Gately's Peoples Store Roseland Chicago

[@gatelyhoffman4738]

My great great grandfather was the owner of this store! I never personally got to go myself but I’ve gotten to hear many great stories about it!

[@aprilwarner9530]

It was a really wonderful place. Love your name! Do you know where the sign is now? After the fire forced the building to be demolished I heard the sign was going to be saved and displayed somewhere... never heard where it ended up though.

[@mikeroberts9501]

I lived at 110th and Lowe Ave. - People's Store was the place to go - for everything! Was like a little Marshall Field's. Roseland was like a little village - everyone was so friendly - so safe. Fond memories.

[@bengahzijr.4293]

My father was the house electrician there during the 50s and 60s. I worked in the grocery department in 1973.

[@johnzeszut3170]

Yes the big attraction was the doughnut machine although the place was a carnival of wonderment. Like so many things in Roseland it is remembered as a used-to-be.

[@GonzoGirl59]

I used to shop there with my family growing up in Roseland. My mom got me my first dress coat there. My sister, brother & I would walk over after school (All Saints) and get a doughnut and run into our grandfather hanging out in the shoeshine area with his friends. It was great to take a walk down memory lane. Does anyone else remember the pneumatic tubes that they would send the money up in to get change? I can't imagine a store doing that today. Thank you for the posting.

[@comeacross9]

Mr.Heller,who ran and perhaps owned the photo department in the basement,took photos of my wedding. He was good. We are still married and still have the pictures from 1968. Gatelys' also had good burgers in the snack bar. Time flies when you're having fun. Thanks for posting.

[@BobTheSpiderHunter]

It reminds of Goldblatts department store my mother would take me to in Hammand, IN. I once got my head caught between the metal gates ion the elevator that would close before the doors closed. All controlled by the lady on the fold down seat who operated the elevator with a rotating brass handle. The operator panicked and couldn't open the gates. All the women on the elevator were screaming! I was hurt at all, but it sure frightened a lot of startled shoppers! lol. The management treated me to an ice cream cone after determining I was OK! lol.

[@georgemartin1154]

What, no pictures of the donut making machines?

[@ernest6980]

i remember those squeaky wood floors

[@noname-gn3xj]

Used to go there with my mom and sister in the 60s-70s. I would hide in the clothes racks, and watch my mom walking back and forth looking for me. My Grandparents lived at 101st and Beverly, and we lived at 149th and Wabash in Dolton. I remember Goldblatt's too. I miss those days in Chicago.

[@clifftarrance]

Huh! I guess we were neighbors. My family also lived at 149th and Wabash, and my grandparents lived in Roseland. I just barely remember going to Gatelys in the early 60s. I liked that it was called the Peoples Store because it seemed pretty funny to me. Who else was going to shop there but people?

[@nwest127]

This is the place I remember riding my first escalator and seeing Santa Claus!

[@sandycal7823]

I use to work in the drapery department from 1968-1970

[@waynemcalpine9605]

My mom retired from the drapery department in the late 60s. She had worked there for 20 years or more. Her name was Martha.

[@brianglade848]

My dad was the meat Carver there from 67-75.....then he spent the latter part of 1976 picking up cigarette butts from train stations and smoking them

[@ericl1608]

My mother used to work at Gately's People in late 1960s. When I was a baby, she brought me there to meet some of her co-workers. :)

[@stevedibrito7636]

The Ave. lost it's icon today.

[@galehassan3372]

they had the best donuts ever

[@Achtungmiche]

My Grandma used to take me shopping here. I was probably 4. :)

[@Raybna]

My Grandma used to take me there when I was little and set me on the counter in the basement restaurant and get me a hamburger...my youngest memory

[@Raybna]

I do remember Green River and watching those doughnuts fall...how cool

[@lynettenovelli8718]

My grandpa & Grandma Milo & Mary Costanzo Meadors ran the restaurant. I grew up in Gatelys People Store. Loved that place. Best frozen custard in the basement! Would love to find more pictures of the Gatelys Christmas parties & Summer Picnic. Those were the days!

[@AudraAkins]

My mother worked in the Blouse Department in the late 1970s until it's closing.

[@danbeau9404]

We lived in Fernwood, 99th to 105th, east of Halsted to the C&EI tracks. Yes, that was part of Roseland. Often we would walk to Gately's from 99th and Halsted just for something to do. We rarely had any money, but once in a while we would actually buy something at the snack bar. When we had bikes, we would ride there and go down the parking ramp circular ramp at high speed. The people in the store didn't appreciate that and would send out someone to apprehend us, although no one ever got caught. I never thought they were trying too hard. Remember the time when the most important thing in the world was a Rainbow cone or burger from Nick's Fat Boy on 110th? I wonder how many of the Gately's alumni are still around to read this? We tend to simplify the past and I can envision a time 50 years from now when a young person will be sitting and thinking how great it was now.

[@johnscheuneman4098]

And now, an inferno. How sad.

[@bergerjh]

They had a 4 level parking garage where, as we first got our driver's licenses, we would dare each other to drive up and down the circular ramp in our parents cars. 1966-67

[@boomer1579]

Yes, and sadly no pictures of that...remember the big pillars down there?

[@catkoop]

My grandma lived kitty korner from the store. I remember the grocery store in the basement and the bins being so high that I couldn't see what was inside them. Sweet memories.

[@kentnordland5034]

When I was sixteen, I worked as a shoe salesman at the "Roseland Factory Shoe Outlet", down the street from Gatelys. The owner was a wonderful man named Joe Rosenfeld. I bought my first shot gun from Gatelys, a 16 ga. Winchester model 37, which I still have. That was 1956.

[@hayford75]

That very interesting.

[@drivesecure2476]

when i was a kid go there to the sporting goods look at the bats and balls gloves and they had a snack shop there great hot dogs

[@paulbervid1610]

In 1970 got a James bond play set . They were on a table on the first floor.

[@jumpinjack1156]

Remember the donut making machine at the basement lunch counter, fascinated me for hours, still remember the taste of a fresh donut, also arond the corner was the XMAS department.

[@aprilwarner9530]

Yes! Before Krispy Kreme, there was Gatelys. Ahead of their time!

[@jumpinjack1156]

@@aprilwarner9530 Thanks for remembering the memory !

[@mountainghost5044]

I too would watch that donut machine the whole time my Mother was shopping at Gatelys.

[@billbulthuis7274]

I was born and lived at 11723 Indiana Ave. Just down the hill from People store ,and went to Scanland grade school and Fenger HS .

[@boomer1579]

My friend Jack Butler went to Fenger (Class of 1974). He'd chant, "Oooh! Ingawa! Fingah's got the powah!" Not sure why. He was a bass player, I am a drummer and we got a pretty good band together. We liked to go to Zordan's Music Shop. He passed away out here in AZ a couple years ago: ALS.

[@bellalegosi7850]

I lived at 11748 s Indiana across the street from st salomea. Moved out in 73 at the age of 6.

[@lisapliner7502]

I went to scanlan 4 awhile then transferred to Curtis✌

[@DoubleDogDare54]

My mother and grandmother used to shop the Peoples Store all the time from when it first opened during WWI. If you needed it, the Peoples store had it. My grandparents finally left Roseland in the late '40s and moved to Dolton, but even then there were times my grandmother would make the trip back to Roseland if she really needed something from Gately's.

[@richardzagotta8445]

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[@isaiahperryman7271]

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[@boomer1579]

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[@MichaelZiarko]

I remember when the store opened in Tinley Park

[@yixnorb5971]

I worked there

[@brianglade848]

My dad used to sand trim in Tinley Park.....

[@LEGACYFOCUS]

The women wore fancy dresses with white gloves when shopping. I used to love when my mother took me to the candy section.....😂😂😂😂😢😢😢😢❤

[@joyceshaw4077]

Bought first baby crib there among other things.

[@user-qk5fp5xi2t]

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[@karenlucchini3667]

Use to live there 11611 S. Princeton Ave!!

[@isaiahperryman7271]

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[@A_W709]

We were at 12427 S. Princeton! Right by West Pullman Park.

[@flightochoa1290]

11526..

[@stevetaylor205]

@@A_W709 we lived on the Conner of 123rd & LaSalle during the 70’s ..

[@paulsolomon7675]

Can someone please show me a picture of 95 in princetonpark from 1900

[@billbulthuis7274]

Anyone remember bumtown . My dad had a shoe repair shop there.

[@kentnordland5034]

When I was seventeen I bought beer in bum town.

[@jesuswouldkilhimself]

Nice background sounds! Very cool