Welcome! As you live in Chicago do all your pipes have wind caps ?
Good Morning from Chicago.
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Heh. Has been a windy week in fact & I did catch a face-full of ash & embers the other day. ?
No, I was doing business in the area. Unfortunately ran out of time and didn't end up going ?
I still want to run out that way this weekend. There’s an antique mall that I recall has a couple dozen estate pipes (quality, condition & price unknown) & it’s having a holiday sale, so if I do check that out AP&C is right close by.
Being newish in the hobby I still tend to the traditional, but that’s pretty slick - a little cyberpunk even. ?
When I first commuted to college from the suburbs, U of I had a satellite campus in Chicago on Navy Pier, and the cafeteria was at the end, and you could eat outside. Some days it was so windy, the food would blow off your fork. But the grandmas of various ethnicities who did the cooking made terrific international food ... especially Italian but others too.
Yep. My dad used to mess with younger folks about it, esp. since I double-dipped at UI-UC for seven years. Dad would say he went to U of I too … at Navy Pier. They’d look at him like he had a screw loose, or at least there was a punchline they couldn’t figure out. Then he’d explain how it was a real thing, a post-WW2 GI Bill setup years before there was a UIC.
Sure is. The Italian-American neighborhood on Taylor found out the hard way just how little clout it had once Boss Daley decided he wanted a full U of I campus in the city.
The whole state university board wanted an extension in the city. Weyerhouser (maybe Honeywell? Some large industrial concern) had a huge acerage campus on what is now the green line in Garfield Park that they wanted to evacuate for the suburbs that they were willing to exchange for tax and environmental forgiveness. But the pharaoh wanted to punish the Italians and mess with the feds putting a highway interchange in.
Welcome from Boston for my first 33 years and now I am in my last house I will ever own here in Florida.
My dad was at the game where Jordon scored 63 points in a double over time lost to my Celtics. I was so pissed he took my mother instead of me. When I eventually saw him after the game I said what the fuck dad, that was one of the greatest games ever plaid and you did me dirty. I told him I was going to call my attorney and then he would be screwed. Unfortunately my dad was my attorney so he just laughed in my face and told me I might be lucky to afford half an hour of his fees.
My dad was at the game where Jordon scored 63 points in a double over time lost to my Celtics. I was so pissed he took my mother instead of me. When I eventually saw him after the game I said what the fuck dad, that was one of the greatest games ever plaid and you did me dirty. I told him I was going to call my attorney and then he would be screwed. Unfortunately my dad was my attorney so he just laughed in my face and told me I might be lucky to afford half an hour of his fees.
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