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| IPK wrote: | | JerryMagicKobe wrote: | | Hector the Pup wrote: | | I think JMK took care of the sharing quota for the week. |
I hope you all learned your lesson.
I notice that no one asked me about day 3.
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Day 3, petty pwease! |
do eeeeeet
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| Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | JerryMagicKobe wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | whaaaat the (bleep). I'm going to have to go back to NYC to do the JMK crawl. Thanks for the guggenheim tip, I've still not been there, nor have I been to new yankee stadium or the met.
I used to LOVE going to FAO before the rise of smartphone/selfie degeneracy. Starting around 2009ish the store became more and more crowded with each visit, by milleniturds from all over the world trying to yeet their social media likes into the sky. "Hey let's go get a video with that big piano from Sleepless in Seattle!" |
This might have been lost on a previous post, but find an excuse, any excuse (mine was pizza) to take the subway to Brooklyn, and then walk back to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge Prom. The Prom is a two-way boardwalk suspended over the traffic traversing the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River below. Lots to look at, and an incredible mix of locals and tourists of all kinds. Mind the bicycles - they are commuters willing to risk their lives riding a bicycle in the City, and are not to be messed with! But the view is worth the walk. Regardless of fitness level, other commitments, or how crazy you think it sounds (I was firmly against walking across some GD bridge for no reason). Definitely an all-time highlight. The view of Manhattan is a great mix of awe inspiring (achievement of man) and tranquil (air, land and sea), a rare blend of the elements for NYC.
For the Gug - peek at the website and plan accordingly. This trip, they had collages of b+w photographs of NYC. Cool enough. Lot's of bricks, and doorways and streetlights and haggard lookin' people and the subway and some more bricks,
and
I'm hungry.
Also, just hang out at Grand Central Station, people watching, sipping coffee, gotta do the whispering corners.
Wall street was creepy in that I got the super-secret back stage tour in 1994 when I was a brand new shiny stock broker and Wall Street was comparatively unregulated and on the verge of Tech Explosion. Now, the place is a series of Security Baricades resembling a Militarized Zone.
Cause it is, I guess.
And of course, the WTC. There are no words. I literally lost track of time contemplating an empty hole in the ground, barely able to comprehend the thousands of people represented.
And gone.
And then, just when you've seen enough, you realize that right over there is another one just like it, identical in every way except the different set of names engraved upon it. |
Thanks for this. I actually walked across the bridge a lifetime ago but I was a dumb kid and it was a just a bridge to me. I haven't been back to the WTC since 08 or so when they were clearing out the foundation...hurts thinking about it, makes me sad to look at the skyline without the twin towers.
brb chicago for 4 days. Anything I should know? gonna go to 6 flags and a cubs game but other than that no solid plans |
Pizza. Real pizza, not that NY bull (bleep) that you can fold and watch the oil run out. Girdano's is a fave of mine (love their crust), but Umo, Lou Malnati's, Geno's East all good choices. |
So here's somethin'. Before these 2 most recent trips I was a hardline deep dish guy, having disavowed "New York Style" pizza for its floppy, flimsiness and variance in quality from restaurant to restaurant. So after another long day of driving, flying, driving and not eating my stomach was empty and the most convenient place to eat, it turned out, was Giordano's which was a 2 minute walk from our hotel (City Suites - adjacent to the Belmont CTA station). I had deep dish in Chicago as a teen but that memory seems to have been wiped, which led to my shock when our waitress told us that a deep dish would take at least 45 minutes from time of order to cook. Long story short, the pizza was damned good, and again when we ended up having to eat at giordano's near the river. We also tried Lou Malnati's (thanks 24) and pequod's, which is thee pizza spot according to a few locals. All of these places were fantastic, however, my taste has definitely changed and I now prefer New York pizza (as in Pizza in NYC) to the deep dish format. Generally I prefer pan crust as made by pequod's. Over all other pies, period, I prefer Golden Boy in North Beach SF.
I liked Chicago a lot. Met with friends from elsewhere in the midwest there and explored the city together. Walked thru the big parks, saw the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum, went to a piano bar, a blues bar, a bunch of other bars, drank way too much, went to a prom-themed night time event at the Adler Observatory (got a story about that) walked the riverwalk. Turned out that the Cubs were on the road all week so I didn't get my first game at Wrigley which I grouched about the entire time. Rode the L a lot, it's a great system...goes to both of the city's airports.
Chicago=great town, but without the electricity and worldly feeling of NYC IMO
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Chicago is Midwest ny. Just not going to have that coastal panache and vibrancy, but a solid, friendly, excellent city.
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| Omar Little wrote: | | Chicago is Midwest ny. Just not going to have that coastal panache and vibrancy, but a solid, friendly, excellent city. |
I never liked Chicago until I actually went there.
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| Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | JerryMagicKobe wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | whaaaat the (bleep). I'm going to have to go back to NYC to do the JMK crawl. Thanks for the guggenheim tip, I've still not been there, nor have I been to new yankee stadium or the met.
I used to LOVE going to FAO before the rise of smartphone/selfie degeneracy. Starting around 2009ish the store became more and more crowded with each visit, by milleniturds from all over the world trying to yeet their social media likes into the sky. "Hey let's go get a video with that big piano from Sleepless in Seattle!" |
This might have been lost on a previous post, but find an excuse, any excuse (mine was pizza) to take the subway to Brooklyn, and then walk back to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge Prom. The Prom is a two-way boardwalk suspended over the traffic traversing the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River below. Lots to look at, and an incredible mix of locals and tourists of all kinds. Mind the bicycles - they are commuters willing to risk their lives riding a bicycle in the City, and are not to be messed with! But the view is worth the walk. Regardless of fitness level, other commitments, or how crazy you think it sounds (I was firmly against walking across some GD bridge for no reason). Definitely an all-time highlight. The view of Manhattan is a great mix of awe inspiring (achievement of man) and tranquil (air, land and sea), a rare blend of the elements for NYC.
For the Gug - peek at the website and plan accordingly. This trip, they had collages of b+w photographs of NYC. Cool enough. Lot's of bricks, and doorways and streetlights and haggard lookin' people and the subway and some more bricks,
and
I'm hungry.
Also, just hang out at Grand Central Station, people watching, sipping coffee, gotta do the whispering corners.
Wall street was creepy in that I got the super-secret back stage tour in 1994 when I was a brand new shiny stock broker and Wall Street was comparatively unregulated and on the verge of Tech Explosion. Now, the place is a series of Security Baricades resembling a Militarized Zone.
Cause it is, I guess.
And of course, the WTC. There are no words. I literally lost track of time contemplating an empty hole in the ground, barely able to comprehend the thousands of people represented.
And gone.
And then, just when you've seen enough, you realize that right over there is another one just like it, identical in every way except the different set of names engraved upon it. |
Thanks for this. I actually walked across the bridge a lifetime ago but I was a dumb kid and it was a just a bridge to me. I haven't been back to the WTC since 08 or so when they were clearing out the foundation...hurts thinking about it, makes me sad to look at the skyline without the twin towers.
brb chicago for 4 days. Anything I should know? gonna go to 6 flags and a cubs game but other than that no solid plans |
Pizza. Real pizza, not that NY bull (bleep) that you can fold and watch the oil run out. Girdano's is a fave of mine (love their crust), but Umo, Lou Malnati's, Geno's East all good choices. |
So here's somethin'. Before these 2 most recent trips I was a hardline deep dish guy, having disavowed "New York Style" pizza for its floppy, flimsiness and variance in quality from restaurant to restaurant. So after another long day of driving, flying, driving and not eating my stomach was empty and the most convenient place to eat, it turned out, was Giordano's which was a 2 minute walk from our hotel (City Suites - adjacent to the Belmont CTA station). I had deep dish in Chicago as a teen but that memory seems to have been wiped, which led to my shock when our waitress told us that a deep dish would take at least 45 minutes from time of order to cook. Long story short, the pizza was damned good, and again when we ended up having to eat at giordano's near the river. We also tried Lou Malnati's (thanks 24) and pequod's, which is thee pizza spot according to a few locals. All of these places were fantastic, however, my taste has definitely changed and I now prefer New York pizza (as in Pizza in NYC) to the deep dish format. Generally I prefer pan crust as made by pequod's. Over all other pies, period, I prefer Golden Boy in North Beach SF.
I liked Chicago a lot. Met with friends from elsewhere in the midwest there and explored the city together. Walked thru the big parks, saw the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum, went to a piano bar, a blues bar, a bunch of other bars, drank way too much, went to a prom-themed night time event at the Adler Observatory (got a story about that) walked the riverwalk. Turned out that the Cubs were on the road all week so I didn't get my first game at Wrigley which I grouched about the entire time. Rode the L a lot, it's a great system...goes to both of the city's airports.
Chicago=great town, but without the electricity and worldly feeling of NYC IMO |
Red head piano bar? And please tell me you went to buddy guy’s blues bar, not the house of blues.
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That Mexican lives in Chicago...
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| Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | JerryMagicKobe wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | whaaaat the (bleep). I'm going to have to go back to NYC to do the JMK crawl. Thanks for the guggenheim tip, I've still not been there, nor have I been to new yankee stadium or the met.
I used to LOVE going to FAO before the rise of smartphone/selfie degeneracy. Starting around 2009ish the store became more and more crowded with each visit, by milleniturds from all over the world trying to yeet their social media likes into the sky. "Hey let's go get a video with that big piano from Sleepless in Seattle!" |
This might have been lost on a previous post, but find an excuse, any excuse (mine was pizza) to take the subway to Brooklyn, and then walk back to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge Prom. The Prom is a two-way boardwalk suspended over the traffic traversing the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River below. Lots to look at, and an incredible mix of locals and tourists of all kinds. Mind the bicycles - they are commuters willing to risk their lives riding a bicycle in the City, and are not to be messed with! But the view is worth the walk. Regardless of fitness level, other commitments, or how crazy you think it sounds (I was firmly against walking across some GD bridge for no reason). Definitely an all-time highlight. The view of Manhattan is a great mix of awe inspiring (achievement of man) and tranquil (air, land and sea), a rare blend of the elements for NYC.
For the Gug - peek at the website and plan accordingly. This trip, they had collages of b+w photographs of NYC. Cool enough. Lot's of bricks, and doorways and streetlights and haggard lookin' people and the subway and some more bricks,
and
I'm hungry.
Also, just hang out at Grand Central Station, people watching, sipping coffee, gotta do the whispering corners.
Wall street was creepy in that I got the super-secret back stage tour in 1994 when I was a brand new shiny stock broker and Wall Street was comparatively unregulated and on the verge of Tech Explosion. Now, the place is a series of Security Baricades resembling a Militarized Zone.
Cause it is, I guess.
And of course, the WTC. There are no words. I literally lost track of time contemplating an empty hole in the ground, barely able to comprehend the thousands of people represented.
And gone.
And then, just when you've seen enough, you realize that right over there is another one just like it, identical in every way except the different set of names engraved upon it. |
Thanks for this. I actually walked across the bridge a lifetime ago but I was a dumb kid and it was a just a bridge to me. I haven't been back to the WTC since 08 or so when they were clearing out the foundation...hurts thinking about it, makes me sad to look at the skyline without the twin towers.
brb chicago for 4 days. Anything I should know? gonna go to 6 flags and a cubs game but other than that no solid plans |
Pizza. Real pizza, not that NY bull (bleep) that you can fold and watch the oil run out. Girdano's is a fave of mine (love their crust), but Umo, Lou Malnati's, Geno's East all good choices. |
So here's somethin'. Before these 2 most recent trips I was a hardline deep dish guy, having disavowed "New York Style" pizza for its floppy, flimsiness and variance in quality from restaurant to restaurant. So after another long day of driving, flying, driving and not eating my stomach was empty and the most convenient place to eat, it turned out, was Giordano's which was a 2 minute walk from our hotel (City Suites - adjacent to the Belmont CTA station). I had deep dish in Chicago as a teen but that memory seems to have been wiped, which led to my shock when our waitress told us that a deep dish would take at least 45 minutes from time of order to cook. Long story short, the pizza was damned good, and again when we ended up having to eat at giordano's near the river. We also tried Lou Malnati's (thanks 24) and pequod's, which is thee pizza spot according to a few locals. All of these places were fantastic, however, my taste has definitely changed and I now prefer New York pizza (as in Pizza in NYC) to the deep dish format. Generally I prefer pan crust as made by pequod's. Over all other pies, period, I prefer Golden Boy in North Beach SF.
I liked Chicago a lot. Met with friends from elsewhere in the midwest there and explored the city together. Walked thru the big parks, saw the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum, went to a piano bar, a blues bar, a bunch of other bars, drank way too much, went to a prom-themed night time event at the Adler Observatory (got a story about that) walked the riverwalk. Turned out that the Cubs were on the road all week so I didn't get my first game at Wrigley which I grouched about the entire time. Rode the L a lot, it's a great system...goes to both of the city's airports.
Chicago=great town, but without the electricity and worldly feeling of NYC IMO |
Red head piano bar? And please tell me you went to buddy guy’s blues bar, not the house of blues. |
yes @ buddy guy, great time
no @ red head...we went to a dueling piano bar called howl at the moon which was fun, but not exceptional. there's one in San Diego called shouthouse which is the best dueling piano I've been to
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| Howl at the Moon might be a chain. I'm pretty sure the one at Universal City Walk is between Margaritaville and Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co., two of the greatest one off restaurants ever built. |
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| Hector the Pup wrote: | | Howl at the Moon might be a chain. I'm pretty sure the one at Universal City Walk is between Margaritaville and Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co., two of the greatest one off restaurants ever built. |
Man, I do miss Chi-Chi's
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| 20,000 wrote: | | Hector the Pup wrote: | | Howl at the Moon might be a chain. I'm pretty sure the one at Universal City Walk is between Margaritaville and Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co., two of the greatest one off restaurants ever built. |
Man, I do miss Chi-Chi's |
Mexicans!
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| Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | JerryMagicKobe wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | whaaaat the (bleep). I'm going to have to go back to NYC to do the JMK crawl. Thanks for the guggenheim tip, I've still not been there, nor have I been to new yankee stadium or the met.
I used to LOVE going to FAO before the rise of smartphone/selfie degeneracy. Starting around 2009ish the store became more and more crowded with each visit, by milleniturds from all over the world trying to yeet their social media likes into the sky. "Hey let's go get a video with that big piano from Sleepless in Seattle!" |
This might have been lost on a previous post, but find an excuse, any excuse (mine was pizza) to take the subway to Brooklyn, and then walk back to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge Prom. The Prom is a two-way boardwalk suspended over the traffic traversing the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River below. Lots to look at, and an incredible mix of locals and tourists of all kinds. Mind the bicycles - they are commuters willing to risk their lives riding a bicycle in the City, and are not to be messed with! But the view is worth the walk. Regardless of fitness level, other commitments, or how crazy you think it sounds (I was firmly against walking across some GD bridge for no reason). Definitely an all-time highlight. The view of Manhattan is a great mix of awe inspiring (achievement of man) and tranquil (air, land and sea), a rare blend of the elements for NYC.
For the Gug - peek at the website and plan accordingly. This trip, they had collages of b+w photographs of NYC. Cool enough. Lot's of bricks, and doorways and streetlights and haggard lookin' people and the subway and some more bricks,
and
I'm hungry.
Also, just hang out at Grand Central Station, people watching, sipping coffee, gotta do the whispering corners.
Wall street was creepy in that I got the super-secret back stage tour in 1994 when I was a brand new shiny stock broker and Wall Street was comparatively unregulated and on the verge of Tech Explosion. Now, the place is a series of Security Baricades resembling a Militarized Zone.
Cause it is, I guess.
And of course, the WTC. There are no words. I literally lost track of time contemplating an empty hole in the ground, barely able to comprehend the thousands of people represented.
And gone.
And then, just when you've seen enough, you realize that right over there is another one just like it, identical in every way except the different set of names engraved upon it. |
Thanks for this. I actually walked across the bridge a lifetime ago but I was a dumb kid and it was a just a bridge to me. I haven't been back to the WTC since 08 or so when they were clearing out the foundation...hurts thinking about it, makes me sad to look at the skyline without the twin towers.
brb chicago for 4 days. Anything I should know? gonna go to 6 flags and a cubs game but other than that no solid plans |
Pizza. Real pizza, not that NY bull (bleep) that you can fold and watch the oil run out. Girdano's is a fave of mine (love their crust), but Umo, Lou Malnati's, Geno's East all good choices. |
So here's somethin'. Before these 2 most recent trips I was a hardline deep dish guy, having disavowed "New York Style" pizza for its floppy, flimsiness and variance in quality from restaurant to restaurant. So after another long day of driving, flying, driving and not eating my stomach was empty and the most convenient place to eat, it turned out, was Giordano's which was a 2 minute walk from our hotel (City Suites - adjacent to the Belmont CTA station). I had deep dish in Chicago as a teen but that memory seems to have been wiped, which led to my shock when our waitress told us that a deep dish would take at least 45 minutes from time of order to cook. Long story short, the pizza was damned good, and again when we ended up having to eat at giordano's near the river. We also tried Lou Malnati's (thanks 24) and pequod's, which is thee pizza spot according to a few locals. All of these places were fantastic, however, my taste has definitely changed and I now prefer New York pizza (as in Pizza in NYC) to the deep dish format. Generally I prefer pan crust as made by pequod's. Over all other pies, period, I prefer Golden Boy in North Beach SF.
I liked Chicago a lot. Met with friends from elsewhere in the midwest there and explored the city together. Walked thru the big parks, saw the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum, went to a piano bar, a blues bar, a bunch of other bars, drank way too much, went to a prom-themed night time event at the Adler Observatory (got a story about that) walked the riverwalk. Turned out that the Cubs were on the road all week so I didn't get my first game at Wrigley which I grouched about the entire time. Rode the L a lot, it's a great system...goes to both of the city's airports.
Chicago=great town, but without the electricity and worldly feeling of NYC IMO |
Red head piano bar? And please tell me you went to buddy guy’s blues bar, not the house of blues. |
yes @ buddy guy, great time
no @ red head...we went to a dueling piano bar called howl at the moon which was fun, but not exceptional. there's one in San Diego called shouthouse which is the best dueling piano I've been to |
Excellent. Used to go into Buddy's a couple times a year when it was a block south. It had a lot better feel then (peeling tile and smoke stained ceiling tiles), and Buddy was often at the bar.
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| Hector the Pup wrote: | | Howl at the Moon might be a chain. I'm pretty sure the one at Universal City Walk is between Margaritaville and Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co., two of the greatest one off restaurants ever built. |
Is the one at citywalk a howl at the moon? I went to that one years back, it was god-awful. Nobody was into it, and nobody was tipping the performers. Awful. The Chicago one was ok.
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| Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | JerryMagicKobe wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | whaaaat the (bleep). I'm going to have to go back to NYC to do the JMK crawl. Thanks for the guggenheim tip, I've still not been there, nor have I been to new yankee stadium or the met.
I used to LOVE going to FAO before the rise of smartphone/selfie degeneracy. Starting around 2009ish the store became more and more crowded with each visit, by milleniturds from all over the world trying to yeet their social media likes into the sky. "Hey let's go get a video with that big piano from Sleepless in Seattle!" |
This might have been lost on a previous post, but find an excuse, any excuse (mine was pizza) to take the subway to Brooklyn, and then walk back to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge Prom. The Prom is a two-way boardwalk suspended over the traffic traversing the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River below. Lots to look at, and an incredible mix of locals and tourists of all kinds. Mind the bicycles - they are commuters willing to risk their lives riding a bicycle in the City, and are not to be messed with! But the view is worth the walk. Regardless of fitness level, other commitments, or how crazy you think it sounds (I was firmly against walking across some GD bridge for no reason). Definitely an all-time highlight. The view of Manhattan is a great mix of awe inspiring (achievement of man) and tranquil (air, land and sea), a rare blend of the elements for NYC.
For the Gug - peek at the website and plan accordingly. This trip, they had collages of b+w photographs of NYC. Cool enough. Lot's of bricks, and doorways and streetlights and haggard lookin' people and the subway and some more bricks,
and
I'm hungry.
Also, just hang out at Grand Central Station, people watching, sipping coffee, gotta do the whispering corners.
Wall street was creepy in that I got the super-secret back stage tour in 1994 when I was a brand new shiny stock broker and Wall Street was comparatively unregulated and on the verge of Tech Explosion. Now, the place is a series of Security Baricades resembling a Militarized Zone.
Cause it is, I guess.
And of course, the WTC. There are no words. I literally lost track of time contemplating an empty hole in the ground, barely able to comprehend the thousands of people represented.
And gone.
And then, just when you've seen enough, you realize that right over there is another one just like it, identical in every way except the different set of names engraved upon it. |
Thanks for this. I actually walked across the bridge a lifetime ago but I was a dumb kid and it was a just a bridge to me. I haven't been back to the WTC since 08 or so when they were clearing out the foundation...hurts thinking about it, makes me sad to look at the skyline without the twin towers.
brb chicago for 4 days. Anything I should know? gonna go to 6 flags and a cubs game but other than that no solid plans |
Pizza. Real pizza, not that NY bull (bleep) that you can fold and watch the oil run out. Girdano's is a fave of mine (love their crust), but Umo, Lou Malnati's, Geno's East all good choices. |
So here's somethin'. Before these 2 most recent trips I was a hardline deep dish guy, having disavowed "New York Style" pizza for its floppy, flimsiness and variance in quality from restaurant to restaurant. So after another long day of driving, flying, driving and not eating my stomach was empty and the most convenient place to eat, it turned out, was Giordano's which was a 2 minute walk from our hotel (City Suites - adjacent to the Belmont CTA station). I had deep dish in Chicago as a teen but that memory seems to have been wiped, which led to my shock when our waitress told us that a deep dish would take at least 45 minutes from time of order to cook. Long story short, the pizza was damned good, and again when we ended up having to eat at giordano's near the river. We also tried Lou Malnati's (thanks 24) and pequod's, which is thee pizza spot according to a few locals. All of these places were fantastic, however, my taste has definitely changed and I now prefer New York pizza (as in Pizza in NYC) to the deep dish format. Generally I prefer pan crust as made by pequod's. Over all other pies, period, I prefer Golden Boy in North Beach SF.
I liked Chicago a lot. Met with friends from elsewhere in the midwest there and explored the city together. Walked thru the big parks, saw the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum, went to a piano bar, a blues bar, a bunch of other bars, drank way too much, went to a prom-themed night time event at the Adler Observatory (got a story about that) walked the riverwalk. Turned out that the Cubs were on the road all week so I didn't get my first game at Wrigley which I grouched about the entire time. Rode the L a lot, it's a great system...goes to both of the city's airports.
Chicago=great town, but without the electricity and worldly feeling of NYC IMO |
Red head piano bar? And please tell me you went to buddy guy’s blues bar, not the house of blues. |
yes @ buddy guy, great time
no @ red head...we went to a dueling piano bar called howl at the moon which was fun, but not exceptional. there's one in San Diego called shouthouse which is the best dueling piano I've been to |
Excellent. Used to go into Buddy's a couple times a year when it was a block south. It had a lot better feel then (peeling tile and smoke stained ceiling tiles), and Buddy was often at the bar. |
that's lucky. I'll have to come back to give the place a proper appreciation, no goggles.
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| Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | Hector the Pup wrote: | | Howl at the Moon might be a chain. I'm pretty sure the one at Universal City Walk is between Margaritaville and Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co., two of the greatest one off restaurants ever built. |
Is the one at citywalk a howl at the moon? I went to that one years back, it was god-awful. Nobody was into it, and nobody was tipping the performers. Awful. The Chicago one was ok. |
It was the last time I went there, but that was a very long time ago.
And after a quick ride in the googlemobile, yup, it still is.
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Welp, that engagement didn't last long.
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| IPK wrote: | | 20,000 wrote: | | Welp, that engagement didn't last long. |
Please delete this post. |
And I had such high hopes.
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| ElginBaylor wrote: | | IPK wrote: | | 20,000 wrote: | | Welp, that engagement didn't last long. |
Please delete this post. |
And I had such high hopes. |
Almost didn't catch the letter 'p' in the last word.
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| 20,000 wrote: | | Welp, that engagement didn't last long. |
Sorry to hear that. But a broken engagement is much better than a divorce.
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| Omar Little wrote: | | 20,000 wrote: | | Welp, that engagement didn't last long. |
Sorry to hear that. But a broken engagement is much better than a divorce. |
Cheaper too. |
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