You’ll have to use your imagination for this week’s The Way We Were photo because this is a picture of Clyde C. Netzley Chrysler Plymouth dealership at 22 E. Chicago Ave. as it looked in the 1970s. It was at the southeast corner of Chicago Avenue and Washington Street, where you’ll find the Rosebud restaurant today. Small towns, unlike the suburbs we know today, would often have one or more car dealerships on their downtown main streets, right alongside the locally-owned drug stores, soda shops, appliance/furniture retailers and other small businesses. Netzley’s was a mainstay from 1921 to 1981, one of the first places in town that not only sold cars but repaired them. (Naperville Heritage Society)
The Way We Were: If you can’t imagine buying a car in downtown Naperville, check out this photo
