Andersonville Street Fair

Andersonville was once a Swedish neighborhood and this is a Maypole (even tho it was June).

Swedish girls in front of the Maypole.

Jewelry, food, drink and Seniors get in free!

There are a lot of gays and dogs in this neighborhood now.  Everyone seems to coexist happily.  This is close to our neighborhood.

This is the tooth fairy.

Five stages with bands and groups.

A climbing wall.


A puppet show.

The local dog park on Lake Michigan

The people and dogs start showing up @ 7 in the morning and 5 in the afternoons.

Here is the lake on the other side of the huge boulders.  There's a beach over there, too.


Everyone is very friendly and learns the names of the dogs and the people.  It's quite a networking system.

This is an example of the apt. buildings in the neighborhood.

You know these people have gardeners.



In the next block are houses, big houses, and a Frank Lloyd Wright house.

The Prairie Avenue Historic District

This is the Glessner House completed in 1887.  Glessner was a part owner of International Harvester and on Prairie Avenue also lived the Kimballs (Kimball Piano Co.), the Marshall Fields, Brach of the candy company, George Pullman of Pullman RR cars, and Armour, the meatpacking guy, etc., etc.  This house was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson of Brookline, MA, the most famous American architect of the day.  It looks to me like a Florentine palazzo.

This style of architecture is called Richardson Romanesque.  He was all over Harvard last year.

Of course, they were tearing down all of the mansions in the 1960s until the preservation movement took hold.


In the same block is the Clark House, the oldest house left in Chicago which was built in 1831.  It has been moved a number of times. 

First Chicago pictures; Lincoln Park Zoo

Greetings friends!   We arrived in Chicago last Thursday and today is Tuesday.  Here is my first post.

We just watched Life of Pi so I can identify with this tiger.

It's a very funny thing about this zoo:  the zoo is free, but the parking is $20 per car!

This male swan was running the entire pond.  Those are baby swans under the mother.

It's a nice zoo, but it was full of children.  Imagine that.

 

 

 

 

Basically, I wanted to see if I could remember how to post to the blog.