Liz Gibbons

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Chicago, books, maps & meandering Pic is from my grandfather's bar on W Madison c1962

Harry Weese townhomes on the Chicago River
Old lady with plants and lace curtains.
Closed movie theater, The Ritz in Berwyn on the 6300 block of Roosevelt. The building front is three stories of yellow brick with terracotta decor and four 'urns' across the top. Large light up sign proclaims RITZ.
My grandfather tending bar near Madison & Hamlin c1962. A man behind the bar looks towards the door while a patron engages in conversation looking in the opposite direction. There's advertisements for Blatz and Schlitz.
Bartender wearily looks out the window of a working man's bar in 1962 with a Blatz sign behind him.
sunset in the salt marshes of Delaware
Turner's "Slavers throwing overboard the dead and the dying"
Patti (or Selma?) relaxing in the bath with a cig