Bridgeport is doing well. Would that coffee shop be called The Bridgeport
Family Restaurant? If so, it's still there on the corner of 35th and
Halsted. There are security folks and attendants everywhere. And when we
got off the Red Line at 35th at the top of the escalators we were met by men
who were from the Bomb Squad with dogs in hand. We took the Halsted street
bus home for kicks, but had to catch the train at Fullerton because the Gay
Pride Parade caused folks to detour. Busy day! Cheers, Christine
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From: "paul stenquist" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: For Paul Stenquist . . .
Nice gallery. I enjoyed it. Well done. And it was definitely great to see
the sox take two of three from the loathsome cubbies:-)!!
The area immediately around the ballpark was mostly lost when the Dan
Ryan expressway was built in the mid fifties. I remember there was a
McDonalds across the street from Old Comiskey and one or two bars. The
north side of the old ballpark was a park. Of course the new ballpark was
built on the south side of the street, and the old one became parking .
In truth, it's somewhat of a plus that there wasn't a lot worth saving
immediately adjacent to the ballpark, because they did a super job on the
parking. It's easy in and easy out with multiple lots and lots of
attendants to direct you.
On the other hand, the Bridgeport neighborhood west of the park is pretty
much the way it was since way back when. If you walked to Halsted, you
passed through much of Bridgeport. At one time I hung out in the coffee
shop on the corner of 35th and Halsted. Don't know if it's still there.
And the camera store between 35th and 36th on Halsted -- Malelos--
subsidized me when I was learning photography back in the early
seventies. I suspect it's no longer there. But Bridgeport was doing
fairly well last time I looked.
Paul
On Jun 29, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Christine Aguila wrote:
. . . and any other White Sox fans on the list.
Folks might remember that last year I went to Wrigley Field to shoot
outside the ballpark on one of the Cubs-White Sox Cross-town night
games.
Well, this year, my husband & I took the Red Line down to Sox Park (I
refuse to call it that other name), and I shot some pics outside the
stadium. Then we walked down to Halsted, found a place for some lunch &
a beer, and watched the game. Sox fans should be happy with the Sox
taking the series two games to one.
I thought this might make you smile a little, Paul, but all sense of
neighborhood immediately around the stadium is lost--any neighborhood
bars or shops in the immediate vicinity are gone--very sad. It was a
1:05p game, so the light is not that great, and I made some exposure
boo-boos, but I tried to salvage as much as I could.
Also, I tried out Lightroom's Flash Gallery web option with this set. I
have official web hosting service now, and a domain: caguila.com, so I
thought I'd give the Flash Gallery a try. I'll be working on a web site
this summer. I think I'm going to teach myself html code--maybe. This
http://www.w3schools.com/ is really great, and I found out that the
folks that write the international standards for HTML write the
tutorials for this site. So, we'll see.
Anyway, Sox Win! Sox Win! Cheers, Christine
http://caguila.com/caguila/soxcrossone/
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