The Impossible Year

Tag: southport avenue

  • Sheil Park

    Sheil Park

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Was out running errands and drove by Southport’s ‘Sheil Park’ which I have never understood why it’s called a park when it’s mostly an administrative building and has zero grass but… sure.

  • View from Tola

    View from Tola

    View from Tola, 30 March 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and I biked down to Jewel for groceries and stopped off at Cafe Tola for empanadas and ate them while standing against their south wall and looking out across Southport. 

  • Toons

    Toons

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Despite the (still raging) pandemic, Chicago has reopened bars and restaurants for indoor dining, which people have been more than happy to partake in on Super Bowl Sunday. I placed an order of wings for pickup from Toons to enjoy at home. For what it’s worth all of the…

  • Southport and Irving, 23 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I biked down to the post office to check my PO Box and ship out a print order. Decided to stop and appreciate the street corner.

  • Katie and the Tamale Spaceship, 2 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and Katie had recently driven by the Tamale Spaceship while out and about and decided to make it their mission to track it down. Thankfully it wasn’t very hard as we learned it would be parked on Southport Avenue on…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…