Hyde Park Trish

a postcard of a boy in bed stairing up at nightmarish turkey, pumpkin pie, and dancing somethings, with the caption "May you Thanksgiving never end in Dreams Like These"

If I could edit I'd have added this image I thought would show up from the Newberry page, which is why I said you could alarm family and friends.

I have long loved the Newberry Library postcards and now you can send them to alarm family and friends! digital.newberry.org/postcard-sen...

Thanksgiving, 1928 style Thank you all for reading along!

The Thanksgiving menus at the grand hotels of Hyde Park #Chicago in 1928 and the postcards folks used to send each other. You didn't have to have turkey! (separate link to the Newberry postcard page in replies) open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

From the corner of 55th and Lake Park, half the wall is gone and all the tree growth--including what looked like a fabulous apple tree.

From the corner of 55th and Lake Park, half the wall is gone and all the tree growth--including what looked like a fabulous apple tree.

I think I said where it was in the alt text and forgot in the post. This is between 55th and 56th Streets, along Lake Park in Chicago. Maybe they'll leave the section still standing as it's vertical. Neglect of the tree growth etc. had caused roots to push parts of the wall out.

Photo of dirt, the remains of stone wall, along Lake Park. Leading to the Hyde Park Historical Society cable car builidng

Bye bye stone retaining wall that lasted 100 years. (I think it dates from when the raised tracks were infilled and the viaducts finished in stone).

Poster that says Hyde Park Trivia, Woodlawn Tap, Saturday January 3, 6 PM start, 3 rounds, teams of 1-4 $20 per team, fundraiser for Nichols Park Advisory Council

Hyde Parkers #Chicago come have great food, a beer, and learn stuff. Mark your calendars for January 3 in Jimmy's. The topics are Hyde Park Sports and Sports figures, Hyde Park Politics and Politicians, and Hyde Park Buildings. Lots of questions folks should know among the tie breakers!

Drug companies have hired over 500 lobbyists this year to gut the Inflation Reduction Act's drug price negotiation provisions.

They outnumber public interest advocates more than 20 to 1.

We must get money out of politics and end Big Pharma's deadly greed once and for all.

An Interview with Peggy Webber - Part Four My 97-year-old next door neighbor.

I have hundreds of hours of un-transcribed conversations with my elderly neighbor who worked with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and the Smurfs.

I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:

kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols.

The fuck?

wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Harvard: “Because Larry Summers asked his close friend, a convicted sex offender and the leader of a vast pedophilia ring, for advice on making sexual advances on a young mentee, we are cutting off all his responsibilities except close contact with undergraduate women.”

If you have the PBS Passport service, you can stream the entire series of “The American Revolution.”

One significant way to fix the federal deficit? Dramatically raise the minimum wage across our country. It will cause an increase in tax collections, much less people on federal assistance, and health outcomes will improve causing less reliance on federal health programs.

Wow, that was a fun wander. Thanks!

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

A line drawing from the Tribune showing Mayor Harrison with a sign that says "who says I'm lazy", top-hat wearing professors carrying the History of Lake Michigan, ladies next to cows kicking lanterns in front of burning cauldrons of fire with two firemen standing next to each one, etc.

Definitely didn't earn a star on the Chicago flag! Here's the illustration of the "fire recreation" fiasco.

I figured it was the connection to the fire that caught your eye. Such a daft idea. I've added in that wood cut of all the buckets of sputtering red fire.

Thanks!

Oh cool. Do you remember where? I confess I didn't dig too far. I loved the idea that they were going to recreate the fire by uh having explosives on the roofs of all the buildings downtown.

Chicago Centennial There may be reasons some things are forgotten

A lost and somewhat silly episode in Chicago history open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.

A row of doors acting as a fence around a demolition site.

Two brightly colored doors not unlike the painting

The real world being utterly surreal. These are DUR photos taken by Mildred Mead, 1957, Uchicago photographic archive. The first is 55th Street. The second is Cable Court.

such a gorgeous day today

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

—FDR, 1936

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

They’re all just looting the treasury now