Good ... hopefully the cake tasted fine, too!
The report copied (page A7):
Walter, In one of my many lives in Chicago, I once lived on Wilson Avenue - back in the late fifties.
Swimpy, Thanks for sharing that good news about the Cubs. "We" did bring them good luck by our attendance. Six? Is that a new record or something?
Not a record, but it's their longest winning streak in two years. Joe should be walking on air about now. And, yes, I think we should take credit.
Perhaps we'll get our names on some pavement?
Walter, I think it's too early for the tombstone.
But this is a MUST for my next visit NOW!
Quote:In the floor behind the bar at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, a century-old jazz club in Uptown, lies a door. Beneath it: a musty labyrinth of gangster and Uptown history.
Quote:These musty concrete hallways and storage rooms are remnants of a tunnel system used to haul coal in the first part of the 20th Century. The Green Mill end of the tunnel provides the nightclub with its storeroom and cellar. Boxes of beer bottles and mini-pretzels wait to be summoned. Electrical wires and various pipes slink around the ceiling. Side rooms -- cubbyholes said to be the sites of gangster poker games -- hold dust-caked bar stools.
Source for text:
today's Chicago Tribune (full report there)
Source for pics: Chicago Tribune, 28.06.07, Section2 ['Tempo'], page 1
Walter,
Did joefromchicago talk to you about The Green Mill? I am sure he would have taken you there.
We attempted to do a field trip to the Green Mill immediately after last year's meet-up at Sublime1's place, but we ran into some ... ehem ... unanticipated difficulties.
I'm sure he took me there last year, together with several other A2Kers. I don't quite remember if Walter was one of them, but I think he was.
Does the CIA know about these hallways? They look like the perfect place to torture illegal enemy combatants from Old Europe.
You weren't in the Green Mill with me, Yitwail, Mrs Yitwail, and the others, Joe?
joe, Sublime and I made another attempt to visit the Green Mill after a gathering last winter. We didn't stay long. The guys kept getting into trouble.
joe and I had a nice time there last fall. Maybe Sublime is the troublemaker :wink:
Wow. Never knew about the dungeon. How cool is that?
I was there some years ago. Can't remember if anyone was performing or not. It's hazy...
Thomas wrote:I'm sure he took me there last year, together with several other A2Kers. I don't quite remember if Walter was one of them, but I think he was.
I've been only to Kingston Mines last year ... with you, Thomas, and the others.
Thomas wrote:You weren't in the Green Mill with me, Yitwail, Mrs Yitwail, and the others, Joe?
Last year? I don't recall. When would that have been?
My memory is somewhat fuzzy -- but if Kingston Mines was the place with the two stages, it was the evening before Kingston Mines. When we left the place with the two stages, the band I'd seen at the Green Mill was just beginning to play in the other hall at this place.
Kingston Mines was the place with the two stages, indeed.
(And, yes, I remember having been told that some of you were out the night before.)
Okay now, I'm confused. Last year, we went to Kingston Mines. I remember that clearly. Then another night we went to a nicer club...great music there, too. (That wasn't the Green Mill?) And we tried to go to another place, but, as joe said, O'Bill ran into "some difficulties." (Or was THAT the Green Mill?)
