The Impossible Year

Tag: wrigleyville

  • Bombastic Cafe Window, 30 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   The window of Bombastic Cafe on the southport corridor has a skeleton in a plague mask and another with a lightbulb in its mouth. A delightful amount of weird for a neighborhood not exactly known for being edgy.

  • Belmont Flyover Crane, 9 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biking back from Chicago Comics I stopped to appreciate the clear blue sky we were having and how this crane for the CTA construction looked.

  • Beginning to Look A Lot Like a Pandemic, 18 November 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Caught this masked holiday window display while running some errands and it hit me as surreal.

  • Robots!, 2 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I really enjoy the toy robots in the windows of the Southport Avenue Cafe Tola.

  • The Music Box, 19 September 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   They’ve started occasionally closing off Southport Avenue for street dining. Beth Ann and I went to Bombastic for coffee and then sat on the curb and people watched in front of our beloved historic landmark theater: The Music Box Theatre. I know movie theaters…

  • Waiting for a Ride, 9 September 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   With everyone stuck at home lots of us are doing deep cleanings. Cycling around I discovered this rain-soaked stuffed bear, in a chair, waiting to be picked up as trash. There was something beautiful and sad about it at the same time.

  • Clark and Racine, 28 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   There was a pro-Trump rally outside of Wrigley Field. Myself and others went to counter protest. Just two years ago I was walking by this corner and tore down a bunch of ‘Patriot Front’ signs. It’s disturbing to me to see what is becoming…

  • Wrigley Field Marquee, 17 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Wrigleyville was eerie quiet while a Cardinals home game took place without fans to watch it. Truly surreal.

  • 7-Eleven Clark and Southport, 5 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The intersection of Clark and Southport is prime real estate on two busy streets, with a bus stop right next to it, and immediately adjacent to an affluent residential neighborhood. A prime location for a convenience store.  Well, over the last few years 7-Eleven…

  • W Byron St, 1 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Cycling around I was stuck to find that much of W Byron St. had its trees wrapped in pride colors.