Album 3 Part 9

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Anne Slack, the same day. Church steeple in background indicates this is an older neighborhood near 3149.

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Anne shoveling snow in 3149 back yard. Blashsky house in background.
That looks like a wooden shovel.

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Edward Slack and daughter Dot shoveling snow off sidewalk in front of 3149.

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Dot shoveling. Note that her outfit is almost identical to Anne's.
Edward Slack probably made that wooden shovel.

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Edward Slack behind 3149 porch and greenhouse.
Bert Lindberg remembers years later putting milk in their glass bottles on this porch so the milk would freeze
and force the cream on top up with the paper cap. Cut off the three inches of cream for instant ice cream.

The glassed structure dripping with snow and icicles is a greenhouse that Edward built for Elizabeth, who was an avid gardener. Left of that is the Riss house, built smack next to the Slack house with a common wall. Since this was the south wall of 3149, the house was always dark. The only southern light came in through the narrow light shaft shown in the sketch in Part 5 of this album. The greenhouse and open back porch remained the same through the first 13 of the years that Ed and Dot and their family lived there from 1933 through the 50's. When Dot and family brewed homemade root beer, the greenhouse was an ideal sunny, warm place to rack the bottled root beer during the several days it was allowed to ferment and develop its carbonation. Then it was stored downstairs in the cool basement. On a few occasions some bottles fermented too long and exploded.

The snow in these pictures was unusual for Chicago, which is why the extensive series of pictures were taken. During the many Ed and Dot Lindberg years, only two or three years had snow approaching this depth. On one occasion windblown drifts in the side yard were six or seven feet deep. The Lindberg children dug into these banks to make snow houses and forts.

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An Army officer and Ed Lindberg at Camp Grant.
Perhaps Ed was in civilian clothes to take leave before embarking to France.

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Same occasion -- Agnes with her fur collar and dog.

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Dot with her uncle(?) in his barn in Amboy or Lee Center Illinois.