POTATO CHIPS WERE ORIGINALLY CALLED:
A. Mr. Jay's Potato Chips
B. Mrs. Japp's Potato Chips
C. Mama J's Yum Yums.
2. BEFORE PIZERRIA UNO WAS PIZZERIA UNO, IT WAS CALLED:
A. The Pizerria
B. Pizzeria Ricardo
C. Pizzeria Zero
3. THE ORIGINAL NAME OF WRIGLEY FIELD, HOME OF THE CHICAGO CUBS, WAS:
A. Northside Park
B. Weeghman Park
C. Goat Park
Smells Goaty to Me. --Cootserria
ANSWERS:
1. B. Mrs. Japp was the wife of the company's founder. The name was changed after Pearl Harbor because of anti-Japanese sentiment.
2. A and B. In the 1940s, at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Ohio Street, Ric Riccardo opened the Pizzeria. He and his partner evolved that into Pizzeria Ricardo, which then evolved into the legend.
3. B Charles Weeghman made a fortune off lunch counters. he eventually sold his stock in the Cubs to a guy named Wrigley, who made a fortune off chewing gum.
I got 1 and 3 correct and guessed A on the second question.
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