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Chicago’s eleven fingered Blues Ambassador
Hound Dog Taylor
Au revoir to Louisiana son turned Argo Records star Clarence “Frogman” Henry. (March 19, 1937 – April 7, 2024)
Henry will be remembered for his hit “Ain’t Got A Home” in which the then nineteen year old parlayed his squeaky voice into a charting record for Argo Records. Argo was a division of Chicago’s Chess Records.
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Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
at Chicago Stadium
April 9, 1977
Set list
The Song Remains the Same
Sick Again
Nobody's Fault but Mine
In My Time of Dying
Since I've Been Loving You
No Quarter
Ten Years Gone
The Battle of Evermore
Going to California
Black Country Woman
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
White Summer/Black Mountain Side
Kashmir
Moby Dick
Guitar Solo
Achilles Last Stand
Stairway to Heaven
Encore:
Rock and Roll
Trampled Under Foot
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Lovely Rita
BDR529
Heard on the police scanner...
"Use of unnecessary violence in apprehension of the Blues Brothers . . . has been approved"
Mike and Otis at Soldier Field during that glorious season
Happy Birthday to Chicago’s adopted son Muddy Waters, born McKinnley Morganfield on this date, April 4, 1913.
Morganfield was discovered and recorded in a sharecropper’s shack on the Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi by Alan Lomax in 1941. Two years later, McKinnley would pack his bags, change his name and seek his fortune in Chicago, as did so many of his Delta people did.
Happy Birthday to Chicago Blues Legend Muddy Waters.
Ronnie and Buddy
Crossroads Festival
“Chicago, Illinois.
One of the Chicago and North Western Railroad streamliner diesel electric locomotives. These trains are operated jointly with the Union Pacific Railroad to the West Coast."
Acetate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information
The Babe swinging for the fences at Comiskey
“Robert Johnson? Me? I never heard of him, personally.”
- Muddy Waters
An amazing photo of two scoreboards at Wrigley!
Circa 1937
Taken while the centerfield scoreboard we know was being built.
Photo-Kevin Wenning
The birth of cool
WWII veteran sits in Union Station
Feb 1944
Photo-Chicago Sun-Times
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Heard on the police scanner...
"Use of unnecessary violence in apprehension of the Blues Brothers . . . has been approved"
Looking north up Canal past Union Station’s head house and concourse.
Love that mid-century Kodachrome.
Soldier Field and the Field Museum aerial view before advent of drone photography
Last run from Union Station before Amtrak service begins, 225 South Canal Street, Chicago, Illinois. (The old post office stands witness)
April 1971
Photo- Sun Times
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The Chicago Way
Officer James McDowell, Officer William Deverin, and Officer James Leonard standing outside the West Lake Street elevated train station
Photo- Chicago Daily News
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Football player George Trafton Trafton holding a football on the ground at Wrigley Field
1929
Photo- Chicago Daily News Archive
Michigan at the AIC circa 1910
Thompson's service
Photo- John Vachon for FSA/OWI July 1941
Rolling out of B&O’s Grand Central Station
Fort Dearborn Coffee Shop
Photo- Wayne Sorce