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.
McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge
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Woodlawn streets
*I say 'oddly' because from 1970-2000, everything in the view of the first photo was demolished and not replaced. So today's view looks like this
The shop visible behind him on the right behind the el track support is this. Oddly, the building lasted until about 2007.
Hey do you enjoy @programme4.tv and want to stay immersed in the alternate-universe-past? Well, tune into WIWS Radio, which broadcasts songs/jingles/commercials/announcements with production style centered around '62-'72. Not an oldies show, more like a radio time machine: www.wiwsradio.com
Lester Young and McKie Fitzhugh, mid '50s. Promo photo taken for a Pres performance presented by McKie at the Pershing Hotel ballroom.
Still there, albeit closed, as of April '26
Champ is walking east from University Ave and probably either just left or is heading to Johnny Coulon's gymnasium, which was behind the photographer on the right
South Shore Line halts services, shelters open following storm damage
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Extraordinary story. A joy that Sonny Rollins lived long enough to see this horrific miscarriage of justice overturned that once ensnared his father. Bless Aidan Levy and Terri Hinte for their roles in making this happen, and a H/T to @thenation.com for publishing.
