Rick Mangun Original Images

10/07/2026

I've been working on a restore version of this image. The original I started with was 3 inches wide. I upscaled it to 16" and colorized the image. The location is on Route 30 looking east from close to the old gas (Hauck's) station...now a speedway. On the right if the New Lenox State Bank (BMO/Harris Bank). The timeline is a guess at the early 1920's. This is a good establishing shot of the town, but don't zoom in to the faces of the crowd and expect much... I am still working of that detail

08/09/2026

View of Marley Road Bridge (1982). Remember flashing lights and beeping the car horn before crossing this one-lane bridge.

08/06/2026

Glacial Park Conservation Area 2

08/06/2026

Before and after. It bothered me that the image of Fitzer's Frosties wasn't the way that I remembered in my mind. My family rented an apartment in the late 1960's... about one block south of this intersection (Route 30 and Cedar Road in New Lenox). My previous restorations had visual problems for me. I painted a new sign. Created a road throughout the intersection. Re-painted the building...etc. I am happier with the finished image. What is different in your memory of Frosties?

08/06/2026

a current painting... a favorite scene of my mothers when she was in Bloomington IN

08/05/2026

Glacial Park, McHenry IL...A park set on 3,400 acres of wetlands, prairie & glacial kames, with trails, canoeing & fishing.

08/04/2026

07/22/2026

Chain of Lakes, NE Illinois

07/19/2026

I have been review the platt maps I have. I have the whole county, but I'm only sharing the New Lenox map. There are no dates printed on this map, but I see that Pilcher Park is included (Joliet added Pilcher Park after 1920) ...my guess is that this map was completed in the the mid 1920's.

07/19/2026

Getting ready for the big rain coming