Big news, friends: we're relocating!
After a few years of working out of various basements and garages, we’ve secured a spot where we can welcome guests, host classes, and actually have all our equipment in one big well-lit space.
We hinted at it a few months ago. We had a great lead that didn't work out, and a couple other disappointments, but it gave us time to do more research and see more places, and we were lucky to find a much bigger space within our budget.
As of June, 2025 Midwest Ephemera will be located on the third floor at 5610 W. Bloomingdale (pictured above).
We immediately looked up the history of the building, and were thrilled to learn that the Webster-Chicago Corporation was based in this very building throughout their heyday, from 1939 to 1957. Webster-Chicago was a huge and innovative manufacturer of consumer electronics, producing "Webcor" record players, tubes, phono needles, radios, amplifiers, wire recorders, and tape recorders right here on Chicago’s West Side.
We’re clearly obsessed with records and music, so discovering this connection reassures us we’ve found the perfect spot. We’ll continue digging up information on Webcor and the building, and share it with you, along with photos of the space and the move.
Once we're up and running, we'll need to start paying for this all, so please get in touch, we'd love to show off the new space and print for you, any job, large or small. We’ll also be offering classes and workshops! More info on that soon.
Thanks again to our friends, customers, the letterpress community, and Chicago in general for making this dream come true, we can't wait to see where it takes us!
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