4477 by Sandra James. Copyright © 2018 Sandra Kaye James. All rights reserved. INT. MIANN’S BEDROOM – NIGHT Dream. MIANN is in an open space walking, smiling. A crowd appears – different people, all types, all dress. Background voice calls her name. Asks, “Where are you?” CUT TO: MIANN wakes from her dream. A light […]
The venue where my open mic movie was filmed, closed in June. The owner retired and sold his building to a pediatrician. Quencher’s was the location for shooting the film after visiting many open mic locations in Chicago. Initially, I wanted to film open mics at three locations, however the other locations did not work […]
CURRENT NEWS NOTABLE PLACES TRANSPORTATION SHERIDAN STATION Source: Chicago Public Library, Ravenswood-Lakeview Community Collection LANDMARKS BRIDGEVIEW BANK UPTOWN CASTLEWOOD Studs Terkel lived in Castlewood. See “Sage of Castlewood Terrace Had ‘Life Well Lived’;”a chapter in the book Hidden History of Uptown by Patrick Butler. ESSANAY STUDIOS The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company GREEN MILL Green Mill […]
All black and white photographs in this post are from the Chicago Public Library, Sulzer Regional Library, Ravenswood-Lakeview Community Collection. The photograph above shows Western Avenue, looking North from Winnemac, before the street was widened in 1924. According to Mark Dawson’s historical account, approximately six feet of buildings along Western were shortened to make […]
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