When Oak Park was a dry town that place was hoppin'
10.03.2026 15:38
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When Oak Park was a dry town that place was hoppin'
It looks like the deterioration was deliberate, windows left open on the upper stories for years,etc.
It's a shame.
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My son still uses my place as a mailing address and is in a trade union. I could wallpaper the vestibule almost daily.
I get enough of my own as a geezer.
Bartender and stockyard worker
Much depends on weight, but #2 looks right.
I have a few properly weighted forks and will wash dishes to use my favorite. My code insists I do all dishes rather than just wash favorite fork.
And there's one in Forest Park at the Mohr Community Center, one block north of the Desplaines Station at the end of the Blue Line.
Yes I have been waiting on a call back from social security to set up an appointment. I was lost in the shuffle a few weeks ago and am starting the process again.
When they knocked all those buildings down I wondered where the calf monstrosity wound up. It was unwieldy and weird, probably moth eaten but one of a kind.
That year teenage me worked across the street at the original Sears on State Street. There were pawn shops on that stretch of craziness full of lots of weird stuff. One had a taxidermied two headed calf in the window.
In honor of the 2026 baseball season I recommend reading or listening to Jane Leavy's The Last Boy.
Spring is in the air!
Trump famously never used email.
His father preached endlessly about putting nothing in writing.
They were fined for housing discrimination for putting C's for "colored" on top of apllications.
That never happened again.
Everything he has ever done has involved pushing boundaries of legality.
Heck, run it to the Blue Line too
Run a bus from the Orange Line to the Pink Line as a shuttle up and down Cicero
Emmy Lou Harris
Aretha Franklin
Blondie
Mavis Staples
Pretenders
Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
B52s
The Pretenders
Dolly Parton
The Roches
Joni Mitchell
Once canoeing in Canada we pulled up on a small island and smelled that strong musky smell and discovered a bear sleeping in a tangle of blueberry bushes. Exit stage left...
And to be that close to an unseen snake to be able to smell it.
Yearly credit to John Mack of Palmyra, NJ, for teaching a lot of 14-16 year olds Dr King's Riverside Church speech, so provocative it's still often ignored. If you don't know it, you don't know what he was really up to. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlk...
Here's how Vladimir Putin stole a Super Bowl ring from the Patriots' Robert Kraft - CBS Sports share.google/WFfCMFTo2E1I...
It looks a lot like the Oak Park Arms, but different architect (Roy France)
Also pushed banking interests in making student loans undischargable on bankruptcy.
Student debt is forever.
They give this no more thought than as if they're playing a game of Risk.
What goes around, comes around.
I was about to get the lifetime geezer pass but stopped the order in horror a couple of weeks ago when I realized I'd have a lifetime of chucklehead in my wallet. Now I must wait until he's gone.
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
Donald Trump's son owns 200,000 shares of stock in, and is on the board of, a drone maker that got a $620 million loan from the Pentagon, but I'm sure that's coincidental to the Chinese drone ban
We had a Tenda like yours. Finally got rid of it when we sold my mom's house. It had a 70 year run and all family members sat in it as babies.
Can't find the pic with my youngest brother with a beer bottle resting behind him.
I would hazard a guess that's he's just more forgetful. In the firehose of shit he's overseeing, there's just too much for an addled old man to reflect and act upon.
Man I remember Malheur so well. Such a clear signal of what was to come. Some of the most privileged & entitled white men in the f'ing world engaging in open lawlessness in the name of their own imagined victimhood ...
... and getting away with it.
That's the true American template.