20 Dec
2010
20 Dec
'10
8:30 p.m.
On 20 Dec 2010 at 20:18, Rich Alderson wrote:
Second City is simply riffing on a real incident.
The Second City routine is circa 1960. So manybe not.
[1] The Midway Plaisance was created as part of the
grounds of the
1893
Columbian Exposition. The University of Chicago's campus borders
the Midway (as it is called locally) on both sides of the
boulevard for several blocks.
Did a couple of years at IIT (35th and S. State) back when the
stockyards were still in operation. I can still smell the spring
thaw...
--Chuck