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Started as updates from an artifact from a significant South Side club that has been spared the scrap heap. Now mostly other Woodlawn/Chgo history. Jazz & minutia. Infrequent posts.
A real Old Town dump from the outside, owned by Michael Pierpaoli, who owned this and a steak house nearby (he wanted to have his own places to indulge his interests in music and food). He died in 2024 at 93.
Here's the front window of the Plugged Nickel - check those coming attractions.
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Having been at both 63/Cottage Grove and Broadway/Lawrence today, it's striking the difference between them now, considering they had such near identical early days and exponential growth.
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Phil Upchurch, RIP. Masterful player, incredible list of seasions. Seems especially fitting tonight, with the passing of Steve Cropper, to share his performance with Booker T.

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Phil Upchurch & Booker T & the MGs - "Love And Peace" - stereo
YouTube video by kromedome87
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December 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
(1967) GREEN ONIONS - Live - Booker T. and MG's
YouTube video by LeeEstradaMusic
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December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Before he beat it (har) to New York in 1939, Huncke lived with his folks in Rogers Park at 1322 W Sherwin. He returned decades later w Louis Cartwright, stayed at an SRO and hung out at the El Gato Negro bar on Irving.
Herbert Huncke and Allen Ginsburg
#queer #heroes
December 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Bo's childhood job was cleaning out incinerator ash box at the Regal Theater, and he'd sift through the ashes collecting any coins that survived the burn.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago nominations are out today and in the category of Best Radio DJ is the one and only Mr. Jimmy himself: James Porter!
Vote online here:
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December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Yes, the very same theater that is now the Cadillac Palace. They stopped having rock shows here after the stage collapsed during a Frankie Goes To Hollywood performance.
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Good piece. As it happens, Crime Story end of Season 1 and most of Season 2 dealt with the Outfit in Vegas almost ten years before Casino - most of the real guys were still alive when it aired, and the downfall had *just* happened.
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Floriene Watson Willis never became a major star, but she nevertheless held a prominent position in the sanctuary as gospel music formed and flourished in Chicago some 90 years ago.
Floriene Watson Willis sang in the early days of gospel music. She taught Aretha Franklin a hymn. She’s turning 99.
The Watson Family Singers were some of the first gospel performers on the radio, thanks to their All Nations Pentecostal Church of the South Side, and Floriene remembers teaching Aretha Franklin th…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Read here about (I may be biased) the greatest cultural loss in Chicago in 50+ years.

Some photos from Gerri's album - Quincy Jones, Flip Wilson and Jimmy Smith
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Note that the larger center house has a BOARDING sign in the old photo. 103 years later, it's still an apartment house. Across the street from this was the American Shipbuilding Company (1890-1970s) In far distance of old photo is bar & rooming house that became Kay's Pilot House.
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Rest Easy, James Chambers (Jimmy Cliff) - July 30, 1944 – November 24, 2025.
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
John Peel at the 11/22-23 1963 press conference in Dallas
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Russell Lee's 1941 photographs of Bronzeville have very little specific information. This caption: 'the band at the Savoy Ballroom'. Well, true. But this is Count Basie's band on Easter '41. I'll try to ID who I can in this photo (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ICE helicopters over Hyde Park, Woodlawn and South Shore
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Watching via other social media a peer and acquaintance, a wildly talented musician and visual artist, descend into the belief that he's the target of a governmental conspiracy, is unnerving. Now I'm scanning my memory - did I miss cues they were giving?
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Roberts Westside in Forest Park shaking things up in '26
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It's almost like Lucas made an homage to this very photo in American Graffiti a few years later.
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This is the exterior shot of this scene. That's Rudy Ray Moore's Cadillac. Sun Ra poster is for Jazz Showcase date. House is still there, 64th & Kimbark in Woodlawn.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
She painted these during Hyde Park's urban renewal days, surrounding the house where she lived, when the doors of condemned buildings were used as worksite barriers.
Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), “Demolition Doors” (1964), oil on masonite.
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My old man worked for Stans on Wall Street. Stans asked him to basically keep a second set of books,, my old man said GFY, quit, joined Merchant Marine. Dad went around the globe 7x, Stans went to prison in Watergate.
Today in 1959, Bureau of the Budget Director Maurice Stans told the National Security Council he’d been briefed by the Navy on the Polaris program and informed that when operational its 45 submarines—with 29 always at sea—“could destroy 232 targets, which was sufficient to destroy all of Russia.”
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Don't forget, the alderman of the ward in which this building sits had something to do with making this raid happen
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Shop drawing of a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia, likely destined to grace a tied house

📸 Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, National Building Museum
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Making steamed hams at La Rabida
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM