The Open Door Cocktail Lounge, 100 E Superior at Rush, 1947, Chicago
After work drinks at King’s Palace, 645 N Clark @ Ontario, 1959, Chicago
After work drinks at the Berghoff, 1934, Chicago.
If you live in Chicago and you’ve never been to the Berghoff, you owe it to yourself to visit.
Russell’s Silver Bar, corner of Van Buren and State, 1933, Chicago.
Interior of a bar in the First Ward’s infamous Levee District, 1899, Chicago.
UPDATE: From Mel Theobald:
The Feb. 8 photo of the Levee Saloon is in the McLean County Museum of History archive as a saloon in Bloomington, IL bearing an inscription with the name of one of the men. You might want to check this out by contacting the historian there. Can you verifiy the source you have for it?
From Calumet 412: The original source, a beer culture flikr page, no longer exists. I will contact the historian. Thanks for the tip!
Bar special for US Steel strikers, 1959, Chicago
Inside a typical Chicago bar before Prohibition, 1919.
via History of Chicago Clubs and Taverns
Tony’s Tavern, Goethe and Wells, 1941, Chicago.
CPL Digital Archives
This to me is the most interesting thing I’ve ever posted. I could stare at these for hours.
Two meticulous maps showing the names and locations of every brothel, bar, casino and saloon that existed in the Cheyenne and Levee Districts of Chicago between 1870 and 1905.
Completed by Levee historian Bryan Lloyd.
Click to enlarge.
A night out at The Store, 2002 N Halsted (at Armitage), 1965, Chicago.
The Store still stands….
Inside Don the Beachcomber, a tiki bar at 101 E Walton, 1952, Chicago.
South side bar, 1954, Chicago. Fritz Goro.
No dancing…
Letting the good times roll at Chances R, 1528 N Wells, Chicago. 1969.
In the space now occupied by O’Brien’s, the ever popular Chances R is often credited with what lead to the revival of Old Town.
A night out at the super popular MaxTavern, 2856 N Racine (at George), 1988, Chicago. The building, at the time of the bar’s close, had been a neighborhood pub for more than a century.
And evidently Dr. Who’s Tardis made a visit…
Chicago Magazine
The Bar Car on the Chicago North Shore Electric Line, 1968, Chicago. Francis Miller.
