A recently uploaded YouTube video, filmed mainly on the 2800 block of North Broadway, near Broadway and Surf, not only captured the spirit of Chicago's 1988 Gay Pride Parade, it also documented an entire block of buildings that are no longer in existence.
The space where the massive The Broadway at Surf now stands, used to be home to a row of businesses including a dry cleaners and a hair and tanning salon.
Clovers Cleaners, which used to be located at 2850 North Broadway, was caught on video several times.
Footage of those long forgotten stores weren't the only surprise; about 10 minutes into the video, I believe I spotted a float for Bistro Too, a gay/straight bar that used to be located on the 5100 block of North Clark Street.
Bistro Too circa 1990:
Was it fun going to gay bars in Chicago back then or were they filled with fat/loud chics from the suburbs then too?
ReplyDeleteNobody fucking cares about the fat/loud chicks dude; quit posting about that. Its the savage a-holes who come in to terrorize whites that you have to worry about now.
ReplyDeleteThat's why they have people terrorizing the "whatever they are" crowd they have now as patrons. They'll take whatever they can get. All the gay men with 1/2 a brain go elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteI'm anxious to hear how the wild wildebeest *ucked up the parade this year!
ReplyDeleteThat mustve been like freaking utopia.
ReplyDeleteGas was a dollar and I hardly saw any black people at all in both videos...