The story
Listed by the Historical Society at 9 W Prospect Ave, operating from about the 1950s for more than 30 years.
Everything that was here
- Date unknown
Mary Jayne's Ladies ApparelRetail Store
A women's clothing shop that outlasted three decades of fashion.
- 1980–2021
Sam's PlaceTavern
Forty years of regulars at the bar by the arch and clock.
See the map in 1981 →
Nearby history
Keefer's Pharmacy
5 W Prospect Ave · 11 m away
From 15 prescriptions a day to 285.
Moehling General Store
3 E Northwest Hwy · 63 m away
General store, post office and railroad office rolled into one.
Mount Prospect Station (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line)
13 E Northwest Hwy · 86 m away
The 1930 depot that made Mount Prospect a commuter town.
Prospect Theater
118 S Main St · 137 m away
Mount Prospect's first real movie house, 450 seats beside the truck traffic of Route 83.
Central Continental Bakery
101 South Main Street · 156 m away
Edward Busse Building
100 E Northwest Hwy · 161 m away
Nearly a century of Busse-family ownership ended with a $1.7 million sale and a bulldozer.
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