Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Meeting David Iglow is like jumping back in a time machine to a neighborhood retailer of the mid-1900s, with personal service. At Pine's, the longest-running store in the Uptown area of Park Ridge, he specializes in proper fit, with a tailor on hand.
When you meet David Iglow, there’s something vaguely familiar about him. You’ve met his type before – a long time ago. Iglow is going into his third decade as owner of the venerable Pine’s of Park Ridge men’s and boy’s clothing store at 43 S. Prospect, across from the library and the train tracks. The store is marking its 60th anniversary this year in a corner building constructed in 1898. The ownership lineage of Pine’s goes all the way back to a member of the famed Goldblatt’s retailing family. “It’s very unusual,” Iglow said of Pine’s longevity. “If you really research it, you’ll find we are the longest-running retailer in one spot in this town, to the best of my knowledge.” Iglow comports himself like an old-school neighborhood …
Rods and reels now share space with bows and a bulls-eye at Morton Grove's long-running outdoors outlet on Dempster Street. The best part? For $5, you can shoot at the bulls-eye on a target range.
The four mounted stuffed bucks' heads watching over Fishtech’s longtime store at 5802 Dempster might shudder if they were alive and knew what was going on behind them. In a 20-yard corridor along the store’s west wall is an archery practice range with a classic bulls-eye. Bows and arrows are the newest addition to FishTech's traditional hook, line and sinker inventory that has been a staple in its incarnation, as well as predecessor store Ed Shirley Sports, for four decades. Archery has gotten downright trendy If you watch TV, you know archery is in vogue. Two weekly post-apocalyptic shows already feature actors using bows and arrows regularly – splitting zombies’ skulls on “The Walking Dead” on AMC and substituting for banned firearms…
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Monday, November 19, 2012
In Park Ridge's effort to boost business and lessen the property tax burden for homeowners, owners of retail businesses are invited to confab with the mayor and city council at 6 p.m.
Sheila Duda, owner of TeaLula, has a message for owners of Park Ridge retail businesses: be at Park Ridge City Hall at 6 p.m. Monday. "Mayor Schmidt wants our ideas on ways the city can help promote shopping in Park Ridge this holiday season. We can’t afford to miss out on this opportunity," she wrote to business owners in her capacity as Retail Committee Chairman of the Park Ridge Chamber of Commerce. Duda ticked off some possibilities for expanding business, and invited businses owners to add their own suggestions to the mix. So far, suggestions include: Likewise, the city's website reads: "(Mayor Schmidt) has scheduled a workshop meeting on November 19, 2012 at Park Ridge City Hall at 6:00 p.m. so that businesses can discuss ways …
Saturday, November 17, 2012
The long work stoppage has crimped sales at Morton Grove's longtime hockey store. Yet Gunzo's established enough with hockey regulars, including youth and recreational leagues from as far as Wisconsin, to stay chill.
This holiday season will be one where the staff of Gunzo’s Hockey Headquarters, the longtime Morton Grove equipment emporium at 6730 W. Dempster St., will have to work as hard as a player killing a penalty in overtime. While business is constant with north suburban and even Wisconsin youth hockey leagues, purchases from casual hockey fans have been crimped by the National Hockey League lockout that shows no signs of ending. As a result, there won’t be a holiday hiring bump at Gunzo’s while several regular staffers could have their hours cut. Purchasing expenses will be watched carefully. Earlier: Find memorabilia from all sports at Morton Grove specialty shop But the local outlet of the four-store Gunzo’s, founded in 1963 by Wally “Gunzo…
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Simkins Funeral Home in Morton Grove is building a larger chapel to accommodate more on-site services and bigger crowds. It's partly driven by a trend toward cremation, which is a cost-effective way to hold a funeral.
If you've wondered what's going on with the construction on Dempster Street, Simkins Funeral Home, the longest-running locally-owned business in Morton Grove, is undergoing its first expansion since 1957. The new $150,000 addition, projected for completion by the end of this month, is being built out to the sidewalk on Dempster for the home, operating at its present site since 1946 and owned by brothers Bill, Jim and Mike Simkins. With more people having one-day services, which include the visitation and funeral in the same day, the funeral home needed more room to accommodate crowds that come in a two-hour visitation time, rather than spread throughout the evening as in a traditional wake, Jim Simkins explained. “We’ve basically …
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Harry Gio
7:34 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
They should have moved 1 block west and built a NEW funeral home on the vacant lot where Maxwells once stood... More parking for visitors, better looking NEW facility, thinking about the future. more ›