Something nagged, however-perhaps a reflex picked up from working the flea market circuit as a poor kid growing up on the West Side of Chicago. A closer examination unearthed no scenes of Portage Park, though the box turned out to contain more than 30,000 negatives. So he plunked down about $400 for the box and headed home. There’s got to be something pertinent in there, he thought. He came across a box that had been repossessed from a storage locker, and a hasty search revealed a wealth of black-and-white shots of the Loop from the 1950s and ’60s. A third-generation reseller, Maloof hoped to find some historical photographs for a small book about Portage Park that he was cowriting on the side. On an unremarkable day in late 2007, John Maloof, a young real-estate agent, spent some time at a local auction house, RPN Sales in Portage Park, combing through assortments of stuff-some of it junk-that had been abandoned or repossessed.
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