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The Picnic Tree restaurant, Skokie

 

The Picnic Tree, located on the northeast corner of Dempster and Kildare, was short-lived walk-up counter restaurant, featuring a tall glass-walled enclosure built around a living tree.

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Title:
The Picnic Tree restaurant, Skokie
Date of Original:
1969
Identifier:
bru015_04_pF.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d33h8x
Type:
Image
Notes:
The building was subsequently home to the Chandelier restaurant.


Rights:
In copyright - non-commercial use permitted
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Cities and towns
Fast food restaurants
Architecture

Photographer:
Brubaker, Charles William, 1926-2002

Form:
Photographs
Medium:
color slides
Extent:
35 mm

Collection Information


Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
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Folder:
15
Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Geographic Information

Skokie (Ill.)