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.
Showing posts with label Charles Weeghman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Weeghman. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
Charles Weeghman-- Part 2: Weeghman Park Became Wrigley Field
He also had a great interest in baseball. In 1911, he tried to purchase controlling interest in the St. louis Cardinals, but failed. He then founded the Chicago Whales in the new Federal League and built a new steel and concrete stadium he named Weeghman Park. He chose the site specifically because it was by the "L" tracks.
After the federal league folded, he merged the Whales with the Chicago Cubs and became the majority owner and moved the Cubs into his new park which is now known better as Wrigley Field.
On August 16, 1921, he sponsored the first statewide rally of the KKK on his property in Lake Zurich, Illinois. It was estimated that some 12,000 attended and another 2,000 were initiated into the organization.
His lunch counter business lost favor with the public and he had to sell more and more of the Cubs to chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. He was completely out of the Cubs by 1918.
--DaCoot
After the federal league folded, he merged the Whales with the Chicago Cubs and became the majority owner and moved the Cubs into his new park which is now known better as Wrigley Field.
On August 16, 1921, he sponsored the first statewide rally of the KKK on his property in Lake Zurich, Illinois. It was estimated that some 12,000 attended and another 2,000 were initiated into the organization.
His lunch counter business lost favor with the public and he had to sell more and more of the Cubs to chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. He was completely out of the Cubs by 1918.
--DaCoot
Charles Weeghman-- Part 1, Chicago Entrepreneur and Cubs Owner
From Wikipedia.
I have been writing about the KKK in the Chicago area in the 1920s and their big initiation ceremony at the farm of millionaire Charles Weeghman in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
March 12, 1874-November 1, 1938
A founder of the short-lived Federal league (1914-1915). made a fortune running a type of early fast food franchise in the Chicago area.. he worked for Charlie King in his restaurant and came up the idea of serving only cold sandwiches and cramming his diners together at one-armed school desks so that he could fit more chairs into his stores.
He eventually owned 15 stores in the Chicago area. It was reported that his place at Madison and Dearborn in Chicago served 35,000 people a day. At one time his net worth was put at $8 million.
--Cooter
I have been writing about the KKK in the Chicago area in the 1920s and their big initiation ceremony at the farm of millionaire Charles Weeghman in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
March 12, 1874-November 1, 1938
A founder of the short-lived Federal league (1914-1915). made a fortune running a type of early fast food franchise in the Chicago area.. he worked for Charlie King in his restaurant and came up the idea of serving only cold sandwiches and cramming his diners together at one-armed school desks so that he could fit more chairs into his stores.
He eventually owned 15 stores in the Chicago area. It was reported that his place at Madison and Dearborn in Chicago served 35,000 people a day. At one time his net worth was put at $8 million.
--Cooter
Thursday, February 11, 2016
KKK in Chicago in the 1920s-- Part 3: Newspaper Reactions
The city's black newspaper, the Chicago defender editorialized: "The Ku Klux Klan has reached Chicago: Full page ads in the papers, followed by the announcement that 12,000 of them had met at Charles Weeghman's farm thirty miles out of town, and in the pouring rain initiated nearly 3,000 more, ought to jar us off our do-nothing stools."
The Chicago tribune also decried the coming of the KKK, but said it went against the goals of the original KKK saying: "The first Ku Klux Klan grew out of intolerable conditions in the south and passed away when the danger of Negro domination and the plague of carpetbagger were lifted.
"It was born in an emergency and, while evils were committed in its name, it served an important end, while contributing one of the romantic episodes of our history."
Imagine any newspaper saying this today?
--DaCoot
The Chicago tribune also decried the coming of the KKK, but said it went against the goals of the original KKK saying: "The first Ku Klux Klan grew out of intolerable conditions in the south and passed away when the danger of Negro domination and the plague of carpetbagger were lifted.
"It was born in an emergency and, while evils were committed in its name, it served an important end, while contributing one of the romantic episodes of our history."
Imagine any newspaper saying this today?
--DaCoot
KKK in Chicago in the 1920s-- Part 2: On the Farm of Charles Weeghman
"The restored KKK's membership wasn't limited to the lower middle class, the traditional breeding ground of xenophobic political movements. The mass initiation ceremony was held on a farm near Lake Zurich owned by Charles Weeghman, whose string of cheap Loop restaurants had made him a millionaire.
Weeghman built the North Side ballpark subsequently known as Wrigley Field and owned the Cubs from 1916-1918.
"Perhaps he was one of the business leaders attracted to the KKK by its hostility to the union movement, which the Klan equated with the Bolsheviks who recently seized power in Russia, a powerful argument during a wave of bitter strikes in America."
I looked up the location of Weeghman's farm and saw that it wasa 250-acre farm at the intersection of today's US-12 and Old Rand Road between Lake Zurich and Barrington. Old Rand Road was the name of US-12 before the byopass was built and still exists.
--Cooter
Weeghman built the North Side ballpark subsequently known as Wrigley Field and owned the Cubs from 1916-1918.
"Perhaps he was one of the business leaders attracted to the KKK by its hostility to the union movement, which the Klan equated with the Bolsheviks who recently seized power in Russia, a powerful argument during a wave of bitter strikes in America."
I looked up the location of Weeghman's farm and saw that it wasa 250-acre farm at the intersection of today's US-12 and Old Rand Road between Lake Zurich and Barrington. Old Rand Road was the name of US-12 before the byopass was built and still exists.
--Cooter
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