"Sky-Hi Drive-In and Restaurant" in Chicago

[bdk]

First I've heard of it! Anyone have details on the plane?

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Sky-Hi Douglas

[Chris Brame]

Here's more:




My parents went there once and my dad said the food was OK, but the place was only in business a few years.

This was a Delta DC-7, N4871C, that suffered a gear collapse at O'Hare in December of '61 - here's the incident:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19611216-0
The listing refers to it being made into a restaraunt in Sterling, IL but I think this is actually the Sterling Park neighborhood in Chicago.

Last edited by Chris Brame on Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Pat Carry]

I'm thinking it is no longer around. On the site www.whatwasthere.com it indicated the photos were taken in the 50's or early 60's.

[Chris Brame]

Found the location - SW corner of Cicero and Monroe. I matched up the apartment building behind it on Google Street View:


The large B&W photo was probably taken from the roof or back stairs of the apartments.

[The Inspector]

msn 44261 l/n 447

[Django]

Neat. I hadn't heard of this place before. Man, I wish it was still there!!

[bdk]

Nice find Chris! Thanks for the additional info.

[p51]

Wow, you really do learn something new every day. I've been to the Windy City before but I'd never even heard of this...
Such a shame there are no places like this to go to now (I remember seeing an airplane off I-75 near Warner Robbins, GA that had been a restaurant but it vanished many moons ago, I never went there or ever got close to it). I'd love to go to a place like this.