Chicago pool happenings

[fastone371]

lol

You really want to admit to that?

pj
chgo

If you frequent the hood as often as you claim you are likely to find yourself with bullet hole in your head sooner or later if you don't. With your wealth of experience how many shootings have been in the middle, must be more than me because I avoid bad areas when possible.

The real question here is why does this trigger you so badly??

 

[Patrick Johnson]

If you frequent the hood as often as you claim you are likely to find yourself with bullet hole in your head sooner or later

Does living with that level of anxiety age you more quickly?

The real question here is why does this trigger you so badly??

lol - I'm not the one looking for "escape routes" at stop lights.

pj <- 50+ years on all Chicago streets - never seen or heard a gun
chgo

 

[DynoDan]

I remember taking taxis from downtown to the Armitage area. You had to drive within one block of Cabrini Green. At the cross street there was a stop light, and I always prayed the light was green, so I didn't have to be sitting in a cab stopped at a stop light only one block from Cabrini Green.

In the early 70s, driving past there on North Ave. (?) was reputedly sometimes risky, as apartment dwellers on the upper floors would take pot shots at distant cars from the balconies.

 

[Patrick Johnson]

In the early 70s, driving past there on North Ave. (?) was reputedly sometimes risky, as apartment dwellers on the upper floors would take pot shots at distant cars from the balconies.

Gee, you’d think that’s something that would’ve been in the news…? I (and thousands of others) drove past Cabrini on North Ave. just about every day in the 70s… guess we’re all dead and don’t know it.

 

[skip100]

When you make shit up, just use the word “reputedly” and that makes it okay

 

[Patrick Johnson]

When you make shit up, just use the word “reputedly” and that makes it okay

Or “lots of people are saying”…

 

[Chicagoplayer]

From that vantage the camera is closer to the expressway than the expressway is to Cabrini, yet you claim to have seen more Cabrini detail from the expressway.

And for the others who were nervous being near a (gasp!) housing project - I've been driving past and through them for 50+ years... never nervous, never a reason to be. You must bring your reasons with you.

pj
chgo

Hi PJ,
These are Cabrini Green demolition pictures taken from my car, Nov 2010, heading eastbound down Division just East of Halsted.

 

[Black-Balled]

I absolutely hate going through there as much as DC

Lol. Stay outside the betway and there are no good hotels within 5mi of I-95!

 

[skip100]

Does living with that level of anxiety age you more quickly?


lol - I'm not the one looking for "escape routes" at stop lights.

pj <- 50+ years on all Chicago streets - never seen or heard a gun
chgo

When you’re that scared of the world no wonder you buy a bunch of guns, move to the middle of nowhere, and never get out of your comfort zone. That’s one way to live I suppose.

 

[Patrick Johnson]

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Hi PJ,
These are Cabrini Green demolition pictures taken from my car, Nov 2010, heading eastbound down Division just East of Halsted.View attachment 898129View attachment 898130View attachment 898131

Hey Angie… Yep, I remember it well - wasn’t smart enough to get pics.

pj
chgo

 

[Chicagoplayer]

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Hey Angie… Yep, I remember it well - wasn’t smart enough to get pics.

pj
chgo

I was smart enough to get pics during the demolition and not crash
That was the last building left standing.

My dad lived at Division & Clark and I drove past there nearly everyday.