The home of memories and images of Carpentersville and the surrounding area from days gone by.
(** This site is currently a work in progress. Links will be made active as new content is added.
The menu titles will show you what we are planning to add in the future. **)
A special thanks to all of you that have donated images and yearbooks,
we are always looking for more... Donate Here
Check out the new Photo Galleries
- Irving Crown High 1975 Yearbook Front Cover - Page 49
- Irving Crown High 1975 Yearbook Pages 50 - 103
- Irving Crown High 1975 Yearbook Pages 104 - 154
- Irving Crown High 1975 Yearbook Pages 155 - 200
- Cardunal Free Press Student Art Ads 1972
- Various Images 1
- Various Images 2
- Hangin Out In C'ville
- Irving Crown Imperials
- Irving Crown High School
- Crown High Memories from 1974 and 1975
- More Carpentersville Memories from the 60's and 70's
- Some images of family and friends, then, and now
The entire 200 page 1975 and 1976 Irving Crown High School Yearbooks are only available online at chuckengels.com
** The 1976 and 1977 Yearbooks are coming soon !!
Irving Crown High School Class of 1976 Yearbook Pages 1 - 47
Irving Crown High School Class of 1976 Yearbook Pages 48 - 98
High Quality PDF copies of above Yearbooks are available for a handling fee of $25.
(All funds are used to help support this site and pay for the cost of the DVD, Case and Shipping)
eYearbooks will be copied to a data DVD and shipped in a hard plastic case.
Here is a sample of the 1975 eYearbook PDF, excellent quality even zoomed to 1600%.
1975 eYearbook Sample PDF - 46mb file (the complete eYearbook is just under 1gb).
Do you remember...
- New!! - The Annual Meadowdale Carnival
- New!! - Perry Middle Page 2
- New!! - Cardunal Free Press Student Art Ads From 1972,
Irving Crown and Dundee Community High Schools - New!! - Kings Road Elementary Page 2
- New!! - Crown High Festival of Arts Program 1973
- New!! - 1965 Weekly Readers
- New!! - What was on your bedroom wall?
- New!! - In Memory, Some of our friends and relatives that have passed.
- New!! - Then and Now, Some images of friends and relatives from the past and present.
- Still Pretty New!! - Tornado Day April 21, 1967
- Still Pretty New!! - Check out all of the great old TV shows from the 60's and 70's
- Still Pretty New!! - Little Miss Democrat 1972, our Sister Linda
- Still Pretty New!! - Images from the past and present
- Still Pretty New!! - The Crown Imperials
- Still Pretty New!! - Thresher Pool
- Still Pretty New!! - Pepper Curtis, our Aunt - Actress and Stunt Woman
- Hangin Out in C'ville in the 60's and 70's
- The Meadowdale Jet Slide, Burlap Bags and burns on your arms and legs
- Chicagoland Theme Parks of the 60's and 70's
- Baseball in the Street
- Wiebolts, Grants, Clarks, Cooks, Woolworth, Three Sisters, Kinney Shoes...
- Sitting Through Movies at the Meadowdale Cinema 3 times in a row
- Homecoming Bonfires
- Donkey Basketball
- Building Homcoming Floats
- 30 Mile Hike for Hunger
- Real Estate Prices
- Science Fairs
- Josephine Perry Middle School
- Kings Road Elementary
- Meadowdale School
- St. Mary Margret School Algonquin
- Eastview School
- Harry D. Jacobs High School
- Lakewood Middle School
- The Good Humor Man
- Paper Routes and the Cardunal Free Press
- JFK Speaking at the Meadowdale Shopping Center October 25, 1960
- Frazier Thomas and Garfield Goose
- The Ray Rayner Show
- Links To Other Carpentersville Area Sites
- Black Lights and Black Light Posters
- Tennis Courts that became Skating Rinks
- Bessinger Community Center
- The Homecoming Parade
- The Vikettes
- The Crown Vikings
- The Prodigal Sun
- The Crownicle
- The Dundee Scots
- Mr. Lion King of Treats
- Wintergarden Pharmacy
- Dundale Drive In
- Charlie - the bird at Grants - 'Hello'
- Seeing Styx, REO and Chase in concert at local High Schools
- When Hutch Cut Your Hair at the Village Squire Barber Shop
- Fire at the McDonalds
- All Those Forest Preserves
- The Gas Station Bell
- Gas Wars and 23 cents per gallon, Regular, Premium or Ethyl?
- Lots More; Photos, Maps, Newspaper Clippings Coming Soon....
- Contact Me
Click on the links below to spark some memories
Still to Come...
This is a nice 3 minute video that covers many events in the 60's
