Today, a non-descript condominium building stands at 1416 W. Belmont Avenue in Chicago. This is in the re-gentrified Lakeview neighborhood of the city’s North Side, an area that not long ago was tired and tattered, a stretch of cash exchange depots and tattoo parlors. At this particular address once stood the second floor studio of Carl Becker and Son, violinmakers and repairers of fine instruments, in a building that evidently was demolished sometime in the 1990s. A nondescript apartment complex stands in what is today
Chicago 1416 West Belmont Blvd. This is the newly rezoned upscale Lakeview neighborhood on the city’s North Side, an area not long ago run-down and filled with cash pawn shops and tattoo parlors. At this old address, there used to be the second-floor studio of Carl Becker and Son, violin makers and restorers of fine antique instruments, in an old building that was demolished in the 1990s.
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