Liz Gibbons
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Liz Gibbons
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Chicago, books, maps & meandering

Pic is from my grandfather's bar on W Madison c1962
My grandfather's bar in 1962 with Blatz, Schlitz or Meister Brau.
There's a record book where he tracked how many beers and how many shots sold each day.
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Detectorists
September 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
He thinks he's a Jedi.
August 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Slap Shot was the last movie on the marquee and stayed up there for years. Parents let us go there by ourselves to be in air conditioning. Or maybe just to get rid of us.

I loved that place, my neighborhood gem.
May 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reading this which is pretty rough going (war descriptions) & listening to Best Short Stories 2022 on Hoopla.
May 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Where my grandparents lived
May 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
When they sell off the federal buildings in Chicago, will they sell Calder's Flamingo?

Over my dead body.
March 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If you see this, quote post with a photo you took of a sunset
March 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Turner's 'Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and the Dying'.
Incredibly moving
February 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
January 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
November 14, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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September 15, 2024 at 5:57 PM