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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge

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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.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 15h

When Steve Allen (who was also from the South Side) got his summer replacement show Jazz Scene USA on the air, he picked none other than OB to host it.
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2 Phineas Newborn Jr Trio Jazz Scene USA 1962)

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 15h

OB put together a revue called Opportunity Please Knock with youth from Woodlawn, many of whom were involved w gangs. Held it at 1st Presbyterian Church. That church's new pastor last week got pepper-balled in the face by ICE.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 16h

So much great terra cotta right around there. That & the theatre, then WGN Flags and the building at 79th & East End

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 1d

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 1d

Was originally a nursing home, Sheridan Pavilion, then a hospital (Sheridan General) shut down for a while in '68 after refusing a woman who'd given birth in her car, and she'd been escorted there by a cop

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 1d

1989 hospital closure/sale article

Reposted by McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge

kelloggfireman.bsky.social @kelloggfireman.bsky.social · 1d

Killed a cop as a teenager. My friend Craig Keller broke this story for Chicago Magazine, circa 1996. Don’t have that article handy but here’s a brief Police Memorial Foundation item: cpdmemorial.org/fallen-offic...

Patrolman Albert Horace Brown | Star #2806 | Chicago Police Memorial Foundation

cpdmemorial.org

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 1d

Thee quintessential Chicago accent, even over Dennis Farina (whose boss he played in Crime Story). RIP

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 2d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 2d

Yep!

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 2d

One of the neater remnants is the curve of 76th immediately west of the tracks/Skyway at Greenwood. That's where Paul Cornell's watch factory was.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 2d

South Chicago Ave and spots adjacent to it along that path had such a wide variety of industries its entire lengh from 67th to 95th. Elston is its closest comparison

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 2d

You mention Boushelle. That was part of that era of great Chicago jingles (Empire is the last one). My little league coach was a corpulent ball of rage and anger named Hudson. We would sing 'Hudson weighs 2-700'. Which I think is incredibly witty for 2nd graders.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like they're flying over the Ike. Wonder if it's that traffic enforcement thing they were doing

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 2d

Danny Lyon said he took all his photos of Uptown on that one block of Clifton.

McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 3d

This looks like it was taken in the alley behind Clifton Ave. where Truman College now stands. Looking north. The Uptown Bank building is visible in the far background (bank is at Lawrence/Broadway)

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 3d

Saab story

(I'll show myself out)

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 4d

I enjoy the ghosts!

McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 4d

1951 from the roof of the Gladstone looking southwest. Aside from the bell tower at left, everything in this view is gone.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 4d

Destroyed by fire late '50s, replaced w an apartment bldg that itself was demolished in the '80s

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 4d

Clarence Darrow lived here.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 4d

What did the alderman know and when?

South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 5d

That lead paint has some staying power.

McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 5d

7th not being on here makes me wonder what/when he knew.

Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 5d

Not at all surprising that 7th Ward Ald. Greg Mitchell is not on this list. 7500 S. South Shore Drive is located in the 7th Ward, by the way.

Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 5d

Statement on Abuse of Power of ICE and Other Federal Agents in Chicago

McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 5d

FOIA all his comms

McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 5d

Mitchell probably called it in himself

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