Table of Contents
Preface 7
Sources and Acknowledgements 9
1 Before 1920: Planning for Permanence 13
Jesse Clyde Nichols: A Brief Biography 16
The Station Building 19
Catalogue: The Nichols Principles 21
2 The 1920s: "Shops of Every Necessary Character" 23
The Country Club District Neighborhoods 28
Cowherd-Built Homes 30
Catalogue: A Retail Menu 32
3 The 1930s: An Investment Pays Off 35
Harry Jacobs, Brookside's Southside Developer 37
Minding the Stores: The Brookside Business Association 40
Catalogue: The Brookside Doctors 44
4 The 1940s: Brookside Comes of Age 47
Fashionable Brookside 48
Brookside's Roads and Rails 51
Catalogue: Architectural Styles and Influences 55
5 The 1950s: Boomer Days in Brookside 59
One Family's Enterprise: The Country Club Shoe Store 61
The Dwellers Upstairs 65
Catalogue: Childhood Haunts 67
6 The 1960s: "The Courteous Shopping Center" 69
The Road to Nowhere: The Country Club Freeway 72
Rags, Brookside's Favorite Resident 75
Catalogue: Brookside Grocers Through the Years 77
7 The 1970s: Uneasy Times 81
The Curtain Comes Down on the Brookside Theatre 83
The Dime Stores 87
Catalogue: Best Brookside Business Names 91
8 The 1980s: The Main Events 93
The St. Patrick's Day Warm-up Parade 94
The Brookside Art Annual 97
Catalogue: The Gaslights, Symbols of Brookside 100
9 The 1990s: The End of the Nichols Era 105
The Wednesday Magazine, Brookside's Hometown Paper 107
Home-Based Brookside: The House Conversions 109
Catalogue: Brookside Gas Stations Then and Now 111
10 The 2000s: Home Rule 115
Locally Owned: BKS Real Estate 116
Public Policy at Work: The Overlay District and the CID 118
Catalogue: Brookside's Oldest Businesses 122
Bibliography 125
About the Author 127