[Oe List ...] 5th City Auto Center

Fri Dec 4 11:47:59 CST 2009

Jim, let me stroke your ego, also by pleading -- especially if you have a picture of that little green car you and Alice had . . . it was so cool.  (kidding in a way about the car, but some photo memory is an important piece of our collective history . . .)

I wonder if we could get a collection of religious house photos -- anyone have a picture of the place in Evanston?  The center in Austin??  what was it called??  I was on the phone last night with David Walters -- he told of visiting a prof at Southern University in Louisiana in town meeting days who attended the "divorce" ritual in Austin before the folks took off for Chicago -- anyone else ever heard that story??

I put a picture I took of Paula Jorquera (daughter of Raul Jorquera and Angelica Rodriguez) on a visit to the Iron Man shortly after Lyn Edwards' death on the repository -- go in, click places index, click on the US on the map, then click on the 5th city link from Len Hockley.
 Jim

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From: Jim Baumbach <wtw0bl at new.rr.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 10:13:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] 5th City Auto Center

Lynda, I have 100's of pictures of 5th City from the time we were part
of the project.  Moreover, I have many pictures from the trips we took
including the Odyssey Global II, 5th City Circles the East, and the
trip to Bermuda.  I believe Lela was present on all of these trips and
was a fun participant as well as several other 5th City residents.  I
would gladly share these on line and may have to do a Picasa album but
as you know my ego is so motivated by pleadings of colleagues such as
you.

Since you asked, I will explore the process of sending out some of my
precious photos.

Jim.

Lynda Cock wrote: 
>  
> 
>Jim Jewell and Jim Baumbach, two men I recall with the
>cameras.  Indeed wealth of history you hold.  If there is a place for
>such in the Archives project or the Repository, I hope you will
>bequeath some of your digital findings where we can all share. Do you
>have a good one of Lela that you could share on line? With gratitude, 
>Lynda 
>
>
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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On
>Behalf Of Jim Baumbach
>Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:22 AM
>To: Order Ecumenical Community
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] 5th City Auto Center
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>Long before Google produced their first set of city pictures, I
>wandered the streets of Fifth City photographing many different
>structures including the razing of the chapel, administration building
>and the gym at 3444 Congress Pkwy.  Driving past the vacant lot where
>the Auto Center used to stand so proudly, always left me with a very
>empty feeling.  It wasn't until I started digitizing my negatives,
>recently, that I once again relived the fantastic event held in Fifth
>City.  The day of the ground breaking for the Auto Center.  From Cathy
>Byrnes (daughter of Jane Byrnes, previous mayor of Chicago) to the
>Marshall HS Band, and all of the familiar faces of Fifth City, one by
>one, speaking in a packed Washington Hall of the Community Center about
>the wonderful promise and symbol this edifice represented.  The ground
>breaking, itself where so many people symbolically pushed their shovels
>into the soil on that cold February day in 1983 was an event rivaled
>only by the Fifth City Plaza dedication 8 years earlier.  I always
>wondered about the sad tragedy of the Auto Center that held such a
>promise of possibility of creating jobs for the local residents.
>
>>Thanks again for the Google update.
>
>>Jim Baumbach
>
>>W. J. wrote:
> 
> 
>>Of course those of us who are Google 'spies' knew that.
>>Apparently the City took it down after the title holders gave it back
>>to the banks and they walked away. That would be my best guess. Now
>>it's a fenced parking lot, rather than an abandoned hulk that would
>>pose a threat to the community from 'unauthorized use.'
>>That's probably also the reason so much of 5th City is now
>>vacant lots.
>>The silver lining in this sad story is that many of the
>>formerly glass- and brick-strewn vacant lots from Kedzie down 5th
>>Avenue to the Community Center are now vegetable gardens. 
>>Marshall
>>
>>
>>
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 From: >>Jim Baumbach <wtw0bl at new.rr.com>
>>To: Order Ecumenical
>>Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>>Sent: Thu, December
>>3, 2009 4:00:52 AM
>>Subject: Re: [Oe
>>List ...] Google Maps: view of 5th City Iron Man
>>
>>>>Thanks Marshall.  It is possible to tour all of Fifth City with the
>>Google views.  Sadly all of the residences where Alice and I lived for
>>10 years there are gone.  I would like to know if anyone knows what
>>happened to the 5th City Auto Center.  It is completely gone.
>>
>>>>Jim Baumbach
>>
>>>>W. J. wrote:
>> 
>>This Google view shows the Iron Man withe the 5th City
>>>Community Center in the background and the shopping center to the right.
>>>Marshall
>>>
>>><http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=safari&q=fifth+avenue+and+Kedzie+Chicago+map&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=S+Kedzie+Ave+%26+W+5th+Ave,+Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois&gl=us&ei=TGkXS4iOGpSesgOk_OiwDg&ved=0CAwQ8gEwAA&ll=41.877009,-87.710874&spn=0.000663,0.004039&t=h&z=19&lci=com.panoramio.all&layer=c&cbll=41.877009,-87.710873&panoid=cx1m3GxOxOFDyjM7qlwdxw&cbp=13,68.5,,1,-0.02>
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