So FB is going to give me a $5-a bill with Mr. Lincoln’s face on it-to feature an ad with Mr. Lincoln’s umm junk?
Category: My Front Row Seat to History
I work at a unique place. Naming names might get me stalked so I won’t be sharing the name here. I do, however have a front row seat to history.
Chicago Women’s Club
I started this back in April. The course of research is often a serious rabbit hole. It’s worse when working without a deadline for you have the leisure to make strands into ropes. Today, though I found the knot at the end of it. Or so I thought…
A few months ago, I pulled out a small Hollinger box of vintage paper I’d been saving. I hoped each would find a home on Ebay or Etsy. I listed some. They went nowhere. The slick, grey box looks chic and minimalist. It lives under my coffee table.
Today I took another look….
On the Border at Calvary Cemetery
I went to Calvary Cemetery today. It sits on the Evanston/Chicago border; it is officially in Evanston. It’s a little slice of nature in the city, I often see deer and have twice been “escorted” by a coyote. Take a look at my favorite photos.
Finding Presidents in Unusual Places
UPDATE: Scroll all the way down down to see the latest!
I sort of regularly grab a cocktail at a little place called Gino’s North. It’s in Edgewater, a few doors east of the Granville L stop.
Back in the early ’40’s founder and and restaurateur Frank Meltiades dreamed of having a swanky cocktail lounge. When the space became available, he opened the Snow Drop Lounge. The lounge was named after the Per Hasselberg statue, Snöcklackan. Frank picked out this reproduction to grace the bar and she’s lived here since.
The Jabba the Hut Treatment
Some More Presidents Get Treated Like Han Solo….
We have New Microphones!
We might be on hiatus from broadcasting at work, but we are hard at work improving things!
We have new microphones! It’s really important to check out your new toys while they are under warranty and returnable. It’s the responsible thing to do. Plus it’s really fun!
Watch Bjorn and I talk about a book and a related artifact we discovered in the shop!
Chicago Department of Transportation Reuses!
I was walking west on Howard St. Lost in thought, I wondered “where am I?” I looked up and saw “Winchesown”
Well, I think I saw Winchester..
Continue reading “Chicago Department of Transportation Reuses!”
The Great Chicago Fire meets Lollapalooza…
I saw this headline in a newspaper we’re selling at the shop.
If I saw it in a paper during our current era, I might think “Wow. That’s pretty a pretty high crowd count for the Lallapalooza weekend!”
Head on a Pike
Great. Now everyone will have a head on a pike.
Cleaning up Louis Sullivan…Or Not
2 April 2019
I love it when my ethics get me out of doing something I don’t want to do.
We have a dark-as-ebony fragment from the former Chicago Stock Exchange building. It lives in my office. It’s not on the sales floor-on purpose.
The Stock Exchange was demolished in 1972. It was designed by famed Chicago architect Louis Sullivan. There are fragments of it all over the nation. I have seen them at museums in Milwaukee, Minnesota, and New York.
Suffragette City
1 April 2019
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and sometimes Lucretia Mott get all the suffragette love. But we had a Chicago woman who was just as invested in the future of women in America.
Myra Bradwell was the first woman admitted to the Illinois bar, founder and publisher of the Chicago Legal News, largely responsible for Mary Lincoln’s release from Bellevue Place and a suffragette.
She’s buried here in Chicago at Rosehill Cemetery. Last weekend, I left her a little token to thank her for all her work.
Every woman must remember we’ve been allowed to do this for less than 100 years. People lose rights all the time. We must be vigilant and use it or we could lose it. OWM fear us, and they should.
The Mary Ann
The MaryAnn docked at the Chicago Ave. bridge.
It’s still a working river here!
That Poor Lincoln Portrait
I feel so bad for the Healy portrait. What it has witnessed is a crime.
Those that know this Lincoln portrait know exactly where Mr. Lincoln’s boot is!